I was wondering if female RTs were normally compatible. Like I've posted in previous threads, I'm planning on sharing a large mew with a friend and wondered if I needed to put in a dividing wall to keep the birds seperate. Also, are RTs and Kestrels normally compatible?
i dont yet have a sponsor, so therefore cant ask one. i am searching, but am in the planning stages of the mew, and would like to know so i can plan accordingly.
This decision really isn't up to you. It really is a decision your sponsor will help you make. If you make the wrong one, and go ahead with it, you risk having to tear down the whole thing because your sponsor doesn't approve.
ok, here is my opinion, its only my opinion so don't take it as law.
DO NOT free loft a kestral and a red tail with out something seperating them. Otherwise you are only going to have a red tail and some kestral feathers.
Post by Master Yarak on Aug 26, 2004 18:39:22 GMT -5
IMO, I would never put birds together unsupervised. I have worked around/with several RTs NONE were social. At weight my hen clears perches at our state meet bating at the other raptors. Now I have to perch her by herself. She has brought to the ground eighteen wild RTs. No not a good idea. I also know of three different ocassions where falconry birds either injured or killed one another. As Ooby said just Kestrel feathers.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away
yes, we were planning on freelofting both the birds
Okay now I see what you are asking. No they are not compatible, especially when down to hunting weight. The only "social" BOP is the Harris. You need a partition between the two, I would even be a little worried about not having a partition if they were tethered... you never know when a jess might break or your leash become untied...Some people hunt them together but that is about the extent of it. They are not like Harris Hawks.
O and Y already answered the question about kestrels...
[quote author=Aaron link=board=managment&thread=1093538308&start=8#0 You need a partition between the two, I would even be a little worried about not having a partition if they were tethered... you never know when a jess might break or your leash become untied...
I know of two Falconers that shared an Alternative Mew with RT's. The larger dragged her concrete based perch six feet. Then there was one.
Post by Master Yarak on Aug 28, 2004 2:12:47 GMT -5
Yeah, I can see it. Believe it or not two falcons were perched out. One hen peregrine the other tiercel lanner. Both birds were far enough apart that they should not have been able to reach one another. The peregrine drug her block close enough to the Lanner that she bound to him got him down and ripped open his crop and ate from it. He aspirated on the vets table. She blew into him and revived him. He lives to this day. Fact IS stranger than fiction. Yarak
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away
I will never understand why people don't stake thier perches into the ground at field meets. THATS WHY THEY MAKE PERCHES WITH SHARP POKIE OBJECTS ON THE BOTTOM!!!!
Post by Master Yarak on Aug 29, 2004 0:19:47 GMT -5
I guess that is where tradition comes in. People wanting to do their own thing . Not realizing the consequences until it is too late. That should be reason enough to read and talk with many different folks. Hopefully you wont make the same mistakes. Yarak
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away