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Re: Racing Pigeon Season/ Old Bird Season
Well Old Bird season is two weeks out, Old Birds are pigeons that are at least a full year old. Some on my Old Bird team are almost 5 years old, I use them on longer races, say from 250 to 500 miles. about two months ago I started letting them exercise around the loft, after being couped up all winter(not a pun) they were couped up. Racers love to fly, that's what they live for, the first couple of times you let them out in the morning they kind of more or less stretch their wings and laze around, after that it's all business.
They come out of that loft in the morning like jet fighters leaving an aircraft carrier. They make sure they are all in one big flock(I have 35 OB's) and they start to circle, it's really cool when they have a little wind, because they use it to gain speed, then they get higher and higher, until the look like ants up in the sky. They will play around like that for about an hour to an hour and a half. Some will drop on to the loft and want to go inside, a few will decide they aren't finished flying yet, and swoop over the top of the loft sitters and drag them back up for a few more laps. After that time they decide they need their breakfast and they hit the landing board and go in as fast as they came out. They eat like starving wolves, and then they feed their babies, the babies are called squeakers, because they squeak till Mom & Dad both feed them. After that they just kind of lollygag around the loft until it's time for their afternoon exercise & more food.
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