AREN'T BIRDS AMAZING

[aarden]

ON SUNDAY WITH THE HIGH WINDS MY INTERIOR DOOR ON MY LOFT BLEW OPEN AND A COUPLE OF GIFT BIRDS FROM MY GOOD FRIEND "ROCKINRICK" ESCAPED,ONE WAS REPORTED 30MILES AWAY,BUT THIS MORNING ONE BLUE HEN WAS WALKING ALONG THE THE GARDEN PATH,TRUELY AMAZING,

THEY HAD NEVER SEEN THE OUTSIDE OF THE LOFT AT ALL,ONLY BEEN HERE 3WEEKS,AND TWO NIGHTS OUT,

[Sean]

ON SUNDAY WITH THE HIGH WINDS MY INTERIOR DOOR ON MY LOFT BLEW OPEN AND A COUPLE OF GIFT BIRDS FROM MY GOOD FRIEND "ROCKINRICK" ESCAPED,ONE WAS REPORTED 30MILES AWAY,BUT THIS MORNING ONE BLUE HEN WAS WALKING ALONG THE THE GARDEN PATH,TRUELY AMAZING,

THEY HAD NEVER SEEN THE OUTSIDE OF THE LOFT AT ALL,ONLY BEEN HERE 3WEEKS,AND TWO NIGHTS OUT,

 

WELL done i wouldnt keep her in now i would allow her to have her freedom

after someone broke into my stockloft i had one that manage to arrive back after 4-5 days out. wasnt settle and only just got her about 3 week befor it happen.she now have her freedom. ;D

 

[THE FIFER]

well done arrden, yes they are hard to fathem out. u can get a stray in ur loft for minutes take it 30 miles away and it will home to u.

[paul l]

well done aarden mate at least there home and safe now

 

paul

[rockinrick]

aarden m8  pleased to see you have them back ,   :

[carl]

Thats great you have them back,these creatures never seem to stop amazing me.I had a latebreed stock hen go over my head the begining of the season,never been out the loft and brought up at another location,she done 3/4 laps of the allotmants and traped into my youngbird loft.I thought i would never see har again.

[kev01293]

im pleased that u got your bird back aarden and maybe im getting a bit confused here as a novice but surely before any newly broken in bird is allowed his freedom he wouldnt have seen the outside of the loft,maybe im missing something here? anyway good to hear that the birds back safely as ive lost a few myself and know what it feels like

                                              kev           :)

[aarden]

thats rite kev,the bird had never seen the outside of the loft at all

[jimmy white]

yes ,,had that myself aarden they certainly are quite unbeleivable at times

[Guest]

Amazing yes!!!!, I had a bird late back from our 500 mile state Race, this year, she couldn't get in as I had closed the loft up for the day, so as to be noticed she sat out on the back door step and waited for one of us to go outdoors and open up for her.

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Amazing yes!!!!, I had a bird late back from our 500 mile state Race, this year, she couldn't get in as I had closed the loft up for the day, so as to be noticed she sat out on the back door step and waited for one of us to go outdoors and open up for her.

 

SURE IT WISNAE A COCK BEING AS CLEVER AS THAT  ?

[Guest]

No, a cock would have been stupid enough to hang on the hens aviary and be picked off by a preditor

[Guest TAMMY_1]

No, a cock would have been stupid enough to hang on the hens aviary and be picked off by a preditor

 

AYE IF IT WAS ONE OF YOURS IT WOULD HAVE,  IF IT HAD BEEN MY COCK IT WOULD HAVE HAVE KNOCKED ON THE WINDOW TO GET IN BESIDE IT'S HEN

[Guest]

Yes Dear!!!!!

[Pompey Mick]

In 1984 I bought two Reds from Grimsby, bred a round of YB,s as prisoners then I had to move them to my address because of my Dad's untimely death. While I was breaking my own birds one of the Reds got out and away he went. The next morning he was sat on the loft, so I thought ,if one can do it , so, I let the other one out, he went up like a dot , two circles and was gone. Goodbye I said, next morning he was on the loft. Amazing, I broke them quicker than my own birds.

I think this ability to fix a loft/ food position instantly when they want to,is the reason behind a pigeons fantastic homing ability.

I my opinion pigeons have developed this ability over the ages in order to locate feeding areas, they can and do travel many miles in search of food, watch the ferals in the morning, and have developed this ability so that they can return easily to a food source without wasting time ,and more importantly energy, having to look for it. The crop enables them to travel many miles to collect food for themselves and their young and carry enough food to make the exercise worthwhile.

How many strays have you had, that with one feed are bonded for life. You can take them anywhere in all weathers and still they return.

[Roland]

Like I say you only break birds in within 3 days... just have to retrieve some a few time granted. But as soon as they accept your loft, them their confidence grows. But of course they must feel safe and sucure in the loft. The safer the easier to brake.