Hey,
I hope your enjoying the website, as much as I am enjoying making it! 🙂 and I really want to get to know you better, I also really want to get a good feel of your comfort level with pigeons this way we can continue to bring you more informative content that better suits your needs.
So in this weeks discussion of the week I would like to know…
If you had to classify your knowledge of pigeons how would you classify yourself? would you classify yourself as a beginner, intermediate, advanced or expert? and why would you classify yourself as that?
It would also be great if you can add into your comments how long you have been involved with pigeons as well for example 1year, 20years etc.
So go ahead and post your comments by clicking here.
I am really looking forward to hearing from you and getting to know you better!
Yours in the sport,
-Chris
Discussion of the week, How Would You Classify Your Knowledge of Pigeons?
The Leading Online Pigeon Racing and Racing Pigeons Magazine – The Pigeon Insider
well, if you had asked to classify myself as a flyracer, i would have had to say beginner. but you asked about knowledge. i’m no expert but i am very very familiar with every aspect of raising, breeding, feeding, training, keeping, and handling the fasinating critters. i get sycked when i become interested in something and i go all, (ALL), out of the way to learn everything posible to know about that subject. i did this many years ago, at about the age of (I THINK I WAS 9 AT THAT TIME). i became interested in pigeons on a (CLASS TRIP) to the cummunity park, in MEMPHIS, TN. i found a youngster that had fallen from the nest, (OR WAS PROBABLY PUSHED). i spent my (WHOLE) fieldtrip trying to figure out how i was going to get that bird home. one of the park commissioners gave me a shoe box he found in the gym locker room. i carried it back to school in the box, luckily it was in the afternoon, time to leave school. i rushed arround (WITH BOX IN HAND, NEVER LETTING GO FOR ONE SECOND), getting ready to go home. (I MADE IT SAFELY). we lived in an upstairs aprt. i raised (FRED), which we found out latter that HE was a SHE, on rice and chopped corn. my step dad got up every morning at 5:00 and opened the back door to the aprt., (during the summer of course), the door opened right into the kitchen part, and fred would come in and eat rice with my step dad and me. a couple of months went by and a gray bird (with a band) showed up. before we could catch them they both left and never came back. anyway i had already begun to learn all i could about pigeons. that next winter we moved to a subburble area, and i met a man with rollers. i hung arround learning more until one day i bought two pair and he gave me three pair besides the two, so now i had 5 pairs of rollers. i was tickled to death.i continued on and that winter i lost my mother. we moved to MISSISSIPPI. i took my birds (NO DOUBT), and it began a super bond between me and my pigeons. they were all i had now. i became obbsessed, loosing myself in my birds. later i got some homing pigeons, but never raced. i just played arround taking them places and turning them loose to let them fly home. people where i’m from now still go crazy with wonder trying to figure them out. now i’ve decided to get into racing, but my funds are very short at present. my kids are enthused about the idea, and will be loft managers,(AFTER A BIT OF TRAINING).you see i haven’t had birds for quite some time, and my life got sidetracked for another period of time. now i have the time for the birds but a lack of funds. it will take some time but ill get there. so i my be an expert on pigeons but i lack a little in the racing area. i do know a good bit about structure breeding, but i never was scientific enough to know the genetics part. i failed science, LOL!!!! OH!! i’m 44 now, and i have been into pigeons sence i was about 9, so that would be 35 years experience with the beautiful critters. YOURS IN THE SPORT>>>GLENN
P.S., sorry about the book~~~~~~
I have kept pigeons for 5 years, and still beginner and i enjoy with them..
Regards,
ARJAY AZURIN
If I had to classify my knowledge of pigeons I would definitely say that I am a beginneras i have only had pigeons for 3 years. I’m constantly on a new learning curve when it comes to my birds and I have to thank you for the wonderful information that you have posted on your website. Without you and the help of other fanciers my knowledge would be limited. I have had a loft grow from a set of 2 pigeons to over fifty and now I’m focusing on breeding for quality birds rather than quantity. Raising pigeons in the heart of Toronto, Canada is a challenge as there are various predators in my area. I have recently joined a racing club and the members have been very welcoming and have assisted me in the proper maintenance of my loft. Without such guidance and mentorship from other fanciers this hobby would fail to exist as I’m currently the youngest member in a group where the mean age of the members are well into retirement. It is up to us all to promote this great hobby that rewards all those who are involved.
i have had pigeons for 54 years and have raced for 50 years with out a miss.
as far as how do i grade myself i feel i have a well rounded knowledge of racing pigeons as far as being an expert, i think an expert would be descrbed as a drip under pressure . if you stop listening and reading you stop learning and with the way the game has changed over the 50 years you would soon be out in left field. the biggest challenge today is to keep our birds healthy. the last 10 -15 years it seems there are more problems with sick birds . i beleave this to be caused b y over use of drugs and pigeon products. the sport is always looking for a quick fix to get to the top and they all feel it comes from a bag or bottle, where in fact it comes from good healthy birds and hard work
frank
I have kept pigeons for 37 years,still enjoy
great website!
Thank you very much for this information.It really help.I consider my self an
advanced.I been in among pigeons for 40 years.
thanks for all the infos you are sending, it really helps me a lot in breeding my birds.
more power!!!
Hi,
Live in Lower Hutt City New Zealand. I have kept racing pigeons for 27 years. Enjoyed the high and lows that this great sport brings us. Due to “Pigeon Fancier Lung” I had to reduce the number of pigeons I was able to keep making me a very small operator. I have a no more than 35 birds at any one time but still enjoy a lot of success against far larger teams. Iam a keen eye sign enthusiast and grade pigeons regularly for other fanciers.
hi Rob I to suffer from PFL and
I am also keen on the eyesign
cant say that I would be able to grade
others birds but I know what I like
regards
pete
a beginner with some knowledge
This is a GREAT website!!