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- Sep 15, 2013
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Glad most are back now... bet they have been having a fun adventure and in no hurry to get home.
As they are young, at the 'teenager' stage right?
Yeah, maybe more like young adult stage.
Once they pair up and start nesting they will want to get back ASAP.
Interestingly the oldest of the bunch (who I have had the longest, but I got her at the same age as I got the others) was actually on eggs. I didn't take her on the drop because of this, but I did let her out to free fly because the cock was an extra fantail, and since she was on eggs I wasn't worried about her going far. But she disappeared! I have no idea why. Luckily I have lots of besting pigeons in my fancy coop so I stuck her eggs under some in there.
Maybe the pure homers are trying to get back to their home loft?
I don't think so because the ones I took on the drop who didn't return were from the same place as the others and were the same age or younger than the ones who did return.
Still you have plenty of time. I have know some of my birds go for over a week but they came back in the end none the worse for wear... they were young birds too, and I suspect they got attracted to the large feral flock in the local park near my home and spent time with the city pigeons before deciding they had a better life at m place.
That's what I am hoping, but I think they'd of found their way back by now if they were going to. But the ones who came back I have been taking a block in each direction to drop to make sure they really know where home is, and tomorrow I'm going to take them back in the direction I first dropped them (but maybe not as far) and release hoping that if either of the other two are still hanging around there they will follow them home.
Wishing you good luck to get the last ones back soon.