2009 February « Pigeon Loft

Archive for February, 2009

19 Feb

17 – 19 days

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Too eager to see if my eggs are going to hatch or not. I did hold them up to my ears a few days ago, usually you can hear them moving a little inside before their hatching.
Anyways the nromal incubation period is 17 – 19 days.
I suppose as I removed the first egg I should [...]

16 Feb

Counting Down

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Salams
guess im counting down to the hatching God Willing of my eggs. Seems like forever. I know they were laid approximately 10 days ago so I guess I’m half way through. I hope inshallah the eggs were fertilised properly.
other than that I need to buy a cat gard product, to keep the cats away from [...]

11 Feb

Extremely sad News

Posted by majnun in My Iranian High Flyer Blog.. Tagged: flyer, High, iranian, pigeon., pigeons. 1 Comment

The squeaker managed to get out of the loft never to be seen again. I don’t thik it would have gone far and thus I think the neighbours cat ate it, Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi Rajioon. The proof was in the feathers found underneath a neighbours car.
But Inshallah im looking forward to the eggs [...]

5 Feb

Good News,, Alhumdulillah.

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The Hen laid its second egg yesterday and Alhumdulillah (thanks to God) it was sitting on the egg. Inshallah she holds out. I also put the first one back hoping it didn’t go bad in the cold.

When I got home the squeaker waqs hungry, thus it started squeaking at me for food.. so basically I [...]

4 Feb

Sad News

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if you read yesterdays blog you will know that I was delighted that my pair of IHF had laid thier first egg but to my disapointment after work yesterday I saw that they were not sitting on the eggs.
I shall wait for them to lay yhe second and see if they will incubate it. If [...]

3 Feb

Delighted. Alhumdulillah.

Posted by majnun in My Iranian High Flyer Blog.. Tagged: flyer, High, highflyer, iranian, pigeon., tehrani, tumbler. 1 Comment

If anyone had read my introduction as you are aware I bought a breeding pair of Iranian High Flying Tumblers and their squeaker from a breeder in Loughborough. The breeder was a very nice person, he was Kurdish from Loughborough UK. I saw the add online and even though my intention was to fly and [...]