I love all the UA-cam videos about racing pigeons that are full of useful information that makes the hobby and handling of racing pigeons very easy. I love you, Frank, your follower from Morocco. I apologize for the language, as I use a translator
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons yup really thanks brother, here in the Philippines barley is not common not like paddy rice so im gonna use paddy rice as you said its the same as barley..
I love your channel. I have never flown in club, will this year. I got good pigeons from reputable breeders. Would I stand a chance in a one loft race?????
I would not start with the big expensive One Loft Races but there are many you are able to test the pigeons at a reasonable price. You may want to enter the Convention Races and the Gulf Coast Classic also. You do not know until you try.
I feel it is best to start road training young. That is difficult sometimes with hawks etc. Once they are loft flying for 30 minutes straight it is time to start training carefully and slowly.
Thanks I enjoy your videos Question my first time going to race what I need to do to avoid molting the flight wing if we racing on beginning of September ? Thanks in advance
How long is your season? You can apply the Dark System so you so not have to worry about the molt or you can pull last two flights depending on how old the pigeons are right now. ua-cam.com/video/qdP_moSfWl0/v-deo.html
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons thanks frank our season for young bird start last week of September and we race every weekend about 7 races for young bird so by November we are done with YB i never try either way but I think I would prefer not to go with darkening system. Thanks again I will watch that video thanks a lot
I usually wean on Saturday or Sunday because I have time. Some are a bit older and some are a bit younger. When the feathers open under the wing it is time to wean them.
Hi Kevin, I am not familiar with the product and when I looked I could not find the ingredients. Not sure if this is something that will make a difference.
I have seen products like this over the years. I do not think most pigeons will have so much mucas come out. Maybe it has value. Seem like a lot of work but if it helps it could be beneficial. Maybe try on random half the team and see.
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons the product arrived yesterday I use it on nine birds eight birds had mucus in the nostril but little in the throat and they were shaking they heads and mucus was coming out.
Hi sir good day, how are you doing. We are from the Philippines and my husband JSA LOFT is a fan of yours. He's been watching your videos and we have a question. Is red rice good for pigeons? Thank you
hi, hope you are well. I have a question about the youngsters. I have 1-2 month old youngsters now. And our club training starts from September to October from 20k to almost 150km. And the race starts from November to December. I will start trapping training of the youngster by next month which is April. in your system after they learned trap training in the loft. Do you let them loft fly and how many times have you let them loft fly? or you don't let them loft fly? before you start self training toss? You said that when you start training toss them you didn't loft fly them. In my case, start from April to August during this months what should I do for the birds? Should I loft fly them? How many times? And how long?
I am sorry for the confusion. I was talking about my old birds. You must loft fly and trap train the young birds. The young need to go out to settle and break to the loft. Once the young are flying 30 minutes it is time to start the road training. You can go very slow in all directions and also loft fly. You can have your birds educated before the club training starts. See this video on Educating young birds. ua-cam.com/video/ZC1vv0u2TmQ/v-deo.html
Hi Frank, I list down my schedule for my race. Can you check it? Here's my schedules: January to March - Egg hatched April to May - start 1x feeding eat all they can / and start trap training/viewing youngsters June to july - let them learn to loft fly up to 30mins. August - Start self toss from all direction from 2km up to 30km October - 2nd week starts training up to 100km for mid toss. (1 day rest per 2 hours flight) November to December - Race start up to 370km Thanks Frank,
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons thank you so much on the information had my first race Saturday it was 125 mile race but I’m the farthest away my birds had to fly 167 miles and I took 14th place I also helped putting the other birds on the truck and you are right on how heavy a lot of the flyers send their birds thank you
I have seen this and I am not really sure what causes the blood boils. They tend to correct themselves. Has to be some type of minor infection or injury that leads to the body producing a blood boil.
Hi Frank, I want to start antibiotic free racing this year like you explained in your videos. I didn't gave any medication since july last year. Last week, the vet came to vaccinate my pigeons for PMV. I let him examine my old pigeons and in the droppings there was some light coccidioses. Should I thread them now because I really want to be antibiotic free ? Racing season starts here in Belgium in two weeks! Thx for your advice.
I would not worry about a little coccidiosis. The coccidia count goes up when they are stressed and then drops back down. Give a good oregano product and rest them for a few days and the cocci will drop. If they look excellent do not worry at all. I have not treated for cocci in over 20 years.
If you want the young to start flying and during training give 50% barley. I add barley when the birds are maybe three months old. Feed once a day all they can eat and let them leave some barley after each daily feeding.
Thank you for the video Frank . I have been darkening the birds from March 21 through June 21 but you mentioned in the video only 9 weeks , is it okay if I darken them only 9 weeks not 12 ?
