Trapping

[sapper756]

What method do PB members use for trapping their birds on race day?

 

Open door, stall trap, sputnik, or otherhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif

 

What are the pro,s and cons of each?

[Ian McKay]

Sputnik fitted for ETS

[Guest vander mungo]

What method do PB members use for trapping their birds on race day?

 

Open door, stall trap, sputnik, or other

 

What are the pro,s and cons of each?

self made tunnel trap so birds inside the confines of the loft.this year my sensor pads are before my bob wires,next year may have to be after them.who knows what rules there unions will come up with,only takes a couple of complaints to change things

[ALF]

DISNAE MATTER WHAT TRAPS YE HAVE SAPPER GETTING THEM OO THE SKY QUICK IS THE SECRET ;)

[sapper756]

DISNAE MATTER WHAT TRAPS YE HAVE SAPPER GETTING THEM OO THE SKY QUICK IS THE SECRET http://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gifhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gifhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif

 

 

Very true, however, what do you use?http://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif

[Guest vander mungo]

DISNAE MATTER WHAT TRAPS YE HAVE SAPPER GETTING THEM OO THE SKY QUICK IS THE SECRET ;)

got to agree with ALF dont matter if they dont land.or sit on the house roof.race will be lost no matter what clocking system your using

[ALF]

Very true, however, what do you use?

 

GOT A HOLE CUT NEXT TO THE 3RD BOWL WHERE THE ETS PAD IS INSIDE THE LOFT BUT ON THE YOUNG BIRD LOFT I USED THIS LAST YEAR BUT WILL BE CHANGING IT THIS YEAR

[retired]

These are pictures of my new traps before i got them on the loft

 

 

[Guest Owen]

For widowhood cocks, I do not like any form of landing board outside the loft, such as sputnics. I like a fold up landing board that is only made available to the birds when I am ready to let them in. Then I have a set of bob wires leading through to a second landing board fitted inside, 2" below the level of the outside one. My ETS pad is fitted inside the internal landing board. The advantge of this system is that the birds are not trying to land all the time, and hanging about. They know that I want them in when they see the board in the down position. The idea of the inside board is to make entry to the loft as easy as possible for the birds. You can place some peanuts or trapping seed on the inside board if you want to. I have trained my birds to trap quickly when they see the board in the open position and some of them can land and go through the bob wires all in one movement. Sputnics and the like would not compete when it comes to speed through the trap.

This system works really well for youngsters if you are using and ETS system. But if you are not it is better to fix the level of the landing boards to be roughly at chest high. Then you can train the birds to come in while you are standing there. And as they go for the trapping seed or broken peanuts they are easy to pick up and clock. You fix the clock on a small shelf close to the landing board. Doing it this way you will definately compete with ETS for speed over the first couple of pigeons.

[Guest bakes]

oldbird loft sputniks

 

yb loft stall traps

 

all the best

[greenlands]

Open door.

[sapper756]

These are pictures of my new traps before i got them on the loft

 

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk265/pigeonglobe/SAM_0517.jpg

 

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk265/pigeonglobe/SAM_0518.jpg

 

 

Really smart traps Chris, who made them for you m8?

[PIGEON_MAN]

If your using a ETS pad or pads just inside the arches you will have to fit bob wires on the front or else they will be illegal,got one very simular the one on the back of the Murray and Mills catalogue but have had to fix bobs to it now.

[geordie1234]

im really not sure which way i should trap my birds ive got a sputnik but obody seems to use them

[geordie1234]

is there anything that youcan do to stop your burds jumping up through the sputnik spotted one of the ybs doing it today i really want to start putting them out before work and when they come back from flying go in thereself and stay in

[geordie1234]

anyone????

[wings]

anyone????

Not a lot you can do i had it all the time with sputniks they don't seem to do it when they reach maturity they are a little to big. you could try making the gaps smaller so that they cannot get that first wing through.

[Guest youngboy]

well i ave a sputnik for one half team and other team have either chouce of open door or landing board

[PATTY BHOY]

GOT A HOLE CUT NEXT TO THE 3RD BOWL WHERE THE ETS PAD IS INSIDE THE LOFT BUT ON THE YOUNG BIRD LOFT I USED THIS LAST YEAR BUT WILL BE CHANGING IT THIS YEAR

 

 

size is that first loft alf,did you buy it or build it yourself.

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

All the lofts have stall traps atm.

 

Messed around with widowhood a bit in the past-Nothing nicer than seeing them fly right in the open door to their box

[JohnQuinn]

I've got fold up landing boards ( 4ft by 2ft ) on both O/B and Y/B lofts, mostly to keep cats etc off at night and to darken the yb loft down, the yb's go through bob wires and the old ones walk in through a hole without the wires, works for me

[geordie1234]

a need to change my sputnik asap just got them all in there before i go to work and three jumped back out the top just no good enough noo a need to leave them out aw day

[T_T]

I have an external landing board for my youngsters. They land on it and drop through one of four holes set in a framework and onto the ETS pad. These holes are 4" apart and set at a 45 degree angle. Once their in, they cannot get out because in their attempt to do so, they have to use their wings and the bob holes being only 4" wide, makes escape impossible.

[Wiley]

Open door for widowhood flying, young birds any form of trap