Taming pigeons

[peter]

To joel's question about if a tame pigeon will be really good it just depends on how good the racer would have been initally. it is not to good to get attached to a young bird becuase there is a good chance that once you start hard tossing them they won't make it back (taking them from 4-5hundred miles and releasing them one at a time about a 1/2 hour apart so they don't follow another home untill you get the amount of birds you want to keep over the winter and raise with the next year therefore always improving your stock).
But an old male that has already raced for 5-8 years will proably make it through the next couple of seasons so you would be safe in becoming good friends with it, but do be careful not to baby it b not training him as hard or not taking him on the long races.


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peter