Widowhood box

[Buster121]

I used to mix them up a bit, take the bowl away and have them sitting on a block of wood in the box, or put the bowl in then show the hen, or put the bowl but no hen, or a handful of straw and the hen.....Now I don't think it made a scrap of difference. All it did was make work for me and a sleepless night worrying about it.
Widowhood cocks race to the loft and their box, absolutely.
The only thing I think is wrong, very wrong, is using jealousy, where a cock is sent away having seen another cock in his box. The pigeon can get so overwrought that he is worn out before they are liberated.
If a pigeon has had a few races and always finds his mate in his box, he knows he will this time too.

I did that once and never seen the cock again, it wasn't done intentially but every time I raced the cock when he returned another cock had taken his box so I tried letting him in whilst keeping cock whose box it was out, the end never to be seen again

[Diamond Dave]

Does open boxes encourage dominant cocks to try to take over the whole loft?
Then those that are not strong enough probably wouldnt come home if they were getting battered all the time.