Homing Instict

[andy Burgess]

having put most the youngsters on the grass today in 2 baskets ,gave the section a good clean .left the 6 i put in on Friday and 1 bred for us added Sunday walking about me as i cleaned (most still have yellow down on there heads) .almost finished and woosh 1 of them decides go for a fly ,landed on a neighbours shed ,then off into the sky on a nearby house roof where it stayed for 10 minutes before dissapearing .thats lost i said to myself . told Babybird when home from work , i had lost a youngster , 1/2 an hour later it appears on the loft , tried in vain to get it to come down ,it landed in a hanging basket ,where i caught it and placed it back in . amazing as it had only been weaned over a few days and not been out at all

[shugf2003]

Remember buying a youngster at Snfc sale a blue from Jim Hannah if i remember right told the old man need to get these out asap just i said that went into loft and one got out the door two days later it returned

[andy Burgess]

Remember buying a youngster at Snfc sale a blue from Jim Hannah if i remember right told the old man need to get these out asap just i said that went into loft and one got out the door two days later it returned

there just amazing at times Shug eh

[shugf2003]

there just amazing at times Shug eh

Brilliant couldn't believe it lol

[daviedoo22]

Brilliant couldn't believe it lol

stuck an aviary onto youngbird section 2 years ago and havent lost 1 off the loft since,just shows

they dont need to be in the sky to take a fix on home.

[Guest Tooshy Boy]

WELLDONE MATE.///

[Guest geordiejen]

take a note of the ring number and see how well it does in the racing mate?call it houdini.

[andy Burgess]

take a note of the ring number and see how well it does in the racing mate?call it houdini.

was calling it something diffrent when it went away

[just ask me]

either sold or gave a hardy young one to a friend cant remember which bird was never out of my loft or there's a few year later it was basketed by mistake for a race from i think 160 mile could be further it came back to mine that day the owner could not believe it when i told him the bird was here

 

 

he was delighted as it had bred him a few winners

[THE FIFER]

a few years back I gave a pair of white birds right out the nest to a fancier from Nottingham who was up visiting, one day I was waiting on my race birds and the white dropped in, it was one of the whites from Nottingham it was racing from Dunbar just over the Forth, I phoned Nottingham and asked how he was doing with them to be told he had them at Dunbar but still waiting on one, he was very surprised when I told him it was here, he sent up for it, the next year it was back at Dunbar and homed to Nottingham, but he then raced it further north and once more it dropped into me, he didnt wnt it back so I gave it to a Fellow club member he bre a good pair from it, they flew steady for a while,

[Guest IB]

I think there are a few learning stages. Youngsters seem to get a location ‘fix’ when they are in the nest bowl, possibly from sunrise/sunset and the phases in between them. When they are in the viewing cage they seem to build up a local location map to go with that ‘fix’. And before they finally take to the air they get a mental picture of the loft and where it is on the local map.

 

What makes me think this is my experiences with kamikaze youngsters that get on the wing before they get a chance to see the loft and its surroundings. I’ve noticed they quarter the sky as if using some sort of grid, searching for home. That seems to be able to get them to within 50 foot of their loft – I’ve seen mine land on the roof of the house one door away, on either side of my house and loft. They seem to know the loft is around here somewhere, but don’t recognise it. So they look for other familiar things, like loft mates, or being called by a voice they know etc.

 

JMO

[Guest strapper]

had a yb come into the loft when i was down the club one friday night, the mrs got it in and put it in a basket in a shed..this bird could not see out.

i came home rang the owners number, i thought although it was a gb pigeon it wouldnt have been that far away...as it was still squeaking.

well the bird was from birmingham..some 2 hours by road from me.?

well anyhow i took the bird with me on the sunday to louella,s intending to chuck it out passing birm.

well forgot all about it and remembered as i was down loella,s drive.

i slung it out there.

later that day whilst home and sitting down having tea..a bird landed on the loft.

yes this sqeaking youngster had returned.

anyhow..cut the story short..transfered the bird over and as a yearling topped the welsh north road fed for me...6 weeks later next doors cat had him!

[geordie1234]

Fancier up my way got a squeaker in at the weekend from Belgium

[big blue bar]

we stay 25 miles south of aberdeen and one year we got a stray gb youngster in still squeaking prefix e on the ring when we reported it . we found that it had flowen from essex this bird was still squeaking and had flowen 400 + miles . unbelievable

[geordie1234]

we stay 25 miles south of aberdeen and one year we got a stray gb youngster in still squeaking prefix e on the ring when we reported it . we found that it had flowen from essex this bird was still squeaking and had flowen 400 + miles . unbelievable

sure is heard of another fancier in the area who got a belg squeaker in with down on it's head which he was told to keep he went on to score with it and breed multiple winners