training birds

can anyone help ???

i am having trouble finding the time to train my birds,
i leave for work at 6.00 am in the morning and dont come home till 5.30 on a night,
before you now its getting dark,
i was going to take them to work with me but whats the point i only live 3 mile from work, my mrs has nothing to do with the birds because of her asthma so if i did get someone to take them in the week day i would have to leave the sputnic trap open, this i dont want to do in case a cat climbs in.
is anyone else in the same situation and has any solutions.

regards chris

chris there is a a trap you can buy which lets one bird in at a time it only holds the weight of a bird so if a cat were to stand on it it would drop and the cat would fall off the plate then returns to normal not sure if a hawk would go in as it has a bob wire so as birds can not fly back out george

chris just had a look in a Boddy &Ridewood catalogue it is a old book 2009 the price then was £28-95 code l076/b george

hi chris, sorry to hear of your problem........when you say you get home at 5.30 could you not take them 10 - 12 miles down the road......? i know you will be tired from working but it doesnt get dark till nearly 7.30 - 8 oclock......

just a thought chris,

cheers goerge, looks a good idea,

as for your response david you are right ,but is the distance enough,
dont know how far to take them people have given me mixed views on the distance, people have told me that 50 - 60 mile is needed dont know if this is true ?

When I was working on the powerwashing, I used to set off training at 4am, misty mornings my birds were tossed and home before I even left for work, and in the evening a quick 20 miles last thing, this made them work home as the the light was fading.

thats the trouble with this game chris time but as some have said you can rise 1 hour early get 15 to 20 miles easy and back or go after work 15 miles a few days then go to 20 1 night should be ok look at the other chris he dose it and he aint got a car cant drive well only us lot mad but you could fit a anticat trap

chris take them after work i work till 4.45 then basket them up and take them 10 miles there home by 6.15
mine have had 2 x10 miles chucks and had there first race today from 50 miles 7 out of 10 home so far but mine are on open hole cheers kev .

Cheers for the response guys, thanks

Chris I push bike 10 miles some day and let my birds go last year ybs when to 20miles at most and 2 2 races now there yearling I took them to footie with me 3 times at 12 miles they had all together about 10 training chuck as a yb and ayearling and they still homed to day from 75miles on there own as non of the race birds left the race point till about 3pm and there were let up at 11 am. So if you have to take them on a sunday to 10 miles and ur be fine

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chris just had a look in a Boddy &Ridewood catalogue it is a old book 2009 the price then was £28-95 code l076/b george

cost you about 2 quid to make a weighted flap i used to have one long ago and used to get my birds trained and thats what they came back to bird can get in but if a cat trys flap closes always a way sean

Took them 8 mile away this morning libbed all 16 of my old birds at 7.30 this morning totally clear blue sky , so far 3 hens back, how to loose 12 months work in one easy lesson

they be back chris they probley hit some race birds mate a lot held birds over till today

bad luck chris hope you get them back , but it was to early in the morn mate to cold
should have took them this afternoon when it warmed up a bit .
we had a race from 50 miles yesterday it was a cold NEwind and the birds took there time
i don,t train in the morn till about may time . good luck mate

Update , 7 back now out of 16

it wont have harmed um chris strong east in the wind today and as i said lots racing think you will see more before days out they will learn from it

The first three back were the three hens I had off ray peel, says it all don't it

Chris i have just got in from a days boat fishing it was strong NEwind can't believe you took birds training this morning you do need to pay more attention to weather forecasts is there no one you can share the training with george

Its all part of learning George, me being the only member of my family to keep pigeons means I will have more Ups and downs yet to come

Chris is there no one in your club who coul.d help you usually members are more than willing to help george

Not really George, tried to mix and mingle,they all know I am new seeing as I paid my fees last year but didn't race,as the intention last year was to get some y,b s and keep em back for stock this year, now I have bred off them I thought it was the right time to seriously think about training them,got that one wrong didn't I,

not really Chris you are a member here and there are those who would have helped you; were there no DVDS on Ians list you could have had or there was Ray did you say he give you some YBs its just 6am in a ne wind is not the best time for training just take your time and pick your days george