change in young birds

Great time of year in the loft. Always throws surprises this time of year, coming through moult something you never really noticed starts to stand out, nailed on hens suddenly roaring and spinning wanting to fight become nailed on cocks, 10 cocks 10 hens one day, 14 cocks 6 hens the next day, smokey blues become 3 shades lighter.
Hope the weather holds fresh and bright and the low cloud drizzle and east winds stay away till end flights are up.

barnie wrote:

Great time of year in the loft. Always throws surprises this time of year, coming through moult something you never really noticed starts to stand out, nailed on hens suddenly roaring and spinning wanting to fight become nailed on cocks, 10 cocks 10 hens one day, 14 cocks 6 hens the next day, smokey blues become 3 shades lighter.
Hope the weather holds fresh and bright and the low cloud drizzle and east winds stay away till end flights are up.

Not much you can do about your weather there etc I suspect Barnie . That's best left to the expert types to stuff up I suggest . The rest of your scenario thou as mentioned is as you say a real magic pot of amazement & joy to behold much of the time .

yeah always a few surprises eh colin ...always enjoy seeing the birds coming out the moult ....tidying up just nicely now almost finished

Do not forget about the feet for the shows barnie.

Regards.

Finally split mine yesterday. Rain and wind here. Why we have wind turbines.
Leftover plastic from window sealing will now be hung inside door of cocks loft.
2 flew out yesterday over my head and went to their original loft.
They are all looking feeling good. 9 white hens, 3 white cocks in the mix.

Yes plenty of feathers coming away still and as you say cocks turn to hens hens turn to cocks a few more weeks before you can be 100 percent on what you have

markevans wrote:

Yes plenty of feathers coming away still and as you say cocks turn to hens hens turn to cocks a few more weeks before you can be 100 percent on what you have

100% your a better man than I'm Mark etc I suggest . Always had trouble picking mine here at times mainly maybe, because I've raced many henny type cocks over the years as such who just enjoyed the life style of a common type perch for company at night. All that being said thou amazing here with the Electronic clocks now, how many different birds on basket/race night somehow still find themselves in the opposite sexes unit/basket .
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Yes happens often. Last race for the Fed here tomorrow. Storms forecast.