It takes about 9 weeks for them to finish the body molt. See my darkening video below. You should keep them on the dark until half way through the young bird season. ua-cam.com/video/qdP_moSfWl0/v-deo.html
Siegles is out of rotavirus and no idea when they will get any. I have called foys, jedds, and global and they all said they do not carry it at all. Any ideas where I can get the rotavirus vaccine.
I am sorry about this. Most will sell out this time of year. There was a big rush on Rota/PMV after my video a couple weeks ago. Keep on Global so you can buy when it comes in.
Hi thanks for the info, I'm a bit late I'm about the fith race in and no one is willing to train with me is there any other ways I could get my birds to break@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons I have done your feeding program I'm getting about 1st and 2nd in the club every week but I'm getting about 12th to 20th in the fed because they are not breaking
Great you are winning your club. There could be some sort of location advantage for your federation. You should do much better as the races get longer and beat the Fed. Your pigeons will gain more experience by racing also.
Hope I can help. Watch my video series on feeding. This is the mindset that will change your results. Nearly everyone ships the birds too heavy for the races. ua-cam.com/play/PLfjpm1Kc9E0UkXcdnfTrnV_VKTkfNozbt.html
Organic compounds contain carbon which is very common. I use natural products and some have properties like antibiotics but I do not ever flock treat with any of the mixed antibiotics sold by Veterinarians and pigeon supply houses. My pigeons never get any commercial prepared antibiotics in a flock treatment like Tylan, Ridsol, Doxicycline, Baytril etc.
Organic Compounds contain carbon. I use natural products and some have properties like antibiotics but I do not ever flock treat with any of the mixed antibiotics sold by Veterinarians and pigeon supply houses. My pigeons never get any commercial prepared antibiotics in a flock treatment like Tylan, Ridsol, Doxicycline, Baytril etc.
Hi Frank, thank you for everything you do for the sport. I'd like to ask about pulling tail feathers. When is this done and is it similar to 9th and 10th flight where they cut the tip and wait about 2 weeks to pull?
I am sorry to say that I have never pulled tail feathers. If you do decide to pull the tail feathers to prevent tail feather problems during racing, only pull the center four feathers. I have never heard of anyone cutting the tail and waiting before pulling. If you pull a few at a time once the youngster is about three months old there will not be a problem.
I love all the UA-cam videos about racing pigeons that are full of useful information that makes the hobby and handling of racing pigeons very easy.
I love you, Frank, your follower from Morocco. I apologize for the language, as I use a translator
You did great and this is such a nice compliment!
Frank, Every video you make I gather up so much knowledge and information. Just so Awesome 💯💯💯👍🤙
I appreciate that! I am having fun with the videos and hope I can help a little bit.
Keep up the great videos Frank! Thank you
Thanks, will do!
Another great video, covering lots of topics. People should be watching again and again and taking notes.
I am having fun and thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
Frank as always it’s was awesome for me & a brilliant simple but practical system. And thanks for sharing your experience that gives me confidence.
Glad it was helpful. This game is not difficult and I hope you have big success.
Very informative and it makes sence👍🏾 thanks Frank
Happy you enjoyed.
my question is answered at 4:45 thank u brother
Hope I can help a little bit.
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons yup really thanks brother, here in the Philippines barley is not common not like paddy rice so im gonna use paddy rice as you said its the same as barley..
Great video Frank
Thanks for sharing your great knowledge with us
Glad you enjoyed it
i wish i could meet a fancier like frank
my young birds had developed young bird sickness what shall I do to sort it Alan Romford England
another great video and advise frank
Glad you enjoyed it
Great videos my friend its good to have someone like you very nice Person thanks 👍👌💯❤️
I appreciate that
Love videos frank thank you for sharing Barney Johnston from Greenbay Wis
Happy you enjoy. I am having fun.
always good to see a video from you!
More to come! Thank you!
Excellent video again.
Thanks again!
Great video. Thank you Sir!
Very welcome
Hy, i Play with the pigeons in Europe log distance with light feed light! Barcelona 1000km widow's! Not of 5 days jungles! Good luck! 😊
You are lucky to race in Europe.
I love your channel. I have never flown in club, will this year. I got good pigeons from reputable breeders. Would I stand a chance in a one loft race?????
I would not start with the big expensive One Loft Races but there are many you are able to test the pigeons at a reasonable price. You may want to enter the Convention Races and the Gulf Coast Classic also. You do not know until you try.
after the moult would 3/4 barley mix i/4 pigeon mix be ok for pigeons just resting ? thank you for your great videos
This mix is fine if the birds are finished with the molt. Just make sure you have plenty of minerals.
