something wrong in my pigeon book

[Guest HEATHLOFTS]

i have been reading a book called fancy pigeons by aad rijs and is there it says you have to keep new pigeons in for 1 week to break them :L im sure they need to stay in longer  :-/

[DJWa]

there are no guarantees james

with y/b racers if young enough only a few days

with old birds i find it better if they have reared a nest in your loft

and if happy you've a good chance of breaking them

 

i don't know if the fancy breeds are the same or not

[Guest HEATHLOFTS]

there are no guarantees james

with y/b racers if young enough only a few days

with old birds i find it better if they have reared a nest in your loft

and if happy you've a good chance of breaking them

 

i don't know if the fancy breeds are the same or not

 

i think they were talking about white dovecote doves :-/

[blaz]

pouters/horsemen 1 week running in hood with one of your own birds of opposite sex

tumblers/rollers/modenas /fantails /nuns /ect  3 weeks looking out daily from a wire cage.

with your tumblers/modenas ect let the cock bird out 1st with the hens in wire cage so as the birds know their hens are their. this is only my opinion.

pouters horsemen let both out after a week

[Guest HEATHLOFTS]

pouters/horsemen 1 week running in hood with one of your own birds of opposite sex

tumblers/rollers/modenas /fantails /nuns /ect  3 weeks looking out daily from a wire cage.

with your tumblers/modenas ect let the cock bird out 1st with the hens in wire cage so as the birds know their hens are their. this is only my opinion.

pouters horsemen let both out after a week

 

thanks m8

[Guest youngboy]

the answer can vary heathlofts! o often had ybs broke within the first day and i often had birds in for a week!! but usualy i would keep them in for 5/6 days!

[Guest IB]

I think it depends on the bird and the new owner. I'd some bad experiences breaking my first birds when I started up again, and settled on 21 days as that was how long it had taken me to break a yearling back then. But after reading how it was done with war messenger pigeons, I got the shock of my life : 3 days for a YB, 6 days for an OB. Makes sense as you can't sit around for weeks when there is fighting going on all around you, and birds are required urgently for the war effort.

 

 

 

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[Peckedhen]

Dovecote birds - garden fantails - home in just a few days.