By Dacian Busecan
Photography Erika Busecan
Video by Dacian Busecan
Video
Everytime it rains and i am enjoying my
weekends in England it reminds me of an very good friend that used to race his birds not so long ago in a London based club with about fourty club members. His racing team was formed of twelve cocks raced on the widowhood system.All the races took part on the inland and as loft positioning he had the furthest distance from the release point in all races. Week in week out he would compete with his racing team achieveing very good results : countless 2nd,3rd,4th,5th prizes on his club where most of the fanciers would race their pigeons on the widowhood system. After a while a sort of dissapointment and frustration feeling settled in the heart of my good friend as he could not win the first prize no matter how hard he would try. We used to sit down together waiting for his birds to return from the races in the hope that one day one of his birds will win the first prize. He would phone me each time after he would get the results and his birds would always be there but never on the first place. Everytime i would visit my friend and have a cup of coffee together studying his birds i could hear a constant sound, his birds were sneezing, no matter the weather outside. Although i have previously suggested that this will be an obstacle
in winning the first prize and the air ventilation within the loft might be the cause, he would always reply that the loft
has been Standard made and he has treated his birds against respiratory diseases. The second week his birds scored 3rd ,4th
and 9th on a 200 mile race, and then i reminded him once more:
obstacle in winning the first prize and the air ventilation within the loft might be the cause, he would always reply that the loft has been Standard made and he has treated his birds against respiratory diseases. The second week his birds scored 3rd ,4th and 9th on a 200 mile race, and then i reminded him once more:
-Your birds are good but you have to improve the loft, and this time he agreed.
I have previously said it that humidity is an enemy to our birds health and as we can all see and feel in England we have lots of it. With a very little investment and a little bit of work my friend improved his loft as follows .
- the lower ventilation window was kept to only 1 inch opened ( almost shut)
His top widowhood boxes situated on the opposite side of the front openings were having a gap of 4 inch between them and
the ceiling ,this gap was filled on the back with net wire to stop the rodents for coming inside the loft .So the air circulation inside the loft was present BUT wrongly done.
Now the air came inside the loft through the low and high level openings from the front wall and continued its way out through the openings situated on top of the nest boxes on the back wall, and here was the problem which i have explained it to him.
to him .The air circulation was present but on the way out MUST NOT HIT THE BIRDS IN THEIR NOSES.The solution was a very
simple one, all he had to do was to install a 1 meter wide continuous thin plywood attached to the top of the nest boxes
towards the middle of the loft and the length of it was for the entire back wall.The distance between the plywood installed
and the ceiling was kept at 10 cm .
THE USE OF EUCALYPTUS IN OUR PIGEONS DIET
Natural Remedies