add-on to pigeon coop

[mountaindogs]

My pigeons are multiplying and I need to add on to the coop. I currently have one 4x4x5 coop and one smaller 4 x 2x3 coop. The smaller coop was to be my flyers and the larger the breeding coop as it is much more secure and has 8 nest boxes, BUT all the pigeons just keep returning to the bigger coop :roll: obviously it is a better home. So I was hoping attach the one to the other and cut a door way for them. Will this work as an expansion? The details of how I would go about catching birds to train with might get troublesome...
Thoughts?

[topher40]

Fly your young birds for a week and leave the bobs down with the house you want them out of. Keep them open in the other You are going to have to restrict the older birds for awhile.

[ezzy333]

Fly your young birds for a week and leave the bobs down with the house you want them out of. Keep them open in the other You are going to have to restrict the older birds for awhile.

Bobs don't keep the birds out. But you do need to move the young birds to the small loft. But I like the idea of just combining the lofts into one.

Ezzy

[donne]

What I did was put a hinged down door on the inside from the coop to the aviary. I run the pigeons out of the coop into the aviary then close the door trapping them in there. Reach through the aviary door and catch them. The aviary is small enough for me to reach all the birds and is small enough to let half of me in and not let the birds get by to freedom. They don't like it, but they have to earn their keep

[isonychia]

you could just put your pairs in the smaller box and not fly them.