balloons on loft floor

on facebook fancier said he puts balloons on the loft floor when he moves the ybs over says birds get used to them and become very tame when you enter the loft asked if it would work with old birds he said yes will give it a go lol

Can think of far better ways of having tame pigeons.

Regards.

i found some breeds tame better than others

ive heard of using balloons on the floor to stop hens pairing up, but its a new one to me to make them tame.......ive always used either redskin peanuts or simply sat in with them and got to know them, also not grabbing them all the time .

the problem i had David loft was too big

George & Morgan wrote:

the problem i had David loft was too big

ah right, yes george it doesnt help does it ..........some say small sections are better for being in close contact with the birds therefore calmer, and easier for basketting etc

Get a grandchild or younger kid sitting in amongst them when they're first parted, then as much as possible, just messing about with the scraper or sweeping brush, filling drinkers and dropping a bit corn here and there. Once the babies get used they'll climb all over them looking for feed. I think we tend to tiptoe around with slow movements, not to scare them, but kids don't care they just clatter around the place and the babies quickly get used to the chaos and become very tame.

some of mine fly onto me in the loft, and some dont, but they arnt bothered by me in the loft, they arnt scared or on edge ......i dont seem to have any wild birds or one that is always on edge and wild .

mine come about David because loft was too big

yes ive heard this before george, other fanciers have said the same thing ....my biggest section is 7.5 ft x 7.5 ft square with 16 nest boxes in .......they seem pretty settled in there, none are wild.

i could really do with more space as this recent loft is only 14 ft x 7.5 ft, i did consider an L shape extension but it would take up too much of the garden, so my other plan is go upwards to a second floor, but with the cost of materials at the moment i cant justify doing it .

although its like everything else, once the price goes up, it never comes back down .

a former club member used to have a radio playing in the loft, i also notice mark caudwell does too ........i presume its to make the birds relaxed and tame

can't buy balloons any were David

asda george .......

smaller sections does encourage tamer birds but they all come round in the end eh apart from the odd nutter

oldstrain wrote:

smaller sections does encourage tamer birds but they all come round in the end eh apart from the odd nutter

nutter types I seem somehow to have a loft full of those types here now these days etc O/S Perfect loft/section for me thou is one, where one stands in the middle in general & is able to simply touch all four walls there by hand as such without effort.