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    Hi Josh, don't get too excited about the lightbacks, they have been in a cage for a while and could do with some time in a flight to get them fit.

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    I think if you want to have a shortcut without hasstle then purchase some cage bred birds. These will be happy in cages and if they have bred before then should go down to breed if your conditions are right. These birds will then be happy in flights as well.

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    Well put Peter. I can comment on your cattle example. A lot of breeds have concentrated too ******* certain thing (traits) to the detrement of others, ie too much on milk production from a dairy cow, too much on meat production from beef cattle. In both extremes, especially dairy cows, a lot of longevity and overally strength to resist desease has suffered.In Zebras, i am a novice but can use the same principles, i can see some of the exhibition birds starting to loose longevity and certainly fertility. To foster out eggs and chicks keeps them alive when ordinarily they would not have probably survived. I would be inclined to keep a bird that is not so good that has come out of a nest of 4/5 than keep a good bird that has been a single or fostered out. The achievement of a top class stud would take longer but would be self sustaining.In breeding is frought with danger, the odd one you could get away with but longterm i think it is destructive.Mark

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    Oh dear Damien, lessons learn't the hard way, those are the one you never forget. I have learnt fast that this game is really up and down and you have to accept a lot of losses when breeding, i don't mean adults but the eggs, chicks etc, nature has a way of telling you things when they are wrong or right. Be gratefully at your successes and determined at your failures but most of all try and enjoy it.There ends my sunday sermon!Mark

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    Cleaned out a couple of double breeders today with 2 lots of 8 weaned chicks in each. These chicks are Jan born. Well what a waste of seed, i have used supapets large seed feeders ( are they weekend feeders) and it seems the birds have picked their way through all the seed and wasted around 3/4 of it.Are they only used to certain seeds from birth or just picky. If i treated them a bit mean i suppose they would start eating the rest, or would they just be stupid and starve to death. Should it try those feeders with restricted bars across the feed area so they can't spread it about.What do you all do!

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    Opened my superblend eggfood with honey today(20kg bag), what a cracking smell, i could have eaten it myself. Its a little bit finer than CE-DE, although it is moist i still added a little water with it, birds loved it.

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    good advise Dave, look to keep birds from large nests. Clear eggs now from pairs i assume can be full eggs from the same pairs a bit later in the year.i am getting just maybe 2 fertile eggs out of say 4/5, i suppose the cold spells don't help.Mark