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1. Set Up Your Loft
Tap Get Started and enter your loft’s GPS coordinates. You can find these on your MyPigeons profile.
2. Add Your Race Data
Tap + Race and select the Evaluation List PDF(s) you downloaded from MyPigeons for your past races.
3. Analyze Performance by Wind Conditions ⭐
This is the app’s key feature. For every race you upload, the app maps historical wind conditions and matches them to each individual pigeon’s performance from the liberation point to your loft.
Over time, it builds a detailed performance history, showing which birds perform best in tailwinds, headwinds, and other wind conditions. This makes it much easier to select the right pigeons for upcoming race forecasts.
4. View Your Recommended Birds
Open Race Selection to see which of your pigeons are best suited to the expected weather conditions for your next race.
5. Back Up Your Data Regularly
Every week or two, tap Export Backup in Settings to save your data. This allows you to easily restore your information if needed or import it onto another device.
These are the finishing line coordinates used for all wind calculations. Find them on your Benzing SmartLoft page (My Clock).
Keeping your data safe on this device:
Installing adds an icon to your desktop/home screen, opens it full-screen, and helps the browser keep your data safe.
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Your data lives only in this browser. Export a backup file before switching devices, clearing your cache, or sharing with another fancier.
Birds you've removed from the active list. Restore brings them back to the dashboard; race history is always kept.
This app is free. If it helps you, a small contribution keeps it running and funds future updates. You choose the amount — thank you!
Secure payment by Payfast · minimum R5.
Wipe every race, bird name, hidden-list entry and loft setting from this browser. Cannot be undone — export a backup first.
| # | Ring Number | Sex | Colour | Arrival Time | Speed (m/min) | Status |
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Live map & forecast by Windy.com. Your area is detected from your internet connection (approximate) — change it above, pick a town, or choose a race liberation point. Needs internet.
Birds with a track record in the selected distance band get weighted higher. Birds without distance-band flights are kept but slightly penalised.
Add up to 4 birds to compare Tailwind %, Headwind %, Neutral % and distance performance side by side.
Build your own mix from loose grains and see how close it lands to a known mix. Amounts are just parts — use any unit (kg, lb, scoops); the result works on the ratio.
Compare with shop mixes: Versele-Laga ↗ · Natural ↗
Nutrition values are typical guide figures for clean, dry grain (sources: INRA-CIRAD-AFZ feed tables, USDA, pigeon-feed literature). Real grain varies a little by type, season and cleaning, so treat the result as a close guide, not a lab analysis. Not veterinary advice.
Work out a bird’s race velocity, or predict its arrival time from a target speed. Default units are kilometres / metres and metres per minute (m/min) — the South African race standard. Times use your device clock (SA time).
Velocity = distance ÷ flight time. m/min is metres per minute (the SA standard). “Arrival from speed” adds the flight time to your liberation time and fills the arrival field. A quick race tool — it does not adjust for wind or terrain.
A plain-language library of common racing-pigeon illnesses, the types of product used for each, and the benefits they aim to give. It does not tell you when or how much to give. Birds can have more than one problem at once. Always confirm the diagnosis, product and dose with your avian vet before treating.
Tap a disease to open it. Products are described by their drug family / active ingredient — never trade names. Your vet and the product label decide the exact product and dose.
What you may see: Yellow cheesy growths in the mouth or throat, trouble swallowing, wet mouth, loss of condition.
Products used: Products based on the nitroimidazole family — actives such as ronidazole, carnidazole or metronidazole.
Possible benefits: Aim to target the canker organism so the bird can swallow and feed normally and hold condition.
⚠️ Confirm the diagnosis and product with your vet.
What you may see: Wet or swollen eyes, one-eye cold, sneezing, nasal discharge, dirty wattles, head-scratching, a chest “rattle”.
Products used: A tetracycline (doxycycline), often with a macrolide (tylosin or spiramycin) or tiamulin / lincomycin; some products add a mucus-loosener such as bromhexine.
Possible benefits: Aim to clear the airway infection so breathing, form and the will to fly return.
⚠️ Confirm the diagnosis and product with your vet.
What you may see: Green, slimy or sometimes bloody droppings, fluffed-up birds, loss of condition and form.
Products used: Products based on a sulphonamide (e.g. sulfadimethoxine), or toltrazuril / amprolium.
Possible benefits: Aim to settle the gut lining so droppings firm up and the bird regains condition.
⚠️ A few oocysts can be normal — confirm with your vet before treating.
What you may see: Swollen joints or wing “boils”, one-sided lameness, twisted necks, green watery droppings, infertile eggs, dead-in-shell.
Products used: Products based on actives such as furaltadone, enrofloxacin or amoxicillin; paratyphoid vaccines are also available.
Possible benefits: Aim to tackle the Salmonella bacteria; vaccines aim to protect the team and stock birds.
⚠️ Stubborn and a hygiene risk to people too — vet guidance is strongly advised.
