Numbers of birds.

One fellow shipped 316 or so. Belgium. AS site. But another fellow informs me Frank Tasker once sent 200 plus to a National.

halcanada wrote:

One fellow shipped 316 or so. Belgium. AS site. But another fellow informs me Frank Tasker once sent 200 plus to a National.

Same here Hal "chook farmer numbers" One of them here has the units "2 x 256 birds" delivered to his own front door type of thing in the early races, to make it easy for him. Big bonus for his Fed is it's a dollar a bird etc & as strange as it may appear here every one as such, is Happy Happy .

mark gilbert sends a few to

Exactly Darren - you hear about these people who won this BIG prize or won that BIG prize, but they don't tell you that the person in question sent TEN times more birds than anyone else did.

If most people send an average of 5 birds to a National race and one person sends 50 pigeons to the same race, then that one person has TEN times the chances than anyone else does, of winning big prizes.

Question - What is better a man who sent 50 birds getting first or second place or a man who sent 5 pigeons getting ALL Five birds back in the top 15 birds home?

I know which one I prefer.

Phil

Results sell pigeons. Yes the quality pigeon can come out ahead of the flock but with young birds, seldom happens. Single/double up training helps quite a bit. Also a large geographic area of fliers. Many fliers here ship 80 to a 100 plus. However, they usually win the shorter races. Longer races drag is not usually important.
But again, large shippers do keep clubs and Combines solvent. Federation here has another 300 plus miler this week. Up North Combine also, but different course. Easier. UNC also has the Big 400 next weekend. Would be 500 miles for me but not participating this year. Hoping for next year.

yes I agree hal, results do sell pigeons....and sometimes not all the facts are known, re birdage or the strength of the competition they fly against.

a good salesman, is not always as good a pigeon racer as portrayed...

David wrote:

yes I agree hal, results do sell pigeons....and sometimes not all the facts are known, re birdage or the strength of the competition they fly against.

a good salesman, is not always as good a pigeon racer as portrayed...

Last quote David Reminds me of the Face book champ here "spin & bling type" who walked in with 3 baskets "half empty" on thursday night & announced that's it I'm finished for the year after about 6 races. Bred 4/500 birds, now empty loft etc & anything that comes home today I'm only too happy to supply a super duper pedigree as such           if one wishes to be quick & looking for a special bargain     & tend unfortunately to be on the unwary/dumb side of life . Enough said or I may just talk about his close mate down the road as such "my mate" who is in a similar type situation I suspect .