I keep two kit boxes with 24 perches in each. The floors are made of wire.
I have bobs in each coop with a landing
board that doubles as a door to keep
cats and hawks out.
My kit boxes are on the
edge
of
the lake. It makes good viewing
when they fly over the water. This is a
great area to fly rollers. I have very little hawk problems but I do
sometimes lose a bird or two to them or to owls.
I've had greater loses from
over-flies. Here in South Texas it is usually warm and the birds do
not usually fly high and long. But when a cool front comes in
sometimes I don't have time to adjust the feed. Bingo ! They
fly too long and high, my mistake.
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Pictures of My
Roller Family
and Stock
Birds
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!
 My strain of rollers come from the stock that my long time
friend Gilbert Wells and I flew for years in PA. The nucleus
is centered around a couple of Paul Vaughn birds and some Plona and
L. Smith bloodline. These are small birds and spin with great
speed. And they are also good looking birds with great type.
Good looking birds can roll with
excellence. |
NBRC
#1670-00
Black Badge Cock
A
very good spinner and kit bird. One of those rollers that has a lot
of roll and had to work hard to learn how to control it. As a
youngster I flew this bird less than the others until I seen that he was
stable. He has turned out to be a good roller.
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The start of something good!
This yearling Yellow Check cock bird
is the foundation behind my new yellow projects. He and his mother
are small type rollers with good color. The pictured cock bird
was flown for 18 months and spin 10-20 feet with good quality.
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