Moulting progress???

[Adam Barrett]

How far is everyones bird through the moult??

My female harris seems to be taking ages. she has lost her second set of tail feathers after fully regrowing her deck feathers, lost the first set of primary and a few secondrys.

Cheers adam

[Wightwings]

SOD ALL, the male HH has only lost a few body feathers and thats it, mind you in real terms hes not fully a year old yet

[Finnish]

My male Gos has not droped any yet can,t belive it.But the female Gos is droping them like theres no tomorrow.Kestrals have not droped any yet but there sitting eggs.

[Ben C]

Loads of chest feathers, 3 others in the weathering as we speak, loads of tail feathers and he has got visable blood feathers on his tail. He looks a bit board though.

[ScotsFalconer]

my male lanner hasnt even started yet

[Mary Quite Contrary]

My bird looks oven ready!
oh i should have put that in the over 18 section

[Jester]

only a couple feathers from Jester as well and im getting sooooooooo bored waiting so i bought myself an air rifle so i can collect a few rabbit carcasses for him to chase when he is finished

[Kevin Massey]

ferns are dropping well..

kev

[Goldie]

All of my birds are moulting well, Even the goldie. He's thrown his fifth primary this morning which is a real bonus cos eagles take a couple of years to complete a moult and he badly needs one.

[NightOwl]

male gos ain't dropped a thing but the female harris is well under way.
finnish is your male gos normally late or is this is first?

[Darren]

male harris has dropped 2 deck feathers & 2 primarys & loads of fluffy down....He has just turned 1 yr old

[Shaun Byrne]

Both my breeding HH are nearly finished as they went down early. My other birds are about 1/3 of the way through, it seems to be a fast start this year, bound to be a slow finish!!

[HawkMan69UK]

six primaries and a 4 secoundries plus loads of the fluffy stuff if she keeps this up ill be out early this season but i know what ya mean hawks bound to be a slow finnish :lol:

[Jiff]

sky's moult is well and truely on the way and her new deck has just appeared i was going to post a question about is she moulting too fast as she seems to cast none stop,but apparently all's well and i'm hoping for an early finnish to the moult bring on the next season.

[Sprout]

Harris well through moult but falcon not even started so doesn't look like will be ready for start of season. Even so, the other half doesn't see this as a good enough reason to allow me to buy an eyass this year :cry:

[Wightwings]

sky's moult is well and truely on the way and her new deck has just appeared i was going to post a question about is she moulting too fast as she seems to cast none stop,but apparently all's well and i'm hoping for an early finnish to the moult bring on the next season.


GIT............ :evil: :wink:

[UKJay74]

my mhh has 1 deck feather down and one on the way also lost shed loadsa primaries

[Jiff]

do you feed alot of rat jay' i alternate her food but i see a significant change if i give her rat for a couple of day's running. at first it was a mistake on my part by defrosting mostly rat i fed it for a few days while i sorted me fridge and freezer out and she almost fell to bits.

[CastleFalconry]

My HH has dropped one deck feather, it's like watching paint dry!

[Wightwings]

ha ha know what you mean.......

[Ben C]

Jiff you are a genius!!!!! Never let it be said otherwise. We thought Cody was a girl and was getting a brood patch. Either that or the foundations of our house are a secret waste dump for plutonium. Feathers everywhere.........started the moult off with rats and quail on alternate days. Then loads of feathers dropped out but there was no casting, so back to chicks for a couple of days, got a casting but no feathers, varied the diet again........boom.......more feathers. The reason for no casting was because he was pluming the quail/rats and just eating the meat. Right its back to rats for a few days then. New blood feathers are coming through on his tail.......christ almighty they are clean!!!!

[Kevin Massey]

she's showing a couple of new deck feathers !!!

i love it when they get there "05 reg" feathers :lol:

kev

[Darren]

Ash is showing new deck feathers & he has dropped 2 more primaries yesterday...feeding him on a mix of rat & DOC, going to try quail on him next

[Wightwings]

well the wifes little fellow has started with a vengeance......looks like an explosion in a pillow factory in there all of a sudden.......body feathers falling out left right and centre and also dropped his 10th and 9th primaries both sides at the same time :shock: the new body feathers coming through are a super dark colour. :D

[RabbitHawker]

My falcons doing well, only 2 and 3 primaries on each wing to go respectively, HH's slower, but feathers were fine anyway, and won't be flying them 'till October, so no rush

[HawkMan69UK]

lots more primaries out and she is showing 4 new blue grey tail feathers they look fantastic got me a new blue/grey gos when she finished :lol:

[Moritz]

My HH has broped nothing jet. If she is not ready for the seasons start could I speed it up if I put her under light 16/7 in august?

