With some help from my friends..... here's the photo I was remembering.
It is attached. The photo was one of Stanley Ogozalek's and it's one that I
wrote about in an article on dropppers that I wrote a long time ago. The
photo shows the nice movement between the roofs and pens that the droppers
would required to make in order to catch their grains. This action is well
depicted here.
Hello Raul,Was visiting my old mate in forest hall and he had his birds out,
I waited until he dropped his birds, He drops his birds to a whistle, When
he wants them down he blows his whistle, and the birds drop in mins. How
this works is every time he feeds them he blows the whistle and that is what
there know whistle means feed time.
Barney,
Sorry to jump in, I use whistle along with droppers. Over the years I have
seen many lost birds comeback only on whistle. In 2008 the day I flew
15:33hrs (DQ'd wrong band year entered) one of my YB was lost 2 days before
was passing over the loft as my timer & I were watching the kit In he air. I
just whistled, YB bird made quick U-turn and hit neighbour's roof.
About yours and Jon's droppers which are just some of the best Wests I have
seen as far as looks and flying goes period. Do you like them to fly that
long because you enjoy them when not flying tipplers? The reason I ask is
with such an active flying dropper you may find the droppers taking the
birds back up when really you want them to bring the tipplers in.
My understanding of the use of a chatrie is as follows. The flyer realeases
his birds with out the Chatrie being on show. The birds take to the air and
fly however long they need to or are trained to fly. Then when it is time to
drop the birds the flyer raises the chatrie for them to drop to.
Hi guys, I was gifted a pair of Old German Owls & a pair of Chinese Owls
yesterday. I was thinking of breeding a few young birds from the German Owls
to try as droppers. Has anyone here used them for this purpose?
The Chinese Owls are of good quality,I will try breeding a few for showing.
My 10yr old daughter loves the way they look, says they are so cute & asked
Droppers should be active............ meaning that they just won't sit on
the rooftop motionless after being released. They should be able to fly up
and join the kit, providing that the kit is ready to come down and is flying
at a lower height, and by doing this bring the kit down to the loft. It is a
pulling action that is performed by the droppers.
About using y/b homers for droppers - I do not know if it's a good idea.
Homers are faster flying birds than tipplers... I prefer to use non flying
pigeons as droppers and I still clip their primaries lengthwise (I cut the
feathering along one side of the "feather stem" on about five-six
primaries). That guarantees the birds will not fly up and they make a lot of
