Greyman 28,441 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 2 hours ago, W. Katchum said: The bops will only weed out the weak an do your job for you if ye serious, atleast that’s what I was brought up getting told get em out, if you wanna bird to sit indoors an look at get a canary my ole uncle’s used to say, if it gets caught by a hawk or another dooman it’s not one you want back anyways I live alongside the m5 on the edge of a massive industrial estate and I could walk to at least 10 perigrine nests the furthest being about 7milles away probably a simular number I’m not personally aware of, they also hunt all night due to the amount of light pollution so you would need an absolute Rambo of a pigeon to get through that lot unscathed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 28,441 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 16 minutes ago, W. Katchum said: Folk do so it’s happening mate, I get sent vids all time of birds evading the falcons, why ain’t the feral pigeons extinct ?? Yeah they will catch some, but the good uns will get away most the time an once they passed there genes into the yb’s who cares if the falcon gets em? Breed an fly more birds to take the losses into consideration some t he m fancy pigeons I understand as they can’t fly for toffee but the smaller birds that are out all time have just got the play the game, it’s nature It’s the ferals near me that attract them but there are so many they will never really put a dent in them, I can go in the garden most days and see peregrines circling right up high even see them drop into stoop quite often, think your right when you say the better birds will escape but when I was a younger man there were no peregrines so it was a predator they had no defence against , as generations go on they will inevitably learn to avoid them to a degree, the same thing is happening with otters and course fish , it will take a few generations of fish to learn that otters are dangerous, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South hams hunter 8,922 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 10 hours ago, sid g said: same here my mates packed up the racers gone into show racers . he did ok at blackpool jh goddard My family still keep pigeons but have gone into distance birds because they take less train so less gauntlet runs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) Edited January 30, 2020 by peterhunter86 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 45,459 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 3 minutes ago, peterhunter86 said: Nice Pete 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dytkos 17,800 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 hour ago, peterhunter86 said: t Very tidy mate, never been into pigeons but remember the set ups the old boys used to have on their pens (allotments) world away. Remember always used to see a pigeon wagon going away from my town when I was a kid. Cheers, D. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, dytkos said: Very tidy mate, never been into pigeons but remember the set ups the old boys used to have on their pens (allotments) world away. Remember always used to see a pigeon wagon going away from my town when I was a kid. Cheers, D. They belong to my younger brother pal, he has a couple of cracking lofts, I'll get some better pics up 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 28,441 Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 I got this one but he’s not very fast at all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pengelli 371 Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 19 hours ago, dytkos said: Very tidy mate, never been into pigeons but remember the set ups the old boys used to have on their pens (allotments) world away. Remember always used to see a pigeon wagon going away from my town when I was a kid. Cheers, D. Mate of mine has some good distance birds only enters the long races 500 miles plus France think he flown some from Spain too got to take your hat off to them takes a lot of hard work and dedication to get them right think the Chinese are into the pigeon racing big time as well now mad money changing hands 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 minute ago, W. Katchum said: Long time ago i was stil swimming about me da’s sack ffs I wasn't even a dirty thought in my old lads mind back then Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 15,939 Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 On 29/01/2020 at 18:15, pengelli said: Katchum was that the doo shop upstairs from the pet shop at park head cross used to go to the doo sales there on a Sunday me and a mate looking for big pouter hens happy days When I used to go to Celtic often , I used to get orders from the lads here to go pick up young uns , or drop ones off . If I had the time or the space I’d be back at the pigeons bother. Loved every minute of my childhood at the loft or doing that thing only pigeon men do where they see a loft and knock to see them 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South hams hunter 8,922 Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 22 hours ago, sid g said: seems a long while ago now around 1975 bird had just been clocked in from berwick came 3rd won a few races then i lost him @ 4 year old from the nantes race 600 mile ... Nantes is only 250 for us Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 22,838 Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 My first pair of pigeons were big daft looking things, think they were called dragoons but I might be wrong. My dad kept rollers and some high fliers that I'm sure we're called cumlets? He also had some tiny things with little beaks. We also had a gay pair of pigeons, they even looked gay with little curls all over em, think they were called frill backs. I keep thinking I'll get some Birmingham rollers again one day 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said: My first pair of pigeons were big daft looking things, think they were called dragoons but I might be wrong. My dad kept rollers and some high fliers that I'm sure we're called cumlets? He also had some tiny things with little beaks. We also had a gay pair of pigeons, they even looked gay with little curls all over em, think they were called frill backs. I keep thinking I'll get some Birmingham rollers again one day The ones with the little beaks could of been Chinese or African owls or figaritas 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 Few pics of the young birds 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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