Moritz

[KevGem1]

alternate food rats,quial,docs and defrosted kills from last season.I have noticed the difference with rats if i feed my fhh rats for a couple of days it looks like she has killed and eaten another hh in there with the amount of feathers on the floor.KEV. :wink:

[BlueHawk]

All of my birds are moulting well, Even the goldie. He's thrown his fifth primary this morning which is a real bonus cos eagles take a couple of years to complete a moult and he badly needs one.

Hi Goldie,

Do you fly him through the moult then if it takes a couple of years? God, that must be a drag if you don't..

[Saker-Clive]

My HH Kier is not moulting as fast as last year but a couple of hours ago, there was a lot of squawking in the garden and on looking out the window, there was Kier gripping the front of the enclosure with a young starling in his talons. by the time I got down to him, he pulled it through but wouldn't let me near. He then procceeded to eat it.
Does that make the first kill of the 'new season' to come? :razz:

[Wightwings]

ha ha i'de say so.......well done that lad......

[BlackHawke]

jade my f harris looks right rough at min shes now lost 10 tail and the new are coming through fast.i've collected loads of secondary feathers. shes moulting much faster this year than she did last year

[Saker-Clive]

Kier is well and tuelly on the way now, only about 4 train feathers and a fer primaries to go.
Zarbu has thrown quite a number of primaries and secondaries but no deck or train feathers as yet :sad:

[Ben C]

Cody has got 5 immature feathers on his breast to go. He has 4 tails feathers and I am not sure of the rest. Looking smashing !!

[BlackHawke]

my mates harris didn't loose all her immature feathers in the first year. i dunno if this is the norm but u may still end up with a bird with a few immature feathers

i hope my harris finishes moulting in good time as i want to take her to scotland end of sept to do a little hunting

[Saker-Clive]

Kier still has 1 tail feather from his first year! Hopefully the bloody thing will go this moult!!!!

[Ben C]

I hope he doesn't we kinda like the mottled colouration he had. But at this rate he is gonna be ready by mid July, early August. Not sure about you lot but I've had a bumper year of the old bunnies. THEY ARE BLOODY EVERYWHERE.

[BlackHawke]

here in essex theres more bunnies around now than i've seen in a good few years.

at the end of the season i for one am quite pleased for a bit of a break but that lasts about a week. its just one big downer from then on!!! :( until the beggining of the new season! :D

[Wightwings]

i have know some birds to aonly half moult in their first year. they dont alwaus moult out completely and you can occassionally end up with a rather funny marked bird.

[Saker-Clive]

I've got stacks of bunnies around here but this weekend, found several with VHD and mix!!!!!

[Wightwings]

recon we should go out, catch em all up and take em to the vets C. dont want that blummin lot you around there wiping out like my area. Bunnies...........crickey never seen so many in one spot. :shock:

[Ben C]

This may seem like an obvious question......but if cody doesn't drop all of his feathers, how will I know when to take him back up and go hunting fellas?

[Saker-Clive]

Once his deck feathers are hard penned. (no blood in the stems).

[BlackHawke]

SS does this take long after final one is fully grown?
are the deck feathers the last to hardpenn?

[BlackHawke]

how many tail feathers r there? i did find out last season but forgot!!

[Saker-Clive]

Not always, I think once down, they take a few days thats all; Varmint or Rabbit hawker will be able to tell you better.
Usually around the middle/end of August is safest.

[Saker-Clive]

That again varies, they should have 12 but last year Kier had 13!!!!

[BlackHawke]

i was gonna say 13 coz jade had 13 last year, cheers SS i'd planned man jade up mid august

[Saker-Clive]

I'm manning Kier and Zarbu all the time; Zarbu flies to the glove and eats but Kier wont. He will sit on the fist or my shoulder and preen my neck and ear :razz: but squawks at me when I try to give him food!!!

[BFC 007]

does this take long after final one is fully grown?
8 weeks roughly from start to finish i think

[Adam Barrett]

just a quick question

- my harris lost fer deck feathers and the next two which are now fully grown. she then lost the two outside sets of tail feathers which are about half grown.

do you think she will drop the others????

[HawkMan69UK]

she should do adam just keep the quality food coming they obviosly dont drop them all at once because the wouldent get very far ..my gos is at the same stage

[Adam Barrett]

yes mate just found it strange that she is not doing it in the normal squence.

thanks

[Gozzhawk]

Had a strange one with a fKestrel she dropped ALL primaries in about a fortnight, then slowed right down , she was mismanaged in firts year so most feathers were smashed . anyone think that the birds can consciously decide what and when to moult?? As for the rest HHs nearly done, falcons slow and owls sssssssslllllllloooooowwwwwwwww.

