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first year Gabar goshawk .
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Amen mate.... . i'll tell you when we talk.. Tony......... The pics are sick...delate them if you want mate or i will if you tell us.. Hello Tony I reckon they're best left up mate. its stuff like this that needs bringing out in the open to see whats going on, a good shocker like that hopefully will make peoples piss boil and shop any fuckwits keeping birds in the same circumstances. this sister female Pere to yours stood for me a couple of evenings ago! the trouble is she stood the day before a egg was due so that one was lost, I got some semen into her on the first opor
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Yep! first year Shikra or Harpy Eagle .
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Hello WAF thats got to be the worse one I have seen. Feck the poor thing looks like it was kept in a budgie cage! any ideas who it was who had the bird as by the looks of it he's up for a good kicking . this country should run the same scheme as in the states where a apprenticeship needs to be taken for three years and passed, this shite hole of a country makes life hell for genuine Gun owners, but will allow any Mumpty to own a Hawk without any restrictions. Speak Soon Tony
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I never thought a good company like this would end up under the receivers. Whats the feck am I going to do for wellies from now on! looks like I'll have to invest in the french crap next time round http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4899122.stm
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Hello Mush Its a hard one. I have used Harris's to rear Gos's and vice versa and you would think alot of birds used with Foreign Foster parents would Imprint to that species, but it don't seem to happen! I suppose its no different than a cuckoo reared by a Reed warbler! they don't try and bang a Reed Warbler a year later the cuckoo still knows its a cuckoo even though its parents are a different species, where as birds that are imprinted by Humans are Basically a bit Fecked in the head! for some reason they either think they're Human or you are one of them which is why they become conditio
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Hello Mush I'll pull all there eggs as they lay them to a empty nest, I'll see how they go but I'll normally pull to 5 and then stick a dummy back and let her clutch up, one of the females on the bow has fostered before so I would have loved to have used her! it will be bad practice to allow her to Parent Rear anything so all the eggs will go under Foster parents as you mentioned, It s a bit of a b*****d as to be honest the more birds I can use to rear the better just incase things go wrong with the other foster parents, its a real shame I had to leave them on the bow to stand but both Ger
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Just a few pic's of my Gos's standing for Insemination. all four are now on their heads and standing perfect. my male is pretty hit and miss at the moment so I'm limited with the amount of Semen I'm getting, at the moment its gold dust so I'm Inseminateing the birds which are the closest to laying first with the good shots and useing extender fluid on the small amounts on the other birds, there are two German birds in the pictures standing on the bow with a nest made up for them, and two finnish birds standing in the aviaries, the German birds was kept on the bow perches due to their wildness
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You're right there mate. break a few feathers and it starts off a whole chain of events with the rest of its tail. Boiling water will perform miracles on kinked bent feathers virtually returning them back to normal, although they may get brittle if you keep it up on the same feather, A neat way to Imp is to match a feather as good as damn it with the one broken, cut the broken feather about a Inch and a half to two inches from the quil end on the bird, cut the new feather the same length to match, a good peg to join the two feathers is a BBQ Kebab stick/scewer, cut about 1 1/2 - 2 inches off a
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Nice tidy looking birds Midnight and a fair gennuine price too . Some of the Corvid flying lads should snap them up. Cheers Tony
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Its a nightmare Mick. I have been speaking to a breeder tonight who basis nearley all his stock on the export market, By the sounds of what he is saying he expected to be fecked this year when DEFRA stop twidling their thumbs and come up with some totally unusable crap decision, I'll be Honest if I end up with Gos's smashing themselves up and half killing each other I'll release them if restrictions stop me from moveing them to perspective buyers, its our food sources which is a worry also! Poultry is the first thing that will be hit. Cheers Tony
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What a fecking nightmare! you can pretty much Guarantee like Harrishawker21 said that all the panic buttons will be pressed by the shit Govenment and DEFRA will add restriction after restriction after restriction, I can see it being simular to how they reacted to Foot and Mouth with the cows a few years back. I have no problem if I breed X amount of Peregrines or Harris's as these will keep in Nursery aviaries should DEFRA place restrictions on all movement! but if I breed X amount of Goshawks there'll be trouble if not shifted by a certain age, they won't tollerate each other's company much p
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Well it looks like the Inevitable has happend and a bird has been found with the bird flu virus In scotland, I now expect this shithole government to press all the panic buttons and put a *** on all poultry and bird movement in this country, this means no Day Old Chicks lads , I think we'll see alot of silly decisions being made in the next few days. Cheers Tony
