What Can Fanciers Do To Help The Pigeon Racing Sport Grow?

Pigeon Racing GrowthLast weeks discussion of the week we asked what you thought the current state of pigeon racing was? alarmingly the general consensus seemed to be that the sport of pigeon racing was dying and the main reason fanciers felt this way seemed to be cost. The Pigeon Insider has fanciers from all over the globe so it was pretty interesing to see some of our friends from other parts of the world say that the sport was growing. Maybe we can learn from each other and get the pigeon racing sport to grow universally all around the world by learning what each one of us are doing.

So in this weeks discussion of the week we would like to know?

What do you think fanciers can do to help the pigeon racing sport grow?  

Post your comments on what you think each one of us can do to help promote the sport, also let us know if you have any ideas on how to lower costs etc. If your in an area where the sport is on the rise post your comments and let other fanciers know what has worked in your area.

We will be forwarding all of your comments to pigeon racing organizations around the world, Hopefully; together we can help the sport grow universally around the world.

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199 thoughts on “What Can Fanciers Do To Help The Pigeon Racing Sport Grow?

  1. In general, we do a very poor job of promoting our hobby, myself included. We should be working with the FFA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and other youth organizations letting them know about the fun of raising and racing pigeos. Build a small loft that would house a couple of pair of breeders and maybe 20-25 yungbirds and place it in one of the FFA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc. yard to allow them to take care of the birds. Have a simulated one loft race with the 20-25 youngbirds by assigning 1-2 birds to each member. Instead of throwing you RP Digests away, carry them to your local library, feed store or doctors office. Be willing to give talks on our hobby at schools, civic clubs, etc. Promotion, promotion, promotion is what we need! Very few people know anything about the hobby of raing pigeons. We have a great hobby and need to let others know.

  2. Hello Chris
    I say you my teacher.so teacher plz. help me method for training

    I am flying 30 racing pigeons in(Bahawal Nagar,Punjab,Pakistan).My pigeons are flying half kilometer surrounding from my homelike electric .I flying my pigeons 30 to 45 minits in the evening. my compiteators flying pigeons 3 km from my home. I Want my pigeons go straight 3km at my compiteators home and mixed with their pigeons and come back straight my home.This is the method of playing pigeon flying. i tell you our methot of training which is use in our state.
    First of all pigeons open from loft. i through food on the roof of loft pigeons flying and sit on roof of the loft. then i through food on my roof pigeongs come on roof this process 15 times daily in one week. second week i flying pigeons 3 to 5 minits call back and sit on the roof of loft.this is the methoh of fitness, training and home confermation.I give the food as per your details of pigeons food.
    Please send me the complete fitness and training metoh. I want my pigeons go straight 3km to 5km from my home and come back my home.For this purpose you help me as a teacher.
    I shell be very thankfull to you for this help.
    early action will be appricated.

    truly your,s
    Aamir Kamran
    (Bahawal Nagar, Punjab, Pakistan)
    Cell 0300-4586274

    1. Aamir,Training birds right when they are young is very important.however breaking bad habits are possible but but take time.A champion fancier told me the train your birds by themselfs(single toss).I know this takes time but it makes the birds think.I your case with the habits of your flock you need to get a grip on feeding.The birds should be feed in the loft not on the roof.Lock the birds out in the morning for a hour and let them exercise or just sit on the loft.I perfer to push a muture bird to fly.It is a lot easy to control the diet with exercise rather that cutting the amount of feed.Don’t overfeed.When the first bird goes for water during feeding you are almost done feeding.You will never have control of your flock if you overfeed .I hope this helps.Vick

  3. hi guys,
    I would tel you that here in malta when you are pigeon fancier you are one like criminal because evry one of your neibghbers look to you saddly the first thing that we need here is that the goverment look to us as a sport,the 2nd thing is that we can help youg ones to be in the sport, 3rd is that dont make the pigeon prices like becham, ronaldo etc.this is first steps here in malta and then we can look foward.
    regurds
    Michael from Malta

  4. I think that if everybody weren’t trying to sale/peddler pigeons, the cost would not be on the up rise. If we dwell on the sportmanship and compitition of the sport, and insure that our sport got half the coverage that other sports get we would have more people coming to the sport. Communication, advertisement, and dispelling some of the pigeon myths will be a good start.

