when the dopamine kicks in while you realize these birds are extremely calm; from their eyes, they're safe, protected, at home and with neighbors who are also all safe and humming along like them in a tiny bird hutch away from the dangers of the world. They look left, they look right, behind and it's safe. Too much ambiguous space is unsettling but too little is cramped. You found a very happy medium and it's cute how you took an almost Edo era aesthetic.
Very informative. I am just getting into raising pigeons and was happy to see this introductory video. I currently just feed the wild pigeons in my yard, but am thinking about building a loft and keeping a couple as pets. Thank you. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Awesome coup. How do you get your birds to pair with another if your choice ? We keep having nest mates try to pair with one another. My husband and I are new to keeping pigeons.
Interesting, I think that when I found my first pigeon he was about 2 weeks old (according to the photos of him I took) and it became a great pet, very close to humans, not afraid of them ( it loved me, but it used to peck me a bit sometimes), it was similar with my parents and my friends (I'm not sure, but I think that he was more agressive with males)... Later my friend gave me 3 pigeons, which started to fly just a few days later (so they were older than my first one), they were able to sleep in my room and come to my balcony, when I was alone there, but when I had guest, my family members for exemple, they were afraid, they stayed away.... It's not strange, it depends on the bird's age at the moment when it meets humans. If it happens when it is still a baby, it becomes a really domesticated animal.
If you raise say 30 scweekers a season , and you have little or now losses , what do you keep them all !!! The reason I ask is that the pigeon fraternaty local to me had no tolarace for anything but the fastest birds, the fate of the others was to break the kneck or to coin a phrase, pull it's head off , which in some cases that's what it literally ment,
Most people commenting great things here don’t understand the reality of raising pigeons for racing purposes.. these pigeons won’t have a good future. Please get educated and do research about the cruelty of racing pigeons.
They do live like Pigeons, I don't know how many pigeons you know but most don't fly around all day. They pigeons are let out of that loft daily and fly back by there own choice. If the conditions are bad in a loft they will literally fly away. The pigeons your refering to scroung around for food and eating cigarette butts all day. Your comment is so extreme but you really don't have a clue, and I am guessing you will never take the time to educate yourself on owning pigeons.
Obviously a comment from someone who's never owned pigeons. They are treated better then alot of dogs and alot are free to come and go as the please. There are no leashes on a pigeon yet they come back home. You should do some research on something before posting something like that. This lady obviously owns those pigeons because she likes pigeons, alot of time when racing them it's for no money you pay to be in a club and pay to ship them on races. Also if the pigeons hated where they were living or not treated will they literally fly away. It's not like a dog race where the dog can't run away.
@@wcmjohnsonchris I'm not saying their housing is terrible, rather, that it is cruel to take these pigeons miles away from their homes just to see who is the fastest to find their way back. They have that homing skill because they are devoted to their pigeon family. They marry for life and love taking care of their family and babies. People exploit it. Would a pigeon naturally fly miles away from home just to see if it can find its way back as fast as possible? I doubt it. Also, ever wonder what happens to the pigeons that don't make it home? Do the owners ever go looking for them if they love them so much? No, they leave them for dead. If a person finds one in their yard and calls the owner saying they found their lost or injured racing pigeon, the owner always says they don't want it back, just kill it. How is that love? It's the pigeon rescues that take in these "losers" and find them homes. And YES I DO OWN A PIGEON and it lives in my house and is loved dearly and I would never abandon it miles away from home just to see if it can race back. That is what's cruel.
@@Melissa-jb5zt I never said the word love in my post that's your words. Also that skill isn't because they love their families it's because they have been breed for thousands of years to have the ability to home. They use of a mate is definitely used as motivation but is not the only reason they fly home. You referenced them to racing dogs and I said they are not like racing dogs. There are no leashes in a pigeon loft. Also why is that cruel what makes doing that a cruel thing? Is it cruel because that's something that you read on the internet. There are breeds of pigeon that can fly over 20 hours in a row they are not taken away from there loft they are just released and they naturally do that. So what makes taking a pigeon that can fly for hours or days away from it's home and letting it fly. Also if you do any research on homing pigeons the owners of pigeons that fly that length are trained to do so and yes I agree that people will not pick up a lost pigeon and I don't agree with that it's a lazy way of removing a pigeon from your loft when it could be sold to someone like you who wants to keep it in your house. I am guessing you haven't bothered to train your pigeon to be able to fly outside of your house, so I am wondering why that isn't considered cruel to keep something that wants to fly indoors. I have Birmingham rollers and when they are let out to fly they will sometimes fly around my house on other days they will fly out of site for hours and come home.
Actually a lot of those birds are killed by predators, hit by cars, and die in the wild trying to get home back to their mates. (They mate for life.) They're domesticated creatures, and they can't survive outside human protection for long, if at all.
It's not cruel to let animals do what they've been bred to do for literally thousands of years. Keeping them as pets inside all the time would be more cruel. They don't have it any worse than wild birds.
Humans are rats with shiny shoes and shiny cars and shiny bank accounts and shiny guns. What's your point? Pigeons don't willfully commit atrocities and rationalize excuses for evil. Pigeons' motives are clean.
They become attached to their home in the shed snd feel safe there. As long as their nest is there they will come back. I know this comment is 7 years old but still
