This is a common practice within the Racing sport, irresponsable breeding produces to many birds,those that do not live up to the standards are killed, or entered into a race with no training, this is called basket culling, these birds then join up (if they survive) with the feral flocks and are mass poisoned.

So the next door neighbors released some white pigeons at their backyard lakeside wedding ceremony. While the other pigeons all took off, homeward bound I am sure, one of them made several laps around the lake before coming a landing on the roof of our house.

My girl friend is the one who started me with pigeons. Lately we went threw here loft and sold more then half of her flock she had to many over 100. She know has 48. Before winter she wants to sell half again.

Well it is two weeks away and we are ready. Our older babies are flying very well together and we know we have a shot this year. I'll let you know how they do and if we win or not.

OK, maybe it's really the owner who is in the news:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3351809a4560,00.html

I would not have guessed he was into pigeons...

Hey Lisa Phoenix did you find any pigeons? If you did what kind and what color where they if not I hope you deciede to do it. Pigeons can be allot of fun, but at the same time they can be a handful.

This is an up date on training for those who would like to know. We have started to let the adults out to fly with the babies that way they can learn to fly as a group and not all over the place. We are hoping this will keep them safe from predators but so far we have lost two but not to other birds but cars.

Does it take any extra training to teach pigeons to come home to roost at night, or is that just something they do naturally? Are there extra steps you take when releasing them for the first few time

Thank you for making this forum for pigeon lovers. I hope allot of pigeons breeders will us it. Me and my girl friend will use it to share stories and more. Thank you again.