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Hi everybody!

 

Female from Cyprus, but not Cypriot  ;)

I didn´t choose to have pigeons, they chose to have me. When we moved to our village house 2 years ago, I was trying to find a way to keep the pigeons out from our chickens´ food. I started a war -  that I lost. I decided to join them because I can not beat them. Today: I love them!

They are wild and free, but I give them clean fresh water and some food every day. I even made a "swimming pool" for them. I try to help the ones that leave their nest too early, or if they are hurt or sick. Many I have lost but many I have saved as well.

Today I have made myself my first pigeon trap. It looks horrible, no way that I would show you a photo of it. It did not work either. We´ll see... If I catch any, I would like to take them a few kilometres from home, in order to test if they find their way back home or not.

I love sitting in our garden, watching pigeons (in addition to our chickens, turkeys, dogs, cats, turtles...) and making photos of them. I would estimate that we have about 150 pigeons staying in our yard.

Here is a few of my hundreds of pigeon photos...

 

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welcome visited cyprus in 1974 serving with the Royal Airforce beautiful country :) :) :) :)

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welcome to the forum. very nice birds you got

 

all the best.

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Welcome to our great site m8 ;) I am coming to Cyprus in 4weeks for a holiday, are there much pigeon fanciers there?

 

 

 

I know that there is one man (who has racing pigeons) on the Turkish side - and on this Greek side I know only one: me! Where in Cyprus you will be staying? Welcome to sunny and warm Cyprus  :)

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I know that there is one man (who has racing pigeons) on the Turkish side - and on this Greek side I know only one: me! Where in Cyprus you will be staying? Welcome to sunny and warm Cyprus  :)

 

Limassol ;)

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You are all most welcomed for a visit! Because my trap does not work, I would love to have here about 150 people trying to catch my birds, putting the number rings to their legs and driving them around the island.  ;D

 

Thank you all for welcoming me. This little what I have had time to read the posts here, I must say that very useful forum you have. I already found a few answers to my questions. I try to use that search as much as I can, and not to bother you with the questions you have answered to million times before ;)

 

P.S. Sorry about my not-so-good English; it´s not my native language...

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Welcome to the site.

 

We were in Paphos last year, just of the tomb of the kings road. There were some lads with a hut there with some cracking tumblers, they would fly for ages and just keep flipping over in the one spot. There were lots of whites in amoungst them and they were great to watch against the blue sky. Dont know what kind they were. Went down to see them and they showed me all the birds. Some they would just throw up and they would flip over and over again at head hight before landing at the boys feet.

 

Al.

Guest BRYANBROCK
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i was in cyprus few years back and found one guy with birds in paphos they were down by the harbour area just off the main road and they were  gigantic birds from what could  make out from him they were racers but as he didnt speak any english and me no cypriot need i say more

but i did watch him feed his birds and they were fed outside the loft then they just went inside the loft quite remarkable

made few enquires about this method of feeding and was told it was the boomerang system of feeding

still dont know why to this day

anyone shed a light on this feeding method  

 

thanks  bryan

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i was in cyprus few years back and found one guy with birds in paphos they were down by the harbour area just off the main road and they were  gigantic birds from what could  make out from him they were racers but as he didnt speak any english and me no cypriot need i say more

but i did watch him feed his birds and they were fed outside the loft then they just went inside the loft quite remarkable

made few enquires about this method of feeding and was told it was the boomerang system of feeding

still dont know why to this day

anyone shed a light on this feeding method  

 

thanks  bryan

 

 

Did you take the caravan all the way to Cyprus Bryan  ;D ;D ;D

 

Regards,

 

Paul.

 

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Welcome to the site.

 

We were in Paphos last year, just of the tomb of the kings road. There were some lads with a hut there with some cracking tumblers, they would fly for ages and just keep flipping over in the one spot. There were lots of whites in amoungst them and they were great to watch against the blue sky. Dont know what kind they were. Went down to see them and they showed me all the birds. Some they would just throw up and they would flip over and over again at head hight before landing at the boys feet.

 

Al.

 

Thank you Al

 

I have been told that those kind of birds are popular especially in Turkey, so it is much possible that this kind of hobby has arrived Cyprus as well. But I have not heard about anyone - here in the Greek side - who has racing pigeons. Actually, the local people think that I am crazy because I waste our money to food and water of the birds that just make everything dirty, and they think that I am completely nuts because I put rings to pigeons´ legs and even give names to them!  ;D Let´s see if I start driving the pigeons around and flying them home; I might be taken to mental hospital propably!  ;D It´s ok, as long as there are pigeons around the mental hospital as well  ;)

 

Guest BRYANBROCK
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no paul  my wife took that when i left her best day of my life (evil)(evil)(evil)

 

and she took everything else too she would have taken the birds too but she said they nae good enough but i keep on trying (dizzy)(dizzy)(dizzy)

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i was in cyprus few years back and found one guy with birds in paphos they were down by the harbour area just off the main road and they were  gigantic birds from what could  make out from him they were racers but as he didnt speak any english and me no cypriot need i say more

but i did watch him feed his birds and they were fed outside the loft then they just went inside the loft quite remarkable

made few enquires about this method of feeding and was told it was the boomerang system of feeding

still dont know why to this day

anyone shed a light on this feeding method  

i will tell u some day about the boomaerang feeding brian

thanks  bryan

 

 

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I know that there is one man (who has racing pigeons) on the Turkish side - and on this Greek side I know only one: me! Where in Cyprus you will be staying? Welcome to sunny and warm Cyprus  :)

 

you dont know how lucky you are to have all that nice weather, welcome to pigeon basics, enjoy ;)

 

 

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I think you'll find your English is better than most of us on here   ;D ;D

 

There is somthing in that!!  ;D Welcome to this great site, nice photos, and feel free to ask any questions, no matter how silly they may seem  ;)

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I was stationed in Cyprus for a couple of years when the troubles were on. As I recall, there were pigeons kept by the locals back then. Their lofts were not very impressive, a bit like shanties really, but they seemed to keep a lot of nice birds. I remember feeling that I would have liked to visit to have a look, but obviously that was out of the question.

Part of the time I spent there I was in the back of a lorry on escourt duty and I remember trying to spot pigeon lofts as we journied around. At other times we were sent to try to track down the bad boys which entailed travelling around on foot for miles. I was often facinated with the livestock that were kept including the pigeons and poultry.

I was stationed at Dekelia and Famagusta. And I used to enjoy swimming in Larnica Bay.

I fell in love with Cyprus and I have often felt that I would like to go back to visit. Perhaps I will one day.

I hope you enjoy your pigeons. But remember, once the pigeon bug bites it can be very hard to give them up. And you ought to know that all pigeon fanciers, after a time, develop a deformity of the neck. They will see anything that moves in the sky above them.

It becomes a reflex that stays with most of them all their life. :) :) ;)  

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