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nice one cheers mate, glad your mates hawk is going well mate good news with rabbit carcass to
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Really productive day today took Thor down to see my mate and see if we can do some work with him with touching the jesses and stuff. Got straight to work on changing the jesses and Rob noticed when i was putting my hard towards the jesses i had the back of my hand facing Thor so he said try turning your hand over so he can see its empty and it worked straight away got the jesses out changed them over for the new ones and put in the right way and i put on some field jesses to then we worked on touching his chest again showed him the under side of my hand first and no problem just a couple of
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cheers mate im very happy with the way things are going and rob (mentor) says the same as you it all sounds fine. I cant expect it to go totally smooth and this jesses thing is just a test for me and Thor and in the end it will make us understand each other a lot better by the end but im sure other tests will come up. Nothing seems to faze Thor other than this jesses thing, Dogs, kids, strangers, different locations, ferrets hes a great bird mate but i never push him to hard. As ive said before if it take an extra week or 2 to get him free then so be it all this stuff you read about gettin
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alright mate, ive got a rabbit leg ready for tomorrow to take with me mate i still use tirings but as he has been so steady i havent felt they are needed all the time but i understand what you and grovsey are saying. as with the hood my mate rob will take a look and see what he thinks as he hasnt seen the bird yet but its just something we discussed over the phone as an option if the tiring doesnt help but hopefully it should as i havent feed him but i wont try to force him either way as i dont wont to knock thors confidence and mess up all the hard work we have done. He lets me touch the j
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not sure what it is mate the mentor says he has one i can have if it fits if not ill go and get a good one. What price would you pay for a good one mate?
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managed to get one of the jesses out this afternoon and put back in the right way and to say he hated it would be an under statement the problem wasnt getting to them but the jesses were so tight everytime i pulled them it pulled him to much and he went mentle so ive made some new ones for him today as the breeder made the old ones for me and im taking him over to my mentors place now he is back and try and put the new ones on him also try to get a hood on him which as you said earlier should make things easier if he takes to the hood. Been fairly hard without a mentor being around to watch o
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ah right sorry i thought you meant everytime i pick him up mate like i said i do use them but yesterday i was trying to get his weight down for today also he was letting me touch the food today while he was eating so ill be trying to get to the jesses over the weekend.
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Cheers mate i need to get mine down to at least 1.5 as he will fly to me about 6m at 1.5 7/8oz but he is not responding quickly so i gave him a good feed this morning after he done about 5 recalls as the weather is going to be rubbish again over the weekend and i wont try him again till he is 1.5 or less. i bet your really looking forward to picking your bird up again i expect you have been bored. I know i will be bricking it when i let Thor go for the first time and probably wont sleep much the night before to. Thanks again for your comments mate
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cheers mate
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yes im touching his feet now, dont think i need to use tirings every time i man him. i want the bird to be with me because he is happy to be with me not everytime i pick him up hes getting food. if i was having problems with him i would use them more but as you can read from my other posts i have been using them when i first started to take him out but he seems very steady. also i dont want him thinking everytime he sees me he will get fed, will this not make him or could make him a sreamer if everytime he sees me he thinks food. If it takes an extra week or 2 before i get him flying free
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The weather is rubbish here at the moment with wind and rain so havent done much in the way of training so just been doing lots of manning. Today i thought i would take Thor somewhere a bit different so we went for a walk around a local wood with my dog. Got Thor boxed up which he has started to jump onto the perch inside the box now as i think he now knows box means getting out for a walk he has also started to eat off the fist now whilst im walking with him as before he would only eat when im static. As we were walking through the woods we had to pass a lady and her dog on a very narrow p
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i know an earlier bird from the same parents as mine is flying at 1.7 she flies him all year for pest control
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cheers mate, stupidly i didint take his weight straight out of the Aviary which was on a friday night i left him till the sunday to settle but his weight was 1lb 7 1/2oz when i took the first weight on the sunday morning so we are working on at a rough guess he was about 1lb 8 1/2oz.
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hi mate the breeder where i just got my harris from breeds ferruginous to mate he would be more than happy to give you some info let me know if you would like to call him and ill pass you his number mate. lovely looking birds mate
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Thanks for your comments lads thor is jumping about 6ft now but not responding straight away and his wieght is 1lb 5 3/4oz. We are doing all of his training out in the field now as my garden doesnt have the room and i feel he will be gaining more albeit it might slow things up a bit. The wind has really picked up at the moment here which is really making training difficult so we only done 4 jumps and then feed him up. For some manning i took him for a walk with my youngest son and the dog and a mate of mine and his dog he really doesnt mind dogs and he was even eating from a rabbit le
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yeah i know mate im hopefully getting a hood next week as i brought a vest this week. everytime i try to get to them he goes nuts and nearly footed me the other day so ive been putting a glove on my right hand and touching his feet and chest so hopefully get them done in the next couple of days.
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nice one cheers mate
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thanks mate
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Thor is going from strengh to strengh at the moment he weighed 1lb 6 1/8oz today responding straight away to food and had him jumping the full length of his leash this morning and afternoon from a mobile perch i made from a light weight plastic saw horse and just cabled tied some astro to. After training i boxed him up and took him for a walk round some permission with the dog other than when the breeze picked up in his face he didnt bate once and we stopped off for a rest and done some jumps from a fence post and let him stand and watch the dog which really doesnt bother him at all. Sor
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i like the peacock patterns mate
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just got Thor out of his mews and he bated off his perch so i waited for him to jump back on his perch and then he stepped onto the fist. Took him to the scales and he weighed 1lb 5 5/8oz. I put a chick on the fist and for the first time he responded stright away and took a bite so i put him stright back on the bow in the garden which he did bate away so i put him back on and showed him the chick which he stepped back onto the fist and again had a small bite. So i put him back again but had the fist slightly higher but everytime he went to take a bite i twisted my had away from him but kept
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Yesterday Thor weighted in at 1lb 6 1/4oz and seemed not so settled as previous days and was bateing a lot but i did get him to step onto the glove in the end. After weighing i took him through the house using a rabbit leg and then took him to the car and boxed him up which he went in with only a bit of a fuss and took him to a quite field with a fold up chair. We sat down for a while with the rabbit leg but he wasnt interested so we went for a walk through the field but with the stiff breeze and all the new surroundings he kept baiting and found it hard to stay on the fist. Once we made it
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bloody brilliant
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cheers mate if hes feeding off the fist now start boxing him an take him to the field to feed now mate keep feeding him near the mews garden will create a screamer good luck with him my male hunts at 1 5 3/4 cheers mate im going to start manning him out of the garden tomorrow mate start off in the house and out the front and if all goes well then ill be going further a field. How old is your male mate? i know a male harris from the same parents as mine is flying at 1lb 7oz she flies him all year for a pest control company. hes 2 mate this is my third season mate mine will sti
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thanks mate do you want a rough drawing mate to work from or if you want some close up photos of any part let me know and ill bang some photos up mate
