Widowhood Whats Best And Why

[demolition man]

Dark or Light Widowhood I’ve been lucky enough over the years to top the Fed & from 60 to 500mls with up to 6,700 birds In some races using both systems of widowhood by darkening the loft during the day, also leaving the loft light. When I say darkening I mean you can read a news paper.I do find by darkening the loft the birds always seem to rest more. What system do you use and why?

 

 

[andy Burgess]

i think we should be asking you questions not the other way round

[b.massey]

I put up the blinds for to darken the widow cocks during the day to try rest them... Just never actually done it yet

[demolition man]

i think we should be asking you questions not the other way round

 

 

Andy

 

i've lost the plot over the last few years, thats why i'm asking :emoticon-0136-giggle: :emoticon-0136-giggle: :emoticon-0136-giggle:

[flying fifer]

My widow-hood ends are 75% perspex roofing, so light from first light to sunset. Having had my best season with 6 X 1st Feds I think that it is heat you need to provide rather than light or dark. My cocks get layed out on the front of the box and are obviously getting plenty rest. When Ifirst built the lofts I thought I would need shutters but don't want to change after a great season. In my book if the system is working then stick to it. I would probably put shutters up if I was concentrating on sprint races but thats only my opinion.

[Wiley]

We use as much light as possible, anyone that has seen our lofts are shocked by the front of the loft.

[demolition man]

We use as much light as possible, anyone that has seen our lofts are shocked by the front of the loft.

 

How do you keep em calm when the baby's are out?

[Wiley]

Bern to be fair, our young birds only go out during the weekends for the majority of the year, Untill the young bird season starts to approach, due to our time restraints.

[demolition man]

Bern to be fair, our young birds only go out during the weekends for the majority of the year, Untill the young bird season starts to approach, due to our time restraints.

 

So you keep your baby's in all week? the more i read about this sport the more i learn so many roads lead to rome.

[Wiley]

Yes Bern, they only go out twice a week, until the old bird season starts to come to a close. The Ghost was shocked when we told him also for his articles.

[geordie1234]

We use as much light as possible, anyone that has seen our lofts are shocked by the front of the loft.

The full front of my loft is all perspex noticed a difference in the pigeons straight away

[Wiley]

The full front of my loft is all perspex noticed a difference in the pigeons straight away

 

Similar to ours but we use polycarbonate as it retains heat better, but we pay a lot of attention to temperature and humidity of the lofts at all times.

[big blue bar]

we keep ours in the dark till the last two longest races ,we ve won the averages and points in our club for the last three seasons, but always looking for different widowhood systems .

[flying fifer]

we keep ours in the dark till the last two longest races ,we ve won the averages and points in our club for the last three seasons, but always looking for different widowhood systems .

 

Does it not effect the moult?

[big blue bar]

fifer your aulder than me you should know what happens to the moult

[flying fifer]

Yer never too auld ti learn!!!

[big blue bar]

i should be asking you for advise not the other way about , keep doing next year what you did this year and as you know when you start letting in the light they start throwing flights but it did nt affect ours

[Guest LBuddle]

We use as much light as possible, anyone that has seen our lofts are shocked by the front of the loft.

 

Have you got a picture to put up?

[Wiley]

Unfortunately I haven't Mate

[demolition man]

Unfortunately I haven't Mate

 

 

Well get that camrea out then :emoticon-0123-party:

[Wiley]

Bern, I have photos of it but I no longer have a laptop any more as I do everything from my phone. Unfortunately you cannot attach photos for some reason on basics from your phone. The only way I could get a photo if someone visited the lofts and had access to a pc or laptop. However I got the idea when reading an article of sprint champion Keith Arnold, mine would be exactly the same as his apart from we race to an open door and not a sputnik.

[Guest LBuddle]

I upload photos from my phone to Tinypics.com. Select the message board size 640x480 then click upload. When uploaded copy and past the IMG code into the Pigeon Basics forum reply. Job done.