instinct

[jimmy white]

one other thing on instinct , why does the" cock drive the hen to nest"if their out all day that cock will drive all day, sometimes for about 5 days, i wonder if its natures way of taking the fat off the hen, to make it easier to lay, just a thought??

[Guest]

Started off with just the one pair. Noted that cock didn't drive. When other cocks were introduced to the loft, original cock started driving.

 

So reckon it's instinctive - 'gene preservation'.  We know the hen when eggy will stoop to any passing cock. Maybe natures way for the cock to ensure he's the father !!!!!!!

[jimmy white]

maybe your right bruno, but whatever it is it must be instinctive behaviour

i cant say ive seen my hens that are ready to lay, go down to any cock.but maybe so,but to see them driving in the air with the cock allmost touching the hen, ive seen them fly like that for an hour, so i reckon it would have to take some weight off them, but again, an interesting subject

[jimmy white]

another interesting thing is,, when a pair are treading, why do all the other birds, go for them? i dont see it happening with other birds,

[Peckedhen]

I've just got my first two eggs (fantails). I read that the hen sits for the evening and night and the cock from about ten in the morning.  Its amazing - they do!! Fascinating .....how do they know when to change over? It will be interesting to see what happens as the days lengthen.  

[jimmy white]

yes p.h. theyll allmost do it to the clock , amazing really and their not wearing a rolex, unless their psh birds  ;D ;D ;D

[Guest]

yes p.h. theyll allmost do it to the clock , amazing really and their not wearing a rolex, unless their psh birds  ;D ;D ;D

 

Seems they ARE all equipped with their own little rolex's Jimmy... Biological clocks.

[snowy]

well done pecked hen, if your logans lay within the next couple of days, you could foster them under the fantails. ;D

just a thought.

[jimmy white]

SAME AS PRODUCING PIGEON MILK , THEY KNOW, EXACTLY WHEN TO PRODUCE IT

AGAIN INSTINCT,

[jimmy white]

the other thing is , a bird been sitting 12 hours flies to the ground , backs up about a foot and lets go its load      RIGHT IN TO THE DRINKER, DONT THINK THATS INSTINCT, THATS ,,,REVENGE ;D ;D ;D ;D

[snowy]

lol jim!

how true, happened yesterday, changed the water, yesterday morning b4 work, go up to lock the loft & a giant slug like turd half way climbing up the drinker,! oh well changed it again! ;D

[jimmy white]

the other things that amaze me, is how quickly they pick up habit,,i.e   if a bird jumps out the sputnick once, it will allways do that, if a bird feeds out your hand once it will allways do that, if a bird gets a fright as a yb in trapping ,it will allways be a bad traper, same as a bird that might fly over your head at the door opening ,it will allways do that, they only seem to do a thing once and never forget it,   amazing things at times :)

[jimmy white]

;D ;D ;D just another part of instinct, is when the newborn are hatched, the adult pair allways take the shell in their beak, and get rid of it  

[jimmy white]

;D ;D ;D just another point of instinct separate the ybs 3 weeks or so old. put the bath in and their in it like lightning, no ones showed them how to bath, but if you notice theyll wait on the brave one going in first, then their all in , could it be to test the depth?? :)

[Tony C]

How is it that a cock driving his hen can pick her out in an instant, put any squeaker on the floor and some cocks will feed it as if its their own ? do they know its not theirs ?

[T_T]

Yeah, amazing instinct mine have, all seem to know when it's Sunday and arrive home from Saturdays race. LOL.

[Guest]

Tony, taking what you said further, a few years ago we found one of our race hens dead in the hen aviary, the cocks were locked in their loft at the time as we were just going to fly the hens.  Her mate knew right away that she was dead as he was bouncing off every wall in the loft. FGor the next three days he sat in his box and wouldn't even come out to eat.  We tried to pair him up with another hen without success, The first time he ever went out again, he never came back.

