This weeks discussion of the week is…
What do you think the current state of pigeon racing is?
For example do you think pigeon racing is growing or dying and why, express your views and share with others your opinions on the current state of pigeon racing by placing your vote in the poll below then posting a comment in the comment section below this post.
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I have been in this hobby for 3 years. I am 42 and the ytoungest member in our club. I have struggled the last two years and have just finally found a person that will really help me…… how sad is that?
Hi Guys
The sport is having major problems here in Ireland due mainly to hawks and the like we are loosing up to %50 of our young birds. This is causing young fanciers problems in building up a team of old birds as well as the cost of food, training, ets and club/fed fees. Its very expensive to start up now for young fanciers and with the ets they are put off by fanciers clocking 6 or 7 birds in 3 or 4 seconds.
Joe
Dublin Ireland
The previous comment is baseless. You don’t need a hundred pigeons and a mega loft to compete. Do your homework, know the genetics, breed wisely. Train and condition your birds. These are all things that YOU do for YOUR birds. You cannot BYY a race. Racing pigeons are the theornreds of the sky.. just lika any athelete, they need proper food, sleep and exercise.
The early pioneers in pigeons mostly did it on NO buget…just passion i.e. the Jasseson’s and others. The problem now is everyone wants immediate gratification and no work…NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!
i think its dying because we have made it to expensive to start up for youngsters ie loft /clock pigeons and then good flyers timing loads of birds in and the youngsters get fed up and leave
Hi, Ivan from India,Would agree that the sport on the decline, but I feel that we fanciers are partly to blame, as we have risen the stakes of pigeon racing, We have turned this from a hobby to a business venture these days.I find very few fanciers coming forward to help a beginner in the sport.this should start first and we should start by taking the first step.
Ivan.
There needs to be new races…large and small..one lofts…follow the Taiwanese style or the Europeans. I have been out for over 15 years after my fathers death, just getting back in. There needs to be a social media blitz showing what the rest of the world is doing. I have a degree in marketing and advertising and electronic communications… more coverage of races, lofts, etc.
The average person simply knows nothing about pigeon racing…
Be safe
The Racing Pigeon sport is surely Growing Fastest in the “One Loft $$ Races” BUT the Ecconomy does’nt help the unemployed or low income Racers/Flyers wanting to fly the 1 lofters, because they cost a ton of money to enter. Ide suggest for someone to Bring a new 1 loft race with 1000+ birds into the U.S.A. that Isnt so costly and more flyers could have a chance to race in this 1 loft $$$ race. Like a flat entry fee of $25.00 or $50.00 per 3 bird team or $25 per bird WITHOUT ANY perch fees and have the total amount of all monies going {only} to the 1st 10 placing birds in that race. if you dont place in the top 10 the you have only lost a small amount of cash Then we will see who has the best futurity Birds. and ile betfor sure that alot of FLYERS WHO DONT RACE FUTURITIES because of the $$$$$$ factor would come out of the woodwork for this race if some one would just DO IT!! -GlenComLofts
I personally think pigeon racing is very much interesting and it’s growing especially in Gulf Country
Such as State of Qatar, UAE and Kuwait mainly during winter season,
In Qatar we do it every weekend and we have very good champion pigeons.
Best Regards,
km
I got into pigeons by finding an injured racing pigeon in my garden, I nursed it back to health and it went on its way.
I then thought that I would like to keep some of my own. I went to the library and read all about what I would need and what it entailed. So I bought a loft, kitted it out with nest boxes and purchased food and grit. I then went looking for some stock birds only to find the nearest place I could buy some good birds was 110 miles away, but that did not deter me. I got them home and settled into there new loft and they soon started breeding. Before I new it I had a team to train, as Started traing them I looked at joining my local pigeon racing club which was 15 miles away to find that it would only accept fanciers within a 5 mile radius, so I only fly my birds as a hobby. If this is the case around the world then the sport will die out.
Hi,
I am recently from South Africa and started in 1976 but as a junior since i was 8 years old. I am now 55.The costs and the media that keep children in doors give the sport a big draw back.The other problem is people must get his family involve and stop using it for a reason to drink or to visit co-fanciers that end up in parties.This is a few things to me that are the reason for poor membership figures. We can talk all night about this subject it is really a serious problem.
Regards out of the best place to be Napier.