Are you looking to have major success with your Racing Pigeons? Frank McLaughlin will educate and entertain from his 50 years of experience at the top of the Pigeon Sport. Videos will enlighten the new and seasoned fancier to methods and systems that have worked for McLaughlin Lofts and many others around the globe.
Hi there Frank. Thank you for all the knowledge. I'm glad I found you. I'm from the Philipines and it's been a week since I've tried your system particularly in feeding. In three tosses of trainings of 120-140 Km, approx. 86 miles, it seems their speed increases and will keep doing your feeding/training system for a couple of months to see accurately it's impact. I only have ordinary birds I guess (not from champion families but from those who finished the race with no rankings),which I manually selected via eliminatation process selective breeding through the result of their performance since I don't have enough money for buying expensive birds from champion family. It's tough and sucks as I know it's a long process of selecting from clutches to clutches. Several cross breeding and elimination base on their performance before getting a some kind of super bird quality.. But I think you cannot go wrong choosing the birds based on their performance, science and a little of common sense rather than looking into the peds paper. Also, knowing you 'No BS approach' I'm happy to know that I'm doing the right way from day one when it comes to medicines and antibiotic. Not a big fan of those and as much as possible trying to stay away from those and want to challenge immune system whenever possible. Well, it's a science behind that most people (here) do not know. I'll choose hardy ones rather than those speed one but prone to sickness. Health is my main factor of selecting birds as we have crazy wet and dry climate here. Scourging hot upto 119 F° during dry season and crazy tropical rain and storms during wet season. Let me know your thoughts on what I've said here cause I'm going to listen intently from the words of the master. I'm checking every videos you have here. Stay wonderful and healthy being ❤
Hi Frank, I would like to express my gratitude for generously imparting your extensive knowledge of the sport. Your willingness to share insights gained over many years has not only benefited seasoned enthusiasts like myself but has also contributed to the growth and development of others. A mutual friend, Neill Migliore, flew under Lion Gate Loft, gave me super pigeons, and won several races. I would like to share with your viewers one thing that I learned from Neil that helped me from LOSING Young Birds on their first few short training tosses. He said to let my YBs out and fly around the loft as long as they want to get the vigor or energy out of them, and after they trap, take a drink and take half of the team on their first training toss. Let them sit in the basket and settle down, then let them out, and they will fly straight home. It's a suggestion that has worked for me. Thanks again, Frank Your friend, Dan Romanski
Hi Frank, I would like to express my gratitude for generously imparting your extensive knowledge of the sport. Your willingness to share insights gained over many years has not only benefited seasoned enthusiasts like myself but has also contributed to the growth and development of others. A mutual friend, Neill Migliore, flew under Lion Gate Loft, gave me super pigeons, and won several races. I would like to share with your viewers one thing that I learned from Neil that helped me from LOSING Young Birds on their first few short training tosses. He said to let my YBs out and fly around the loft as long as they want to get the vigor or energy out of them, and after they trap, take a drink and take half of the team on their first training toss. Let them sit in the basket and settle down, then let them out, and they will fly straight home. It's a suggestion that has worked for me. Thanks again, Frank Your friend, Dan Romanski
What you do mean by flushing? Some used to feed light feeds on return or give a laxitive like epsom salts. This is all a big mistake. Rich feeds, minerals and rest are best for recover.
Hi sir frank im from the philipines,can you help me how to handle my pigeon,how to recover step by step because my bird delay 2 to 3 days delay after the release day,because in the philipines the weather is not fair some area have a good day and some are rainy,on the release day many clubs have problem about the weather going to the house of every participant,some club struggle about the count of every clock birds becuase of the rain,my birds delay to 2 to 3 days to return home,can you please do a video how to handle this situation thank you frank❤
This usually is a mosquito issue biting and transferring pox to the babies. Where are the mosquitos finding active pox? If you can vaccinate all the old birds for pox the mosquitos will not be able to give to the babies if the old birds are immune. You may want to spray the nests with Permithryn to keep mosquitos away.
just so you know... if you have a bit more money to spend... at TSC (and other places) there is a brand of chicken pellet from nutrena? (never trust my spelling or memory) and one specific variety called "feather fixer" it has oregano oil in the pellets, is 18% protein i think? anyway i prefer it to the plain pellets, but yes it costs a bit more. also its cheaper to buy whole corn at a feed mill, BUT the corn at TSC is higher quality usually.
I let the birds take baths and they dry themselves. I leave the bath pan in for a couple hours. The borax stays in the feather and does not hurt one bit. I think it has a positive effect on the feather.
I have a question birds return back from race fly and they taste the air . They act like they eat something bad. Performance they is up and down. Is it canker or respiratory any ideas
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons yes it stops. I actually took a gamble and treated the entire loft with emtryl. You can see a insane change in the droppings. Let’s see this week we got 350 miles WTCM race they are expecting Head winds.
