This is a great video from Lavender Hill Lofts, showing what fret marks are and explaining why they happen.
Pigeon Training Methods From Hilsea Lofts
Pigeon Training Methods From Hilsea Lofts The question of training is largely a question of muscle and motion. Muscle develops or degenerates almost exactly in proportion to the amount of work they have to do. With a strong and vigorous…
Pigeon Racing Essentials
Pigeon Racing Essentials Air Good ventilation and freedom from dampness. Water Fresh and in clean vessels. Food Sound food, rationally fed. Control Exercise, trapping, feeding and basket work at right time. Feeding. Winter mixture: 50% barley, 20% wheat, 20% maize,…
Classifying Injuries in Racing Pigeons
Classifying Injuries in Racing Pigeons This section covers injuries to birds. Unfortunately, it’s the nature of racing and training that our birds covering the distance that they do will incur injuries. We have to remember that we manage a stable…
Old and Young Bird Racing System
Old and Young Bird Racing System Old Birds I race 16 pairs of cocks and hens. I stop the yearling at 350 miles, two years and older go all the way. I pair the birds mid febuary and they raise…
Aviary Basket Loading Method
Aviary Basket Loading Method Great video from Dan Smith of Sunset Coast Doves showing his basket loading method using his movable wall aviary system.
Let’s Talk About Systems…(part 3)
Let’s Talk About Systems…(part 3) The Racing System: One has many options as to which racing system to use and there are these and perhaps more to be considered. For years it was strictly natural which was racing to the…
Let’s Talk About Systems…(part 2)
Let’s Talk About Systems…(part 2) The quality of our pigeons is always NUMBER 1. Without athletes, we can never determine how good or bad a system is. I have witnessed many people that believe because they are trying a new…
Let’s Talk About Systems… (part 1)
Let’s Talk About Systems… (part 1) As we begin this subject I checked a dictionary and this is how the word “System” was explained! “A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.” Every one of us…
The Magic Formula for Pigeon Racing Success!…
The Magic Formula for Pigeon Racing Success!… In this article, I will give you the magic formula for success! This is being done because of the following comment from one of my readers and his same thoughts have been told…
