[THE FIFER]

do you float eggs if so why and when, and what birds do you use as floaters

[greenlands]

Float them where possible from stock to certain racers,after stock have sat about a week,reason, I want more of my hopefully better breeders.

[victorious]

do i float eggs yes, why, to get more young ones of my better pairs as quickly as possible for racing ther put under my unproven racers maybe yearlings etc but only took away from the pair after 7 days sitting on them my birds are maybe paired at different times , i float eggs because i dont keep many birds thats my only reason really and to produce more youngsters out of my better pairs, i hope this makes sense.

[big blue bar]

I did it with the widows only took y/birds off the ones that have scored .I have 16 pairs of widows this year i ve managed to get a single under the lot of them

[THE FIFER]

victorious, on 8 February 2012 - 20:43 PM, said:

do i float eggs yes, why, to get more young ones of my better pairs as quickly as possible for racing ther put under my unproven racers maybe yearlings etc but only took away from the pair after 7 days sitting on them my birds are maybe paired at different times , i float eggs because i dont keep many birds thats my only reason really and to produce more youngsters out of my better pairs, i hope this makes sense.

yes good m8,

[andy Burgess]

i certainly hope too , depends a lot on when the "yearling" racers i have lay ??

[IB]

I usually only breed from a selected few, floating one egg from each pair under foster parents in the race team, so that my race team gets to rear a single youngster before racing begins.

[GhEtToStar]

I only ever float 1 pair of eggs every year to give my old pigeon something to rear

[THE FIFER]

[Tony C]

Float the first round of eggs from stock under my racers. I float them after they've sat them between 8-10 days so the hen can build her calcium levels back up.

[THE FIFER]

Tony C, on 9 February 2012 - 10:35 AM, said:

Float the first round of eggs from stock under my racers. I float them after they've sat them between 8-10 days so the hen can build her calcium levels back up.

a good one m8, I often wondered if it was harming taking eggs away too quick, the same would go for leaving them too long letting the birds get on soft food,