Competitions among pigeons on the speed of flight or accuracy of delivery of correspondence are held rather regularly. To send there the pet, only one existence of a strong and fast bird insufficiently. It is necessary to teach her to be guided. To prepare a pigeon for independent flights it is necessary to begin early enough.
It is required to you
- - pigeon:
- - dovecot;
- - forage;
- - thin rod.
Instruction
1. Acquaint a pigeon with appearance of a dovecot. He has to know it not only from within, but also outside. As soon as your pet learns to peck independently, begin to let out him on a roof through pasture. Do it before feeding. It will not be able to depart yet and pigeons in general are not really inclined to change the residence. Walk can be finished as soon as the bird thoroughly gets hungry. Teach a baby bird to come into a dovecot independently. The best way is to allure him a forage. It is possible to use also a thin twig. But it is necessary to work with it very carefully, at all not to beat a pigeon. A twig it is possible to direct its movement only slightly.
2. When the pigeon a little gets stronger, teach him to fly over a dovecot. The baby bird already got used that the house him is waited by a forage. At first let out a bird only at the presence and do not allow it to sit down. There is a military and copular method of training according to which pigeons are held first locked up, and then begin to release for short time in ""nonstop flight"" for small distance. Act sometimes and with the baby birds who grew in the same dovecot this way. But it is especially important if in pack there are recently acquired adult pigeons who can fly away to the old house. If the bought adult pigeon already got to himself a female in a new dovecot, he will not get to anywhere. The first travel can be absolutely short. Let out a pigeon for several minutes, then allure a forage. Every day increase duration of "walk" on the next vicinities for several minutes and finish it till one and a half o'clock.
3. When you noticed that the pigeon already accustomed with the next vicinities and always comes back home, pass to longer walks. At first carry a bird of meters on 200 aside and release. Track that the pigeon returned. Gradually you carry away him farther and farther. Then take away the pet on distance in 2-3 kilometers from a dovecot and send home. Come back to a dovecot and wait when he arrives. Repeat this exercise many times, letting out a pigeon in different places. If you learn to get, for example, future mail carrier mail from any point home, accustom him to fly mainly in this direction.
4. There is also a method of free keeping of pigeons. The dovecot is constantly open, and birds can take off and come back when want. But it is necessary to pass to this technique when your pets already get used to come home from a roof. Adult birds in this case receive an excellent training when they go behind a forage for baby birds to long distances. The bait forcing them to come back home are in this case kids. This way is good when there is a lot of pigeons.