
Originally Posted by
FredFogg
Has anyone ever taken an eyas accipiter, but didn't imprint it? What I mean by this, is not do the whole recipe thing. Just feed it until it can eat on its own and then free loft it and toss food to it through the food chute and then after it has hard penned, pull it and train it like a passage? What are folks thoughts on this and what problems do you think might arise?
I think it's probably a recipe, no pun intended, for disaster. With no human or parent/sibling interaction I betting for a serious nut job. Otherwise folks would do it that way all the time, it's way easier than any imprinting method out there.
Paul Domski
New Mexico, USA