Seperating pigeons.

Read a post from Mark little while ago. Said he never seperated race birds. I tried that many years ago. But they laid like chickens. Would be easier not to seperate next year. One less loft to look after.

halcanada wrote:

Read a post from Mark little while ago. Said he never seperated race birds. I tried that many years ago. But they laid like chickens. Would be easier not to seperate next year. One less loft to look after.

Mine are all seperated here Hal hens still lay thou like chickens etc. Walk in my race loft & it's wall to wall eggs all on the floor in the deep litter .  

Do you bother to keep them from laying with those wooden eggs knackered? I was wondering if I should use them on my white birds to keep from laying?

Romedius wrote:

Do you bother to keep them from laying with those wooden eggs knackered?   I was wondering if I should use them on my white birds to keep from laying?

No "wood eggs" I'm a cheap skate Rom just let them sit as such & when they get bored they just leave them etc. Cycle to cycle will be 30/35 days here & for me much better than throwing them out type of thing all the time. Have the odd cock sneak in at times between the sections, but he quickly get a good foot up the a**e so to speak .

ive not separated some times, and eventually they stop laying, just turn the bowls over and close the nest boxes..........and lighten the food.

always separate here ...separated earlier last year than usual(end of august) and birds had a better moult or so it seemed

Knackered wrote:

Romedius wrote:

Do you bother to keep them from laying with those wooden eggs knackered?   I was wondering if I should use them on my white birds to keep from laying?

No "wood eggs" I'm a cheap skate Rom just let them sit as such & when they get bored they just leave them etc. Cycle to cycle will be 30/35 days here & for me much better than throwing them out type of thing all the time. Have the odd cock sneak in at times between the sections, but he quickly get a good foot up the a**e so to speak .

Thanks knackered

Haven't separated the race birds again this last closed season and they all look quite happy together as Darren said they do moult a lot quicker separated and the odd one or two are just finishing their last flight but all will be well next month