2007-01-23 11:24:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds
To train them u need to start with babies!!! you will need a flock of babies to have them return. The down side of this is hawks are predators of pigeons & doves the homing instinct is born in them. First start with short distance flights.your parent birds or breeders will do fine on these trips.But the babies need to be trained to immediatley re-enter the coop! Do not allow them to fly on full stomach if u feed am & pm flights should be day or early eves. feed them after a flight (lightly). then the rest later. they learn to relate the coop w/ food & water&clenliness.For long flights separate ur babies fm parents.
2007-01-23 11:55:13 · answer #1 · answered by Dotr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Training Doves
2017-01-20 12:53:55 · answer #2 · answered by sherrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, Doves don't have a homing instinct at all so you can't train them to return home. You have to get pigeons.
We train them to home by simply not letting them out of their house for a few weeks unti they recognise it as 'home'. They do not have to be young for this to work. To thid extent it is their basic instinct.
However it also depends on where you mean to home them from. Our flock is simply a free flying flock which only goes as far from their home as they feel safe doing and so have little chance of getting lost. If you wish to home pigeons from a greater distance you may have to do some more training. Try looking up articlae on the internet or even contacting a locla bird club. Good luck!
2007-01-23 19:37:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I raised Pigeons before and when they were full grwon they would fly off and be gone all day and show up in the evening to be fed.
I could pick them up and everything.
Raise them from babies and you will be surprised.
2007-01-23 12:17:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