training pigeons

Hello All, If I purchase and breed white homers from a petstore (that have no history of flying) – can the young be taught to fly and return to the loft? There are some pretty homers for sale at a petstore near my home that I would love to use for dove releases, but the petstore clerk said...

When flying racing pigeons, what should i feed them? Should i give them food directly by hand feeding them directly follow by water? What food and how much water? Because it can be a long distance, they could get hungry and dehydrate along the way???

Hi All, I just got my first pigeon, he is fledgling right now, about 4 weeks old: I want to know what are some of the best methods of training a pigeon commands. These commands would be something like "Come to my shoulder" , "Come here". I guess this technique would revolve around...

I am not a pigon fancier, though I love to watch them and there are a pair of collared doves nesting in my garden. I work with really nice man who did not learn to read and write as a child - he is in his 60s now and I am helping him. His passion is his racing pigeons and I thought I could find...

i don't know if you have read my other thread but if you have, it would be helpful, but here it goes, should i start to train my young bird to fly now, or should i wait until she has settled down properly first, there is a pigeon fancier who lives in my town, has told me to train my bird by...

One year ago my loft was finished enough to get my first Birds. I got six in Mar and lost three the first time they got out. I then got three in Apr, three in June, three in Sep, and four in Nov. Of the 19 Birds I have six left. I lost four to Hawks and nine during training tosses. The six are...

Found this on Ebay. I'm not planning on buying.....just thought that the pages pictured were interesting. Mainly, the third one showing the route that 4 pigeons took to go home. In case you can't read the small print, the little round dots were where the birds were dropped previously, working...