Pigeons gain stamina flying over the house and gain speed on the road
Very informative thank you. At how many months do you start training or let them out for the first time for a young birds?
I feel it is best to start road training young. That is difficult sometimes with hawks etc. Once they are loft flying for 30 minutes straight it is time to start training carefully and slowly.
Thanks I enjoy your videos
Question my first time going to race what I need to do to avoid molting the flight wing if we racing on beginning of September ?
Thanks in advance
How long is your season? You can apply the Dark System so you so not have to worry about the molt or you can pull last two flights depending on how old the pigeons are right now. ua-cam.com/video/qdP_moSfWl0/v-deo.html
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons thanks frank our season for young bird start last week of September and we race every weekend about 7 races for young bird so by November we are done with YB i never try either way but I think I would prefer not to go with darkening system. Thanks again I will watch that video thanks a lot
I feel you can pull the ninth and tenth flight if the birds are at that stage end of the season and no need for the dark system
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons thanks
Thank you for all the great tips just wanted to know at what age you wean your young pigeons to vaccinate them
I usually wean on Saturday or Sunday because I have time. Some are a bit older and some are a bit younger. When the feathers open under the wing it is time to wean them.
I think you are one cool pigeon operator 😎
You are too nice. I am having fun.
Good evening Mr mclaughlin Nazaline its a nose drop do you know anything about that product.
Hi Kevin, I am not familiar with the product and when I looked I could not find the ingredients. Not sure if this is something that will make a difference.
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons ua-cam.com/video/GJ3XvWtt23I/v-deo.htmlsi=itjVX1J8FmYL0QTL
I have seen products like this over the years. I do not think most pigeons will have so much mucas come out. Maybe it has value. Seem like a lot of work but if it helps it could be beneficial. Maybe try on random half the team and see.
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons the product arrived yesterday I use it on nine birds eight birds had mucus in the nostril but little in the throat and they were shaking they heads and mucus was coming out.
That is interesting. Hope it helps
Is Versele laga Champion a good mix if I loft fly my pigeons for at least 1 hour or hour and half 5 days a week before the race
Champion Mix is a great mix. If you mix in 30% barley they will fly with much more ease.
Hi sir good day, how are you doing. We are from the Philippines and my husband JSA LOFT is a fan of yours. He's been watching your videos and we have a question. Is red rice good for pigeons? Thank you
I am not sure about red rice. Is it in the husk?
hi, hope you are well. I have a question about the youngsters. I have 1-2 month old youngsters now. And our club training starts from September to October from 20k to almost 150km. And the race starts from November to December. I will start trapping training of the youngster by next month which is April. in your system after they learned trap training in the loft. Do you let them loft fly and how many times have you let them loft fly? or you don't let them loft fly? before you start self training toss? You said that when you start training toss them you didn't loft fly them. In my case, start from April to August during this months what should I do for the birds? Should I loft fly them? How many times? And how long?
I am sorry for the confusion. I was talking about my old birds. You must loft fly and trap train the young birds. The young need to go out to settle and break to the loft. Once the young are flying 30 minutes it is time to start the road training. You can go very slow in all directions and also loft fly. You can have your birds educated before the club training starts. See this video on Educating young birds. ua-cam.com/video/ZC1vv0u2TmQ/v-deo.html
Should I loft fly them twice a day or just once is enough for the youngsters?
Once a day is plenty. Even four or fives times a week is enough.
Thank you Frank 🙏. I will starting to use your system this year. I hope it works well for me. You're a great true winner 🏆
Hi Frank, I list down my schedule for my race. Can you check it? Here's my schedules:
January to March - Egg hatched
April to May - start 1x feeding eat all they can / and start trap training/viewing youngsters
June to july - let them learn to loft fly up to 30mins.
August - Start self toss from all direction from 2km up to 30km
October - 2nd week starts training up to 100km for mid toss. (1 day rest per 2 hours flight)
November to December - Race start up to 370km
Thanks Frank,
What’s the furthest you take your young birds out before the first race?
60 miles is about as far as I ever go. We start racing at about 125 miles.
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons thank you so much on the information had my first race Saturday it was 125 mile race but I’m the farthest away my birds had to fly 167 miles and I took 14th place I also helped putting the other birds on the truck and you are right on how heavy a lot of the flyers send their birds thank you
What causes blood boils on pigeons
I have seen this and I am not really sure what causes the blood boils. They tend to correct themselves. Has to be some type of minor infection or injury that leads to the body producing a blood boil.
Hi Frank, I want to start antibiotic free racing this year like you explained in your videos. I didn't gave any medication since july last year.
