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I'm yet to build my new Loft but the material is on its way and should be arriving this
weekend so I'll make a start we've got eight pairs of birds that are currently on eggs
I've also applied for membership of the North Road Championship club and the Rings have
arrived so I've got those now I'm going to put some of those on the young birds let's
go and have a look and see what the the nest boxes are looking like [Music] Little Road
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Ladders are here to fit a cheap LED light that I've got and the solar panel is on the
roof and I had it down here originally but it wasn't getting enough light and because
of the orientation of the Loft it faces North it means that it gets very little light during
the day the sun comes up from over there and it sets before it actually gets into the left
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[Music] so you can probably see the new sign for the pub the blue bar karenza did that
for me over Christmas.
So this looks a bit flat until you put the base blocks of color on and then as you add
more detail it sort of comes to life
[Music] anyway uh what I wanted to say was for those people that have never bred before
like me um this is a pigeon egg (Don't worry it's plastic).
to find out if these eggs are fertilized which is important to know if they are or not because
you want to know if you've got any chicks being formed in that you can do something
called candling and this is something I used to do when I used to rear uh rare breed chickens
and what you do is you basically shine a torch through the shell of the egg and then you'd
be looking for a type of web structure almost like a bloodshot eye then inside if it's clear
like um you'll see a little yellowy (amber) bit um then it's probably not fertilized
I've got my paper got my pencil and I'm going to come up with an absolutely awesome Loft
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very excited the first egg has hatched ooh Jasper sneaked a crunchy bar into my pocket,
excellent.
Mmmm.
one of the things I've had to do is I've had to put these grills that Dave gave me upside
down in the corner because when I opened the door one of the a couple of the birds that
have paired up appearing up in this corner here and there's absolutely no way I can let
them Nest there because that's exactly where I stand um so I've put that there just to
try and encourage them to move elsewhere
and this one should be hatching out in the next few days and there's a dummy again there
as well
and then very protective there's two eggs in there that's um Ryan not brown in there
but in this one
if we can get this is um see what it's like this is um 1983 really good bird also under
there if you just see it's our first um it's our first chick
which I think hatched out either last night or early this morning and then the egg next
to that is um it's actually it's actually a plastic egg foreign
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they'll be due to hatch out in the next few days as well so we're basically doing um this
one's sat on plastic eggs so there's nothing in there then we've got some down there some
in there two there two there um and then the others are starting to pair up now so hopefully
we'll um we'll start to see some more so I'm expecting in the next few days two to hatch
out of box three One Touch our box one and then two from four two from seven two from
eleven and two from these as well so um but yeah first chick ever so super excited by
that I think it's a day old and um so I've gotta make a note of that because you've got
to put the rings on at a certain time now one of the things uh that I've been uh reading
about obviously I've seen a lot of the forums is if you've only got one chick in a nest
then you have to put leave the egg in there or put a small potato in there just to stop
um the the the single chicks legs from spleen this is des mentioned it recently uh this
packing that they're doing with this cup there look is chasing his hen around and that's
what they call driving which I assumed was driving when they were just trying to mate
with them but actually he's driving them back to the nest which makes sense so that she
laid her egg um so correct use of terminology I think because my my use of terminology is
pretty uh amateur at best um so we've got driving when they're pecking and what was
the other one uh there was um [ __ ] blocking oh I can't what we call that someone else
commented actually and said that they just let their yearlings have a free run and that's
practically what I've done other than the first few I started some of the pairs talk
some of them didn't and the ones that took great they're the ones that are on eggs now
but you'll notice that there's one two three four five boxes empty um which is actually
four boxes empty and and some of these others actually paired up later um and they're ones
that just sort of found their own mate and I'm fine with that really because I don't
know the performance of a lot of these birds they've only had a few races as young birds
so uh let's see what they produce um if any of them are any good but these uh these top
few boxes and these down here they they're ones that are selected well the top three
are the ones that I selected so uh we've got an egg from 1983 which is great and then darlo
94 should uh their egg should be hatching out next I'll give you an update uh after
oh really start today because we're going to pick up the new pigeon transporter all
right
here we go ready
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