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Hi people, I doing some research. I would like to get my 1st bird in may be a couple of years time. I thinking of a Harris Hawk. I was woundering what comitment is needed. Will He/She need flying everyday? or will He/She be ok in an avery big enough to streach it's wings and then just flown a weekends? + any thing esle I need to know...
Thanx :?: :?:
Tim Laycock
13-10-2005, 01:58 PM
The commitment required is massive and must be absolute
There is no greater travesty than poor falconry and if you cannot commit as detailed above then it is best forgotten before you begin!
A good book will lay all this down before you and I suggest that you purchase one and read it.
There is a book applickable to the Harris hawk that does exactly this written by a chap called Adrian Halgarth.
You would do well to have a copy.
HunterPaul
13-10-2005, 02:14 PM
I can only repeat blackbirds very sound advice.... aviary to stretch its wings and flown at the weekends ...who you been talking to, find whoever made that suggestion and smack em the mouth for me will you...
avery big enough to streach it's wings and then just flown a weekends
Thanx :?: :?:
so you have a bird on weight smashing into the frnt wire on the pen everytime it see's you waiting for th eweekend when it is taken out and flown for a day or 2 if its lucky, not falconry my friend and you will never experience a harris hawk at its true potential!
Tim Laycock
13-10-2005, 02:24 PM
never experience a harris hawk at its true potential!
Few beginners will.
HunterPaul
13-10-2005, 02:25 PM
wouldnt even go into falconry with the thought way in the back of my mind...all I could think when I started was when was I gonna eat....think that all the time anyway....but wanted to live on the fields...7 days a week...almost do..or will when bird is entered...
Ninja-Jon
13-10-2005, 02:51 PM
Hi all i posted a thread not so long back (Flying Time) from the thousand or so members on the forum i got 10 reply's. And from what i read of the reply's yes most falconers do like to fly there BOPS most days but others have work commitments and so on so are therefore not able to fly every day. So is it a must that a BOP is flown everyday? Thanks all.............
Kanati
13-10-2005, 03:19 PM
So is it a must that a BOP is flown everyday? .......
Its not a 'must fly everyday' . Its more of a ' should fly as often as possible' But thats only up to a point. If 'as often as possible' is only once a week, then whats the point? Your hawk will be unfit and you wont be getting out of it what you could be. What if that one day a week you are free is the day it ****es it down??? Now you will only fly once every two weeks!!! or worse!. Aim for every day and when you fall short of that (which everyone does at least some of the time) you should still have gone out 4 or 5 days that week.
HunterPaul
13-10-2005, 03:32 PM
just wrote all that down in much fancier words ..lol... then read your reply kanati, and you have done it in far fewer words than the book I just wrote ...well said..
Kanati
13-10-2005, 04:04 PM
just wrote all that down in much fancier words ..lol... then read your reply kanati, and you have done it in far fewer words than the book I just wrote ...well said..
I have noticed that you like to write quite a lot...I am a slow reader at the best of times and i have to say i love what you wrtite most of the time because you can be a little sarcastic, but it takes me 10 minutes to read it all :)
Jazz1
13-10-2005, 04:12 PM
HI Jin
Yes as every1 has said everyday if you can or at least 4/5times a week.The start of last season due to work and weather+my marriage going pear shaped i was only able to get my F/H out a lot less than i should of and when did get her out which i still tried for once a week it was hard going the bird was just not interested.But at the tail end of the season was of work and had a lot more time to put in and she was out most days and it was like having a new bird(Great).So this season i have changed my hours at work so have alot more time to put into the birds.Will have to as my mate and myself have 1F/H +2M/H's and a Female Ferruginous now+your mews as to be alittle bigger so the bird can do more than open it's wings.But M8 don't be put of you just have to find the time because it's well worth the effort
HunterPaul
13-10-2005, 04:14 PM
I like writing and hopefully try to make it entertaining and informative at the same time ..but honest wasnt being sarcy to you in my last post ..more to me when you put it so precisely without all the **** I attach...I do a bit of stand up so always thinking......re kanati
you do a bit of everything paul !
and if u have a 9-5 job, try to get it on the lamp, thats what im gonan do once hes got the handle of em in the daylight lol
OK, thanks for the replies. It's just that someone told me that HH could just be flown at wknds and that would be ok - I said I dont think thats right, but you guys have confirmed it for me, thanx, I shall now go forth and correct the miss guided person.
HunterPaul
14-10-2005, 01:24 PM
OK, thanks for the replies. It's just that someone told me that HH could just be flown at wknds - I said I dont think thats right, is that the case?
please jin, go back and read all the answers to you on the thread, and your question will be answered...no its not right to get a bird with the intention of just flying it at the weekend..and whoever gave you thats advice needs a slap...do not ever ask the idiot another question about falconry...
bet his first bird was a golden eagle bought down the pub..and it was going great guns till he found it dead in the cupboard he was keeping it in...
Jazz1
14-10-2005, 01:55 PM
Well said ,Hunterpaul:supz:
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