Landing Board Depth

[tonythetree]

Hi I'm sure this has been asked before, what is the best depth fo a landing board. Its my next job for the weekend I read somewhere that if the board is too narrow it makes the birds land on the loft roof

Tony

[showman]

Hi Tony

Can I ask how much roof over-hang there is at front of loft, does roof slope to front or back, what distance from roof to where trap is ?

[greenlands]

I've never used a landing board,but I would say bigger the better especially for young birds,if they can't land on it they'll obviously land somewhere else.

[andy Burgess]

the board on my sputniks are about 6" deep x 18" wide .have had them tuck wings in from air and go straight through the gap and miss the ETS pad altogether . but generally they land upon it ok and trap well , always the odd exception ,1 or 2 land on the roof and delay timing ,but thats normally due to hawk scare on the journey home

[dms5686]

the board on my sputniks are about 6" deep x 18" wide .have had them tuck wings in from air and go straight through the gap and miss the ETS pad altogether . but generally they land upon it ok and trap well , always the odd exception ,1 or 2 land on the roof and delay timing ,but thats normally due to hawk scare on the journey home

 

that size sounds about right had all different sizes of landing boards over the yrs and have found out have only one small landing board for the full loft and your pigeon will land and trap easier dont know why thats a pigeons logic for you

[peter pandy]

Saw a pigeon fly straight through a 6 x 6 ins window so I reckon whatever size landing board ? Is the size of the bit of wood you have.

[tonythetree]

Hi Tony

Can I ask how much roof over-hang there is at front of loft, does roof slope to front or back, what distance from roof to where trap is ?

Hi here's a photo of the loft , above the window to the roof is approx 2 ft .the roof overhang is about 4inches

Tony

[Guest Owen]

I think it depends on whether or not you want to trap quickly. I believe that a landing board must be big enough to allow all the birds to land at once. If you use small landing boards you will teach the birds to circle around and land where they should not. Some people think it is fine when their pigeons land on the loft roof or even the house roof. The next thing they are crying about the birds that wouldn't trap or the bird that was there to win but flew around. I think that the worst possible traps are those Sputnik traps with their small landing boards because they teach pigeons bad habits. I have trained my birds to land in the trapping area and most of the time they land directly on the pad. Over the last years this method of trapping has earned money because while other people are having problems with their birds trapping mine have clocked. I have lost count of the times when I have been told that someone's bird should have beaten mine but did not trap. I love it.