[Kevin Massey]

well looking at fern she seems almost done !!!.

anyone else in this situaton yet?

kev

[Ben C]

Yes mate................2 more secondaries (I think) Tail fully done, head blistering, full grey blue bloom.....I could kiss him.

[BrianM]

tosca is done and dusted but she was put down on the 2nd jan

[Adam Barrett]

Skye is back up and flying stronger than ever- she has been free since sunday i think and allready taken her first bunny of the season-a large buck rabbit-and a female blackbird :roll:

[Kevin Massey]

friggin hell and there was me thinking i am going to be the one with the first hunting stories

kev

[Ben C]

I am gonna give him a couple of more weeks just in case......I have already got the old hoods in his mews to slowly get him used to them. Also got the glove hanging so he can see it. Show him the ferrets once a day, and have been to look around our old and new 'play ground'.

I have SIX weeks holiday as of next friday so it will be back to 7 days a week hunting soon!! :) :)

[BrianM]

I have SIX weeks holiday as of next friday so it will be back to 7 days a week hunting soon!! :) :)[/quote]

friggin lucky barstool :cry:

[Ben C]

Yep and you lot pay for it as well......................SORRY :) :)

[BrianM]

well i suppose its a fair deal ,, with you having to put up with all the little darlings

[Ben C]

Ha, throttle em more like!.................However I have organised a falconry day for em next Thursday. We have taken them all off timetable and got the kids from the local disabled school to come as well. 2 hours of displays and then drawing and modelling for the last 3. So there you go, thats where your(and mine) tax is going. :) :)

[BrianM]

how did you manage that mate ,, its not very PC,, did you have any objectors?????

[Ben C]

Probably.....but then again if we cared about that shower of ****** we would never get anything done. :)

We are a semi rural school so that helps. And Severndale (the disabled school) is going into partnership with us. To be honest most schools like Severndale get sidelined, so I always give them a ring just to mix it up a bit and make the old ******s sort their attitude out!

I'll post up the pics mate it should be fun. I did a fish in last year and we had kids with ADHD sitting still for 4 bloody hours. That was a great day! :) :)

[BrianM]

your a top man ben

[Ben C]

Not really........I only do it so I don't have to do any 'real' work :wink:

[BrianM]

:roll: aww dont shatter the illusion

[Ben C]

:)

Does your daughter get those kind of trips??? Lucy says the RDA (riding for the disabled) is a national body.

[BlackHawke]

i got at least 5 weeks hols from now apart from a day next mon at uni i love being at skool!!lol jade aint far of finishing but she started moultin really late.

[Sprout]

Harris finished weeks ago, looking good!! Buzzard throwing feathers out faster than replacing them! Falcon dropped 2 decks :evil: not going to be ready for start of season

[BirdMan64]

hay Sprout I may be 16 on the outside but I'm like in my 30s (mature) on the inside and no way does my wife/girlfriend tell me what to do.

got to lay down the law man! good luck on the falcon though 8)

[Gaz]

And when your 30 on the outside you"ll realize that she who controls the muff controls the man :!: :finga: :mrgreen: :finga:

[Kevin Massey]

she who controls the muff controls the man :!: :finga: :mrgreen: :finga:



aint that the f**kin truth :supz:

[Sprout]

no way does my wife/girlfriend tell me what to do.

got to lay down the law man! good luck on the falcon though
You've kind of lost me there???

[Jiff]

back to the thread i did'nt know a bird could have this manny feathers, i hope my girl aint hidding her boyfriend in the cupboard i'm sure i've picked up twice as manny feathers as i'm supposed to. and she still looks like she's been draged through a hedge backwards........p.s. any married man who thinks he's in control is either too you'ng or too daft to know better.

[BirdMan64]

I feel sorry for you guys because when I'm "King of the Castle" you guys will still be "servants of the Master" :(


then agin maybe ya"ll just got to find the right women :yawinkle: Good luck with your birds guys :)

[Jester]

looks like an explosion in a pillow factory instead of an aviary at the moment with the amount of fluffy feathers jester is dropping.

his deck feathers are half in and the rest of his tail has tiny stumps with new feathers growing in. only dropped 4 primaries and a couple secondaries though so im wondering if he will shed them all this year or will he just drop a few this year and the rest next year

[Mary Quite Contrary]

she who controls the muff controls the man :!: :finga: :mrgreen: :finga:



aint that the f**kin truth :supz:



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