They Have Two Homes Now
I have a pair of racing homers that I had borrowed from a fellow fancier in Mount Clemens, Michigan.  These birds are excellent parents and they had turned out quite a few healthy youngsters in a few months.  However, the male seems to think it's okay to have his own personal harem because he regularly mates with a hen besides the one that he's mated to.

I contacted my friend and told him I planned to return the birds.  He said fine--just let them go, they'll come home.  That's one great thing about homing pigeons. 

So last Wednesday I let them go.  And they looked like they took off in the general direction of Mount Clemens so I thought nothing further of it.  Then on Sunday they reappeared at my loft.  They had decided that my loft was now home.  Or perhaps the male likes having two wives.  At any rate, I was pretty surprised because I thought surely they were back at their old home in Mount Clemens.

So I talked to my buddy last night and he explained to me that in fact the birds had come back to his loft.  Apparently they stayed long enough to eat and rest because they were back there on Saturday and gone on Sunday.

I knew that during World War I and World War II fanciers trained pigeons to fly between multiple lofts.  I always wanted to try that myself to see if I could do it.  I just never knew that the birds would beat me to it.

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