Imprint - Moulting?

[Sparrow Hawker]

When the season comes to a close how do people prefer to moult out birds that have been imprinted, do you maintain daily contact with them?

Cheers,

SH

[OutFlying]

Daily contact, open front aviary, free lofted.


Jim.

[AlexB]

Would have thought P/r or imprint daily contact is important?

[RWR]

I would not have contact with a PR at all but its a must I think with an imprint.

[AlexB]

I would not have contact with a PR at all but its a must I think with an imprint.


Any particular reason?

[OutFlying]

Any particular reason?


Usually at fat weight and free lofted, a pr goshawk will not appreciate your presence.

Jim.

[Yeoman]

[QUOTE=Flying Free;507415]Any particular reason?[/QUOTE
If i tried having contact with my P/R gos at top weight she would go mental a definate no no

[AlexB]

Ok the only reason I asked is my mentors bird seems to enjoy us going in.

[Jack]

I don't think being imprinted makes them any less solitary in their nature. I have free lofted every bird I have had for the past 30 or more years, and I don't spend any unusual amount of time with any of them. I just feed them when they need it. Sound funny? I am feeding every 3 days now, but on the feeding day they get a huge chunk of food. They will play with their food if I attempt to feed sooner. I will eventually start feeding every other day. I will watch my birds and if they begin to show intolerance toward me I will miss another day of feeding. This is to prevent them getting too high in weight. Harris, gos, peregrine, it really don't much matter, as excess body weight will tend to make them intolerant of you. If you can keep them from getting too fat, they will remain tame as long as they get to see you on feeding days. And if you allow them to get fat, it really don't matter how much time you spend with them, they still get wildish. And when you bring them out of the molt you just miss some feeding days and they are right back to where they were when you put them up for the molt.

Jack

[GyrXPeales]

I don't think being imprinted makes them any less solitary in their nature. I have free lofted every bird I have had for the past 30 or more years, and I don't spend any unusual amount of time with any of them. I just feed them when they need it. Sound funny? I am feeding every 3 days now, but on the feeding day they get a huge chunk of food. They will play with their food if I attempt to feed sooner. I will eventually start feeding every other day. I will watch my birds and if they begin to show intolerance toward me I will miss another day of feeding. This is to prevent them getting too high in weight. Harris, gos, peregrine, it really don't much matter, as excess body weight will tend to make them intolerant of you. If you can keep them from getting too fat, they will remain tame as long as they get to see you on feeding days. And if you allow them to get fat, it really don't matter how much time you spend with them, they still get wildish. And when you bring them out of the molt you just miss some feeding days and they are right back to where they were when you put them up for the molt.

Jack

Jack the only longwings I've ever flown have been imprints. I've blocked every one of them during the moult and it didn't make any difference how fat they were, they still acted like fun loving little imprints no matter how old they were. As a matter of fact they were more sociable at fat weight and far more business like at hunting weight. Every tiercel I've had would court me and try to dig scrapes in the carpet, and every falcon including this years imprint Perlin would echup and present themselves. I think it's very important to maintain the relationship with your imprint, otherwise why would you imprint them in the first place.
I'm not knocking free lofting at all, that's just been my experience with imprint falcons.
Best Regards,
Jeff

[Tim Laycock]

Daily contact, open front aviary, free lofted.


Jim.

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