100% Hatch Rate

100% hatch rate again this season, the last 2 hatched today.
A local very successful long distance fancier had a whole round of clear eggs this season from his yearlings.

How have members hatch rates been.

good news boosey, glad to hear you had a good hatch.....how many ybs have you got, and will you be rearing a 2nd round...?

a good % there boosey, good luck for the season

all seems ship shape and Bristol fashion their steve ,well done not pairing til end of the month m8 atb with the ybs

Well done Boosey hope all goes well for you this year mate, I will look in and hope to see some good results from you. atb mate.

I've got 10 young birds in the nest. No second round, except for my 2 soontjens from Devo.
Darren your little hen laid today.
Devo I rang the young birds today out of the 2 soontjens you gave me, real crackers they are, the parents are looking after them really well, nice clean bums and plenty of down.
All good so far.

I have soontjens boosey, and mine seem to be very good parents/feeders too, also they build very big nests.

I have a soontjen x meldert bred for me by ken/friendslofts and that builds very big nests too......

My soontjens built a massive nest to, I had to keep taking bits off.
Much bigger nests than all my others.
How funny that all our soontjens are the same.

often worried the ybs would fall out...

Boosey you have got of to a good start fingers crossed it continues mate

Boosey wrote:

I've got 10 young birds in the nest. No second round, except for my 2 soontjens from Devo.
Darren your little hen laid today.
Devo I rang the young birds today out of the 2 soontjens you gave me, real crackers they are, the parents are looking after them really well, nice clean bums and plenty of down.
All good so far.

excellent news ...great buzz around the loft when ybs start chipping out

We have had 6,clear eggs out of 40,so not too bad they are just starting to lay the 2nd round but some will be sitting other pairs eggs.

Boosey wrote:

I've got 10 young birds in the nest. No second round, except for my 2 soontjens from Devo.
Darren your little hen laid today.
Devo I rang the young birds today out of the 2 soontjens you gave me, real crackers they are, the parents are looking after them really well, nice clean bums and plenty of down.
All good so far.

Good to hear mate, hope all goes well and they breed a couple of fire crackers.

Had a 2011 red hen die this morning. Cock was driving her too hard. Unusual!

Very sorry to hear Hal, hope you have some youngsters from her.

That's strange Hal, must have had a heart attack

I give the birds that are feeding youngsters golden boost (fortified Calcium) in the morning.
Some don't like it so don't touch it, I've noticed that the old birds that are pumping the young with golden boost grow at a much quicker rate than the others.

yes I used it a few years ago boosey and I found the same....some wouldn't eat it.

strange that hal any sign of injury

not telling my granny how to suck eggs hal, but did it have black minerals...I once had the same thing happen a few years ago and I think it was because of this......last year same happened again and Darren suggested black minerals because of the salts in it, happy to say this sorted the hen out and she was ok.

sometimes the cock drives too hard and the hen don't get chance to take on minerals or food or even water my m8 had a ck peck the eye out of a hen last year some are vicious feckers

yes Darren that soontjen x meldert ken bred me is very aggressive when driving, he is constantly chasing her round the loft......plus he always builds a massive nest

we always put the bowl in the nest box up-side down so the hen can get up away from the ck ...sometimes its like the magic roundabout in the nest box but they soon calm down it may be an idea to leave an agreesive ck and his hen in a spare section until loved up

No minerals, just regular stuff. He was really driving hard. Very aggressive pigeon. Soon will let them outside when weather breaks. Few years ago had a BB cock kill his YBs in the nest and throw them out so his hen could lay again. Best 500 miler in the loft. After that floated eggs off him. Have many more cocks than hens. So race widowhood this year the German way. ie. All that are fit go to all the races. Every weekend.