Last week, the vet came to vaccinate my pigeons for PMV. I let him examine my old pigeons and in the droppings there was some light coccidioses. Should I thread them now because I really want to be antibiotic free ? Racing season starts here in Belgium in two weeks! Thx for your advice.
I would not worry about a little coccidiosis. The coccidia count goes up when they are stressed and then drops back down. Give a good oregano product and rest them for a few days and the cocci will drop. If they look excellent do not worry at all. I have not treated for cocci in over 20 years.
Hi Frank, Just to clarify feeding young birds till they leave a bit of barley, is that a 30% barley mix or higher %?
If you want the young to start flying and during training give 50% barley. I add barley when the birds are maybe three months old. Feed once a day all they can eat and let them leave some barley after each daily feeding.
Thank you for the video Frank . I have been darkening the birds from March 21 through June 21 but you mentioned in the video only 9 weeks , is it okay if I darken them only 9 weeks not 12 ?
It takes about 9 weeks for them to finish the body molt. See my darkening video below. You should keep them on the dark until half way through the young bird season. ua-cam.com/video/qdP_moSfWl0/v-deo.html
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons thank you Frank I appreciate it .
Siegles is out of rotavirus and no idea when they will get any. I have called foys, jedds, and global and they all said they do not carry it at all. Any ideas where I can get the rotavirus vaccine.
I am sorry about this. Most will sell out this time of year. There was a big rush on Rota/PMV after my video a couple weeks ago. Keep on Global so you can buy when it comes in.
Frank, do you use Peeled Barley or the Barley still in Husk?
Barley must be in the husk.
Peas gives them the protien they need
I do have peas in my mix but not a high percentage.
Could you please tell me how to make my pigeons come on line because I am losing a lot of time because they are following the big drag of pigeons
This video will help you: ua-cam.com/video/ZC1vv0u2TmQ/v-deo.html Perfect body weight will also help your pigeons fly away from the competitors.
Hi thanks for the info, I'm a bit late I'm about the fith race in and no one is willing to train with me is there any other ways I could get my birds to break@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons
@@Anguszacpigeonraceing Try to work on getting the body weight correct so your pigeons can fly to the front and leave the others behind.
@@FrankMcLaughlinPigeons I have done your feeding program I'm getting about 1st and 2nd in the club every week but I'm getting about 12th to 20th in the fed because they are not breaking
Great you are winning your club. There could be some sort of location advantage for your federation. You should do much better as the races get longer and beat the Fed. Your pigeons will gain more experience by racing also.
Moroccan race become more strong then Europe one cz of hard weather there, it's the fact we should accept
Hi,
I am from India and i am a fancier of racing pigeon and racing them as well but not getting proper results, need your support on the same.
Hope I can help. Watch my video series on feeding. This is the mindset that will change your results. Nearly everyone ships the birds too heavy for the races. ua-cam.com/play/PLfjpm1Kc9E0UkXcdnfTrnV_VKTkfNozbt.html
Since you updated your vaccination schedule … I don’t see dates for booster shots 😮
Let me know where you are looking? On my website? I can correct this. Thank you!
So do not say thay you do not use antibiotics you use it from an organic position
Organic compounds contain carbon which is very common. I use natural products and some have properties like antibiotics but I do not ever flock treat with any of the mixed antibiotics sold by Veterinarians and pigeon supply houses. My pigeons never get any commercial prepared antibiotics in a flock treatment like Tylan, Ridsol, Doxicycline, Baytril etc.
What the vaccine?
I buy PMV/Rota Vaccine from Global. See this video for the first part. I show everything ua-cam.com/video/amRQHtmeRmo/v-deo.html
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The organic stuff that you use IS ANTIBIOTIC it is just not synthetic antibiotics.
Organic Compounds contain carbon. I use natural products and some have properties like antibiotics but I do not ever flock treat with any of the mixed antibiotics sold by Veterinarians and pigeon supply houses. My pigeons never get any commercial prepared antibiotics in a flock treatment like Tylan, Ridsol, Doxicycline, Baytril etc.
overcrowding
Hey John, The pigeons are all pushed into the back of one the section. The loft is 12' by 24' and I will use about 16' for the young.
Hi Frank, thank you for everything you do for the sport. I'd like to ask about pulling tail feathers. When is this done and is it similar to 9th and 10th flight where they cut the tip and wait about 2 weeks to pull?
I am sorry to say that I have never pulled tail feathers. If you do decide to pull the tail feathers to prevent tail feather problems during racing, only pull the center four feathers. I have never heard of anyone cutting the tail and waiting before pulling. If you pull a few at a time once the youngster is about three months old there will not be a problem.
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You are too nice. Thank you!