Mehdi Tchavoshinia / 14 Nov 2010 11:19

As I mentioned before, I have the experience that the BOPs somehow are
afraid of big kits, when I fly my homers in big kits, the hawks sit around
and watch them, when they are back in the loft, sometimes a small group of
3-4 continue flying, that is when the hawk keeps attacking, sometimes she
chase them for long time, if a young bird is among them, will be taken and
sometimes they fly away for an hour or two and come back when they are sure
she is gone.
In Tippler training, I sometimes train 20 youngsters together, most of the
time there would be no attack when they fly as a kit. If one brakes apart,
then would be attacked but the advantage is the rest of the kit learn the
danger and get alert.

a story from an unknown person in an unknown place: he planned to get rid of
the BOPs in his area, he chose 4 light color tipplers which he didn't care
much about, cut their bands and put some gift at the back of their neck and
between the flights on their back, he let them fly, there was a hawk
attack, after some seconds of chasing the birds, they escaped the attack and
landed safely around the loft. He kept repeating this experiment and hoped
the hawlk would get one of them, the hawk kept on attacking and could never
hunt these 4 birds. because of the gift he didn't let them in the loft so
that the other birds wouldn't be in Danger, he fed them outside the loft,
after some time they were not even afraid of the Hawk, they were just faster
and would fly so fast and maneuvered so well that the hawk would give up
chasing them. These birds still live, but of course are spoiled and don't
follow the owners commands any more, they fly and land as they wish, the
hawk is still around and takes the good and not alerted birds.
So the tipplers can also learn to defend themselves.

Submitted by Mehdi Tchavoshinia on 11/14/2010 11:59:30 AM