Very nice. Those birds look mature. How old are they? Might want to wait for babies born in your loft before trying to train and fly them. That would be the best bet, keep your breeders in the loft at least until they have a handful of youngsters--that will serve two fold (1) ensures you always have breeders at least until you build up your flock, because losses are always part of keeping homing pigeons if you plan to fly them, and (2) it will give them some time to settle into your loft granted they were born elsewhere. Training young birds born in your loft is much easier. Once they fledge the nest bowl, usually at around a month of age, they will sort of hang on the floor hiding for maybe a week, at this age they are learning to eat and being weaned by their parents, but may still be being fed, this is sort of the post-grad age where parents are saying "get out of my house and live on your own". Within a week or so of fledging the nest bowl you will notice them in the aviary. Let them hang there for a week or so and get their views and pictures "downloaded" (they have photographic memories), then allow them access to a setting cage that is fixed over your landing board. At first, keep the bob doors up so they can freely go in and out, and after you see them doing that put just a few of the bobs down--this gets them used to the bobs, and you can slowly drop more of the bobs so they get used to going in and out of them. I notice if you even lift one single bob they can get in and out. After a week or two of this (they are about 2 months of age) you can put the bob fully down and place them in the setting cage, which forces them to use the fully closed bobs, as their only way back into the loft. Once they do this I'd say 4-6 times they are ready to be placed on the landing board with no cage around it. Now, this is why birds born in your own loft are easier to train, because you can get to this particular step (putting a bird on the landing board with no cage) when they are about 2 months of age, and they have not molted yet, so they can't really fly well, all they do is flap around and maybe fly on the roof and/or phone wires. They will do this, and just look around and absorb it all in (downloading pictures). They won't be strong on the wing, so no risk of them flying too far and getting lost. They'll do this for a week or so, and then by the time they molt and get their strong flying feathers, they'll be ready to take some big laps around your house/loft, and after that you are ready to start training them on tossess if that is what you want to do, or just keep loft flying them. Even if you don't plan on taking them on tosses at distances, I think it is still a good idea to train them on tosses out to about 5 miles, this ensures they know their way around if they get some energy and fly too far on a loft fly.