 

We are still wondering to this day how he knew she had died

[Jack Barkel]

We are still wondering to this day how he knew she had died - Hyacinth

 

Hello Hyacinth and All,

 

I believe, and have proved for myself that pigeons are highly telepathic. On race days I could phone my friends and tell them the birds would be clocking between 20 minutes to a half hours time, and not once in a period of several years was I wrong making this statement.

 

You see when the birds were in this time frame from our loft, the widowhood cocks that were fastened up in their compartments not being in the race that week commenced buzzing around and making as much noise as they could. Sure enough 20 to 30 minutes from the commencement of this excitement the birds started arriving. I did not allow any shouting whistling or no marked actions to provoke this happening which always occurred every week with the same regularity for years.

 

I have not heard or read of anyone else observing these events, but I certainly am convinced that intelligent pigeons are TELEPATHIC.

 

Best Regards

 

Jack

 

[mealybar]

Hi Jack,

 

I've witnessed the same. Waiting at a friends loft for birds from Bourges 550 miles. About half six on the morning of the second day, one of the candidates' mates started calling and generally making a racket, ten past seven his hen was home and in the clock . Amazing.

 

Richard

[jimmy white]

yes i beleive that birds are telepathic, and have also witnessed the same as posts above ive waited an hour with the hens in the boxes with hardly a sound  ,but just before the cocks come , they seem to realize this, and start cooing and becomming restless.

i also have a parrot, that when i go out and in all day it says nowt, but when i actually go away it will say" bye bye," ive tried everything to find out why it knows , but it just knows, many people have witnessed this, at first i thought it was switching the tele off or locking the door or putting my coat on, but so far i havent found out and ive had him for 15 years[hes nearly 50]also when opening the fridge for butter eggs etc it does nowt but when i take something out the fridge, for the microwave, ittl go peep, the noise of the microwave, whenever i open the fridge door,sounds crazy but true

[speedbird]

its same on friday when it comes to basketing the cocks here you arrive at the loft then start going mad as they know that somthing differebt gonna happen as apose to letting em out for there evenings exercise

[Peckedhen]

Another amazing thing - young birds out on the ground  for the first time see a Kestrel and 'know' it's no threat. A Sparrowhawk flies over - same size, same profile, and they scatter!

 

What went wrong with the instinct when I moved a nestbowl only six inches across the nestbox with the hen sitting tight on eggs.....only to find the next morning she'd abandoned them? :'(

[T_T]

Instinct or Motherhood ??

                                I've recently disposed of a cock that was not right.  I left his hen sitting on a three day old youngster.  I then moved this youngster under another pair, into a box some 7 feet away.  I did this after the evening feed.  The following morning I went into the stock loft and saw the hen of the box that I'd moved the youngster to, sat on top of what I thought was the cock of the box, both sitting their youngsters.  I lfted the hen of the box off and imagine my suprise when I saw the hen from the box that I had moved the youngster from, sat on the babies as well.  She had not been made welcome because she was beaten about the eyes badly but WOULD NOT move.  She is fine now.  

[snowy]

Tony, taking what you said further, a few years ago we found one of our race hens dead in the hen aviary, the cocks were locked in their loft at the time as we were just going to fly the hens.  Her mate knew right away that she was dead as he was bouncing off every wall in the loft. FGor the next three days he sat in his box and wouldn't even come out to eat.  We tried to pair him up with another hen without success, The first time he ever went out again, he never came back.

 

We are still wondering to this day how he knew she had died

since starting up last year, had my first pair of race birds both hit wires on their first training toss off there previous owner, he was going to dispose of them so i took them off him, both homed for 12 months now & cant bare to be apart, had a spare hen which i wanted to pair the cock up to, took his own hen away for two days, & paired him up to spare hen, the next day i let the cock out for exercise, the moment he flew out the loft, i just knew he wouldnt be back??

he flew in a straight line like never before & i could see him till he flew out of site on his own?? can anyone explain>?

[Guest shadow]

Some times if you upset a broken pigeon they will fly off usually to return to the loft they came from or were hatched in