. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. APPENDIX G 315 HOW TO TRAIN HOMERS TO CARRY NEWS, by Alfred Lloyd. To obtain best results in condition and endurance in the flying game regularity in feeding and exercise is nec- essary. We generally fly the birds three times a day, about thirty minutes to a fly, for a week or so. After that we give them one hour three times a day. Our first toss would be two miles; the second toss five miles; the third, ten miles; the fourth, twenty miles; the fifth, thirty-five miles; the sixth, fifty miles; the seventh, sev enty-five miles, and the eighth, one hu
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. APPENDIX G 315 HOW TO TRAIN HOMERS TO CARRY NEWS, by Alfred Lloyd. To obtain best results in condition and endurance in the flying game regularity in feeding and exercise is nec- essary. We generally fly the birds three times a day, about thirty minutes to a fly, for a week or so. After that we give them one hour three times a day. Our first toss would be two miles; the second toss five miles; the third, ten miles; the fourth, twenty miles; the fifth, thirty-five miles; the sixth, fifty miles; the seventh, sev enty-five miles, and the eighth, one hundred miles. After that the birds ou^ht to fly one- hundred-mile jumps right up to five hundred miles. Of course one might take a bird from the loft and jump it to five hundred miles and have it come back, but it is simply a chance. I jumped one my- self from thirty-five to five hun- dred miles, but it took five days to get home. The above training applies to mature birds, but for train- ing yoimg birds it is different. Young ones should not be flown before the^ are three months old, and it is better to wait tm- til six months. There are more Homers whose training begins at six months than at three. Young Homers should not be given more than a hundred-mile fly for the first three tosses. The best way is, to give them tosses of three, five, ten, fifteen and twenty- five miles. After that, they can stand jumps from twenty-five to one hundred miles. The picture on this page shows an opening guarded with wires set where the window of the squabhouse generally is, or at the end of the flying pen. The bitrd pictured has just completed a flight and is about to push the wires further and drop down into the middle of the coop. As soon as the bob wires move out from a vertical position, the electric cir- cuit is made by the contact breaker and the electric bell rings to inform the owner that the bird has arrived home. Two cells of dry battery are shown in the picture, also the electric be
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