>>Moving flying cage of tumbler’s Training<<

This kind of competition keeps place with competition of European Union of Tumblers 
and no other Union has ever organized the competition of that kind.  At the moment, this kind of competition has been organized only by Roller Club of Serbia. The man who made up this kind of competition is HEINZ KORNFELD from Germany. He made the performance with tumblers in 1970. Kornfeld is also founder of Roller Club of tumblers from Germany /DFC / and EFU. In order to realise this kind of competition, we have to make moving flying cage (MFC).

Every breeder is allowed to choose the size, appearance and fabrics for moving flying cage. MFC has to be functional and easy movable. It is usually made of wire, wood,iron plate or in cobinations of mentioned fabrics. The size of MFC is dependent on transportive vehicle by which it is moved to polygon or  to the place of competition.it is put on the stative which must be 100 cm high, and it can also be put onto the car roof. Before training with young tumblers we need to have another training with droppers, because the well trained ones make 50% of success of flight.
With droppers, the breeder controls pigeons in flight, in case of extraordinary circumstances-attack of hawk, ugly weather but he also puts down pigeons with them after the time is off. Droppers are usually pigeons in white colour. When droppers are well trained and when they listen to the breader, we can start with the training of young tumblers. They are usually Birmingham roller, Mardin tumblers, Vrsac tumbler, Dunek, Wute ,Wamen etc.

While we choose young tumblers we have to be carefull to take them from couples of tumblers we have already cheched in order to have healty posterity for flight and tumbling. We need to be very careful with young tumblers, because it can happen that they pass the whole training, get used to MFC and after that fail at the competition. When we are sure that droppers listen to us, we take young tumblers which are freshly separated from their mothers, and we put them in separate place where we start to domesticate them. We need to start training with at least 10 young pigeons, because not all of them are able to pass the strict training, so we have to be ready to lose some of them. It’s desirable to have at least 6-7 well trained tumblers because the team is consisted of 3 pigeons, and we need to have substitutions because of unpredictable circumstances.
Before we let it fly for the first time, young tumbler has to be extremely calm and obedient when his breeder is present-to eat from his hand. Scared pigeons which show nervose are excluded from the training because they can’t become good competitors.
Young pigeons are always fed in MFC until they show themselves as good at the training, but later on, they can be fed in a separate place where they spend time while they are not at the training. Young pigeons look how we feed droppers from MFC in order to get used to do the same thing after a certain period of time. When they learn that, we take MFC at spacious meadow. Every training has to be kept at different location and ambient. After spending time at 4-5 different locations, we begin to let young pigeons at free flight, one by one, we mustn’t let all of them at the same time. During the first free flight, young pigeons should only stand on the cage, looking arround. Firstly, we let droppers, which are already got used to the cage, and after that the young ones. After a couple minutes we put just a pinch of food in MFC to make young pigeons jump onto the top of cage. We repeat that with all young pigeons for a couple of times, until each of them pass the jumping.

Next faze is letting out a couple of young pigeons together and their first free flight around the cage. As soon as they fly away, we let them make a couple of circles around the cage and after that we put them some food onto MFC where already stand hungry droppers and that is the sign for them to fly down. Every time we let them fly again, we prolong duration of the flight, so after a certain period of time they can easily fly down onto their MFC when they see the dropper.The next thing after passing training of obediance successfully is selection, during the autumn, at the end of training season. The most important thing in the first training season for pigeon is  its to be obedient which is possible with persistent and regular trainings. While we choose pigeons for tumbling, we use actual statut for competition for the breed we train, and its qualities. During first couple of months of training, it is recommendable practicing them very often, almost every day, and later on, trainings can be kept less often, but at least 3 times a week.We should make a lot of effort to change locations , just because pigeons can get used to only one location which is not the point, but for some time, trainings can be kept at the location which is the nearest from the house, even in the courtyard.However, once a week training should be practiced  far away from the house-in some other location.

Very important thing for pigeons’ well tumbling and flying, except tiring training and genetic potentional is also adequat food, which must be given to pigeons in strict quantities in order to achieve better results.For feeding them, we use training food , which consists of wheat-20%, sweet vetch-15% and  millet-5%.That is a dietal food but strong enough for pigeons to handle tiring trainings.They are fed strictly after training and with the presence of droppers in their MFC.Given quantity of food is 3-5 teaspoons, dependant on spent calories, training conditions… Strong food is food mixture which gives them strength very quickly, and it’s used only during competitions and after every second training-only one teaspoon.It consists of oil components in equal proportions- oil beet, hemp, mixture of food for canary birds, oats. Three days before competition ,we don’t let pigeons from the cages, feed them with only 50% of  training food and 50% of strong food -which they can eat as much as they like. At least two days before competition, we can give them vitamines in water.

Good team is consisted  of 3 pigeons.The thought that you can show your pigeons to people from all over the world, represents  advantage and challenge in comparison to classic way of competition-at home. Members of RCS train their pigeons in MFC for a couple a years, and they are competitors at every great competition.Since now, we have competed in Germany, Austria and we have organised two international competitions with MFC where competitors from a couple of european countries have gathered together.

Text is written by Vukasin Pejcic.
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