  5. we need sponcership like horse racing
    the horse racing people have people that chase suport for they fields we should also publicity also

  6. Zoning Regulation have killed this sport in N Y city and elsewhere, i would like to see 4 H mentering programs in schools and clubhouses where in older guys would show the younger ones how to house and keep pigions as a hubby then as they grow in to it, teach them about the sport of racing Homeing Pigions in a responsable and Etical manor.

    There are to maney earresponsable people in the sport looking to make a quick buck and i have seen some of these Nit-Wits pull the heads off of thier brids for not flying in the money or coming home the next day! i love my Birds and have given a few people in my comunity free start up birds, if everone who loves this sport would just give two or three people some start up birds in thier comunity the hubby would catch on. these guys would rather kill thier birds then have some one be given the blood line, its not the blood line that wins races, its how good you treet and train your birds and anyone who tells you other wise is full of it! i’ve seen guys wine races with birds they bought in Pigion Stores out of a cage For a few dollars just because the birds had a good posture and look about them but its all of the hype thats driven up the cost of racing homing pigions in my openion.

    1. hi guys billy stepp you are right a bout helping those wanting to get started buy giveing them those who cant aford to pay hi prices for the birds i am one of those who would like to start the racing game but cant afourd to buy the birds i am retired disabled but not to the point i could not take care of my birds and learn how to train them thanks for reading this billy stepp columbus nc if you know anyone close to me that will help let me know thanks.

  7. IMHO, fanciers should be the ambassadors of the sport and not wait for the organizations to do the promoting. I sincerely believe the pigeon racing is a gentleman’s sport and fanciers should show by example.

    Competition cannot be avoided but the sportsmanship spirit should always be present to make the sport more attractive.

    Also encourage any little interest in the sport specially in young people. We’ll never know where the next champion will come from.

  8. Promotion, promotion, promotion! Most people have never even heard of pigeon racing. Even the thought of raising pigeons may be new to them. It’s our responsibility to get the word out and educate people about the sport. If not, they’ll go on missing out on a lot of fun. Perhaps get your club to have a presentation at schools (pigeons, especially homers, are involved in a lot of history), or have a little set up in the local county/state fair. Newspapers are a good way to bring in some positive attention as well. I had an article in our local paper about dove hunters vs. racing pigeons. I was very surprised as to how many people I’d never met before, recognized me because they’d read my article. I was happy to know people really did read things like that.
    We have a thing around here called “Farmer’s Day”. Basically on the third Saturday in July, main street becomes a swarm of tents, booths, and people. All kinds of things for sale, good music, and food. For the past couple years I’ve had a pigeon promo table set up there. I had a TV with pigeon videos playing, several show cages full of birds, as well as trophies, books, magazines, seamless bands (which I gave away to the kids who stopped by), and a manual clock. It turned out GREAT. I couldn’t tell you how many people stopped by and looked at everything. Many of them were quite interested, so I answered a lot of questions. Two people even gave me their contact info so I could find them some birds to start with.

    Even if you can’t get people to jump right into pigeon racing, having them interested in pigeons in general, is a really good start. Racing is very popular and most will venture into it once they’ve been a fancier for a while.

    As far as how to lower costs, that’s going to be hard for everyone now. During personal training, getting together with other club members close by and taking turns hauling helps your own pockets. Then when it comes time for the combine to ship races, minimalizing pickup points will keep the person from going all over creation to get birds on the trailer. Our combine has had to reduce the season a few times, from 8 weekends to 5 weekends. Instead of having an A and B race each weekend from the same spot, a couple weekends we’d have A from one spot, and B from another. That way all the stations are still included, but the season can still be shortened.

    1. I think you hit on all the important points. Pigeon racing needs exposure! Start with the young schools, street fairs, farmers markets, parades, marathons, bike races, funerals, weddings, and all that.

  9. Just my opinion;but! If clubs and or expenses were more reasonable maybe there would be more interest. To get interest maybe club organizers or just fanciers of different types could be a guest speaker at a Boys Club, Little League baseball clinics, grammar school/junior high schools to give an orientation possibly a couple or short dvd films. Maybe pass our flyers for future pigeon shows, releases or roller competitions! Just an idea thats all,John F DeCosta

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