all year round breeders

[Joey]

has anyonee ever heard off a pair of hh breeding all year round. a friend by me has got a pair he flew them and couldnt keep hunting because of a new baby. he put them up to breed 4 years ago and has had lots of clutches. they seem to breed again as soon as he takes the young (hard penned off course).so has anybody heard off this he asked me to put this up




cheers joe

[Hawkmaster]

I have heard of 3 clutches in one year.

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[Barbary Boy]

3 clutches is not that uncommon and amounts to virtuall all year round breeding. however sometimes "winter" young get problems with lack of daylight causing all sorts of problems including deformities. sprout would describe this better than i can. its actually a bit of a problem with quite a few h/hawks! dont know what to do about it really?

[Johnny Abbott]

3 clutches is not that uncommon and amounts to virtuall all year round breeding. however sometimes "winter" young get problems with lack of daylight causing all sorts of problems including deformities. sprout would describe this better than i can. its actually a bit of a problem with quite a few h/hawks! dont know what to do about it really?dont breed as many easy

[Joey]

they just love to shag i think lol

[Rocky]

My breeding pair breed all year round and they even lay when there are young in the aviary.I have also seen one lot of young help feed the newly hatched chicks.

[Gunther]

Well I have a pair of harrises and they also breeded every year about two or three clutches but last year I had nothing But they did mate a lot (or how do you say). Now this year looks the same again they are mating (or again how do you say :) ) from the middle of january but still no egg. But they do go in the nest! I'm starting to think that It's maybe throught the tawny eagles. everytime somebody goes outside the tawny eagles start to scream and when the harrises are on the nest they go off then. I can see this from the camera inside. Anybody got some ideas of what i could be maybe?

greetzz

[Gunther]

Still no eggs :(

[Talon]

My breeding pair breed all year round and they even lay when there are young in the aviary.I have also seen one lot of young help feed the newly hatched chicks.

same as ....my hh dont seem to stop breeding and will have 3 clutches in a year.

[Tim Laycock]

dont breed as many easy

Johnny, why dont you just beat me to it :supz:

[Falcon911]

Hi Gunther,

Is your female Harris old and had loads of eggs? I had a Lanner that I double clutched for years and then she ran out of eggs. There was no signs of this happening - 8 out of 8 the year before then she stopped and never laid another. Even with no eggs I could put young in with her though and she would rear them.....

Rgds
Andy

[Gunther]

Hi Gunther,

Is your female Harris old and had loads of eggs? I had a Lanner that I double clutched for years and then she ran out of eggs. There was no signs of this happening - 8 out of 8 the year before then she stopped and never laid another. Even with no eggs I could put young in with her though and she would rear them.....

Rgds
Andy

Hi

The female harris is getting thirteen years this year and she had loads of eggs. Every year she had at least two clutches and there was one year when she had three clutches. Do you think that she ran out of eggs? That would look very strange to me because I didn't even knew that that would be possible. But maybe you could be right because sometimes she is sitting in the nest for a time like she would lay an egg and when I then think she will have laid an egg she stands up and nothing there. But then again thirteen years doesn't seem to me that old or am I wrong?

greetzz

[Falcon911]

Sounds like it to me. My female Lanner did everything, copulate sit etc, etc but never laid another egg. She was also around 13 yrs when she stopped.
Birds having a pre-determined number of eggs for their lifetime is mentioned in Nick Fox's 'Understanding the bird of Prey book'.

Rgds
Andy