LIGHT SYSTEM

THEBINFIES · November 5, 2006

WE ARE NOT YET FANCIERS, WE HAVE JUST MOVED TO HEADINGTON IN OXFORD.

WE HOPE TO START Y/B RACING IN 2007, BUT DONT KNOW WHAT SYSTEM.

DO WE START WITH THE LIGHT-DARK SYSTEM & WHEN TO BUY THE Y/BIRDS?

THANKS T&S.

Chatrace · November 5, 2006

Start with Natural, learn to raise health birds first

November 5, 2006

I'm sure if you join your local pigeon club the members will be only too pleased to breed you a few young birds.

Roland · November 5, 2006

Be as regular as you can in any system you decide on.

Keep them warm and airy.... and dry at all times. Weigh out a 0unce and a 1/4 and mark the utensil that you will feed them with so YOU know that you don't over feed. - Maybe that you can split this into a light morning and evening feed remember that in the colder weather the feed at night is all important as it keeps them warm and helps when the temperature is likely to fall... helps control and trapping. Get a coat that you will always wear. Calm and gentle and methodical in all approaches... especially when catching.

Learn and become accustom to those needful traits and it will put you onto the road of a never ending learning circle. The more a fancier is successful, the more you listen, always bearing in mind what THEIR system is, because though the above, and there are many more, basics for keeping, the birds will re-act accordingly to the system that you decide on. You can’t blend systems... a little sip of another system perhaps.... And don't listen to the crap thesis like a certain strain needs this amount of food, or won't take to wheat or barley and other codswallop. They are, and will always be to all sense and purpose PIGEONS and not Humans - though often show more sense than some of us lol -. Always note which bird perches where... easier to note dropping there etc. And the best time to observe is when they are out and about!

Take care and good luck.