Help!!!!

[huntergatherer]

Hello all,

I have got a problem with my yb team, after excercising for ten minutes or so they are landing  on a house roof about a hundred yards from home and appear to be eating some kind of moss off of the roof.

They have had over twenty tosses up to forty miles are being fed a well balanced diet and although thier droppings are not perfect, they appear to be in good health, I am reluctant to feed them if they land on the roof as i feel this will reinforce thier behaviour. I have tried flagging them off the roof but they simply walk out of reach.

Any suggestions?

[sapper756]

I WUOLD STARVE THEM OF THIER NEXT FEED, AND SEE HOW THEY REACT WHEN CALLED IN NEXT TIME. GOOD LUCK

[huntergatherer]

Thanks for the reply,

That is what i have been doing if they land on the roof they miss a feed. For the last fortnight, i have trained them daily/fed on return and this has been thier only excercise. Today it was misty, so i let them out instead. After 10 minutes, they were straight on the roof again. I am wondering if it could be they are lacking something in thier diet or it is a sign that they are sickening for something.

YIS Gary

[mO]

Add something green to the diet, Dandelion, Chickweed, or buy Lettuce or fasten a piece of Brockley head to something off floor, keeps it out of mess and they can peck and tear bits off.

One other thought is add a few rabbit pellets to the mix.

Just another thought is a dish of unpolluted garden soil,clay or even a fresh mole hill, you could add a pinch of salt to the soil.

I know you have said they are pecking something off a roof, same as fielding in a way so" bring the field back to the loft".

try it I think it will help

mO.

[stevebelbin]

Interesting mO, mine have been hitting the roof for ages, but Ive managed to get my neighbours to play ball, literally, they chuck a tennis ball at em if they go on their roofs. And I have to sit in the garden clapping everytime they look like landing. With mine I think its the young cocks that are dragging them down as there starting to get a bit randy.

[jimmy white]

some times when ybs are left out for a while they tend to explore and go from one roof to another,further away, i would go along with mo , keep them peckish and give them all this, and maybe a bit red band just a pinch at a time to keep them wanting, and have the bath there for them , then get them in.pigeons are creatures of habit, and i think its up to us to learn them the good habits, wish you well

[huntergatherer]

Thanks for th replies all, i am going to get thier droppings tested asap i will let you know the results

YIS Gary

[Guest]

Two points:

 

Agree with the brightly coloured rubber ball thrown onto the roof. Birds not long in catching on, so much so that mine lift when they see me coming with it, and stop going to the roof fairly quickly [couple of days].

 

What is that moss on the roof slates / tiles? Anybody know what its called and is it harmful to the birds?

[huntergatherer]

Unfortunatly the ball is not an option, there is limited acess and when they see me walking up the road, they walk  out of ball range. i have even tried using a 10m fishing pole with a flag on the end but they evade that as well.

YIS Gary

[westy]

do you give them grit

[Guest shadow]

Mine have been picking the loft roof for years and it has never done them any harm in fact very little moss now grows on there

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Two points:

 

Agree with the brightly coloured rubber ball thrown onto the roof. Birds not long in catching on, so much so that mine lift when they see me coming with it, and stop going to the roof fairly quickly [couple of days].

 

What is that moss on the roof slates / tiles? Anybody know what its called and is it harmful to the birds?

 

THE MOSS THAT GROWS ON MOST ROOFS IS TOXIC IN THE SUMMER WHEN IT IS IN FLOWER CANT REMEMBER THE NAME I HAD THIS PROBLEM WHEN WE STARTED BIRDS AND THE YOUNG ONES WERE DYING OFF AND WHEN I GOT IT CHECKED OUT I FOUND OUT IT WAS SOMETHING POISONOUS THEY HAD EATEN AND ONE OF THE CLUB MEBERS CAME ROUND TO HAVE A LOOK WHEN THEY WERE ON THE ROOF AND HE SAW THEM PICKING THE MOSS AND TOLD ME THAT WAS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM SO NOW I KEEP THE ROOF CLEAR AND NEVER HAD A PROBLEM AFTER THAT

[Guest speckled]

;D ;D owwwwwwwwwwww on the ball there Mr Cutie, rubber bullets  ;D ;D sorry could not stop myself Speck ;D ;D ;D ;D :X

[huntergatherer]

do you give them grit

 

Yes they get Matrix plus mixed grit

YIS Gary

[Guest]

 

THE MOSS THAT GROWS ON MOST ROOFS IS TOXIC IN THE SUMMER WHEN IT IS IN FLOWER CANT REMEMBER THE NAME I HAD THIS PROBLEM WHEN WE STARTED BIRDS AND THE YOUNG ONES WERE DYING OFF AND WHEN I GOT IT CHECKED OUT I FOUND OUT IT WAS SOMETHING POISONOUS THEY HAD EATEN AND ONE OF THE CLUB MEBERS CAME ROUND TO HAVE A LOOK WHEN THEY WERE ON THE ROOF AND HE SAW THEM PICKING THE MOSS AND TOLD ME THAT WAS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM SO NOW I KEEP THE ROOF CLEAR AND NEVER HAD A PROBLEM AFTER THAT

 

 

How do you keep the roof clear of moss, Tammy? East side of the loft roof that birds usually land on has moss growing, so would now like to get shot of it.

[Guest]

;D ;D owwwwwwwwwwww on the ball there Mr Cutie, rubber bullets  ;D ;D sorry could not stop myself Speck ;D ;D ;D ;D :X

 

You really need to stop sniffin those empty ginger bottles, Spec.  ;D

 

Er, rubber bullets ... explain pleasssse, even Monty Python's scratching his noddle on that yin.  :-/

[storm rollers]

do you use picking pots or blocks ? these might help keep them off the roof well it worked for me anyhow give it a try

[jimmy white]

the thing with ybs are if you chase them off the roof they just land on a  further, roof, you can make a catapult with light elastic , and fire chopped up potatoes, it can go a fair length, basicly its discourage them from the roofs and encourage [reward] them for landing on the loft

[NANCYVIEWLOFTS]

its the first sign of young bird sickness

they eat the moss we believe to try and make themselves sick like a dog eats grass

keep them in and feed them breeding pellets so if they are sick the others cant eat the corn as it is like a wet mash

7 days on nifuramycin

[pender]

i live in housing scheme with loft close to the houses i have given them all the use stuff grits min etc etc but they still go to the roof, think it just in there instinct they like to pick at everything.

[ACE LOFTS]

hi huntergatherer

i had the same problem about 2 weeks ago pigeons landing on roofs i threw ball at em stones mud potato u name it they had had it coming at em, all they do is go to the next roof, last year had the same thing but worse i live on a byepass and they used to go and sit on the street lights "how do u get of that then hey", funny enough my fed winner used to do it all the time out the door and sit on a poxy lampost were u cant do nothing then the others follow.

 

now

this is what u do dont let them out any more not even for a fly take them straight training but make sure they are starved get your self a fantail and as they come throw the fantail in the loft and in they go. make sure u take them at feed time so they no that it is feed time. say u done that in the evening now the next morning take em training again and do the same again. they will not need to fly around home if they are traing twice a day.

 

say if mornings bad and u cant go training dont let em out and feed em and the evening is good dont worry about u havent let them out in the morning take em training. iv left mine in for a whole day "24hour" and took them training they come just as well.

 

now after a week or 2 of this let them out in the morning about 6ish not in the afternoon then u will see they will do an hour no problem. and they should b alright after that.

 

i can only tell u my experiance, its up to u fella