Again, from your own link: "They are domestic birds, not raised to survive in the wild and, without the food and water that you are providing, he’d probably be dead already".
Of course all birds crap but a racing pigeon does most of it in its loft. For the last time, racing pigeons compared to rock doves are fed a special diet. They rarely 'eat out' away from their loft unless they get lost and yes, they do sometimes get lost. Generally speaking, a racing pigeon that gets lost or goes into another loft it is no good to its owner. Usually, if an owner contacts another owner because they have their pigeon, unless it is a particularly valuable stock bird for breeding, they are usually asked to 'nut it'. I don’t need to explain what that means!
We've had someone once fly over to the U.K. from Belgium to collect a lost pigeon from us and this was in the sixties when air travel wasn’t cheap. He took it back with him on a plane in a shoe box.
Rock and racing pigeons rarely go in trees and they certainly don’t nest in them so that link you put up will have nothing to do with racing pigeons. They are always in the pigeon loft each evening. Always. They just don’t stay out. Obviously you are going to get the odd example now and then but that’s no different to the example of say, a Frenchman that didn’t surrender to Hitler in the war. There must have been a few, surely?
I can now see how you become obsessed with transams posts - you are simply unable to let anything go so I’ll let you have the final say on this if you must because I’m done with educating you about pigeons. Be told from someone with 30 plus years of experience with racing pigeons and stop Googling for rare examples. Chillax!
Of course all birds crap but a racing pigeon does most of it in its loft. For the last time, racing pigeons compared to rock doves are fed a special diet. They rarely 'eat out' away from their loft unless they get lost and yes, they do sometimes get lost. Generally speaking, a racing pigeon that gets lost or goes into another loft it is no good to its owner. Usually, if an owner contacts another owner because they have their pigeon, unless it is a particularly valuable stock bird for breeding, they are usually asked to 'nut it'. I don’t need to explain what that means!
We've had someone once fly over to the U.K. from Belgium to collect a lost pigeon from us and this was in the sixties when air travel wasn’t cheap. He took it back with him on a plane in a shoe box.
Rock and racing pigeons rarely go in trees and they certainly don’t nest in them so that link you put up will have nothing to do with racing pigeons. They are always in the pigeon loft each evening. Always. They just don’t stay out. Obviously you are going to get the odd example now and then but that’s no different to the example of say, a Frenchman that didn’t surrender to Hitler in the war. There must have been a few, surely?
I can now see how you become obsessed with transams posts - you are simply unable to let anything go so I’ll let you have the final say on this if you must because I’m done with educating you about pigeons. Be told from someone with 30 plus years of experience with racing pigeons and stop Googling for rare examples. Chillax!
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