Trap training young racing pigeons (Part 1) and German shepherd puppy update

[@whitehouseloft5205]

You have a lot of beautiful young birds. Can’t wait to see how they fly. Thanks for sharing friend!

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks thomas and I hope things are going well for you!✌️

[@whitehouseloft5205]

@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons your welcome. Doing good. Hopefully my birds are about to start a second round.

[@pizzaaria]

Hi Mike birds are looking great 👍 the first time trap training is the most difficult and funny one. The puppies look great have fun and thanks for the videos 🙏😘😘😘

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

I always enjoy the funny things the young birds do and how clumsy they are! I hope breeding is going well for you ✌️

[@pizzaaria]

@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons it is always fun. They are on eggs and by end of March they should start hatching 👍👍👍😘😘😘

[@christoabraham6872]

Great video Mike. Patience will be rewarded. Great to start trap training early. Birds are looking great. 👌

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks, I can't wait for them to be ready to be let out but your right I need to be patient 👍

[@djcraftgaming7537]

Wow Beautiful baby pigeon 🐦👍

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thank you 🙏 I appreciate your comment 👍

[@coleridgelofts6804]

Nice video my friend...babies looking really good...im crazy over the pied colour with white chest baby..dogs looking good...stay safe🙏

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Right on my friend - thanks for watching ✌️

[@eclarinaltv.777]

good training on the trapings of your young birds😀😀😀 and the puppies are so cute😁😁😁

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

You are so kind 👍 Thanks for watching

[@arcee33]

Training begins.👍 The puppies look adorable.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks my friend 👍

[@kelvinanderson275]

Thanks for sharing Mike

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

My pleasure!!

[@andrelemelin2555]

You have nice puppies.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks Andre, glad you like them 👍

[@dulalhossain7855]

Nice pigeons

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thank you 😀 🙏

[@ronsag65]

Very nice results of your breeding program.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Nice of you to say, thanks 👍

[@burakloft568]

Very nice job on trap training. I do the same thing. The puppies are really cute. Keep up the great work my friend.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks, you too! 👍

[@burakloft568]

@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons thank you

[@Smokey.954loft]

That's a good job the trapping experience that's what I'm doing to my Birds so they can learn the Trap I let them out through the screen cage so they could come into the Trap ....I took them out of the small kickboxing put them in another pigeon Loft I made pretty big...but you for sharing the young one's are looking lovely

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks so much Smokey, I'm really enjoying these young birds. Best of luck with your my friend. ✌️

[@Smokey.954loft]

Thank you my brother 🙏

[@Smokey.954loft]

Your welcome my brother

[@danhunziger7300]

7:35 that bird is beautiful!!!! I appreciate all your videos!! Keep them coming!!!!!

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks Dan, very glad you like them. The father of that one is a Rocky Ridge white and the mother is a blue bar! They always produce real nice grizzles. Thanks for watching 👍

[@RichOnLife-1]

I shake a can because I can't whistle! I have thought about buying a whistle but we will see how my can shaking works. Looking good.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thats funny! they make a whistle for pigeons but its expensive at least the ones I saw. Ithink the can should work fine 👍

[@jaylee2016]

That full white with the black in his tail is beautiful.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thats half meuleman brother and its nestmate is the indigo believe it or not 😃

[@WinfortLofts]

Very nice looking birds and setup you have! +Subbed!!

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks Winfort I appreciate it 👍

[@fahimrachingpigeons2150]

Very NIce baby

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

thank you 👍

[@watkinspigeonloft6059]

That’s a lovely cheq young one you got at the start of the video mate, then young ones are looking great in the avairy mind aswell, fair play mate they were trapping good for their first time mind, they will get the hang of it soon my friend

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks Cameron 👍

[@QbanRockets]

Bro you have awesome birds. All those youngsters seem to be healthy and ready to fly. Good job as always and thanks for sharing. Where are you located?

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks for the nice comment, I live in South Carolina 👍

[@kamranniazi777]

Nice.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks!

[@stevhanhughes673]

Hi Mike, have you noticed that the pigeons are hitting their wings on the roosting posts that are sticking out at the doorway as the birds are coming in and down. I would worry that one may injure a bone or ligament by the impact of the wood in such a fashion. Please consider this. God Bless you and your lofts.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Yes I have noticed that Stevhan, What I have now is a little ledge that they walk in on and then jump so they don't have to do it all at once. You have a good eye - thanks for your comment 👍

[@MMIslamicMedia]

Thanks for this new video bro. I am a pigeon lover. live in NY, want to have a loft like this but don't have space. One question bro. do you sell some of those young ones? I want to have one or two pair in my apartment. Please let me know. thanks for the video again. I love the work you do with this birds.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Sorry you don't have space for a loft my friend. You might consider a small pigeon breed if you can't let them out but racing pigeons if you are going to let them fly. I will have some for sale later in the summer but am trying to build up my stock right now. Thanks for asking.

[@pirrgang]

They might trap better if the dont have to step up to the trap but they will get it. Good work.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

I think you are right about that. I will build it up and see if it helps, Thanks 💯👍

[@jobertpage-et1349]

I really like your youngzterz sir, nice tipz and trainingz...love off-colorz watching from ksa to philz. What are thoze bloodlinez anywayz, pretty cool yeah... Halu puppiez... four piecez only sir...

