Sliding Door

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Can anyone shed some light on how to do the sliding door method with young birds please ?

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PM me if you dont want the competition to know your secrets, lol.

[Guest kev d]

easy just keep them seperated all week then on friday before basketing let them in together for a couple of minutes

then off to the club in seperate baskets . also have some dark corners in the loft by proping up some wood so they can hide

behind and have some sexy fun also some card board boxes so they can go inside just a few tips , all the best .

[Guest Owen]

Sliding door means that you are flying semi-widowhood with the youngsters. The sexes are kept seperate and they are not allowed to see one another. I take mine training midweek and release the hens first so that the cocks find them home when they get there. I seperate them straight a way. They run together Friday pm for about 1/2 hour.

There are some drawbacks though. My birds fly for hours on end and will disapear for anything up to 6 hours sometimes. I have not lost any training but I have lost some off the loft. I think it is because my birds are very sexed up. I see that a couple of young hens are mating in the deep litter. Something I have never had before.

I do not let them out to fly around the loft any more, I give them road work instead. The good thing is that I sent 12 Saturday and had 5 drop together, all of which could have won the race. Another 5 came in soon after and the remaining 2 were about 1/2 hour late. This was on a day when there were a lot of birds missing at nightfall. I am not sure if the birds are benefiting by the sliding door method or from the fact that I am flying with Lambrechts for the first time. These Lambrecht pigeons are something else.

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Sliding door means that you are flying semi-widowhood with the youngsters. The sexes are kept seperate and they are not allowed to see one another. I take mine training midweek and release the hens first so that the cocks find them home when they get there. I seperate them straight a way. They run together Friday pm for about 1/2 hour.

There are some drawbacks though. My birds fly for hours on end and will disapear for anything up to 6 hours sometimes. I have not lost any training but I have lost some off the loft. I think it is because my birds are very sexed up. I see that a couple of young hens are mating in the deep litter. Something I have never had before.

I do not let them out to fly around the loft any more, I give them road work instead. The good thing is that I sent 12 Saturday and had 5 drop together, all of which could have won the race. Another 5 came in soon after and the remaining 2 were about 1/2 hour late. This was on a day when there were a lot of birds missing at nightfall. I am not sure if the birds are benefiting by the sliding door method or from the fact that I am flying with Lambrechts for the first time. These Lambrecht pigeons are something else.

Cheers Owen, how many times do you train midweek ?

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Has anyone else got there own way of doing the sliding door ?