Eduard shares a very nice movie with us. It’s about his very tame pigeons. Here’s a wonderful black 2008 female from his loft which is very tame. She is paired, isn’t hungry and she is outside the loft, but still, she loves the fancier.
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Male pigeons and their nest boxes (click to enlarge)

We often have a male that takes more nest boxes. This happens because its instinct tells him to find new places to build nests. You noticed that they do not like to lay a second batch of eggs in the same nest box, especially if the nest box is small. Also their current chicks disturb them and often even climb over the eggs. You can easily see that the males prefer to sleep in any other place than their nest boxes during the night. If the male finds an empty nest box and he gets to sleep there for 1-2 nights, he becomes the master of the box.
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I read a lot about electrolytes lately, and I tend to consider them a very useful product in this sport, during the racing season. However, there are some opinions against electrolytes. Some opinions that I found interesting are below.
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Is salt necessary in the loft? I hear many fanciers that they use salt and the pigeons love it. I’ve never used salt and my pigeons are fine. Why exactly is the salt necessary? We also know that the electrolytes might contain it too. The only reason I’m afraid to introduce it to my pigeons is that they might eat too much for the first time and I learnt that they can die if this happens.