Guest dogeon Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 hi has any one known a streeter come to your loft and you take it to a town and let it go only to find it back in your pen so you dicide to take it 65mls away and god blimy it comes back i would love to hear your opinions
Guest peter.j Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 wouldnt of got the first chance let alone the second j.m.h.o pete
traynor Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 i had one come to my loft a couple of weeks back with my young ones when they went off ranging. i did not let it in an it flew of a couple of hours later
cemetary Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 I watched a documentry some time ago about the streeters, they said that they carry more diseases than a rat ? Dont no the diseases a rat carrys though.
REDCHEQHEN Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 I find it unlikely that a streeter would a) come into your loft let you catch it c) let you catch it more than once it wouldn't surprise me if it was a young bird with its ring removed having gone into another loft there are a pair of feral pigeons (though they don't have the teddy bear eyes) roosting in the garden of a house a few doors down from me - and they are 'great producers' unfortunately - and a damned nuisance - they follow their young from roof to roof - sometimes the young come into the boundaries of the garden - but sit on the fence or loft roof - and will not trap - on the occasions that I have managed to trap them in the past - 9 times out of 10 I have not been able to catch them !! They do not have canker or lice incidentally - which is more than can be said for some fanciers birds
pjc Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 I have had them come in but they don't go out again! Saying that my father started keeping pigeons when he caught a couple of ferals as a boy and bred from them, taking the youngbirds wherever he went and not losing any of them! Phil
Peckedhen Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 I've had a feral trap through my sputnik with my birds. It soon flew out again when I opened the sputnik and drove it into it. I din't think it was an un-banded racer as it very red legs! ;D
Guest Vic Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 Hi, Vic! Just had trouble with the pc for the first time for a while. I coudn't even type a single letter. So I've deleted "fire fox" which some had reccommended. What does one do when this happens? as all contact is lost. I also did a quick re-boot. Getting back to the ferals, Perhaps most of us would improve our peformances by adding one or two to the stock loft. Perhaps by doing so, we will get less disastrous races , as last weekend. I've messed about with ferals for some time now, and as Rose said, not many carry lice, and regarding canker, most seem to be immune to it. I have lost ybs throughout the years to them which I will explain about later But let me say this. One xmas my brother came up from a litle place called Calne, south of Swindon, for a few days. When he returned on a clod and foggy winters night, I gave him a "special" feral in a one bird box, telling him to release it next day. LOL VIC. (cont).
Guest Vic Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 The area I now live in, is like Beriut, with many deserted houses, some badly burned, a perfect habitat for ferals, all within a stones throw of my loft. Last year I lost two yb cocks, being enticed into the feral population, by some young feral Lollitas. Both were here today as they are now feeding big ybs , in the rafts of the local church maybe. I could kill them all at a drop of a hat, if I thought I was threatenned by them in any way. Some are learning my birds how to grovel, and some ybs of mine, I can pick up without any fuss outside the loft. I dont have the whole colony here by the way, only the ones that I allow in. A quick submersion in the fish pond will normally send most gatecrashers on their way. LOL. Anyhow getting back to the bird I sent down to Calne, which must be around 160 mile. It was doing its rounds 2 days later. All pigeons have ability within, NEVER FORGET IT!
DOVEScot Posted July 10, 2008 Report Posted July 10, 2008 hi has any one known a streeter come to your loft and you take it to a town and let it go only to find it back in your pen so you dicide to take it 65mls away and god blimy it comes back i would love to hear your opinions Did you time it over the 65 miles Sounds more like an unrung racer if it is loft wise and tame enough to let you handle it, good thing thing about ferals is the natural instinct they have, bad thing is the possible problems it may have. I honestly think some birds are kept too healthy and have very weak imune systems, they cope fine in or around our own lofts but the minute you introduce them to a new enviroment they cause or create a load of problems. The doves that we keep in the cotes, I consider them in a stage between feral and loft, survival of the fittest, open to all the elements all year round while also fed and treated like the ones in our lofts. We never have any problems with them, good clean healthy stock and when I sell the young with my cotes, never any problems in there new homes or enviroments The only problems we have from time to time are the ones that are in the lofts and cost us money and bring problems in with them:'( I think any bird whether a feral or a rung racer should be caught and isolated just in case, even birds we have bought in the past from people we know are still quaranteened :-/
Guest dogeon Posted July 12, 2008 Report Posted July 12, 2008 I find it unlikely that a streeter would a) come into your loft let you catch it c) let you catch it more than once it wouldn't surprise me if it was a young bird with its ring removed having gone into another loft there are a pair of feral pigeons (though they don't have the teddy bear eyes) roosting in the garden of a house a few doors down from me - and they are 'great producers' unfortunately - and a damned nuisance - they follow their young from roof to roof - sometimes the young come into the boundaries of the garden - but sit on the fence or loft roof - and will not trap - on the occasions that I have managed to trap them in the past - 9 times out of 10 I have not been able to catch them !! They do not have canker or lice incidentally - which is more than can be said for some fanciers birds 1. i was surprised it trapped but it did now 3 times through a sputnik 2. i know the difference between a racer and a streeter 3 look at the teddy bear eyes 4 yes it has no lice or canker
DOVEScot Posted July 12, 2008 Report Posted July 12, 2008 1. i was surprised it trapped but it did now 3 times through a sputnik 2. i know the difference between a racer and a streeter 3 look at the teddy bear eyes 4 yes it has no lice or canker 1. Maybe someone had it and used it for it's natural insticts, very good at spotting predators, it will be first in the loft
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