How many times do they go out...

[John k]

Hi all, how many time a day do you let your young birds out?

if it is more than once what are the benifits for doing so....

 

[Guest dibble]

ours go out once a day till taken of the dark which is about 20th june

[Guest spin cycle]

i fly mine open hole all morning then shut trap lunchtime. trouble is hawks..but i feel they need to roam well before training as i think alot of yb losses are down to birds not knowing where home is well enough...so if you keep them in to avoid hawks you may loose them on the road...catch 22. JMO i hasten to add

[grizzal]

our ybs go out 5pm everyday weather permiting

[pjc]

race team out first thing then back in, youngbirds out in the evening then followed by youngsters before there main feed.

[John k]

ours go out once a day till taken of the dark which is about 20th june

 

Then after the 20Th June twice is it?

[John k]

i fly mine open hole all morning then shut trap lunchtime. trouble is hawks..but i feel they need to roam well before training as i think alot of yb losses are down to birds not knowing where home is well enough...so if you keep them in to avoid hawks you may loose them on the road...catch 22. JMO i hasten to add

 

Thanks for your reply, i am fortunate not to have problems with the hawks round where i live at home all day as i work nights so i can also have them out all day...Is that a good thing having them out majority of the day picking in the garden and basking on loft roof they don't do much more as there only oldest i think is 8 weeks lol flutter from one end of the loft or garden to other but they come like wild fire when whistle is blown to indicate snap time lol...

[John k]

our ybs go out 5pm everyday weather permiting

 

Hi Grizzal is it only the once you let them out then...

[Guest puresoontjen]

i let them out for 1 hour aday only just so they can look around . you need no moor than that intill they comes off the dark in june so thats the answer onces a day

[grizzal]

 

Hi Grizzal is it only the once you let them out then...

 

hello m8 ,yes old birds cocks 3pm hens 4pm and ybs 5pm,

have to do this way as go to work between 5/6am

[John k]

Reason i ask is as follows like i have already said i work nite so can spend all day with birds, wot i have been doing is letting out round about 11'o'clock they don't do much apart from flutter from one end of garden to the other  might have a min or so fly then straight bck down on loft roof pick about garden  etc get them in about 15.00hrs feed them water them etc then that's it for the day with the birds there also very responsive to the whistle i blow when come feed time. Now i have been told i am doing it all wrong should be letting out in morning for 1 hr getting back in small feed let y/b rest then back out in the afternoon for another hr lol . This is my 1st yr back into the pigeons  from having 22 yrs maybe more out the sport..... Many thanks for your replies.....

[Guest spin cycle]

 

Thanks for your reply, i am fortunate not to have problems with the hawks round where i live at home all day as i work nights so i can also have them out all day...Is that a good thing having them out majority of the day picking in the garden and basking on loft roof they don't do much more as there only oldest i think is 8 weeks lol flutter from one end of the loft or garden to other but they come like wild fire when whistle is blown to indicate snap time lol...

 

i think it is a good thing..but you might get more experienced fanciers who'll say its bad. lovely thing about pigeons is you have to find your own system....then when you do something happens and you have to change it (dizzy)

[grizzal]

what u have to do is get a routine that suits the time u have.

we all have differant times we can be with the pigeons and we try

to get it right within that time.but once flying I would,nt let them

pick about in the garden after they land, never no what they will

pick up

[John k]

what u have to do is get a routine that suits the time u have.

we all have differant times we can be with the pigeons and we try

to get it right within that time.but once flying I would,nt let them

pick about in the garden after they land, never no what they will

pick up

 

Ok Grizzal many thanks for your replie m8......

[just ask me]

what u have to do is get a routine that suits the time u have.

we all have differant times we can be with the pigeons and we try

to get it right within that time.but once flying I would,nt let them

pick about in the garden after they land, never no what they will

pick up

 

i would say the perfect answer i also never leave them pick once they start flying  

[JADE]

I think it was "Old Hand" (showing my age now) who once wrote that young birds should be either in the loft, in the basket or in the sky. No harm in picking around the garden until they are flying but I would have thought by 8 weeks they should be flying a bit more.  

[Guest dibble]

yes once taken of the dark out twice same time morning and afternoon must had if not flying in and fed no pecking in garden

[blackdog]

once a day is ample at the moment while on the dark ,less stress, plus they exercise better.