Your big mistake is that you caught pigeons, you didn't let them come out on their own!

After you caught all of your pigeons you must put them in a cage in one month after one month you can release them and they will come back if they have a babies to feed don't push them to go back to the cage they will go inside on their own and you must feed them every day and you must watch them and talk to them your presence in the cage will be very important because your sense is they map for them to come home if they have go further distance this is my advice because that is the routine we do here in the Philippines thank you

Do not keep them closed. Open the door and let them fly on their own. Now that they have come back they will stay and fly around.

You should have never force them out!!!!

If your want pigeons to go out you cant push them to fly they must go out by them self

Not trying to tell you what to do but NEVER chase your pigeons out like that. Especially clapping to get them to fly. And especially when it's their first time. Keep them a bit hungry and let them out for the first time a little while before it's about to get dusk. Just before dark. Like an hour or so. Just open the door / door's and walk away.

In Egypt we let them out only 30 minutes before sunset so they sure come back before dark... we also put up a flag as a marker...

I feel you shouldn't have forced them out next time let them fly on their own and don't feed them that day until they come back then feed them so they want to come back

Late to comment but i have at least 10-15 different types of pigeon black, white and brown. I let them out but first before you let them out you chuck food on the floor to show them that you care and that even they go out that you will feed them and hopefully they should come back to you and in the cage as my pigeon the fly and come back to the cage all of them.

The only thing I can add to this is stuff that has been said. Keep them hungry, NEVER force them out. Yeah, if they've never flown outside? They get winded easily. Definitely make a fly pen/ screened portion that they can see in all directions before you try again. Hopefully, you got them all back and keep letting them out. Even if there's only half back? Those are your foundation birds. Good luck!

I lived in the country, rescued a pigeon with a broken leg. Kept her all winter, in the house. In spring , drove 30 mins away to release her where she came from, the city. Fast-forward a few months, I moved to the city. I started feeding the wild pigeons and one day she showed up. I know it's her . Her leg is unmistakable. She was a yr old when I released her . She's 5 now and still comes every day, with her mate, and last year her young one.

You should never force pigeons out and before you let them out you need to trap train them also never fly breeders

I put food in a cookie tin and when I feed them I shake the tin every time. Then when you fly them make them hungry and then shake the tin they will come back.

A general rule is if there not back by the third day there probably not coming home . You should make a nice big flight pen on the top of your loft . This allows the birds to see there surroundings in a relaxed state . Good luck for the future.

Love the pigeon vids. Just a few tips Bob, feed the birds about a tablespoon each bird for three days then on the fourth day open the door and let them be and then in the evening call them with the same whistle or call you normally use and feed them. Keep them slightly more on the hungry side and try to fly them more and more often they will be flying better in no time.

Oh no Bobby. You should never force them to go outside the coop, instead at least just let the door open and let the pigeons decide wether they go out or not and that way it's up to them if they gonna come back or not.

Add a landing board at front of loft going in where double doors are than they'll land on it walk into loft

This was a lil sad 😔

I learned from president of local pigeon racing club. Build a vestibule platform enclosure around their one-way entry that you can put them in hungry until they figure out how to go in and eat. Design it to fold down in front of the one way entry to function as a platform where they can land. This way, they know how to get back in their home well before they fly.

Never force them out, just leave the doors open, they normally go out a few at a time at the start and they know it’s safe to come back the way they left