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks Jobert, I never seen a language that used z instead of s at the end of words - that's very interesting. Yes it was a small litter of only 4, my female is getting to retirement age. Thanks for watching. 👍

[@kamranniazi777]

Super

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

So nice

[@AndrzejiEwa]

hello friend You have very nice pigeons but also nice dogs. I have a question if your lofts are in the place where you live?

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Glad you like the pigeons and dogs my friend and yes the lofts are in my backyard 👍

[@AndrzejiEwa]

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[@aboomarkingloft7785]

Good luck for you my friend watching my channel

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thank you!

[@pigeonsplayer7755]

Super breeding

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

So nice of you to say, Thanks 👍

[@timspicer9691]

Young birds are looking good , when we flew the Van Riels and Jansens where our best! We won several races from 200 to 600 mile races , we raced out of the Baltimore area it was the Concourse we We’re in the Tolson pigeon club . Take your time with The young birds don’t rush them when you start letting them out let them get comfortable and play around the yard they will start flying to and from things you’re home pigeon loft when they start flying up in the air and bunching that’s what you want then they start traveling as a group when they start going away for a half hour or more that’s when you want to create them and start taking them on short tosses at first then increase the distance. When the birds came home from their training flight we used to use a light colored pigeon called a coacher , we would hold it in our hands flap its wings to get our racers attention then throw it to the board if you got had a good coacher it would sit outside on the board and wine pigeons flew over it would make a little loop around the yard and come back to the board that would bring our racers down then we could clock them we used to use big heads I think they call them now long faces good luck with the birds Mike looking forward for more videos keep me posted about the pups they’re looking great

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks for everything Tim, I'm just wondering when the first time I should let them out (best age) and in morning vs night and so on. Should I release all or just a few - things like that.

[@timspicer9691]

You want them going in and out on there on for several weeks, when you see There confidence building on going in and out of the Avery area ! We used to tie the traps open so that hole was open and they could fly in and out it will build their confidence and flying and landing procedures then when they all go out into the Avery start closing the Bob‘s so they get used to going in using the bobs sorry about the spelling but I’m using the microphone Mike you will see a difference in the birds in their confidence of flying back-and-forth then one day take the cage off the top and do it in the morning so they can fly around hopefully Hawks don’t show up but when you take the Avery off have the Bob‘s clothes so they can only go in and not back out again after they all come outside of course then close the Bob‘s so they can only go in

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

​@@timspicer9691 Thanks Tim - never mind the pigeons, you are building my confidence haha! During the day I have been leaving the bobs tied up so they can come and go and about half do it because some are just 4 weeks old still! Is it true that if you wait to long for the first release that they will have to much strength and fly away or to far and get lost? I lost so many on my first toss last year that I had to stop flying because I was afraid I wouldn't have any to breed at that rate! They flew for over an hour the first time out and not in a flock. It took 4 days to get 2/3 back in the loft. To say the least it was a traumatic experience for me as a new flier and made me wish I had never let them out at all.

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks for your help Tim I really appreciate this.

[@timspicer9691]

@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons it depends how your birds are doing when they were flying in and out of the trap with a little bit of confidence we always took the cage off and let them go out into the yard they would fly from the landing board to the yard mostly fall because they would do that spin around and then they’ll start flying to the house roof and back-and-forth and then they start going up on their own a little bit and that’s what you want you don’t wanna wait till they’re too old because then they’re strong they’re like a teenager they’re strong and cocky but they’re stupid so why they’re still that little bit of babies but can fly around and handle flight pretty good that’s when you wanna let him out and play or get cocky and you’ll see one or two that’ll fly to the ground and others will follow it then or fly over to the house roof or to another coop and then a couple others will follow Nico back-and-forth and you’re going to lose a few we always had a 20 bird race team but we always had 30 or 40 that were on the Reis team that we could pull from because you never know what happens hawks game people shoot them I seen a guy lose his whole team a bird he was training his birds out on the water he would take them outOn a boat and he turned them loose and they flew too low to the water in a wave took everyone of them under so he lost his whole team in one shot but you still want to let them out while they’re young and that way they don’t have any confidence to really go anywhere yet then they will start puncheon hopefully that helped and I didn’t talk too much I’m using the microphone again so you may have to cipher through this

[@chrismunro4385]

Hey Mike you live in warmer weather then I do, I think it's time to put some color into thoughes chicken legs of yours Lol!! Love the Video!!

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Very funny, see if I sell you and more birds! lol

[@kamranniazi777]

Good

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks

[@chrismunro4385]

Hey Mike I think I asked this already can't remember, what is the Spacing again for the perches in the loft with the young birds?

[@chrismunro4385]

It's sucks getting old lol

[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Yes I thought I answered that but that's OK old man. When I make more I'm going to go at least ten inches because it's a little tight the way i have them at 8"

[@MrHALFPITT]

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[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

Thanks Corey!

[@sumodvs17]

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Thanks for watching

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[@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons]

thank you ✌️

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