The Difference Between Us
We had another great day racing, with temperatures at 11c and light winds from the North at 6km/h, the finish line was a little cloudy but the racers hurried home and finished well. Stay tuned until the end of the video for an "Insider's" tip on racing.(lol)
This link leads to a website I found was embedding one of our daily videos. It seems to contain a vast amount of pigeon related topics.
http://en.porumbel.net/page/2/
Here is a link to a YouTube video one of our friends submitted, it contains one of the best explanations on pigeon "eye signs" that we've seen so far. A tough topic to explain effectively, this fella does a bang-up job (well done).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqhukMrJVk&feature=PlayList&p=8F9975C00A84F69E
The next article has been pasted from our "About Us " page found on our web-site. It will ,in detail, explain the difference between us and the rest of the pigeon racing world. I would love to hear from more traditional pigeon folk on this one, so leave your comments.
I will sign off from here, please enjoy the article below
Glenn West
Thank you for your interest in www.pigeonpals.com As a club we all enjoy the sport of pigeon racing. Our goal is to share and promote our sport with others currently unable to participate with on line interaction. Our on line members enjoy the thrill of racing, the pride of ownership and excitement of winning. Please contact us or subscribe to our racing catalog and start playing with us.
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Pigeon racing is a very old sport being around for several hundred years. It began in the
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By comparison to other pigeon clubs , this is what do we do differently at Pigeon Pals and why?
1) Most pigeon clubs today are a group of pigeon breeders who compete with each other where the birds return to their own home loft. On the surface that sounds very simple however we have a problem with that concept based on total fairness. Since these breeders are spread around a number of miles, the club must do some math so that each birds speed can be equalized based on the distances traveled. So when birds break off the main route they travel in different directions to get home. The problem we see is those birds experience different wind conditions. Some might experience ahead wind while others might have somewhat of a tail wind and both affect speed. Some areas might experience rain where others did not. Some areas might be exposed to more dangers than others being hawks or hydro transmission lines. Our question becomes how is the race of this nature totally fair, in doing a math formula? It is like horse races on different tracks of unequal distance and deciding who actually wins based on speed. Therefore our races are all one loft races where the birds must travel exactly the same direction under the same conditions. The distance required to travel is the same for all birds in the race.
2) The local pigeon clubs must have longer distance races because the breeder lofts are spread out all over and they want to have races. Under this concept the pigeon race becomes somewhat of a test of endurance and luck opposed to speed. This in our view is more of a test in life itself opposed to actually racing as a competition in speed. In going beyond this somewhat, we see animal activist becoming alarmed. Normally in long distance races the birds are boxed the night before and taken to the club headquarters where they are handled for next day shipment for release which can take several hours of additional travel time . The birds become overly stressed, due to heat and cramped conditions while becoming dehydrated and hungry. In combination with the extra handling birds can sustain injury. By comparison the birds at Pigeon Pals are only handled once. The total time from catching to release is less than an hour in total. Thus stress, dehydration, hunger, and exposure to injury is significantly reduced. These negative factors can and normally lead to health problems In addition weather conditions do change, and why ship birds long distances and hold them over or return them back while calling the race off because of weather. At Pigeon Pals the birds already are back in the loft within an hours time of leaving with the race being over. This gives us a narrow window due to weather conditions to hold the races as expected.
3) While there are some others who hold one loft races for the most part they tend to hold much longer distance races. In addition those who provide such services to the breeders take shipment of birds from everyone who successfully enters their birds. This normally causes some issues since the birds might not be the same age or shipped with arrivals being spread out over days. Some birds will be stressed more than others and come from lofts with different levels of health standards and sanitation practices. Since these birds are shipped young the birds have had limited time to develop immunities to disease and remain very acceptable to such. By comparison we purchase our birds from one known source and we transport the birds ourselves within a few hours. The birds are all within a few days of age of each other. The birds are put in a clean loft as an all in approach with health precautions being implemented from day one on a complete isolated group.
4) At Pigeon Pals we race our birds consistently over the same landscape and the same distance. If you will, the race is somewhat over a very unique race track being from a low elevation point to highest point within the given area. The birds travel due north from the starting point and the prevailing winds are normally out of the northwest. Therefore the birds usually face somewhat of a head wind while being blown somewhat east of the loft destination . Due to wind conditions that do very, the birds are exposed to various degrees of difficulty when considering speed as the obstacle to winning the race. The race track is hampered with limited dangers such as high transmission wires etc. Other pigeon clubs race the birds over various distances which encompass many terrains from different directions affected by wind and weather conditions causing air currents and obstacles posing danger. During the racing season our weather temperatures tend to be rather moderate with days seldom reaching over 28 degrees Celsius. High temperatures during races can be harsh on the birds and the longer the distance the higher the stress. Such conditions combined could be a problem.
In view of the topics covered we feel at Pigeon Pals this is a very unique environment and concept of pigeon racing by comparison to other clubs within the same sport.
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