Race day

[Guest pigeonboyno1]

What is the best way to get your birds to trap faster is there a technique or just let them do it themselve just to get them trap soon as they arrive.

[john nico]

i keep a few spair hens on the saturday before they are due i will soak them in washing up liquid as the birds our coming i will throw them towards the shed normaly does the trick

[Guest pigeonboyno1]

Is it ok to kept one pigeon fly about and then when the pigeons come home they can trap with the one that is out flying or is it not allowed

[thunderboult]

What is the best way to get your birds to trap faster is there a technique or just let them do it themselve just to get them trap soon as they arrive.

 

our old birds trap because they know they're mate is waiting for them, youngster's will trap for food if they get to know when they come in they get fed they should trap ok. if your on about getting the birds down on the loft as soon as possible, as mentioned a dropper would help.

[Guest pigeonboyno1]

deos anyone else have any information all the help would be greatful

[Guest IB]

Is it ok to kept one pigeon fly about and then when the pigeons come home they can trap with the one that is out flying or is it not allowed

 

Used to be an unwritten 'rule' that everyone kept their birds in on race days. If you have a bird flying about, it could : take your race bird away for a further fly   distract your race bird, making it hesitate;    or if they are cock and hen, then a chase could begin.  

[Guest pigeonboyno1]

 

Used to be an unwritten 'rule' that everyone kept their birds in on race days. If you have a bird flying about, it could : take your race bird away for a further fly   distract your race bird, making it hesitate;    or if they are cock and hen, then a chase could begin.  

 

Even when they areout flying the cocks and hens start to chase each other and wount trap that really anoys me.

 

[Guest IB]

Everyday with me is a 'training' day. When birds land from exercise, I always call them in right away. Can't remember what the Sunday name for it is, but becomes second nature for bird to obey - without thinking.

[Guest pigeonboyno1]

Everyday with me is a 'training' day. When birds land from exercise, I always call them in right away. Can't remember what the Sunday name for it is, but becomes second nature for bird to obey - without thinking.

 

 

soon as the food is down they suddenly start trapping like mad its why can't u do this when they are racing.

[thunderboult]

 

Even when they areout flying the cocks and hens start to chase each other and wount trap that really anoys me.

 

we fly our sexes seperate, so there's only one sex out at a time(when we open the shed to allow the birds in they all want to get in straight away because they know they're mate is in the shed) . when we train old birds only one sex is taken at a time and trap back to they're mates .

[Guest pigeonboyno1]

 

we fly our sexes seperate, so there's only one sex out at a time(when we open the shed to allow the birds in they all want to get in straight away because they know they're mate is in the shed) . when we train old birds only one sex is taken at a time and trap back to they're mates .

 

Thats seems a great idea and do u do that during the race season.

 

 

[thunderboult]

 

Thats seems a great idea and do u do that during the race season.

 

 

yes all year it's called roundabout, when the cocks are out flying the hens are locked into the sections with the boxes, when the cocks  come in they trap into the corridor and are ushered into a section on the end of the shed were the hens are normally kept. then the hens go out and the cocks are brought back into the sections were the boxes are, and are locked in, when the hens come in they trap back into the corridor and are ushered into the section on the end of the shed.      

[Guest pigeonboyno1]

 

yes all year it's called roundabout, when the cocks are out flying the hens are locked into the sections with the boxes, when the cocks  come in they trap into the corridor and are ushered into a section on the end of the shed were the hens are normally kept. then the hens go out and the cocks are brought back into the sections were the boxes are, and are locked in, when the hens come in they trap back into the corridor and are ushered into the section on the end of the shed.      

 

I might try that and see what happens

 

 

[thunderboult]

 

I might try that and see what happens

 

 

i think you'll be enjoy it, the birds fly a lot better around the loft. hens will fly like a kit of young birds off ranging, cocks will be clapping and showing off everywhere.

[Guest pigeonboyno1]

the cocks do that anyway even when they are racing they come back and clapping u can hear them before u see they or there is just one who loves to do that

[thunderboult]

the cocks do that anyway even when they are racing they come back and clapping u can hear them before u see they or there is just one who loves to do that

 

if you train the cocks on their own and have their hens waiting for them when they get back hopefully they'll trap a bit quicker for you. it's a treat for them to get their mate, our's only have a couple of tosses at the begining of the season so most of the time through the season they only see their mate on race days and if it's an easy race not for long, so they want to get in as quick as they can for some loving.

[pjc]

Get them into a routine from baby's, teach them that when you call them, whistle them etc they go straight in. Do this at first by controlling the food and when they get into the habbit they won't forget.

I get cocks and hens hit the loft at the same time and all they want to is get in the loft, then they'll chase each other around etc.

[jimmy white]

What is the best way to get your birds to trap faster is there a technique or just let them do it themselve just to get them trap soon as they arrive.

 

if you take yor birds training , make sure there is someone there, to get them right in, giving a lttle reward , maybe a handfull of conditioner  

their better being trained to trap as yb,s,, then as old birds they should trap well, if theve plenty confidence in  you,and well used to you, you will often find w/hood cocks or hens  trap far faster than natural birds as they are very keen to get in to see their mates

[just ask me]

jimmy is right i don't think u can teach them as say yearlings or two year olds teach them when they are young once they have good habits it becomes natural for them when they come home  its straight into the loft

[john nico]

yes there suppose to come straight in but how many times have you herd when you go the club with ye clock would of won today but had a bad trap its nearley everyweek they try to put the damper on it iv you have won the race would of beat ye today but as i say its in the clock that counts see ye

[just ask me]

mate that happens every where u wouldn't belive some if the excuses Ive heard from when pigeon trapping crow flying in his path right when he entering the loft cat in garden hawk just over loft  to falling over when getting bird dropping rubber there lots more

 

this is some that i heread off one member in one old bird season

 

he was very unlucky   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[john nico]

;D ;D ;D ;D i like it and i bet when he did win his clocked stopped :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

[Tony C]

Learning them to trap starts when they're y/birds. You go through a few stages but the first one is to make them realise who's the boss. Gone are the days when I stood a couple of yards from the loft shaking the tin & throwing in grub to the back of the loft. I now stand in the doorway and they have to clamber past me to get in, between my legs, over my shoulders, in off me head ;D (lost me hairnet many a time ;D) if they don’t go past me they go without. I do this every time I get them in, in the end they get programmed in that they see me open the doors, walk into the loft and they follow. When they start exercising around the loft and they're looking to land I do the same, open the loft and they're down and in.