Log Day 7 and 8

Last night at 6:00 PM, she was at 1098 grams, and didn't want to hop to the fist. Presented the food a few times, but she just wouldn't do it. I weigh her again afterwards, and kept getting the same weight.....This is what doesn't make sense. She lost 6 grams in five hours between morning and lunch yesterday, but these numbers say she lost 16 grams in 6.5 hours between lunch and evening.....I'm not thinkin so...her burn cycle should have been slowing down...not speeding up. This is where my problem lies. When i have been weighing her, I have been doing the hold the swivel and leash in your hand and have the jesses sorta raised up thing.....that way it sorta gets a "trueer" weight. In theory, this works.....but I can't do it right. Either my hand is moving, or the bird is twitching her tail, or something is moving, and i'm not getting an accurate weight...it just changes too much. Day 8. I try weighing her like I normally do, and it says she is at 1089 grams. IF this was an accurate number, it means that the first night she was left unhooded (which was last night, and she did GREAT!), she actually burned WAY less than she normally does while hooded....can't be right. That would mean she only lost 9 grams in 14 hours, at a ROL of .64 GPH....that's half the normal rate of loss at the END of her burn cycle, after it's already slowed down. I mean, granted, she could be like that, and her ROL has almost stopped, and I will be seeing green mutes when i get home, but I think my technique is flawed. This is what i'm thinking...Put the whole leash on the scale...then i don't have to worry about whether or not i'm messing it up or not. I won't have to be messing with her so much, making sure she isn't standing on the jesses, and i should start getting more accurate weights. SOOOOO this morning when i weighed her (with the leash setup and all), she weighed in at 1122 grams. This is the new number I will be going off of, and hopefully I will start getting a more accurate read on her weights. I will no longer be able to accurately tell how much her total percent loss is from trap (which is something i wanted to pay attention to), but I was already estimating it b/c of the bell/transmitter additions I made, so I'm not too distraught.
I put her out for her first "extended" weathering session (the other couple times, she was only out there for forty five min or so), and she did PRETTY well (not perfect, but not bad). She is still bating more than I would like, but she at least has the returning to the perch thing down. What surprised me though, was that she never once has, on any perch, done the full out bate, where her feet get tripped out from under her, and she does the sprawled out laying thing (you all know what I'm talkin about)....I assumed the first few times out weathering would be when i encountered this, but she seems to be settling into her new situation well. I didn't get the hood made last night, b/c I am an irresponsible apprentice, but I should get to it tonight (i'm running out of time...If i don't get a properly fitting hood on her soon, I foresee some complications arrising). I have decided to incorporate the LED into my training as my conditioned reinforcer (got the idea off of the OPC forum, through a heads up from my sponsor...good stuff on there for sure!), as opposed to a clicker or some "other" type of whistle.....being that she should be hopping tonight (I know, I said that yesterday...but she WILL do it tonight :-)), I need to buy one ASAP. SO much to do, so little time. At Lunch today, she was at 1113 grams, which is a loss of 9 grams in 5.5 hours @ a ROL of 1.64 GPH. I had left her unhooded in the kitchen, and she had a leg tucked up when i got home. Put her out to weather for a little bit, and then left her hooded on the block for the afternoon.