Smitty..your a world of knowledge. I appreciate you teaching the up and coming flyers .. I Have a friend like you. His name is Carlos Ramos he' has the best opal Laces I have seen, and flown... I appreciate people who share there knowledge .Ours is a dying sport. Appreciate you pop ...
I appreciate your knowledge and the wisdom that you're putting forth to our communities about the pigeon game. Very good information brother, keep the truth about the birds coming. Thx
Wow so impressed with your loft and kit boxes I have roller pigeons just started flying them again I would like to know if you sell rollers would like to buy a pair of the white checks what beautiful bird thank you sam..😊
Hey Smitty, thanks for sharing your knowledge first of all. You have touched on feed in 1 or 2 videos. Can you cover what you feed for, climate, breeding, stock, and flying? Why you feed what you feed? How much and when do you feed? Any supplements or additives to food and water?
Madison Wynkoop thank you Madison I will post a video to answer your question in the next few days thanks again for your support please subscribe and tell a friend
Hey Sam, Paul Windler here from New South Wales, Australia. Would it be possible for you to do a video on the various families that you keep and tell us what is your best perfoming one, others you are working on, what was your first family that you got. Keep the videos coming. Cheers Paul
Sam I just got my loft out Together this weekend. Still in the air on what I wanna do rollers or racer homers. It will the first time for me so kind of reaching out to see what u think. I’m trying to get experience with the birds before I get into it feet first. Let me know. I’ve been following you for a while now your channel is a great help. Let me know man thanks!
SelfRelianceBooks the sun pens have a large tray under each that can be removed when full the breakup pens have a grid that can be removed when needed also about once a month
Great setup and a very informative video. My question is about the individual breeding boxes. Do u let the birds out while in breeding season or they never leave the box?
Smitty it's obvious you've spent thousands of dollars building your lofts. Two questions , how much did it cost to put all that together ,and what do you do outside of raising rollers ? Hope I'm not being too personal, I'm just curious because your set-up is impressive and I've never seen anything like yours.Thanks !
Do you sale your pigeons? If you do not, where do you buy them from? We are just starting our pigeon coop and we need pairs to get started and lay eggs. Thank you!!!
I'm a noob to all this, A Pigeon flew into my open garage and landed on me, he looked sick, could barely fly, 1 month later he was looking healthy so I let him go & he keeps comin back, I feed him, etc. . . My Question was: I built him a loft, where do I get birds for it now? Where did you get all yours at? Great Videos, Im a fan!
The explanation of the three circular air holes was incorrect...law of normal air flow...hot air rises to the top thus will exit from the upper most opening...cold/cool air will be drawn in from the bottom (the three circular air holes).
Sam I'm from Nebraska. Use to Raise rollers & Modenas. I want to get back into it. I want quality birds and was wondering if you sell birds or know someone that has quality birds to sell. I wld like to start with 4 or 5 pair
quick question, I had two birds that laid 2 eggs I'm not sure how long its been but its been a while maybe about 2-3 weeks they stopped sitting on those eggs and now are sitting on another plate not sure if they are gonna lay more eggs but they aren't showing any concern to there previous eggs I don't want to get rid of them because I'm hoping they hatch but do you think they are any good if the parents stopped sitting on them?
Fidel Morado good question Fidel pigeon eggs take 18 days to hatch with continued incubation if the pair gets off the eggs for over 3 or 4 days without incubating the eggs they are dead discard them and they will lay again
Jose C I had the made any local welder or high school kid with a shop class can make them for you you could also have the made out of galvanized sheeting that tends to be cheaper than stainless
Hi Smitty, I just recently acquired my first breeding pair. The breeder I bought them from only gives them chicken lay pellets and said I only have to give them those pellets and nothing else except grit. Will that suffice?; as I am only going to breed pigeons, not fly them myself. Thankyou for your channel, really transparent and informative, totally awesome!!
Wow you’re breeding them lay Pallets will work just fine. Definitely make sure that they have grit but not for a flying birds just for reading I recommend you use grain if you’re going to fly Birds
I would try keeping them separate for at least a month all mails all females in a separate location where they cannot see one another and then putting them one pair at a time in a breeding box for at least one week before you put them into general population as pairs
Michael Moua my team is just coming out of the nest now BOPs got most of my kit birds early in the year as soon as I have a group up kitting and rolling I will thanks
hey sam, first of all i apologize in advance for my english, i am from Romania and i do my best to speak a good english . i breed high flying english tipplers and galatz rollers which is a national breed of roller pigeons . the loft is in the attic of my house and i have made the way in-out by removing the window and hanging a small cage on the outside of the wall so that the youngsters can see the area a few months before they fly out for the first time and in the same time all of them can have a daily sunbath. my question for you would be what should i do more to help them learning to come back at the loft ? because i am loosing most of them at first flight. also my cocks are sitting on eggs just 3-4 hours a day ( usually 12 pm - 16 pm ) and hens in the rest of the day and all night . is that normal ? thank you man, i like your videos very much , they are usefull for begginers like me.
yo mr. Smitty I have a question I'm feeding my pigeon 16% no corn I'm not happy with the performance can you suggest any pigeon feed for my flyers for better performance
Sam I need to ask some my rollers have gone down been sick and light I've treated for canker and sour crop I lost around 10 young squabs I have 5 most my birds been split up only 4 pair to split I only had 2 rounds I rebuilt my breeder so I'm splitting up for 4 weeks and re breeding any suggestions on these symptoms fluffed up looks down in it self runny poop thanks
Deborah Hernandez thank you Deborah that is an excellent question drinking small amounts of bath salt water will not have no effect on the birds but before you place a pan of water with bath salts in your loft make sure your birds have had all the clean drinking water they need this will avoid any chance of them drinking large amounts of the water with bath salts in it over a long period of drinking water with bath salts in it may do some harm to the birds so it is very important to remove the bath pan from the loft after the birds have cleaned themselves in the water keep in mind that dirty water also has lots of bacteria in it if your birds drink it is a sure fire way for them to get canker and other bacterial infection
There’s really no way to prevent it you just need to make sure that you have a fan on the inside that blows to the outside sucking all the dust and feathers outside
