Colour Coded Boxes

[alex wight]

As we near the end of another season, and start to plan for 2011. When it comes to breeding, it can be a nightmare to get pairs settled into a box. Does anyone feel that by colour coding them helps?

 

I,ve often thought about painting a strip of different colours to each box and see if it helps.

 

Any opinions greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers, alex.

[greenlands]

Looking forward to a few replies to this one Alex,I've been altering my loft today to fly roundabout next season..???????

 

Lindsay

[Tony C]

Personally I don't think it makes any difference at all.

 

A daft fact: Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue!

[alex wight]

Looking forward to a few replies to this one Alex,I've been altering my loft today to fly roundabout next season..???????

 

Lindsay

 

Heres hoping so mucker. yip its loft altering time again lol.

[Guest IB]

Not sure different colour helps. But I do think staggering doors / entrances to the boxes does help. My boxes are 4 tiers high. 1 & 3 open on left side, and 2 & 4 open on the right. So there is never 2 entrances together in my bank of 16 boxes.

[WELSH WIZARD]

All 18 boxes in my race loft are a differant colour but i really couldnt tell u weather it helps or not.I was told a couple of yrs ago that it helps them regonise there own boxes.

[billt]

Not sure different colour helps. But I do think staggering doors / entrances to the boxes does help. My boxes are 4 tiers high. 1 & 3 open on left side, and 2 & 4 open on the right. So there is never 2 entrances together in my bank of 16 boxes.

Yeh same here, I leave the cocks in this section and let them sort themselves out, when I pair up I shut all cocks up bar one and put the hen in that I want to pair to him when she goes to his box and looks happy I shut them in and do the next pair, it doesn't take long but need to keep an eye on them to see all is well, never had too much bother

[billt]

All 18 boxes in my race loft are a differant colour but i really couldnt tell u weather it helps or not.I was told a couple of yrs ago that it helps them regonise there own boxes.

My youngest son is colour-blind but he always manages to find his way home

[THE FIFER]

I stagger the openings, ie: top boxes to the right,next to the left and so on, which means you dont have two openings on top of each other, look at the old pigeon towers hundreds of perches all round and birds new their own, I think if you seperate the openings is best

[JADE]

dont know if colour makes any difference or not. i can usually get a section of 10 pairs settled in 48 hours. if they are not ok by then i try another hen.

[roselan]

I agree stagger front openings is a must I had 4 colours red green yellow white one part of double yellow front was broken and put green on the hen kept going into another box with yellow and so I swapped and put one yellow one green on both boxes the yellow in prominent (on front when folded back) and all was well

[Guest IB]

Yeh same here, I leave the cocks in this section and let them sort themselves out, when I pair up I shut all cocks up bar one and put the hen in that I want to pair to him when she goes to his box and looks happy I shut them in and do the next pair, it doesn't take long but need to keep an eye on them to see all is well, never had too much bother

 

Agree. Preparation is the key. Get the cocks settled to their boxes first over the winter. If you have widowhood fronts, put the boxes on 'half-and-half', and introduce the hens for an hour the week before you intend to pair them up. Let her have the 'locked' half of the box. Soon tell by their reaction to one another if they are going to take to each other, or not, and cause problems.

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