how many members use droppers

phil. i think when you have got them into a routine they will be ok......everyone has a few problems with ybs settling them and getting them in first of all, i know i do anyway.......

true david ... one member near me feeds his birds befor they go out and fly wired really coz i wastalking to im toay for first time ... and he said he as alway done it and then he just said come on and all 30 birds flow straight back in ... hope i can get mine like that ... then would be good

Hi Phil

It's just routine with young birds, my dad used to have food in front of them at all times, but when he let them out for a fly, sometimes three times a day, they would have their fly and I've counted to ten and 30 youngsters are all in the shed, it's what you install in them as little babies that counts.

I went to Louis Cooremans this summer, and he is exactly the same, walks them in with a stick as squeakers, they never forget it, everyone should try it

Fred

yes i do the same i use a bright yellow stick that does the trick mind you they say pigeons are coloured blind dont know about that ,have you ever noticed when you have a stranger in your garden with a different coloured plastic on the youngbirds peck at this plastic , ???

I agree about the plastic rings, I don't know about being colour blind, but they certainly don't like change, while this snow's been here, I've had to wear wellies, and they give them strange looks

they don't like them at all



and before you ask they are the green type, not the flowery kind

i was just picturing you in flowered wellies

Don't you start, I had enough of that on Pigeon Chat

i,ll try not too then

i,v e heard that as well ian.The only way to control young.uns i think is though the feed,no way you can get young,uns in when they have been fed unless they are sitting or something

i tell you ray a stick works a treat

never used a stick,thinking about it once but no,i use the old way the tin,i also like them tame ,mine follow me all other the place and i get most of them in ok and thats without starving them of which i do not believe in.i think its terrible those who do not feed their young,uns on a friday before race day

Ray, to be honest with you, you need to keep them tight with the grub at first, but its like your dog (if you've got one) once they know what you want, they usually oblige, sure you get the stubborn ones but they usually conform when they miss a feed.

ive found that if i wear cloths which are totally different from normal it makes the birds edgey, they seem to recognise my usuall blue top but if i wear a top with white stripes down the arms they dont like it........does anyone wear a loft coat all the time so it doesnt bother the birds by wearing something different....?

no i dont but i know a few people who do they look as if they work on an icecream van ,

i use to know a bloke that worke in slauter house and keep pigeons and he use to be the one that cull everyones birds and with his own he always wore same cloths with him working early morrning then straight to loft .. and he birds where very wareie of him if he walked in loft the birds didnt know if they where going in basket or last look fly around ... and then i got a few off him and there the plasted birds now in me loft and he come in me garden today and they started flapping about ... but he always wear the same work cloths ...

weird how they know and sense things

and i have had these birds since bonfire night

strange

Well agree with the comments 100%

Always weared the same loft jacket the pigeons if i changed the jacket they know regardless of colour

Always keeped the youngone a little hungary when it comes for them to learn what i need from them

I liked to use a whistle with the youngbirds

Use the whistle everytime they are feed and as soon as they hear the whistle they are down and in the loft

I used a whistle for the first time this year, it was good but I didn't keep it up, I also made myself a manequin a couple of years ago to tame the youngsters down, when I'm not there, only thing is it scared the pants off me everytime I went into the shed

needless to say it's gone to the manequin graveyard

Sorry to hear that fred