Posted on 08/13/2020 11:58:53 AM PDT by buckalfa
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — More than 100 racing homing pigeons were stolen from a Greenville County home.
According to the sheriff’s office, 116 racing homing pigeons were taken from a home off Roper Mountain Road.
An investigation is underway and anyone with information regarding the stolen pigeons is asked to contact Investigator Burdine at 864-467-8293 or Crime Stoppers of Greenville at 23-CRIME.
Might make for a decent meal, I suppose.
LOL. Probably some animal rights nuts. They’ll release the pigeons to “save them”.
I’m betting 10:1 the owner gets his pigeons back....
Squab. Isn’t just for breakfast anymore.
Investigator Burdine?
That’s hilarious
Won’t they just fly home?
Unless the new ‘owner’ invests a lot of work into re-homing them (which isn’t always possible) that’s exactly what they’ll do.
“Won’t they just fly home?”
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If they stay at their NEW home long enough, will they think that’s the home to which they should return instead of their OLD home?
dove stew !!
Someone on the Pigeon Biz forum posted this:
Originally Posted by george simon View Post
Hi FADEDRACER, I have rehomed race birds.First thing you need to do is keep a record of who you got the birds from, so you will know where they would return to.#2 You must know where you are on the line of flight and where the people that gave you birds are located. I assume that you join a race club. You should have raised at least 2 rounds of young from these birds.The young would be trained and flying before you would even try to rehome the older birds. The reason for knowing where you are on the line of flight is important,When I rehomed all the birds that I rehomed came from one loft and he was 15 miles longer on the line of flight. After I raised 2rounds of young I let the birds lay a third round. On the day that I was ready to let them out I called the guy that I got the birds from and let him know,so that any that returned to his loft should not be fed or given water, and that I would pick them up that day.Well as I recall I had 10 -15 birds from him. first day only 4 birds went back to his loft WHICH I PICKED UP RIGHT AWAY AND BROUGHT HOME.The next day 2 went back and on the third day 1 and on the 4th day none.I raced these birds and even had a club winner fron that group. NOW AFTER AFTER TELLING YOU ALL THIS, HERE IS WHAT I RECOMAND DON,T TRY. as some said in one of the earier posts you have a lot to learn about pigeons. But I do wish you GOOD LUCK what ever you do. GEORGE
https://www.pigeons.biz/forums/f14/rehoming-pigeons-55460.html
I doubt that someone who actually has the resources to house that many birds properly would steal them.
Racing pigeons can be quite valuable.
And they can be retrained so they won’t fly to the old home.
Thieves would know better than to eat them. 100 racing pigeons? Could be the most expensive eating ever.
Insurance people must be having fits.
The racist pigeons were liberated!
Squab = roast pigeon But has to be about a month old.
Racing pigeons are stringy and tough.
On a lighter note:
The Carrier Pigeon Corps of WWII
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/carrier-pigeons-wwii.html
In February of 1942, a Royal Air Force Beaufort bomber returning from a mission over Norway was hit by German fire and ditched in the North Sea. The sea was freezing, and the men were unable to radio their position to receive help.
One of the passengers on the doomed aircraft was a pigeon named Winkie, who was let loose. Winkie flew one hundred and twenty miles to Broughty Ferry, a suburb of Dundee, Scotland, where she was found, covered in oil and completely exhausted, by her owner, George Ross.
Ross alerted the RAF, and they were able to determine the location of the crashed airplane by calculating Winkie’s arrival time with the approximate time of ditching and the wind direction. A rescue ship was launched, and the men were saved.
Winkie was awarded the Dickin Medal, a medal given to animals for “outstanding acts of bravery or devotion to duty displayed by animals serving with the Armed Forces or Civil Defense units in any theatre of war throughout the world.” Over thirty pigeons were awarded the medal for service during World War II.
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That’s Racist!
In WWI we had Cher Ami:
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