Hope you have some luck. Usually a canker treatment can knock them off form but if you have enough time from the end of treatment to shipping they will be okay. If they had high canker they would not have a chance anyway. Keep me posted.
If you enjoy watching your birds fly and fly effortlessly for long periods of time, feed 50% barley. You will be amazed. They will home much better also being more buoyant.
Hey Mr Frank ,, im jaime,, i live across the gulf,, in sothern Mexico,, i realy enjoy your videos,, all my friends flock medicate, but not me,, i have had good results , just medicating the sick birds,, thanks for your eforts,, and keep up the good work.
Thank you Frank, I have lost few birds due to canker and cocci few yrs ago, when I split up the cocks from hens yes Stress played a big part in that .The birds are altogether again except one pair in my smaller loft I am useing for stock birds! The birds I have left are all doing well I had used metronizadole but the birds were to far gone and sadly died.. Thank you for your very knowledgeable videos.
Cancer in the breeders and youngsters is not the same as in the race birds. You do not have to treat the breeders and young birds against canker. Their natural immunity will mostly develop well enough to keep them healthy.! Its a totally diff ball game when racing your birds hard.! It will be impossible to subdue the developing cancer to such an extent that they can perform at the top of their potential unless you treat them with a proper cancer medication before each race they are entered into.! It is not necc to flock treart the entire team every week or two though. If they are not all designated to race they do not get treated at all but when you select birds to enter it is imperitive that you ensure that the cancer level has been reduced to the lowest level possible in the days just before the race if you want to ensure the best possible chance of a winning result.! Flagyl does work very well but as cancer can also build up a resistance to one particular drug if used continuosly it is wise to alternate the medications administered periodically. I would just love to compete agains anybody that does not medicate their raceteam againt cancer weekly before a race.! It would be a massacre i can assure you.! When cancer levels rise to high the negative effects are very dettremental.! The metabolism slows down dramatically for a start. The food does not digest normally and often there is still food left over in the crop by the next day. Cancer also causes pain in the crop and throught that is very noticable when pigeons sit ruffled up and appear just unhappy. Flying at top speed is then totally just not possible no matter what anybody tries to tell you.! Unless everybody in your club, union or combine races birds without treating for cancer at all you will be annialated by the members that do manage and control cancer levels before each race.! This is the case world wide.!
hello Frank i have not treated my racing team with antibiotic last young bird season but i do weekly protected schedule except the yellow drop because it not sold here during the mid of race the apple cider vinegar was out of stock i tried lemon peel instead the result is quite satisfied me next month i have a new young bird season but the race go to northern part of the country Today my young bird team fly the second road training toss ok bye for now and thank you for your video😁
Hi Frank, I have been antibiotic free for one year. I don’t even have a need for antibiotics to treat canker. I have been using Dr. Pigeons “Trichocease” for many years. It’s sold by Foys and works awesome. It’s all natural and I give it to the birds once a week in the water. I can send a picture of the label if you’re interested. Thanks a lot for all the awesome information in your videos. Have a good weekend! John from Pa
when we had the heat wave (and i ran out of minerals too early)... i had some birds who looked stressed, and i thought maybe i saw something in the throat... so i just made a point of c hanging the water more often, adding vinegar more often, and yes i used yellow drops for a couple birds that seemed like they were not well. to this day i cant swear it was canker (my eyesight is poor, and i am not an expert at holding a pigeon, opening its beak, and peering into its mouth without letting go of the bird) but what i did notice was most of the birds never looked ill at all, and the couple "poorly" birds made a complete recovery.
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons i just hatched the 3rd baby from the hen you sent me and all I can say is wow absolutely top quality 🧬🏆 i have one that is around 60 days old and 2 more that just hatched 2 days ago thank you again 🙏🏼 for such an amazing pigeon the your staff van reets are my favorite pigeons they are just amazing 💪🏼😎
Great advice Frank thank you. What’s the best way to get in contact with you ? I have emailed but your probably to busy to reply. Just have some questions for you please Frank ?
I am so sorry for the delay and I did email earlier today. I wanted to spend some time to answer and I have been a bit busy this week. Hope you like the new video.
I am so sorry that all the supply houses sold out right after my video was published. You can buy the powder in the last link and just give the bird a little pinch of the powder in its mouth. jedds.com/products/metronidazole-capsules?_pos=2&_sid=f2d9ee49f&_ss=r jedds.com/products/meditrich-medpet?_pos=3&_sid=e05d5c7ce&_ss=r globalpigeonsupply.com/products/metronidazole?_pos=2&_sid=c08ae9ded&_ss=r
