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
HI chris.
I like reading your site it has good info.I started using Apple sider vinger this week again.We have 5 races to go i have had a bad year not one card this year???.
In my experience of the health of my birds over the years, if I had say 5 to 8 or more different kinds of vitamins, multi-vitamins or any kind and in my drinkers I add the lot together as a multi multi mixes vitamins also other natural products like Honey, garlic, apple cider vinergar, black strapp Mallasses, pri oboctic I just add the lotto my drinkers every day bar Saturday, Sunday only fresh clean water.
I have proven that when sickness is about in other lofts mine is free from sickness, I put this down to vitamins and my pigeons have never fell off a perch dead over vitaminized. I am on health matters with pigeons in genaral excellent health is the key for racing out pigeons,
Yours in Sport
Chopper
Hello Chris:
I started raising racing homers in 2009. So I would consider myself very novice at this sport.
A good friend of mine (Ken Christopher) offered me a couple of pairs of his breeders. Another good friend was interested in joining me so we decided to give racing a try as partners. We joined WFA here in Utah and met a group of people that are very helpful as well as have become friends over time. Since that time I have been very busy researching and questioning my fellow flyers on many more subjects than I ever imagined would be involved.
We raced a dozen young birds from some of the members 2009 widowhood program in 2010s old bird season. We had two birds that done fair, getting a couple of second place times in the sportsmans (novice) class.
We raised 20 young birds and flew them in the 2010 season. They did not do well and we ended up with 18 birds overall to hold for the 2011 old bird season.
After getting such poor performance from our team of various types of birds I knew it was my fault they were not doing good.
That was when I broadened my search for nutrition and the anatomy of my birds. This is the time I found Pigeon insider. You have been very helpful by posting articles and having flyers from all over the globe comment on them. I also purchased your book about nutrition which explains in detail how different grains work on pigeons.
I have been reading, testing, and writing down a routine for my birds since then. In most applications common sense prevails. You look back on mistakes and wonder (what was I thinking). I feed, water, and medicate my birds depending on what they are doing at the time.
We also learned from some of our mistakes on the original loft we built, and built another one with improvements.
This years old bird season was much better, partly due to our birds being old enough to compete with the other lofts. But I believe the changes made at home were the biggest reason they improved.
We won more than our share in the sportsmans class and placed 1st in two races overall.
We are no longer in the sportsmans class as we won as many overalls as any individual in the club.
We are now 2 weeks before young bird season starts and our birds are looking terrific. They are much healthier than last years group, and the training tosses are looking good when comparing with other club members. With some luck, and without me messing them up, this may be a very good year.
I would like to thank you and your website personally for being so helpful!
Randy Penegar
hi chris i will take the title of intermediate the reason being i learn new things all the time about pigeons And two answer the next how long have i had pigeons 50 years on and off and i always come back two the birds as a young boy of 12 thats when it all started now at 62 years of age i still feel the pull of the pigeons wow weeeeeeeeee lots of fun and more two come
I am a beginner at raising pingeons. I have been raising them for about 5 months now. I have 12 young birds. I enjoy reading the pigeon insider, it really gives me some good info.
I have been involved in racing pigeons for as long as i can remember, my Father had them so i grow up with them, so i’m talking over 60 odd years, I don’t class myself as a professional, but I do fly in Club, Federation, Classic, & National races.each year. I retired from work in 2002 at the age of 65, Move house to a small property with a very small garden (Yard as you my call it!). with our children off our hands I promised my darling wife the time I had left in this world would be for us & NOT pigeons!!. After 6 years she see that I was not happy, & how much I missed the sport. She said to me why don’t you put a small loft up in the garden, as I can see you are missing the your pigeons (Bless her). So in 2009 a small loft was biult in our garden, 12ft X 8ft,
12 young birds gifts from freinds, 2010 I bred 20 young & the very 1st YB race was a disaster many pigeons lost in the race 17 of my YBs missing only 3 worked back over a few weeks. Leaving me with a total of 10 widowhood cocks to work with in 2011. the hawks put 2. out of action for racing this year, but I was not tobe beaten. We have 25 members in our club sending upto 350 pigeons per week, So far I’ve took a 5th in the club, Classic club won the pool money in the clock station, In the National Flying Club 8,700 birds I took 259th open, 1st & 3rd in the Clock station. All my pigeons have now flown the English Cannel. So it shows, you Don’t need a lot of pigeons to have a good time in this sport of pigeon racing.
I think the Pigeon Insider is great for a new starter, they can get ideas that it has taken me many years to find out though hard work, To me the medication side, is a mind bender!!. You never stop learning in this sport. “A Very Good Read”
Happy racing.
I am a beginnier for sure. I’ve never had pigeons before until November of this year. It started as a joke for my husband. I got two pair for him, now I have 6 pair of breeders, 55 yb, and 4 late hatches that some of the guys in the club here gave me. I have been flying my late hatches in the old bird races and having so much fun. I can’t wait for the young bird season to start. I love having the birds they are so smart and alot of work. I have got a lot of info from pigeon digest and from everyones comments. It’s a greAt site keep up th good work. Tonja
I have kept pigeons for most of my life and won a few races out in southern california as a junior with some stock given to me by one of the best out there at that time. I got bk into racing a little over ten yrs ago and have done ok in some of the cheeper one loft races with my whites and have just started with my colored birds last year again. We do not have a local combine here where I live so I have to send birds off for someone else to train out and finish so my true knowelege has not been put to the teat here, though I would consider myself an expert in pairing birds for breeding and for racing them myself as I have had exceptional luck with my whites in the Release business with birds coming back from 135 to 250 miles over terrane that they were not trained out over. They are coming home on the day and without losses and having to fly over mountians to get home and they have never trained out over the mountians.
God Bless, Lee
i would class myself has a pigeon expert,over the years i have won more 1st prizes than you can shake a stick at, this his including gold cup winner in federation section winners in the n f c and midland nation this including 1st open m n f c in one season i actually won in the access of ÂŁ7.000.
i have had pigeons all my life has far back has i can remember my brother and i won the young birds average in local club back in 1961.
whiteflight
Hi it is Byron from SOUTH AFRICA.I have had pigeons for 29 years but,feel one needs allot of learning to understand the pigeon.I went to different lofts in 2010 and picked out the champs in other lofts.There is just something about champs that you learn over the years.I have never raced in my home town with my pigeons as believe to do things correctly.Soon i will will make my stand and put my pigeon wits together.
First year back to pigeons after about 10 year break. Enjoying a great deal but battling with hawks eating birds everyday. I would say I am an intermediate. Learn alot from youe website and look forward to getting news every couple days. Keep up the good work. chris zimbabwe