Homing Ability

[Walter swanston]

I bought a 23 day old young pigeon from a Durham fancier in April.It was fully trained and sent to he first young bird race from which it returned in a reasonable time.It then went to the second race and did not come home.I received a phone call today from the Durham fancier with the news that the bird had appeared in Durham.Amazing homing ability.

[yeboah]

I bought a 23 day old young pigeon from a Durham fancier in April.It was fully trained and sent to he first young bird race from which it returned in a reasonable time.It then went to the second race and did not come home.I received a phone call today from the Durham fancier with the news that the bird had appeared in Durham.Amazing homing ability.

You can take the bird out of Durham,Walter

But you can't take Durham out of the bird lol

Amazing story

The others have done really well for you

[just ask me]

had something similar happen to myself walter also had a old bird broke with another fanicer but used to vist me a few times a week then fly bk to the new owner

 

 

ive always said they either have it or they dont we can only make them fit and healthy

[THE FIFER]

a few years back i had a good experience with a young bird it was in the pigeon weeklies etc , my wife's sister and her husband who is a fancier came up from Nottingham and took a fancy to a pair of white birds which were still in the nest but ready for weaning, so he got them, about a year later I was sitting waiting on race birds homing when a white cock jut closed its wings and down on the loft and right in, it had me thinking as i had no white birds away, on checking its ring it was one from Nottingham, so I gave him a call and asked him how he was getting on with the whie ones, he said ok that he had them at berwick today but still waiting on one, so when I told him it was here he couldnt believe it, anyway he sent for this bird , and the next year had it back at Berwick and it homed to him, then he tried it at Thurso but once more dropped into me, so he told me just to keep it, i gave it to one of mates who bred a couple of good racers from it, yes they must have some homing ability ,my club