How did you become interested in pigeons?

[Guest CS]

How did you become interested in pigeons?

[Guest CS]

my Dad has pigeons and I helped him with them when i was younger,

[Mike Lycett]

Born into it

[Guest Paulo]

born into it as well althrough I wasn't that keen as a teenager and kid

[Guest shadow]

Taking my friends birds training

[Ronnie]

My uncle's kept and raced them.i used to go and watch them come in on race day

[Guest jason]

I was 11 year old at school and one day 2 mates suggested we needed to get messages to each other and pigeons became the answer.

 

all 3 of us have now kept them for 19 years. although I've only been racing them since 1999.

 

jason

[Guest WINGS 04]

I MOVED  NEXT TO A PIGOEN MAN THAT WAS IN 2000 NOW THE SAME MAN DOSE NOT SPEAK TO ME HE MOVED CLUB AS WELL THINK I AM DOING SOMETHING RIGHT :D

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

When i was 12, it was a friday night and i was at my dads lofts helping him because my mother was working ( no choice in the matter ) and i realised that it was not just about keeping pigeons it was about RACING them to win. Anyway he let me pick a pooler and that was me hooked.

:'( :'( :'( :'( why did he have to take me to the lofts that night. :) :)

[Guest TAMMY_1]

I MOVED  NEXT TO A PIGOEN MAN THAT WAS IN 2000 NOW THE SAME MAN DOSE NOT SPEAK TO ME HE MOVED CLUB AS WELL THINK I AM DOING SOMETHING RIGHT :D

 

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT IF YOU KEPT BREAKING HIS WINDOWS A CHRISTMAS CARD ?

[sapper756]

Same as you Craig, my dad has the birds and I decided to go up on Saturdays and watch for the birds coming home. Low and behold I caught the bug, that was 12 years ago.

[Pompey Mick]

Same as a lot of you lads, it's an inherited trait. My Dad and his brothers used to race in the late 40's, early 50's. Dad finished with the birds for about 15yrs but as soon as I was big enough to go to the Club I was 'encouraged' to keep pigeonsi n the early 60's and I've had them ever since.

[sj irving jnr]

born in the loft,even drunk that harkers pigeon dip(did not go down to well when they had to rush me to the hospital!)

[Guest marvin]

always been fasinated with ornithology caught a pair of pigeons in the garden when i was 7 and the bug well and truely bit.  Neither of my parents interested in pigeons.  Am now 33 and all bar a couple of times had pigeons all my life

[Guest WINGS 04]

 

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT IF YOU KEPT BREAKING HIS WINDOWS A CHRISTMAS CARD ?

 

TAMMY WHO SAY I DID THIS ??????? IF YOU KEEP PUTING ON THINGS LIKE THIS SOME ONE MIET THINK IT IS TRUTH

[Guest speckled]

;D well never like ther bird when the other half had try every thing to distruped the daily routine.tell all his feeding  his why he trains,  ;D ;D ;D me rather have the horses .thatwas till 1998 woooooooooo he wone is first fed race was so chuffed,surpose it gave him something to aim for.Untill one day he had a apair of y.b in the loft lost both parents to a bad race & lol & behold who hand reared them me ;D ;D ;D So from that day thay landed on me shoulder in the kitchen i think ya could say i had the bug/ ;D ;D ;D still got the old cock hes done some damage inthe past but now he just living his life to the full. ;D ;D ;D so that how i got intrested  Speck mind you he does say i do take over ;D ;D ;D ;D

[gangster]

WINGS04 DONT RISE TO THE BAIT,       THANKS FOR THE HENS BIG MAN......MICK

[jimmy white]

much the same as most , can never remember not having pigeons , dad was to blame for that  ;D ;D ;D

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

when i was a couple of years old my dad would take me in the loft,when i was 3 my dad  took me to a show that had an auction as well he said what colour pigeon do you want,i said red he bought one for me and the bag bit me really bad!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

[kev01293]

got started after watching my brother race pigeons but he gave up, about 2 years later when i was about 11-12 years old i decided to start up on my own and me and some mates used to climb into the attics of the old derelict buildings in brighton and catch the stray racers which sometimes ended up with me being escorted home by the police but this didnt deter me as the pigeon bug had well and truly bitten,i carried on keeping pigeons for about another 5 years and then stopped when i moved into a flat,i restarted 2 years ago[aged 42] when me and my wife and kids moved into a house and i wouldnt be without them now[the wife,kids and pigeons]

                             kev

[kev01293]

  i got started after watching my brother race pigeons but he gave up, about 2 years later when i was about 11-12 years old i decided to start up on my own and me and some mates used to climb into the attics of the old derelict buildings in brighton and catch the stray racers which sometimes ended up with me being escorted home by the police but this didnt deter me as the pigeon bug had well and truly bitten,i carried on keeping pigeons for about another 5 years and then stopped when i moved into a flat,i restarted 2 years ago[aged 42] when me and my wife and kids moved into a house and i wouldnt be without them now[the wife,kids and pigeons]

                             kev  ;D

[Guest bristolkev]

got started at the age of 11,my uncle brought his pigeons upto our house while he was moving house.looked after them for a week or so and that was it HOOKED!!!!!!!

[Peckedhen]

Bought a dovecote and a couple of fantails, began to read about pigeons and decided to get racing pigeons and a loft...

[Guest Hjaltland]

I always went to see the Lerwick liberations as a kid. A couple pair of homers ordered from the 'Exchange & Mart' for £2 and and that was it!....  Dont know if the stock has improved much since then heheh!

[Beanz]

Kept fantails and others had them in a brick outhouse, chap at the back also had them didn't look after them out all the time never went in his loft eventually they went feral and dissappeared ssaid I had took them and reported me to the local council as you were only allowed racing pigeons in council houses and then to strict rules, when council officials came told my mother I would either have to get shut or get a loft and get racers and join a club, did me a favour that guy.