Droppers:                                              

This is a whole different story, often you may read that without good droppers, success will not be possible. For dropper they often use white peacock tails or ‘’Haagse Till’’ pigeons. Very loft/home steady pigeons that barely fly a whole circle around your house. They must be active and therefore hungry when the flying team has got to be tempted to come down to them, the more fluttering on and around the loft the better !!!

A small amount of droppers is already enough. Myself I also often use my in the loft staying tipplers as droppers by letting them flutter in the aviary. It is You who decides on if and when the team has to come down not the flying team. You’ll achieve this by training and yet more training. Seeing/hearing the dropper will be associated with feeding/food, pigeons are smart and will quickly get the hang of this game.

Even the flying hours will be extended by using a halogen building/construction lamp. This lamp (dark) flying as it also is called, can only be achieved trough training. Pigeons by nature are not suited for flying in the dark/at night.

By calling in your flying team later every day a little (by using the droppers) you will be able to let your team fly until dusk and even in total darkness/by night.

As owls they all together make their circles to land/touch down, as soon as the halogen lamp is switched on, together with the turning loose of the droppers !!

This may seem a hard job, but it’s really possible. I started this year with the lamp flying and  with success I can (proudly) say 18 hours and 31 minutes at the 29 th of may 2004 is really not something to be ashamed off !!

In our country (the Netherlands) they fly far more than 20 hours……20 hours and 29 minutes is the Dutch record. The world record is in name of Harry Shannon with his fabulous time of 22 hours and 5 minutes !!!

Maybe you get enthusiastic by reading this web site…………..

I really do hope you will !!!