Help needed!

[how do you catch pigeons]

Help someone please?

We've had a pigeon with a ring on each leg at our house for 3 weeks now, it comes for feeding twice a day.  How do we catch it to get the ring numbers?

An answer of don't feed it won't work, my 90 year old grandmother is too upset over it not to feed it - and I need to get rid of it!

Thanks.

[Guest]

some one may help where are you from?

[how do you catch pigeons]

Tiverton in Devon

[Guest]

i'm just a wee bid far or i would help,got to be someone from  devon that can help you.                                                                                                                   ps jimmy white would like a date with your grandmother lol

hes about the same age

[Peckedhen]

Here's the way to catch it - should be fairly easy seeing as it's already dining at your place!!

 

http://www.racingbirds.com/ptrap.html

 

Just make sure the box is heavy enough to drop quickly - it's amazing how fast they can move!!

[andyb]

if you could possibly leave a contact number or e-mail address i will try and get someone from tiverton to help you tomorrow

[Joe90]

Here's the way to catch it - should be fairly easy seeing as it's already dining at your place!!

 

http://www.racingbirds.com/ptrap.html

 

Just make sure the box is heavy enough to drop quickly - it's amazing how fast they can move!!

 

 

Thats just rubbish and not needed and will stress the bird. One chance only if you miss it wont be back under that box.

 

All you need do is put the corn in a shed with the door open and walk it in. just be slow in your movements and learn the bird to trust you.

 

good luck

 

[jimmy white]

a wee bit hard on pecked hen joe, what happens if they dont have a shed?no i would say thats the best way, allready to dispatch in the box and easier to get ring no, than for a non fancier to catch it in a shed, im sure would cause more stress and a few less feathers :)

[how do you catch pigeons]

To the answer from Cornwall:  my work email address is scolclough@calendarclub.co.uk

Any help greatly appreciated!!!

 

 

[Peckedhen]

Rubbish eh? >

 

Well Joe90, I was simply trying to help a non-fancier catch a bird. FYI I caught a stray in exactly this way only a couple of weeks ago and, maybe it was a particularly thick one but, it went under  the box three times before I succeeded!  I've had plenty of experience as a newbie  trying to catch a bird in a shed - if the bird doesn't want catching it is far from stress free for it!

[ribble]

thats a good link peck for none fanciers,very helpful.

[Guest]

No need to rubbish people's ideas.

 

Saw the thread and must admit kinda stumped so didn't post. Know about the box thingy but felt it a wee bit too clumsy and 'technical' and a definite hit & miss.

 

If you don't have a shed then any box-type object with a small entrance at one end will do the trick. See-though and oblong shape would be best, the longer the better and the entrance best in narrow end.

 

As you already have the bird's confidence, scatter one or two seeds ouside, and a trail leading inside. Leave most of the seed inside the box at the 'blind' end furthest away from the entrance.

 

Make sure that you position the box so that you approach it from the end with the entrance. When the bird is in the box and eating, approach slowly and quickly block off the entrance. The bird will probably try to get out the opposite end on your approach.

 

Stand by everyone.  ;D  Next bit's tricky.  Handling the bird from the box!   Ideas on a post card .......  ;D

[Joe90]

Rubbish eh? >

 

Well Joe90, I was simply trying to help a non-fancier catch a bird. FYI I caught a stray in exactly this way only a couple of weeks ago and, maybe it was a particularly thick one but, it went under  the box three times before I succeeded!  I've had plenty of experience as a newbie  trying to catch a bird in a shed - if the bird doesn't want catching it is far from stress free for it!

 

 

My post was aimed at the website and not at pecked hen, its nice to see people reading in to others posts looking on the bad side or thinking them to be personal. Cheers. and you for one know i am not like that pecked hen, as i have helped you enough in the past phoning you and sending you treatment via the post!!!!!!!remember...  

[Peckedhen]

Of course I remember and appreciated your help. :K)

 

However, I did take your post personally - it's not always easy to interpret the written word in the way it was intended so, no offence.  (But I still think it' a good way to catch a pigeon! )

[jimmy white]

C.MON JOE, ANY NON FANCIER, THAT NEVER HELD A PIGEON, CATCH IT IN A SHED, THERE WOULDNT BE MUCH LEFT OF THE BIRD,, SOME FANCIERS CANT EVEN DO THAT?IN THEIR LOFT. :)

YOUD CATCH A STARVING PIGEON IN THAT BOX IN TWO TICKS.

IM SURE YOU HAVE BEEN A HELP TO PECKED HEN BUT I DONT SEE THAT ,THAT HAS ANYTHING TO WITH THE POST, BUT IM SURE YOU COULD HAVE WORDED THE POST BETTER ,WITH DUE RESPECT JOE I THINK I WOULD HAVE BEEN OFFENDED MYSELF AT THE WORDING OF THAT, WHEN ALL SHE WAS DOING WAS TRY AND HELP, AND IN MY OPINION WAS THE BEST WAY , BUT OFF COURSE WERE ALL ENTITLED TO OUR OPINION :) NO OFFENCE MEANT TO ANYONE :)

[hooky]

just throw out a handfull of rat bait !!quickest wya to get rid of it...but i do like the idea of the bob on the box..i'd say that would work

[westy]

just throw out a handfull of rat bait !!quickest wya to get rid of it...but i do like the idea of the bob on the box..i'd say that would work

 

RAT BAIT!!

[jimmy white]

 

RAT BAIT!!

 

hooky that gives an old grandmother a nice veiw of pigeon fanciers???????????

when she reads that,, i would say terrible, in fact shocking,, maybe you guys think like that in australia,, but not here in the u,k,

[Guest]

It's not just the "old grandmother" that might read what hooky said, we don't know who's coming on this forum as "guests" I'll lay odds that some of these "guests" are animal rights activists, who garner their information to use against pigeon flyers from postings on forums like this

[Guest Paulo]

yeah be careful what you say you might have might it as a joke but the animal rights lot won't see it that way

[jimmy white]

yes your spot on hyacinth, but most folk that post on the forum dont stop to realise  who could be reading these posts

[Fife_pigeon_wife]

now now children, y dont u all shake hands now and that'll be an end to it.

[Guest]

Suspect that our main worry won't be from animal rights but from animal welfare, our Councils, wildlife police, RSPCA and folks like that.  >

 

Easy to be taken the wrong way on any forum ...  ??)   that's how using Smileys can help.    

[Guest]

Bruno

 

Peta (People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals) monitor all forums such as these, they have been copyoing posts and posting them on their web pages

[jimmy white]

now now children, y dont u all shake hands now and that'll be an end to it.

wouldnt fancy shaking hands . with ratman,, then eat a bag of chips,, then i would have had my chips ;D ;D ;D  ,j,w ;D ;D ;D