advice wanted

[Guest]

Hi guys what do you think is the prob young birds fly well, no sickness from training they come well and go straight in loft but come raceday they come well but just wont go in they go on loft roof onto landing board then onto floor one even come the other week then buggered off for 20 mins any ideas much appreciated thanks

[bewted]

look around loft and find whats out of place on a race day compared to other days there going in ok !!!!!

[Tony C]

Are they coming home to an empty loft? Have a couple of hungry pigeons walking about the garden if trapping through open doors or if trapping through a trap have some pigeons inside the loft.

[german owls rock]

do you use a dropper tony ?

[Guest]

thanks for replies theres nothing different on race days i have tried the dropper but race birds not interested and althogh they do appear hungry on return and there is birds in section feeding they still dont seem interested ????????

[Guest cloudview]

my mate is having  same problem he,s put it down to  a corn called sneakey mix , thinks they are to fired up  more so when all races have been tail winds and no more than two  hours duration

[Roland]

Was at the club,  - happened most seasons, when a fanciers said' Can't understand it! I take the training, they come like the clappers, I call in and they eat well etc. As soon as loft is open they are out and flying, arcing necks and wings, and clapping. Fly well and chase all and sundry, YET every race day they come behind the others and don't perform . etc.'  Him or the birds? :-/

 

Was second a few times, a winner andwas in the shake up to win the Gold Cup (Fed) I Trained a few others members - free - and also Raunds etc. After race seaons I said to Gary Edmunds about mating what with what like... and he asked me where I would be getting the new birds from :-/

I said nowt. Later Barry Andrews was at the loft and I brought the subject up... He said, Roland, they fed well, flew well, and was trained well. Anything and everything possible to do you did... In fact exactly as mine, - He won the Gold Cup etc. and most averages etc. But only one win!!! And a few seconds... why mate them? Time to change the birds... they are good enough! I was peeved and carried on... cottoned on later than sooner that the birds weren't up to it.

[Roland]

Should have read' ... they are NOT good enough,and one swallow doesn't make a summer! I

[pigeonscout]

Do you have the cocks and hens split?

Try locking old cocks in the young cocks boxes and take young cocks on a two mile trainer soon as you get back home put them back in basket and take them back two miles. keep doing this until young cocks are folding their wings from 1000 yards out to get into the loft. It looks like your birds are racing to your garden and not their box.  This can happen if young cocks are allowed to have fun on the roof, treading hens etc.

Give them a reason to race to the box.

[Tony C]

Are they walking on the landing board as if they own it or looking in nervously and backing of from going in?

[mark proctor]

tony im having the same problem but mine are landing on the neibours roof right at the back were i carnt see them...ive had 3 races up to now..all bad traps...this week i dropped 7 together at 9.17...our winner was in at 9.16...im a longer flyer...didnt get them in while 9.20.. :( :( > > >:(well peed of...and i no its going to happen next week as well....theyve got into a bad habbit now ...they do it every day when i let them out...and from trainning...ive cut there food down to nothing and there still comming in clapping...then strait on there perch...back of the roof....rolwe on old birds next year to see if the same pigeons do the same thing...if so might as well call it a day......all the best mark.... ;)

[Guest IB]

Birds can be quite nervous coming home from a race: maybe they are wound-up a bit too much for the relatively short distance they have to fly?

 

Not that it would have made much difference to race results, but I've been plagued with birds doing victory laps in the air above the loft before they come down; mutter under my breath that you're supposed to do that after you cross the finish line     They trap after landing no bother as I've called them 'in' at least twice a day every day since they were 14 days old in the nest. But I now need to work out how to get them down out the sky first ...