kinkell 787 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Out on the wing(2009). On you tube with subtitles for the non Scottish 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kinkell 787 Posted January 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 This short film is about pouter pigeons and the sport of luring opponents pigeons to your doocot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 5,945 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 There's one called the doo men too. I want some of the Spanish ones that can catch ferals, the horseman weren't effective on them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 13 minutes ago, W. Katchum said: Watched that years back doo’s are good fun You keep a few don't you Don, I've always liked the tumblers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pesky1972 4,926 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Never kept them but a few mates da’s and granda’s did..., and a load of men in the surrounding schemes. Remember playing football on Sunday mornings and there’s be loads of doos in the sky. Another working man’s pastime that’s dying out. Sad. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NEWKID 26,094 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Never raced pigeons but used to have a loft as a kid, had tumblers and rollers...plus some smart looking fan tails etc... Hand reared a bird taking off the hen (was a good race bird) as a chick, called her Bo... my old man used to take the ferals out of the old buildings in town when he was a kid for his loft.... wish I'd got into the racing back then as a good mate of mine was in the local club and ended up running it years later....no time for it now... wouldnt mind a couple of doves around the place or some fan tails in a cote Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, W. Katchum said: Down to one mate I always try an keep best an jist now I’m back down to one cock bird( doo) an a roller hen for company till I get another hen bred off an uncle I like the rollers, had some good ones over the years, never really into the fancy ones had the odd one over the years, I was more into the normal tumblers, what do the doos fly like, how's the roller for performing, me brother got into racing he has some really good breeding, he keeps asking me to go in with him, I'm not into the racing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 9 minutes ago, NEWKID said: Never raced pigeons but used to have a loft as a kid, had tumblers and rollers...plus some smart looking fan tails etc... Hand reared a bird taking off the hen (was a good race bird) as a chick, called her Bo... my old man used to take the ferals out of the old buildings in town when he was a kid for his loft.... wish I'd got into the racing back then as a good mate of mine was in the local club and ended up running it years later....no time for it now... wouldnt mind a couple of doves around the place or some fan tails in a cote I had a couple of Indian fantails a couple of years back, nice around the garden 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 29,620 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Tried to set up the son of an old pal of mine with pigeons but he gave up on them when his birds kept getting massacred by Sparrowhawks.....so he got a Sparrowhawk instead Quote Link to post Share on other sites
si brown 8,486 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Didn’t realise how big it is in Thailand, know a bloke who goes over 3/4 times a year, he just got back last week and recons a winner landed 100k. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,159 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 6 hours ago, gnasher16 said: Tried to set up the son of an old pal of mine with pigeons but he gave up on them when his birds kept getting massacred by Sparrowhawks.....so he got a Sparrowhawk instead The return of the peregrine falcon round here ended the pigeon loft era, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pengelli 365 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 18 hours ago, Dougal McGuire said: didnt we all lol all part his training Katchum was that the doo shop upstairs from the pet shop at park head cross used to go to the doo sales there on a Sunday me and a mate looking for big pouter hens happy days 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pengelli 365 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Aye katchum used to go at night and do the swaps we used to buy big dyed hens bought one for£10 one night me and ma mate halved in for it fiver each strong money back in the day 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pengelli 365 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, W. Katchum said: Still only 15 quid a pair I’m sure unless your after some fancy Spanish birds or summat I stayed just up the road aswell so even as a we we used to go down, if there was any birds thats didn’t look the part an where left over we used get me for nowt like somebody said at the weekends when we were kids we didn’t the internet to keep us busy we were busy going from street to street watching the birds graft an tackle Aye mate to be honest the guy that sold us it probably seen us comingAye definetly better days made our own entertainment Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South hams hunter 8,816 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 16 hours ago, Greyman said: The return of the peregrine falcon round here ended the pigeon loft era, There's alot of them down here aswell but they keep getting poisoned according to the papers 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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