I have since had much better luck. I have had the same 9 homers for months now, and they are let out several times a week and come back. Sometimes it takes a day or two for a few of them, but they come back. I now just hope I get some reproduction. I'd like to have somewhere between 15-20...
Thank you! How common is it to have homers go on these overnight excursions? I do wonder what in the heck they are doing while they're away, but I guess we'll never know...
P.S., when one of my birds returned this morning (after being gone for 2 whole days), he showed up about 5 minutes...
My new loft, in terms of flying birds and getting them to trap back into the loft, is just now starting to come along. I am not training them to trap quickly, as I am new to this and I also do not plan to race them, I just want them to home well. Last week I let them out 3 times, and all birds...