What you may see: Vomiting, slimy droppings, sudden loss of form, losses in young teams.
Products used: For the bacterial side: products based on amoxicillin, furaltadone or enrofloxacin. The adenovirus itself has no cure.
Possible benefits: Aim to control the bacterial overgrowth; supportive care helps carry the bird through the viral part.
⚠️ Often virus-driven — antibiotics only help the bacterial part. Confirm with your vet.
What you may see: Poor condition despite eating well, variable droppings, lost form, sometimes worms visible in droppings.
Products used: Products based on a benzimidazole (e.g. fenbendazole), levamisole, or praziquantel for tapeworm.
Possible benefits: Aim to remove intestinal worms so the bird can use its feed and hold form.
⚠️ A worm-egg count confirms the type — some wormers affect moult or breeding. Ask your vet.
What you may see: Slow or sour crop, “going light”, a whitish crop lining, poor-doing youngsters.
Products used: Products based on an antifungal such as nystatin (often given on feed rather than in water).
Possible benefits: Aim to bring the crop yeast back under control so the bird feeds and does well again.
⚠️ Often linked to heavy antibiotic use or damp feed — confirm with your vet.
What you may see: PMV: watery droppings, twisted neck, head tremors, unable to pick up grain. Pox: scabs on bare skin.
Products used: Vaccines are available for PMV and pox. Antibiotics do not work on viruses — they are only used if a secondary bacterial infection appears.
Possible benefits: Vaccines aim to prevent these diseases; supportive care helps a bird through an infection.
Vaccination rule: SANPO requires fanciers to vaccinate for PMV and Pox every year. Make sure you know the rules and regulations of your own organisation so that you stay compliant.
⚠️ PMV must be reported in some areas — follow your vet or union program.
The supplement types fanciers commonly keep, what each is for, and the benefit it aims to give.
Electrolytes + amino acids — replace lost fluids and salts and supply energy; aim to help a stressed bird back to condition.
B-vitamins (incl. B12) — support energy use and appetite; aim to maintain vitality and condition.
Probiotics / prebiotics — supply beneficial gut bacteria; aim to support digestion and a settled gut.
Brewer’s yeast — a natural source of vitamins, minerals and B-vitamins; broad condition support.
Apple cider vinegar / gut acidifiers + herbal teas — lower crop pH; aim to support gut health and water palatability.
Vitamins A / D3 / E + minerals / grit / calcium — feather, breeding, bone and immune support.
This page is a general library for racing-pigeon fanciers and is not a substitute for veterinary diagnosis or treatment. Medicines, doses and withholding times vary by country and product — always read the label and confirm with your avian vet. PigeonRaceAnalyser and Ahlers Loft accept no liability for treatment decisions.
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Hides from dashboard. Race history kept. Restore via Settings.
Percentile finish across races — left = earliest, right = latest.
PigeonRaceAnalyser was built by a South African racing pigeon fancier, for racing pigeon fanciers around the world.
Like many of you, I've spent hours looking through past race results, wondering which pigeons will perform in tough headwind scenarios and which ones excel only when the wind is behind them. We all have our favourites, but I wanted a way to make better-informed decisions based on actual race performance and weather conditions. So, I built PigeonRaceAnalyser to help answer those questions.
The app reads the Benzing "Evaluation List" PDF files that you download from your MyPigeons profile. Once you load your PDFs into the app, it automatically retrieves the historical wind data for every race, using the liberation GPS coordinates and your loft GPS coordinates to analyse the conditions each pigeon raced under.
From there, PigeonRaceAnalyser builds a detailed performance record for every pigeon, showing how they have performed in different wind conditions over time. It helps identify your true headwind grinders, your tailwind specialists, and the pigeons that consistently perform regardless of the weather.
During race-week planning, the app also displays the upcoming weather forecast for the weekend and highlights the pigeons best suited to those expected conditions. You can then generate and print a report sheet, giving you a clearer picture before basketing.
PigeonRaceAnalyser is completely free to use, and your privacy is a top priority. Everything runs locally on your own device. There are no accounts, no logins, and no data uploads. Your loft information, race results, and pigeon records never leave your device. The app simply reads your PDF data and processes it locally into memory, ensuring that your information remains yours and yours alone.
This project is built by a fancier, for fanciers, and I will continue adding features based on what the pigeon racing community asks for. I have added a grain feed-mix calculator, and many more practical tools are on the way to help fanciers make better decisions.
If PigeonRaceAnalyser helps you choose the right pigeon for the right race, then it has done its job. Better decisions before basketing can help reduce unnecessary losses and give each pigeon the best opportunity to compete in the conditions that suit it best.
Happy Racing,
Ahlers Loft
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Everything for this week's race in one place: the weather coming up, your top birds for the conditions, and a one-tap printable report sheet.
Live forecast by Windy.com. Pick a saved liberation / practice point or your loft. Add points under the dashboard weather panel. Needs internet.