A mistake I made.

[Murray]

i was doodling around and found a short video of a bloke trap training his pigeons. It was quite unlike my own method, so I took note.
He had a box containing the pigeons, and a ramp a couple of metres long going from it to the bob wires. There was a little cage arrangement to guide the pigeons up the ramp to the trap as he herded them up.
Extraordinary!
To think that I have never in the nearly 60 years I have had pigeons ever, ever, put a pigeon through a trap, or ever felt the need to.
Mine have always gone out when they are big enough, and using their homing instinct, gone back in again.
And all these years, I've been doing it wrong!

[worm]

seems you have mine are placed out day there weened and all they want is in again then every day they go in quicker until they are brainwashed to get is asap if you fly round here your last simple as... there a fine line between racing pigeons and homing pigeons here they got to try to trap quick and we try insill that into them

[NeilA]

seems you have mine are placed out day there weened and all they want is in again then every day they go in quicker until they are brainwashed to get is asap if you fly round here your last simple as... there a fine line between racing pigeons and homing pigeons here they got to try to trap quick and we try insill that into them

Excellent
Mine go on the board while still yellow heads trap open if they go to walk the wrong way I use a cane to guide them most run straight in like there life depends on it ,then from 3 yards they get to the board and run in like something going to catch them stays with them as you say
Having seen how your birds trap Worm I think it’s a lesson for us all , and where you race they have to be like that .
I don’t race in a area as competitive as you but I can’t lose time like some lads seem to be able to get away with not saying that’s in Murray’s case at all just things you hear like lost a min and still won the race I think how is that possible

I have seen people take over a minute to call in a team of ybs and think it’s decent

[worm]

https://youtube.com/shorts/O8bJts2tO0U? ... jpS744Auxv

[NeilA]

Fantastic mate, well schooled at a early age

[MIL]

seems you have mine are placed out day there weened and all they want is in again then every day they go in quicker until they are brainwashed to get is asap if you fly round here your last simple as... there a fine line between racing pigeons and homing pigeons here they got to try to trap quick and we try insill that into them

I totally get where you're coming from Worm

When you fly onto allotments where there's other lofts around you, or a lot of lofts in one tight area (I could see 36 lofts from my back garden on a race day) then you learn a couple of things real fast.

1. You don't need to go to the Club to find out if you're gonna be in the prizes. You find that out within 60 secs of the 1st bird that you see

2. You soon appreciate the value of a good trap compared to a bad trap

I lost a race on a trap once (he went round once) - I swore it'd be the last time that happened.

[MIL]

https://youtube.com/shorts/O8bJts2tO0U? ... jpS744Auxv

Not shabby at all that Worm - very decent

Have you thought about trellis on top of the loft to stop them hitting the top of the loft?

I wanted em either in the air or down - not half way in between

It's not so bad if they touch the top and jump immediately but I couldn't tolerate birds just stuck up there.

That'd do my nut if that happened

[worm]

then they were learning to trap from flight they learn land on top and stay there your getting chased off and less food as others are eating they soon learn

[worm]

back in 2020 I think but same every year brainwashed they don't forget

https://youtube.com/shorts/56LreLoMp38? ... HAnkBSYEsY

[NeilA]

back in 2020 I think but same every year brainwashed they don't forget

https://youtube.com/shorts/56LreLoMp38? ... HAnkBSYEsY

Agree 100 percent worm