WOW, I think the movie about Ad Schaerlaeckens rocks. I’m looking forward to seeing it!

This story happened for real and I will always remember it. A nice sunny day, but very cold. At 2 o’clock I went out to the loft and set the pigeons free for the daily dose of adrenaline (winter by the mountains, you can imagine). The pigeons already had a lot of hawk attacks experience and they were very fit. Seeing the raptor, they make a very tight flock and fly straight to the horizon extremely fast, leaving the hawk behind. This time, they already did the ranging 2 times and were getting back to the home area like little dots on the sky.
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Racing pigeons liberation
…during International Barcelona 2007

Photo credits: Ovidiu Petrea

There were several beginners that wrote me asking how to build the loft – how many compartments and how to split the birds during the season and off season. I will describe my first loft using pictures. Keep in mind that this is the easiest setup and as you evolve as a fancier you might want to build more rooms.
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I will add racing pigeons wallpepers here on a regular basis.

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Fanciers talk about the death of the racing pigeons sport. Is it coming to an end? There aren’t many kids starting with pigeons nowadays. What are the reasons?

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1. Too expensive?
2. Too much work & time consuming?
3. It’s not “cool”?
4. People don’t care about animals as much as the older generations did?
5. Computer games and other attractions?
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Ok, this is an article I really had to post. Since I have been working in the website development industry for the last 10 years and I have visited hundreds of websites of racing pigeons fanciers, I think my advices can be useful. Here we go!
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