Comments on: Roller Pigeons

By: GuesssWho

GuesssWho — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:09:54 +0000

@Sara: Yeah, he did say that in the book didn’t he?

By: Nick Siders

Nick Siders — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:42:50 +0000

What are the herbs used to avoid attacks of BOP on my birds? That would be very interesting and there are a lot of people who would be interested.

Again, I want to reinterate that the rolling is not a defect. It is a trait. Birmingham Rollers will shut the roll off when being pursued by BOP and if they go ferrel living and flying with common pigeons will cease rolling. It is a trait that is born from a ressesive gene. That is why not all Birmingham Rollers roll and if you breed them to a non-rolling breed the roll is sometimes lost.

It is not a defect! It is not a siesure. It is like the hunting dog points or sets….a trait.

Thanks,

Nick Siders

By: PAUL DERSCH

PAUL DERSCH — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:55:15 +0000

It amazes me how IGNORANT some people are.If you don’t know anything about a subject,please don’t be so fast as to show us HOW ignorant you really are. I know that the hawks are a protected bird.Their needs to be checks and balances.The hawks have no preditors to control their population.Too many BLEEDING hearts out here.We need to get back to a means of control.What ever happend to the natural way of doing things??

By: Harry Ashcraft

Harry Ashcraft — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:29:32 +0000

Ive been in pigeons 60 yrs,racing and roller pigeons,most of the answers i see, are from lack of knowledge,pigeons are the oldest sport known to man,they are the only animal that can see ultra violet lights, the only animal that can hear ultra sonic sounds,can return home from half way around the world,have saved thousands of our soldiers lives,these birds are in every war. they are now being used to spot people lost at sea,because of their keen eye sight,they are used in England to fly blood samples from hospital to the lab, in minutes,it takes over on hour the old way,by car.Man has bred them to fly longer,and faster,some have even arrived home after dark,think about that, flying in the dark,wow…As for the rollers, man has developed and bred these birds to spin with controlled activity and patterns,and for you guys who want more info,look up other acrobats such as Donak,pigeons,Parlor Rollers,Tipplers,Galentez rollers, Moriscar rollers Whittingham rollers,I can name many more birds that perform,if need be,So if a member of YOUR family was ever in the ARMY ask him or her about the Signal Corps, they may have a little info for you,these are the guys that handled the birds.These birds are very intelligent they are doing great things,so DONT be too quick to judge,WHAT HAS A HAWK DONE FOR YOU TODAY?

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:13:59 +0000

You can use herbs to stop birds of prey attacking you kit.

By: Nick Siders

Nick Siders — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:16:23 +0000

Trait is the proper description. It is genetically locked into the bird as a recessive gene.

I can also understand the desire to protect thier property. I believe that is a natural reaction; they just need to find a legal way of doing it. They also need to change thier habits and learn the habits of bitds of prey and do what they can to avoid attacks and radicate the bird of prey’s habitate and concealment. They also can seek permits to capture birds of prey.

By: Higgins

Higgins — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:38:08 +0000

Dennis – take another look at the article above. I believe you’ll see that I am not painting all roller pigeon breeders as hawk killers. I’m sorry if you got that impression, but it’s not supported by the text. The article is focused on Operation High Roller, which targeted a specific subset of roller clubs, and this is clearly explained above.

As for whether the tumbling is caused for seizures or because the birds want to do it, I’m not an expert — however, the popular consensus on the issue (at least on the web) appears to be that this behavior is indeed caused by seizures. Do you have any data on this issue, either way?

By: dennis

dennis — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:52:11 +0000

this whole article is crap people who raise rollers vary from physicians engineers law enforcement military personnel and scientist and i can back that up but for people to say these bird have a gentic defect and have siezures to my knowledge there is no scientific proof to back that up and how could you sincronize a siezure these birds can control when they roll cause when one rolls it causes a reaction and they all start to roll and pigeon breeders breed for depth velocity and consistancy not for siezures and hawks do attack and kill our birds its not right to kill or trap hawks but people should get facts straight before passing on a bunch of crap and making pigeon breeders look like a bunch of hawk killers were not all alike

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:57:00 +0000

The true idiots on this site are the ones that took everything the Feds. had to say as gospel, instead of doing some research on their own.
Sid, you say keep them inside or move somewhere without Coopers’ hawks. This statement is truly ignorant and could have been avoided with a little research. These birds are bred to perform in the air not in a cage. Hawks migrate so no matter where you live, you do not get away from hawks. Coopers’ are only one of the hawks that attack our pigeons.
To condemn something that you don’t take the time to try to understand is a sign of total ignorance.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:33:03 +0000

Am I the only one who immediately heard Hannibal Lecter talking about “Deep Rollers” and how if both of Clarice’s parents were deep rollers she was going to hit the ground and die?

Just Curious.