Basketing Day

[Tony C]

Interested to know if you exercise your pigeons basketing day?

[westy]

i know someone who dose but early morning 7-8 ish

[pigeonland]

i always keep my birds in on basketing day the are fed at 9am then the loft is darkened dowm at 12 noon until the go to the race at 5pm

[Guest]

I keep mine in to conserve their energy for the race, if they aint fit by friday morning then thier not going to be, and I think they can get mentally prepared when as they know something is different.

[Guest shadow]

kept infed 8-00 food taken out at 11-00 small amount of red band at 15-00 then leftuntil basketing

[jimmy white]

let w.hood cocks out 6 am ,bath if poss, found they rested better all day, tried it both ways with camera in loft and moniter in house , the birds that flew and bathed layed down in their boxes all day,,, the others were unsettled and tended to get restless,, i found that the first lot did better, only my findings

[westy]

let w.hood cocks out 6 am ,bath if poss, found they rested better all day, tried it both ways with camera in loft and moniter in house , the birds that flew and bathed layed down in their boxes all day,,, the others were unsettled and tended to get restless,, i found that the first lot did better, only my findings

 

i have noticed that after a bath aswell jimmy

[T_T]

No.

[speedbird]

mine exercise for just around 3omins then let them do what they want for 30mins to pick out a pool bird fed let out 6am fed at 7am pots emptied around 10am then left to rest alday which they do till the bowls are shown which they go crackers even the yearlings

[jimmy white]

after resting all day.i then turned the bowls over and put the hens in, i then basketed the cocks, let them settle with a dark curtain over the basket, then took them about 4 miles, singled them up, at first they flew round, but with a bit of practise, i could let one off, made a bee line home , as soon as i saw its tail ,i let another off, i could let 18 birds off in a matter of minutes, each one seeing the one in front, [im sure they were trying to catch up with one in front]after getting home, i let the cocks back in with hens for about 10 mins, till they were sitting on top of each other in he pans, i then basketed them ,put the dark cover on again till they settled, then up to the club, i only did this in the short races, i know a lot of fanciers will disagree on this, but it paid off for me

[Guest]

We loft fly ours for about 40 minutes