Falconry School

Falconry courses (from August to January)

We offer falconry lessons for newcomers. In our beginner course we present falconry in practice and theory and the correct handling of hawks:

• care and keeping of hawks
• falconry language
• legal requirements in Austria
• practices with the falcons as:
  standing on the fist, feeding on the fist, doing the falconer's knot, hooding, jumping to the fist and first training flights
• making jesses and aylmeris

Time: 10 am to 5pm, including lunch break at 1pm

Place: Österreichischer Jagdfalkenhof, 3830 Waidhofen an der Thaya (Austria, Waldviertel, near CZ border)

How to arrive: by car very easy
by Public transport you can travel only to Waidhofen an der Thaya or Göpfritz (on the course dates) where we can pick you up. Please tell us in advance!

Course dates

2024
Sunday, 11 August 204
Sunday, 8 September 2024
Sunday, 13 October 2024
Sunday, 10 November 2024
Sunday, 8 December 2024
Sunday, 19. January 2025

Course language: German only
--> ask for an individual course in English

Costs: EUR 145,-- (including lunch)

Entry form:
Please send us the form with your dates via Email or post until one week before the course takes place!

VOUCHERS

We offer also vouchers for our Falconry courses! The vouchers are valid thru January 2025.
Please send us an email office@jagdfalkenhof.at

individual lessons:

We offer also individual lessons for special problems as lure training or to correct behaviour problems of your falcon.
Just contact us - agreed price.

Falcon breeding courses (from April to June)

Falcons are wild animals and breeding them in aviaries is much more complicated than breeding domesticated animals such as chickens or dogs.
In our course we present all aspects of breeding, from the composition of the future parents to the rearing of the young falcons.
We teach using our breeding pairs and in our breeding rooms, but also with practical exercises with our falcon chicks:

• Selection and keeping of breeding pairs
• Equipment and aviary
• Breeding room and incubators, or natural brood
• Handling and hatching eggs
  
• Rearing and handling falcon chicks
• Rearing the young falcons until they fledge

No previous knowledge is necessary for this course!

Course dates

2025 - will be announced in February 2025

Course language: German only
--> ask for an individual course in English

The falconry school is part of the society "Österreichischer Jagdfalkenhof".
ZVR 473834835