Basket Training

[THE FIFER]

at what age and how much do members basket train their young birds before training, and methods,

[THE FIFER]

[Tony]

I put mine in a basket as soon as they are feeding on there own they go in each day all day for about a week they seem to like it from the off.

[Guest TAMMY_1]

at what age and how much do members basket train their young birds before training, and methods,

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we start about 2 weeks before we want to train them, they are left in overnight and fed and watered in the basket and in the second week we start to release them from the basket in the yard and then start training,up till now we have had 4 tosses, 3 at 10 miles and 1 at about 30 so for the next couple of weeks till racing starts they will move to Stone which is about 40 miles and they will go as often as the trainer goes.

[greenlands]

Mine go in the basket from the day I put them into their own section.I have a 25 bird basket in the loft at all times,saying that the I remove it when I put my two training baskets in.The youngens get a handfull of rape seed thrown into the basket and have no fear of it from the start.When they start to perch the front is closed.I turn it round to put drinkers on and remove their normal drinker.

When the birds are out exercising I put the training baskets where the other basket is and put shutters up athe the window and doors,makes life easier when basketing for a training toss.

Lindsay.

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[Guest youngboy]

from when there weaned there in the basket for an hour a day and when the get old enough take away water from them for a few hours and lock them up in basket with water on front of them do that for a few weeks and you should be sorted

[Guest tichhowitt]

personaly i dont basket train started with 40 ybs to 1st race and finished racing 36 if they want a drink they will find it won yb averages 4 last 2yr doin this

[grizzal]

we put ours in the basket every saturaday when racing

old birds,drinkers are put on and food dropped in the

drinkers,the ybs being abit hungry will put heads throungh

and eat once the feed has been eaten water is added and

they tend to drink ok.

this works for us so keep to it

[Wiley]

never basket train my young birds, pigeons i feel can smell water, they know where it is.