UkPigeonRacing

Murray wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 8:49 am I have started tossing the young birds. Some of them are up on their sixth and seventh flights, and had never seen a hamper. What with shifting and building lofts and homing stock pigeons, I've got a bit behind.
This is no good. They must be flown as young birds. So I have been tossing them every second day, today was their fifth one. We went out a bit further than I planned, looking for a side road with no poles and wires.
I found one, drove up half a mile to find a gate where I could turn around. I reckon it was 10 miles from home. Not a tree, not a bush, not a building, nothing but wheat stubble and wire fences. Ideal, I thought. Nowhere for a hawk to lurk out here.
They took a while and were very breathless and wild eyed when they arrived, but all in a bunch. You mustn't be dramatic, but I think they may have had a little scare.
I've been giving them heaps lately, tomorrow we might have a quiet day with only one fly. Then back to the same place the next day and further the next time.