Pigeon Bulletin Board?

[cavemanrich]

Looks like you will be concentrating on your Blue and Green Houbens TO BREED,,,,,,,,, Heavy Duty.

It doesn't matter if you don't enter/win the Million Dollar races. As long as you can kick everyone else's behind locally.

 

[biophiliac]

Looks like you will be concentrating on your Blue and Green Houbens TO BREED,,,,,,,,, Heavy Duty.

It doesn't matter if you don't enter/win the Million Dollar races. As long as you can kick everyone else's behind locally.

Don't know if I will race, but I am obsessed with everything about racing homers!
As I think more about the eight birds I have, I'm more inclined not to fly them until they have given me some babies. They are all just such nice looking birds and their history so uncertain that I would be risking too much. I do NOT want to keep them captive forever! I'm planning to switch out the box perches for 3 more nest boxes and to enlarge the aviary in the meantime.

It's all still new and exciting to me so plans are likely to evolve more. LOL

 

[cavemanrich]

Whether you enter races or just take your pigeons a distance and have them return home will generate the same amount of adrenaline when you see them return. I have NO DESIRES to race now/before/or future. It is nice to take them with you when you go to visit your relatives for dinner, and release them from their house. (the farther your relatives live the better)
You will be flying the young from your loft before you chance on releasing the parents.
You know the saying. Never release a bird the you are not comfortable with loosing.

Watching the video left me with some wondering questions.
How does he enter races in different parts of the country and world.
Does he have properties and lofts all over.???
For example; How does he race in South Africa If he lives in Florida???
Where do his pigeons end their race???
Does he take young pigeons to location and spends a long time there and homesets them at that location? I understand that he is not short on cash as per his statement in video.

Just some of my thoughts....

 

[biophiliac]

Whether you enter races or just take your pigeons a distance and have them return home will generate the same amount of adrenaline when you see them return. I have NO DESIRES to race now/before/or future. It is nice to take them with you when you go to visit your relatives for dinner, and release them from their house. (the farther your relatives live the better)
You will be flying the young from your loft before you chance on releasing the parents.
You know the saying. Never release a bird the you are not comfortable with loosing.

Watching the video left me with some wondering questions.
How does he enter races in different parts of the country and world.
Does he have properties and lofts all over.???
For example; How does he race in South Africa If he lives in Florida???
Where do his pigeons end their race???
Does he take young pigeons to location and spends a long time there and homesets them at that location? I understand that he is not short on cash as per his statement in video.

Just some of my thoughts....

There is a whole other type of races which are known as One Loft Races. They can also be called futurity races. These races truly compare the quality of the bird and eliminate diferences in handlers skill and other factors.

Unflown young birds are shipped to the loft which is sponsoring the race. They all are trained together, housed the same, fed the same, etc. They compete against each other for prize money. The big money race in South Africa is one, but there are one loft races all over and that way you don't need to have your own clock or even be a great handler or trainer. You just have to have the best birds!

That why I'm so impressed with him. His bloodlines are winners. I don't think he's rich enough to have loft's all over and for OLRs you don't have to.

 

[cavemanrich]

Just like you, I want homers. Have no desire for other types like rollers. They will not return to loft from far away. I seen how peeps take the cage to a park and watch their pigeons do acrobatics. The pigeons then return to that cage on the ground. It is a nice hobby, but not for me. My (homing) pigeons would bolt directly home.
I would like to get some Iranian High Flyers, as I stated in previous post. Those I would only loft fly, and not take any distance from home.

As I was typing this I seen you posted response. Thanks for informing me on the "One Loft Races" LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY.

 

[biophiliac]

He used to do club racing but if you start winning all the prize money, you usually get kicked out of the club somehow.

In Dave's case, his club dissolved itself, reconstituted under the name XYZ Invitational and then did not invite him to join.

In hindsight they did him a favor by pushing him toward the OLRs where he won some real good money.

 

[cavemanrich]

Yes, I did watch video in entirety. One thought about One Loft Races.
You can probably never release that bird again when it returns to your home. It would try to find its way back to that racing loft. Just a thought.

 

[biophiliac]

Yeah, homers are impressive. My red bird has a name courtesy of my friend @OG Anomaly who gave her the name Doba, meaning 'No War' in Navajo.
I posted a pic of her here recently and I think her wings look so muscular.

Just like you, I want homers. Have no desire for other types like rollers. They will not return to loft from far away. I seen how peeps take the cage to a park and watch their pigeons do acrobatics. The pigeons then return to that cage on the ground. It is a nice hobby, but not for me. My (homing) pigeons would bolt directly home.
I would like to get some Iranian High Flyers, as I stated in previous post. Those I would only loft fly, and not take any distance from home.

As I was typing this I seen you posted response. Thanks for informing me on the "One Loft Races" LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY.

Yes, I did watch video in entirety. One thought about One Loft Races.
You can probably never release that bird again when it returns to your home. It would try to find its way back to that racing loft. Just a thought.

That is the big downside of OLRs for me. Like you I just want to release for my own enjoyment and maybe watch them loft fly in a nice compact group if I can acheive that i will be thrilled!

 

[cavemanrich]

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but that is what is soooo beautiful to watch. The whole flock cruising overhead.
My Grandchildren would enjoy seeing this when they come over to visit.
They called my pigeons, GRANDPA'S EAGLES,,,,,,,

 

[biophiliac]

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but that is what is soooo beautiful to watch. The whole flock cruising overhead.
My Grandchildren would enjoy seeing this when they come over to visit.
They called my pigeons, GRANDPA'S EAGLES,,,,,,,

Agree! Believe it or not there is a feral flock living in the lumberyard across the street that fly in a perfect tight kit as they leave in the morning to go feed somewhere.