Harris Hawk

[welsh hunter 9]

hi all is there any good topics on here about harris hawks everything u need to know about them like training feeding and finding out what wieght they fly at like how you find it out and entering them hope there something out there that can help me atb welsh hunter thanks

[pointer 543]

Not on here but there's a load of info on the Internet.

[MAACCY 105]

You could join the falconry forum pal

[youcanthide...BANG 1,051]

Have you got a bird? Sorry but some people do this and it turns out they have

[Chid 6,582]

get a mentor and learn from them, to many conflicting ideas and practices on the net and in books , youll end up with your head messed up...

[j j m 6,553]

go on the iff plenty on there

[Accip74 7,112]

This might sound strange, but I wouldn't go near a forum like the IFF until you've been hawking for a while........I first looked at the IFF about 5 years after I started hawking, by that point I knew my own mind, so I wasn't swayed by all the condescending, egotistical bullshit on there..........

Find someone good to help & read hollinshead. Good luck

Edited January 10, 2014 by Accip74

[arcticgun 4,548]

Good advice accip more too learnnin one hollinshead book than the entire iff site

[Emma Robinson 3]

I was advised to get 'Understanding Birds of Prey' by Nick Fox. Has pretty much all you need to know! That combined with reading on the net will fill your head with allsorts of ideas, I think the BEST information I gained was a dairy of a young chap on here with his first harris hawk and it is an AWESOME read! Made my mind up in which direction I wanted to go and and some of the drawbacks involved. Give it a read! Also, scout about for local falconry clubs to get in with a crowd!

 

Good luck

[pointer 543]

I joined a club!!!!!!

I learned that I should just obtain a hawk straight away because I sounded sensible on the phone lol.

[Accip74 7,112]

Lol........I did too & found out everyone was training their harris in the same way as one of the 'top bods' in the club.......it was a f*cking weird method, it involved handling the bird every day with welding glove's for several weeks, madness!..........I realised clubs aren't for me lol

[charlie caller 3,654]

Did you have to wear goggles as well?

[Accip74 7,112]

Lol....not sure if they made it to goggles........I switched off as soon as I heard the words 'handle with welding gloves'

[arcticgun 4,548]

did you not also learn that its ok to keep huge numbers of birds and too breed them and sell them as hunti9ng birds even though he too busy with work to get em out hunting, oh and the old peach 'hares are rare' oh the good old BFC still providing top class sport and venues for the chosen few :laugh: sod waiting in order to slip on a rabbit , Id rather go me own way and actually get some hawking done as opposed to that scenario

[paulus 26]

did you not also learn that its ok to keep huge numbers of birds and too breed them and sell them as hunti9ng birds even though he too busy with work to get em out hunting, oh and the old peach 'hares are rare' oh the good old BFC still providing top class sport and venues for the chosen few :laugh: sod waiting in order to slip on a rabbit , Id rather go me own way and actually get some hawking done as opposed to that scenario

bagged pigeon club then there was the red Indian who turned out to be a peado