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 know idea about the sport, since I am just starting into pigeons. But I can say this from what I know so far( which is very little). Flying and racing pigeons should NOT cost as much as it does. some of the prices to get a ream going is outrageous. And I think it pushes a lot of ppl to the sidelines, just because some ppl can not afford to place teams into these races.
People always ruin things when money gets involved, and pigeon racing is no different. I think spending more then myself, and many others make in years on a Pigeons is just crazy. but thats what makes the world go around I guess. I believe the sport would explode if it wasnt so damn expensive to get involved in..
Terry, You have hit the nail right on the head.I agree with you. as I have stated in one of my replies GREED will kill this fun sport.
This yaer will be my 3r season in the spor that I love so much but like others say is getting to spense and money dont came easy..
I think that the sport of pigeon racing has many problems here in the usa. most of the problems come from the fanciers. most will not take care of new or youth flyers. free lofting and not keeping thier lofts clean and in good condition. next we have the city laws that are anti pigeon most of all is our lack of advertisement many people have never herd about our sport and know nothing about it. if we do nothing our sport will die i also think that pigeon merchants are not helping our sport birds are getting more and more expensive putting them out of the every day flyers hands. with the loss of every flyer cost go up putting more pressure on clubs to shorten schedules and stations our club when i started we flew 100 to 600 miles we had 1 -400 2 -500 and 1 -600 mile races now we are lucky to fly 1 500 and no 600 and most of all are the people in clubs that do nothing to help their clubs and cause problems. then thier are the ones who are poor sports about losing races. and always wanting race schudule changes to suit them and not what is best for there clubs and most of all thier birds
I believe that the sport of racing pigeons is definately dying. I flew with the GA club in Atlanta Georgia for five years.and ..I and stopped because I spent $2,500/year to fly my old bird team. Two years later I migrated to Mexico to retire and continue flying.Much to my surprize it costs the same to fly down hear. I am about to fly my old bird team for the last time. I am leaving the sport because it is simply too expensive and I am tired of getting laughed at by the local flyers.
I live in cental Wisconsin and see the sport loosing far more than we are gaining. We built a portable loft on wheels for paraids and fairs handing out pamphets with no results. We also paid for advertising on placemates in area restarants and no calls. Mike Tysons show seemed to get some attention but no new members for us. I think we need more natinal adertising to let people know it is a great back yard hoppy or sport. All sports cost money but this one you can enjoy everyday. Sorry to say but the sport in Wisconsin is dying.More awareness to the publick is needed to creat interest. Maybe billboards where lots of drivers can get the idea.
Bill Lind
Our club use to have 35 Pigioen Fanciers but we are down to 12. It is now very expensive. The young ones are only interested in computer games. It takes adiffrent breed of people that are willing to spend so many hours days and years just to breed a winner. Not every one has the time or the will to lose so many races before win one. Everybody want to be a winner. Imediately.
im sorry that your club id dying off that might be due to the fact that the members are dying .i would love to be in a club but when you cant get any answers from the club eather by e-mail or phone or any thing so in a way its kind of the clubs own fault . now that may not be the case in your club so i mean no disrespect in any way im just saying what problem im having
i think that our sport is dying because few if any youngsters are encouraged to start,today unlike our and our forefathers time,there are so much things for our youngsters to do without all the hassle there is in our beautiful game. and thers the other snag, it gets expensive every week,another thing is the money that’s being spend
to buy good??pigeons ,manytimes novices spend a lot of money for a pedigree, I think that as already proven in our time that pigeon racing kept a lot of us out of the horrible things that were there as they are now,it should be promoted to youngsters as a good idea to start from an early age,
I aggree with you
my husband got me interested in pigeon racing.i feel that in our club we are being dictated to by the convoyers they collect our birds at 6.00pm if they are not ready he moans like hell. At the end of the day i feel that people who work are not considered only the old timers who are retired or dont work can get to the club for the time. The RPRA are always banging on about the younger generations getting involved in the sport but it is made difficult to participate if you work. for some reason our secretary does not seem to want to broach this subject with the convoyer but at the end of the day we are paying for a service. if the collection is this early next year we wont be racing which is a shame because i really enough it.
Hi, im 40yrs of age, and the youngest flyer in are club, which has around 17 members for the 2012 racing season. This club used to have 50 strong members when i started 20 yrs ago. So quite a lot of members gone and no youngsters coming in. My son was interested from 13 yrs of age but has now turned 18 and has’nt bothered with pigeons for the last year, hes more into work in the day and xbox 360 evening or going out with his friends on the night. Also agree with other comments, very hard for young fanciers with expense etc…its a rapidly declining sport, has ive seen no young fanciers come into are club in the last 20 yrs. Alot of fanciers in the last few yrs giving up to the ever present peregrine falcon attacks, on there birds, so have called it a day. This will be one of the reasons the sport will decline, too, unless solutions are found.
I do not. Believe it is a DYING sport but. It is a difficult sport to get into,,,yes many do not know about it, and yes the common pigeon has a very poor reputation. But the biggest obstacle to getting started is a loft and birds,,,,I mean mr Ganus just quoted me $550 for a chick,,,,comeon,,,I am brand new to this sport and have already spent over $2000 and I just built my loft and got a few unbanked birds that’ll likely fly away,,,,,but hey I can hope.
The clubs need to be more visible, and make it easier for others to get involved, or it will be a dead sport