Rehoming Pigeons that are Over a Year Old

[mogollon]

I'm purchasing 20 white pigeons. The current owner stated they've never been out of his loft. Some of the older ones are over a year old. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

 

[backyard pigeons]

I'm purchasing 20 white pigeons. The current owner stated they've never been out of his loft. Some of the older ones are over a year old. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

You should be able to resettle them. Get them to sit on some eggs. Keep them locked in for 4-6 months. After all this,they may ressettle, but there's no guarantee. Never fly a bird you can't bear to lose.

Also, put them in a cage and move them All around the loft, and do plenty of trap training. These are homing pigeons, right?

 

[mogollon]

You should be able to resettle them. Get them to sit on some eggs. Keep them locked in for 4-6 months. After all this,they may ressettle, but there's no guarantee. Never fly a bird you can't bear to lose.

Also, put them in a cage and move them All around the loft, and do plenty of trap training. These are homing pigeons, right?

Yes they are

 

[mogollon]

They are homers

 

[sourland]

A picture of your loft would help. I would build a settling cage covering the landing platform and part of the loft roof so that they could view their surroundings. Allow access to the loft at all times and then trap train them with bobs so that they become accustomed to entering the loft through the bobs. After several weeks of this remove the settling cage and allow them to exit the loft on their own. Fly them hungry the first couple of times. If they have never been flown they should settle to your loft.

 

[Bronek]

As poster above said, keep them locked in for 4-6 month, Raise some youngsters of them and get them flying(by themselves) well around the loft. Then, one nice afternoon let youngsters fly first and when they land on the loft let the 'prisoners' go. Good luck.

 

[backyard pigeons]

As poster above said, keep them locked in for 4-6 month, Raise some youngsters of them and get them flying(by themselves) well around the loft. Then, one nice afternoon let youngsters fly first and when they land on the loft let the 'prisoners' go. Good luck.

good advice. But don't fly with the already flying birds. They will take them out to far to quick. They we homers, but they may get a little spooked and be hard to trap.

 

[sport14692]

Post a pic of them

 

[mogollon]

Post a pic of them

 

[jak2002003]

How lovely! Such beautiful birds. May I ask why you decided to buy so many, and all adults?

If they have really NEVER see the world outside their loft (even through a window of flight), then perhaps you can settle them to home to your place. However, adult homing pigeons are very difficult to home to new location.

If you settle them down for at least 6 months first before you attempt to fly them. During this time train them to come to food call at a set time each day.

If you do get them breeding (as other posters suggested) just think what you are going to do if the adult birds fly off and abandon the young! Perhaps let them raise a batch of young to independence before you risk flying any.

It seems a lot of pigeons. If you have 10 pairs then you are going to end up with 20 young... so you will have 40 birds... have you the space for all those and what are you going to do with them... are they pets or business, or food?