As I mentioned during my last post, I will share some learnings from an old time conditioner, a fellow gamebird lover and to top it off a conditioner of Johnny Jumper, Mr Augie Caminos.
When conditioning a rooster, we commonly make the mistake of over doing things, we make certain programs that are too much like flipping them 50 times… so on and so forth. Our roosters can’t talk but commonly we do the worst and ignore them. For instance, during a work out, your rooster is already breathing so hard and panting, his wings are drooping and yet we ignore this as a signal that our rooster is saying: “Boss, I cant take anymore of this… give me a break!”
Let us let the rooster work itself and not work the rooster. To illustrate, instead of doing too many flips during table work out, it would be best to put the rooster in a fly pen with the lower portion covered but beside a pen containing a hen. The tendency is that because of the covering the rooster cant see the hen and will be encouraged to fly to the roost so that he can see her. But if he is too tired he himself will choose to stay in the ground. More to come…
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