my suggestion would be to go help an old hand in a local club and learn the ropes for free then can decide if this is what they truely want and get some valuable experience as well and meet with club members and get to know the ins and outs a bit
as long as dropping firm they be ok but fielding is a bad habit , as some crops have germisides that help germinate the crop which could be harmfull and you dont want them going to field come race day
http://forum.pigeonbasics.org/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=active all recent activity for last 24 hours appears just above member names viewing new content is quite good as you can mark as read then you only see newer posts and threads