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PyroJeffNic Regular user Alberta, Canada 161 Posts |
I went to an auction this week end and picked up 4 pure white homing pigeons that look like HUGE white doves. I also picked up 2 monk pigeons. I also got a pair of breeding cockatiels, a pair of breeding budgies, and 2 pairs of breeding doves. I paid under 100$ for all of them at "The odd and unusual sale" in Red Deer, Alberta.
Does anyone use homing pigeons? Does anyone have any ideas that I could use to produce or utilize them into my act with? I was thinking flyback.... But any ideas?
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
Flyback is not a trick. The pigeons are too large for anything but box tricks or Dove pans, the large size.
To have them learn to fly back to you just be the only highest point in the room. |
PyroJeffNic Regular user Alberta, Canada 161 Posts |
I was thinking producing, hand it off the an assistant and she running to the back of the theatre and send the bird to me.
Table steals my friend. Think outside the box...
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Darcy Regular user 128 Posts |
From what I know homing pigeons can be easily trained for return flight. Correct me if Im wrong but are those not what Lance Burton uses in allot of his illusions?
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sperris Special user http://www.Anti-Conjuror.com 881 Posts |
Not exactly, homing pigeons are a little more intelligent but take just as long to train. I've never heard of anybody using them for return flight, I know fantail pigeons are very smart and great for training. Back to homing pigeons, once they reach a certain age they commit suicide, basically they kill themselves for some reason.
PyroJeffNic, be careful with too many table seals because they may get repetitive and the audience will start to wonder why the dude is walking back to his table all the time right before he produces a dove. I've also seen some really poor table steals, one done by a particular gentlemen I'm sure we all know, that was just a terrible steal and totally gives it away. Keep it natural. sperris
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KSMagic2007 Regular user Missouri 200 Posts |
Tryo to keep table steals to a minimum as Sperris suggested. However, they are a great way to break up the monotony of coat steals if done well.
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PyroJeffNic Regular user Alberta, Canada 161 Posts |
Yeah I know. I was just trying to circulate different ideas other than just box appearances like wmhegbli suggested.
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latentimage Elite user No More Room In Hell.. 440 Posts |
Last time I read about it, Lance had like 10 doves and 60 pigeons in his act (thats how he gets all the cool flyback stuff). I personally only work with doves, but I would like to get some pigeons sometime. Doves don't seem to be the best birds for return flight.
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