Q and A (15-09-25)
First of all, don't start if your loft is not very well ventilated.
Perhaps the biggest disadvantage is that you cannot assess the manure.
The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, I thought. If that wasn't the case, I would have cleaned the lofts daily.
To recognize one big advantage, you have to put your hand on the ground cover late at night (whatever that is) and then on the bare planks. How pleasant one feels and how unpleasant the other. But the biggest advantage is that it is easier to get young on nest and especially on the bottom.
The urge for one's own territory and the will to defend it, is something that is inherent to all living beings. Up to Zelensky.
In nature films you sometimes see how animals fight to the death to defend it.
The ‘young bird specialists’ know how to exploit this.
HOW
The bowls with brooding pigeons in them move little by little closer together every day, or better yet what I did for Orleans, the race of all races.
That was to take the feeding trough from the loft and place pots around the bowls in which pigeons were brooding and feed in the loft mates in the pots.
You could hear outside how the breeding pigeons that felt threatened beat their wings furiously. And then you should have seen the eyes. They breathed fire.
Club members know how it had left traces of blood with some of my pigeons. If you can basket birds that feel so threatened…
OTHER EXAMPLE
You could read earlier how Koen Minderhoud managed to motivate his legendary Geeloger.
By the way, about feeding: Last week I was talking in my yard with Willem de Bruijn and Rik.
Willem: 'The mistake many make is not feeding enough. You have to let young birds grow out. I myself keep it oh so simple. My young can eat what they want and how much they want and after half an hour I take the remainders of food away.
