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Breeding |
Our passion and philosophy is to produce totally 100% parent reared young never interferring with the natural cycle of breeding, with the young only having human contact once at ringing. However we have a few pairs that produce more than 4 eggs, the surplus eggs are taken and incubated and sold into the imprint market. One of the reason's we remove the eggs, is that we have found the males struggle to cover 6 eggs and freqently break or allow them to get chilled. We could overcome this by taking the male out but we belive he has a major role to play in rearing the young which all adds up to making the young 100% parent reared. We do produce some very nice sized bird's - some females around the 3lbs 3 mark and males 2lbs 3, but it is not size we are all about - it's that dogged never say never attitude hunting ability you should expect from a gos, the male that's got real balls taking on full grown rabbits and cock bird's time after time; and the female that wants to take a hen bird in flight rather than when it puts into cover - thats the type of bird we wish to produce! Last year we exported a gos to Spain to an ex-pat, he entered her into a flying trial with 60 other Gos's over three days, not only did he reach the final on the last day but he ended up 3rd overall. Without taking anything away from the falconer, the mother and father of this bird were outstanding hunters and we belive this is passed on genetically to their offspring giving the falconer a good start even before training begins,this makes all the headache and heartache of producing parent reared gos's worthwile. |
With all of our pairs we like to keep the male in to help with incubating and rearing as it's our policy to totally parent rear and do not interfere with the natural cycle of breeding at all. After ringing the male is removed as the females become aggressive towards them. |
We feel it's so important that the male is included in rearing the young to get fully 100% parent reared offspring. |
A pure Finnish male covering eggs,covering young and helping feed the youngsters |
Feeding is all important if you want a young goss to grow and develop into a strong healthy hunting bird, so we cut no corners when feeding, all our gos's are fed on a top quality diet, we propagate our own Quail so are able to feed these fresh, moments after Humanely dispatching, we also feed Rat, mice, caught up Pheasant and DOC's giving them the good variety of fur and feather they would naturally recieve in the wild. This all makes for a very healthy and strong eyass the type of bird we wish to produce. |
On site Quail, knowing were all the youngsters food is sourced from is very important especially the Falcons |
We do hatch out our "Surplus Eggs" which are sold for Imprinting but they are not very numerous |
We have a few pairs that produce more than 4 eggs, the surplus eggs are taken and incubated then sold into the inprint market, one of the reason's we remove the eggs is that we have found the males struggle to cover 6 eggs and freqently break or allow them to get chilled.We could overcome this by taking the male out but we belive he has a major role to play in rearing the young which all add's up to making the young 100% parent reared. |
Surplus Egg's |
A young male Gos ready for imprinting and collection, this young fellow went to Scotland. We only imprint to order - anybody wishing for an imprint needs to order well in advance |
A Male building well in mid March the female will soon make her intro |
The Female starts to take over building |
The perfect sequence au natural ,display, pass, bingo |
Contact us for Imprint birds |
A male covers a 2 youngsters while the female hatches a pipping egg |