The Light System For Racing Pigeons

The light system of racing young birds.

The light system for racing pigeons.

Get tips and tricks to help you start out the right way in this rewarding sport. As soon as the birds leave the nest adopt this system. A health program prior to breeding is followed. Discover the amazing world of pigeon racing and the secret life of racing pigeons.

Whether you use the dark or light system paul believes you must breed early to compete and his breeding season starts thanksgiving day. Keep the basket light. Adding light two weeks before the first race i make another change and put the birds on sixteen hours of light. Give the young ones time.

Long hard flights are a strict no if you want them to perform later in life. The birds wake to a natural sunrise but i turn lights on in the coop with a timer and then shut them off at 10 00 p m. The lighting system uses artificial light to increase the amount of daylight to trick the birds biological clock into making them mature faster. When the nights start to draw in around the 2nd or 3rd week in august put a light in the young bird loft and have it on from about 6 30pm until about 10 15pm.

Give them time to mature physically before putting a routine strain on them. The importance of his pre breeding program is to insure optimum fertility and for the reproduction of healthy young birds. Darkening system pre and post race season adding light two weeks before the first race i make another change and put the birds on sixteen hours of light. The darkening system uses the deprivation of light to also trick the birds into maturing differently.

Mick waterhouse a prominent english pigeon fancier sent me his darkness racing system. While you need to train the racing pigeons from a young age do not overwork them. From 4 00pm to 8 00am. Young bird training darkness system this system works best on birds born in january and february.

The birds will be in lightness for about 15 hours you can buy n automatic switch so it will. If you are a fancier regularly racing your pigeons you. Adjust to suit work but keep daylight hours to eight remove all light sources from the loft by using shutters curtains etc.