Racing Pigeons
Posted: 04 Feb 2012, 20:32
Racing Pigeons
Is there anyone in the area who goes in for ‘racing pigeons?’
The reason I ask is because as a lad in the 50s and 60s I lived very close to someone who kept racing pigeons. I could see the pigeon-loft from my bedroom window.
I never found out who owned them because the loft was beyond the end of my garden therefore the owner lived in another street of terraced houses.
I remember that the pigeons would be let out and fly round and round in circles or sometimes go round in a figure of eight. Then the man would rattle a can and they would all fly down back to the loft.
I remember I was gripped with curiosity but never found anything out about how they were trained to race and have wondered ever since.
Beejay
Is there anyone in the area who goes in for ‘racing pigeons?’
The reason I ask is because as a lad in the 50s and 60s I lived very close to someone who kept racing pigeons. I could see the pigeon-loft from my bedroom window.
I never found out who owned them because the loft was beyond the end of my garden therefore the owner lived in another street of terraced houses.
I remember that the pigeons would be let out and fly round and round in circles or sometimes go round in a figure of eight. Then the man would rattle a can and they would all fly down back to the loft.
I remember I was gripped with curiosity but never found anything out about how they were trained to race and have wondered ever since.
Beejay