COMMENTS on STE1960 BREEDING DIARY

oakey wrote:
Thats a mighty fine nest full of hungry mouths that you have there Steve, Lets hope that there is more to
come, how are the Goldfinch's doing mmate?. All the best. Oakey.

Hi mate,

The Goldfinch have stopped at 4 eggs with hen only sitting on them some of the time.

It's a case of fingers crossed now.

Hope that she sits on em long enough to chip out mate, but they are a temprimental bird though.
Good luck with em mate.

I see you went for the European mutations cages, they are so easy to clean out and hang the external pans. I'm swapping all mine next season and good luck with the rest of the season.

The vids arent working for me.
I havent attempted to upload any myself, but it maybe that you have to go through Youtube, not photobucket?

[quote="Ninetails"]The vids arent working for me.
I havent attempted to upload any myself, but it maybe that you have to go through Youtube, not photobucket?[/quote

Thanks for letting me know.

Anyone else having same problem playing videos.

I tested before posting and they play ok for me through the forum.

Hi Steve, Just to let you know that the vids are playing fine on my main computer and my laptop.
All the best. Oakey.

oakey wrote:
Hi Steve, Just to let you know that the vids are playing fine on my main computer and my laptop.
All the best. Oakey.

Thanks for that.

Best Regards.

Well that's weird. Previously each vid had a black screen. Now they have the first frame of the vid showing. The first one now plays so I assume they all do.

Hi Steve, your birds are looking good mate, the aviary looks great too.
All the best. Oakey.

oakey wrote:
Hi Steve, your birds are looking good mate, the aviary looks great too.
All the best. Oakey.

Hi

Thanks mate.

Ste 1960 just looking at your update and I would suggest that you have possibly taken the chicks away from the parents a little to early, but putting the spare hen in with them luckily has turned out to be a blinder,
Generally I try and leave my chicks with the parents as long as possible [as long as 28 days or more sometimes]sometimes at the cost of the next round
I don't see the point in all the hard work getting the chicks to that sort o age only to loose them because they won't or can't feed themselves.

This is not a critisium but more of a guiding hand and I hope it helps you.

Red devil wrote: Ste 1960 just looking at your update and I would suggest that you have possibly taken the chicks away from the parents a little to early, but putting the spare hen in with them luckily has turned out to be a blinder,
Generally I try and leave my chicks with the parents as long as possible [as long as 28 days or more sometimes]sometimes at the cost of the next round
I don't see the point in all the hard work getting the chicks to that sort o age only to loose them because they won't or can't feed themselves.

This is not a critisium but more of a guiding hand and I hope it helps you.

Thanks,
I take on board and consider all advice.

That's why I joined this forum.

Once again thanks.

sorry to hear about your second round disaster,,,the weather may indeed have something to do with it,,,a friend of mine had a hen dessert young at 4 days old and shes started to moult the darkening of the skies he blamed for this,,,good luck for third round m8,,,johnboy...

johnboy wrote:sorry to hear about your second round disaster,,,the weather may indeed have something to do with it,,,a friend of mine had a hen dessert young at 4 days old and shes started to moult the darkening of the skies he blamed for this,,,good luck for third round m8,,,johnboy...

Thanks.

Yes, I reckon the sudden drop in temperature has a lot to do with it for sure.

That's why I tend to keep all lights on until 28th june, then off they go and let nature take over, good point to use light as you suggest with deep depressions that we are getting this year it can look really dismal!
Think we can all blame the weather, but it's always a mixed bag here, too hot, too cold, too wet, cloudy, thundery etc etc but sometimes it is us who make the mstakes?

BlueCobalt wrote:That's why I tend to keep all lights on until 28th june, then off they go and let nature take over, good point to use light as you suggest with deep depressions that we are getting this year it can look really dismal!
Think we can all blame the weather, but it's always a mixed bag here, too hot, too cold, too wet, cloudy, thundery etc etc but sometimes it is us who make the mstakes?

My lights are on all year round on a timer, so I can discount that.,

To be honest ste I think the birds may still be affected by natural light or a change thereof. The only way get away from it would be to go completely artificial.

Hi Steve, you are certainly not on your own mate, my birds have been hit and miss also, not
a great first round, a few nests on the second round still to hatch out ( hopefully ).
All the best. Oakey.

Hope better this time for you
Bob

r.costellow wrote:
Hope better this time for you
Bob

Thanks Bob

Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Hope things are going well with yours

Hi,

Really nice looking satinettes, are they all straight or have you some mosaic amongst them?

Cheers

Syl

Colourman wrote:Hi,

Really nice looking satinettes, are they all straight or have you some mosaic amongst them?

Cheers

Syl

Thanks Syl

They are all straights.
Just looking to introduce some new birds this year, ready for next season now.

Regards
Stephen