WINTER MONTHS

Why not have a few different topic during the winter months.

Maybe fanciers giving their most amusing or disappointing experiences or a quiz etc;

There are very few basics that have not been covered many times.

Regards.

We will be starting our shows very shortly misty, always has a good response, but I like your thinking, some tip from our more experienced fanciers would be nice

Winter months. Different for Knackered and I. Do not know how Knackered does it. Temp fluctuations etc,. For many folk here that fly pigeons they put heat in the lofts winter time. Temps do get down to below minus 40 C. Ventilation is closely controlled were possible. Personally I put a light bulb in a biscuit can with the waterer on top. Holes in the top of the can. Heating lofts? No. If the wild pigeons outside can survive mine should also. Never had a pigeon freeze to death. Early breeding some eggs get chilled but nothing major.

halcanada wrote:

Winter months. Different for Knackered and I. Do not know how Knackered does it. Temp fluctuations etc,. For many folk here that fly pigeons they put heat in the lofts winter time. Temps do get down to below minus 40 C. Ventilation is closely controlled were possible. Personally I put a light bulb in a biscuit can with the waterer on top. Holes in the top of the can. Heating lofts? No. If the wild pigeons outside can survive mine should also. Never had a pigeon freeze to death. Early breeding some eggs get chilled but nothing major.

True Hal Living in black fella type country & bred from a bunch of criminal misfits of the worst kind etc       we just had to adapt to what we have & just make the best, of a bad type situation I suggest .

Well, Hal and Knackered, your experiences in such conditions must have given rise to many problems and unexpected situations that no doubt would be of interest to others, in particuler how you dealt or not.

It would be interesting to see how other live and deal with different situations.


Regards.

MISTY wrote:

Well, Hal and Knackered, your experiences in such conditions must have given rise to many problems and unexpected situations  that no doubt would be of interest to others, in particuler how you dealt  or not.

It would be interesting to see how other live and deal with different situations.


Regards.

Couldn't really talk for Hal Misty etc but life in general is pretty damm good here as such for an old fella. No Tornadoes, Cyclones, Snow Tsunamies/Floods "live on the side of a mountain" & been lucky on the bush fire issue even thou I'm surrounded by Gum trees every where. End of the day Flies cause me the most concern on the world stage      along with the local Sudenese thug type issue         now.

I have no complaints. Heated waterers are a must here Winter. Apart from snow and predators seen it all over the years. Just something to live with and adapt. Mink in the loft last ear was a surprise, but probably more on the way.
Raptors are heavy around here right now. But yearlings will be out. Strong wind but their choice.
My biggest competitor racing pigeons? See him in the mirror every morning!!

Hal, is that before you shave or after?.

Both you and Knackered appear content with your lot which is unusual in this day and age.

I think we have the best of everything a the present time regarding weather and other circumstances.

But we can all still moan a little.

What I feel would be interesting is events that have changed your opinions and that of other members over the involvrment in the sport.



Regards.

since keeping pigeons (and dogs) , ive learned to respect all animals more, even spiders etc........I don't like rats or mice, but if they stay away from me and my loft I don't have a problem with them, I try not to kill anything, even a spider or a moth:P

David. Sometimes one has to do it. Persistent predators. Dogs killed a coyote few weeks ago. They check around for the bigger stuff. Foxes etc, cats. Wild dogs also.
Misty. My involvement in the sport has changed drastically. Seems the old style (not that many years ago) club has deteriorated to 'win at all costs' mode. Back biting and claims of pedigreed bloodlines for sale etc,. Some good studs do breed good pigeons and are honest in assesment of the young produced. Others are just looking for cash at all costs. David Clausing flew in a Florida club after moving down there. Won nothing for years. Bought some new bloodlines, Houbens, and won out of turn. Fed and club. So they kicked him out. Other clubs would not let him fly. His birds, methods were too good for them. So on advice from Houben he entered one lofters. Had to scrape the cash together to enter. His birds won money right away.
I do not ruffle feathers in any club. Live and le live. YB's flew this morning almost two hours. Frost a few nights ago, 28 C today. Hawk appeared but the birds just went high then away. I enjoy watching them. Love to see them home from a race. Love the genetic aspect of breeding. Always basically an uknown. But get it right a few times all is worth while. The social/meetings part of the sport I shun. Basically content.

MISTY wrote:

Hal, is that before you shave or after?.

Both you and Knackered appear content with your lot which is unusual in this day and age.

I think we have the best of everything a the present time regarding weather and other circumstances.

But we can all still moan a little.

What I feel would be interesting is events that have changed your opinions and that of other  members over the  involvrment in the sport.



Regards.

Seen the highs & the lows       in the pigeon sport here Misty etc. The imports & the money men/studs have turned the sport into a crap scenario for the way I see it now for the battler type/average man, along with the Rota virus issue which we are battling with now here. But basically, in simple terms it is all meaningless as such from my perspective, compared to certain issues that had a life changing effect on me 50 odd years ago type of thing here, which gave me 50 odd years thankfully to just enjoy my birds  fortunately in my own strange way as such. If more people today I suggest     could just see the magic side/aspect to keeping pigeons etc like us 2     the world could/would be a far better place to live in than it is now sadly the way I see things & the pill popper makers/believers could maybe, just go out of business from my experience.
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I enjoy the keeping of pigeons. Years ago figured out I was a microbe in the billions of bacteria. Meaning humans. I am not out to change the world. World will never change much anyway. I was shut out of the first Canadian club I was in because I won too many races. They changed the boundries and I was on the long end yet. Same in the London clubs I was in. Those days are long gone. So I enjoy what I can while I can.

halcanada wrote:

I enjoy the keeping of pigeons. Years ago figured out I was a microbe in the billions of bacteria. Meaning humans. I am not out to change the world. World will never change much anyway. I was shut out of the first Canadian club I was in because I won too many races. They changed the boundries and I was on the long end yet. Same in the London clubs I was in. Those days are long gone. So I enjoy what I can while I can.

Simple way I suggest Hal & I'm much the same now here. Just leave every thing I say unfortunately for Trump to fix etc .
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Never been in a club Hal where any fancier won everything, I was always content with my pigeons performances.

But for most of my time I was chairman or president or secretary of the club, which as the saying goes , you cannot please everybody all the time and some never.

When you have 30 40 members it is humanly impossible not have the odd trouble maker which tends to detract from the pleasure. that is why it is debatable about being forced to accept members unless they have been acting dishonerably etc;

But if I ever got down hearted 10 minutes in the garden woth my feathered friends was a certain cure.


Regards.