Imprinting...

[Ker-strel]

I know its not sumthing i need to worry about rite now but there has been alot of talk about imprintin and i cant rly get involved with the convo because i dont fully understand wat gos on...so if any one could please answer a few question id be realy greatful..

How old are the chicks when you get them?
What do yoo feed them?and how?
Dont they need incubating?
is it better to hav a P/R bird or imprint?

thanx



kerr;)

[Matt]

the chicks usualy coma at ten days old . after all the incubation and brooding is over mate .
we or you feed them good rich meat with out casting somtimes suplimented dipending.

most imprints are one of either camp short wings for added bond control and later AI .making for a bomb proof bird .
or
imprinted longwing usualy for AI for hybred production. but again alot do get flown .

unless you need an imprint (which most of us dont ) then pr birds are the way to go.

imprints take allot more time than pr birds and call like hell any one that says they dont has a fat bird or dont have imprints.
there is alot to it but it is simple enough in principle . there is hundreds of ways to imprint birds and everyones is differant.
but you are doing the right thing mate and asking as how the hell we all gona learn.
all the best

[PeregrinesUK]

I know its not sumthing i need to worry about rite now but there has been alot of talk about imprintin and i cant rly get involved with the convo because i dont fully understand wat gos on...so if any one could please answer a few question id be realy greatful..

How old are the chicks when you get them?
What do yoo feed them?and how?
Dont they need incubating?
is it better to hav a P/R bird or imprint?

thanx



kerr;)

1. How old are the chicks when you get them? around 10- 14days
2. What do yoo feed them?and how? i feed a miix of minced quail/ rats and mice clean- I feed from a dish she never sees me bring (social imprint)
3.Dont they need incubating? by the time you get the chick the breeder will of already got the bird of heat
4.is it better to hav a P/R bird or imprint? Now thats up to you what you want to achieve with the bird also depending of species.

Mike

[SnakeHuts]

hi,

Im not the best qualified person to answer your questions but I do know a little and I am currently socially imprinting a tiercel peregrine.

There are many more experienced people on this site who can anwser in greater detail than myself.

A chick can be imprinted at any early age from immediately being hatched either by parents or an incubator/broody bantam up to say 16 to 18 days however if imprinting starts late then the chick can already have learned to fear human intervention.

I collected my chick at 11 days and at this stage it is rung and sexed by the breeder, and was feeding well, almost at a stage where it can feed itself from a bowl.

Obviously the diet of the chick is imortant and needs to be quality so most use finely minced quail or pigeon and at 11 days the chicks are being fed 4 times a day, say every 4 hrs.

The chick needs to be brooded under a heat source up until it can thermo regulate its own body temp, say until 18 to 21 days.

The reason im doing the imprinting in this case is to produce hopefully a semen donating tiercel in 3 or 4 yrs time, in the mean time i am going to enjoy the process of rearing the chick and tame hacking and eventually flying the youngster for a couple of seasons until he has matured.

Has for parent reared as opposed to imprinted then from a flying / hunting point of view then there is probably little difference, except an imprint can be flown at a slightly higher weight than a parent reared specimen of the same species.

Hope this starts the ball rolling for you and that other more able members add to the information.

cheers

[Ker-strel]

thanx alot for the replays they realy helped clear things up a bit .. cheers :grin:

[Osiris]

imprints take allot more time than pr birds

unless its owls! :D