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Jeff,

I worked my female down to 155g for a day and she was good on the lure but still not chasing on slips but behavior was pretty good. The next day at 158G she became scared to death of me....

Just a heads up on the tailmount, I had 2 deck feathers pulled out at different times on the female sharpy I had. After the first one pulled out, I thought it was a fluke and I waited until it grew...

The goshawk in this thread turned out to be the best imprint we've had by far. His early success and willingness to kill a young age continued through his first season. He never hesitated on ducks...

Tough loss, I've been in your exact situation. WNV sucks. It usually hits in mid to late summer while asper usually hits birds at hunting weight.

Hang in there.

Strikingly solid black that Gyr/Saker is. Really neat..

He has been a lot more fearless and accepting of everything. He seems to want to kill things more eagerly than the last imprint. The previous ones needed some weight reduction to want to kill...

Just wanted to follow-up a bit. As of yesterday we ended his hack. First was the brother-in-law's chickens, then was the complaints about the bird chasing swooping some of the neighbors'dogs and...

Welcome Ross,

Beautiful goshawks. My Brother-in-law is from Limerick and the last time over there we were visiting his sister in Cork. It was beautiful countryside and I was thinking that...

Hey guys, just wanted to follow-up on this some more. Our guy still does not like the box. He gets all his meals in there and he has to be hungrier to eat in the box than outside it. When he...

I took him to a wood lot down the road on Saturday but not until after he caught his first starling. It was a display of true aerial superiority. He was up in a tree after chasing some birds off...

Rob,

Sorry to hear this. My brother relayed a story to me from a well known and long time falconer up in Maine about a gos or goshawks getting scared to death.

Our guy has been at tame hack almost two weeks and he is flying stronger everyday. The first week I could feel his chest filling out more and more each day. Yesterday he was getting really close to...

I sandwiched to 28" long. Its about 26" high and 20" wide.

By the way, we fed him in it this morning, and left it open in the yard. We came out a few minutes later and he finished eating and was lying down on top of the box.

Well I decided to make another GH last night with parts I had already. I wanted to get something going quick to start this eyas on. I had this extra large dog kennel I used to mail my sick RT and a...

That is an awesome box. Let me know when you are taking any orders. What is the box made out of? Is it polycorbonate?

Fred,

Those hoods look great. So I guess both you and Barry use the narrow variety? I have some work to do. I will be modifying one this week to match.

Thanks.

Harry,
I'm no expert in goshawks, my bother and I have been flying them only for the last 6 seasons. We hawk 2 or 3 of them between the 2 of us each season. Most of the passage goshawks hooded well...

Barry,
Sorry, for muddying up Thor's thread. Feel free to have a moderator take out my junk.

Anyway, sounds like something we need to try. I know we were missing something along the way. ...

Harry,

I use narrow ones as well. They are 11-12" wide but they are made of wood with the door on the side which makes it easy for them to get in. Before the hunt they usually jump around in...

Without going into the full discussion on the merits of hooding, I feel that they were initially devised to limit bating at errant slips in the field or while being transported (whether on a cadge or...

Barry, just curious, is he loose in the car or in the giant hood? A friend of mine says he "trains" his imprints to the giant hood early on takes him for rides in it almost every day and sometime...

Isaac,

Early on I do the same. The idea for me know at this age is to establish a method I plan to use regularly when hawking, either a giant hood or perched and hooded. I suppose we can continue...

He is not hard penned yet and as for hooding, its been nothing special so far. We always use a hood that is a little larger than normal. The beak opening needs to fit but the closure is usually loose...

Hey Barry, Thor sounds like a great bird. We had a few hicups this weekend but all went well in the end. First was that he bent a tail feather in the box one morning during a 2 minute drive around...