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No imprints for me midnight I prefer P/R Gos's. Their manners are better, they don't mantle over quarry, they don't scream, and they get the job done on par with any Imprint if not better, I did a few Imprint Spars in the past but that was as far as it goes! I like them nice and wild out of the aviary untouched and get a sense of acheivment when I finally get them out loose in the field and take some quarry. Cheers Tony
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Midnight Another Gos for me I reckon! tragedy struck last year with my Finnish male but I'll be looking at keeping back a Finnish x German female this year, she'll do everything I want from a bird! I would'nt consider keeping back any Finnish females they just too big for my likeing! a nice small to medium size female will suit all my needs or my second choice will be a nice size finnish male. Cheers Tony
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Nice one Millet. I'll get him to the vets and hopefully get him sorted out, I just think its strange this all started shortly after he was out for a couple of days AWOL, when I got him back he looked like he had been mixing it wiyj something which had totally shattered him, he just collapsed in the back of the car and spent the next few days hardly moving from his bed, I'll get him to the vets sooner rather than later. Cheers Tony
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Nice pic's , looks fecking bitterly cold though, You probably know this already but be carefull with Harris's in below freezing conditions, they can be pretty prone to wing tip Odema when kept on Bows for too long, it was still good going taking the Deer with your two Harris's :whistle:. Cheers Tony
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Nice one Stevie . Been looking through the pages and I'll have another look later, I kept coming across threads and could'nt stop reading them, some of them threads in the archives are the Bollox, this one was a very good thread "Different" types of 100% digging dogs...., Our dogs different working styles.... Its looking like a definite Vet job. just had him out tonight and he's blasting about like a good un as if everything is totally normal, its a weird one but Hopefully he'll get sorted. Cheers Tony
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He was fine right up until December last year just before xmas. a couple of weeks before that he managed to dig his way out of the Garden and go AWOL for a couple of days, a local keeper contacted me and told me he think he found my dog laying at the end of his drive but he is in a bit of a mess, he was'nt wrong! his ear was ripped threw and he was bitten around and under his muzzle! when I got him back hear he as good as collapsed and after some teatment spent a good few days recovering from it, I'm now wondering if this had anything to do with it as he was fine up until just after then, Feck
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Many thanks for the replies! I think you're right that its going to be a vet job, I have no arguements with them if they help him but what I hate about the vets around here is the way the rip people off, first they'll charge me a £20 consultaition fee then they'll go through all the crap of X-Rays and probably a ECG. a lad down this way thought his dog had swallowed something and took it to our vets! by the time they had finished with it and multiple X-Rays they concluded nothing could be found they ran him up a £180 bill . Don't get me wrong I'll certainly take him as I'm worried sick a
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Hi All My 4 year old Paterdale "Muttley" collapsed two days ago just before I was about to take him out. this is the seocnd time he has done this! the last time was just before xmas! he seem to lose the use of his legs and take up like a frightend cat pose with his back arched up, he pants pretty hard and also seem to tremble and shake , within a few minutes he recovers and tears round the garden as if nothing has happend! its identical to what happend last time at xmas, this time I was about to take him to a vet but he now seems fine again, one thing I have noticed is either one of his fr
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Hello Gary I'll be Honest the only Imprints I have flown have been Spars! I know a few people who have Imprinted Goshawks that have done well with them and made a decent job of them but personally give me a P/R any day, I don't think there is any advantages or disadvantegs in the field but some of the Imprint Females can be a little aggresive at the start until they get a few kills under their belt which is why most are flown to the lure instead of the fist, to be Honest I would rather have any Gos smack the fist on its return than flown to a lure anyday, I get more of a buzz watching them
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No doubt about it he breeds some good quality birds, the Peregrines we breed from down hear are from some of his old stock, I brought a male in from Mark in 93 which is now in breeding and produce some good large birds, the first picture is a female I kept back and Imprinted and the other is a pic sent to me from a guy who brought one last year, WAF's bird is also from the same stock.
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Hello Gary How's it going mate? a Red will certainly put you on the right track for a Gos! I'm not saying you could'nt do a Gos now so don't get me wrong, but a arsey Redtail will try you out a bit more than a Harris temperament wise! having said that if you can make a decent job of a Red you'll certainly do a Goshawk! the other option is to Imprint a Gos and Cut out all the frenetic Behaviour associated with a P/R bird, Imprints do have their bad points although some people swear by them and probably at them but do well with them . The Redtail certainly won't be a better Hunter than t
