Disaster turned good

What's the worst thing or things you have done to your birds but turned out ok..I will start.. a few years ago we took our birds 20 miles away , ybs that is and all of a sudden the fog came in. Got one hen back after about 45 mins , we thought that's it no more . Got the odd one and 2 back and it was terrible . You couldn't see a thing then eventually after I think it was about 4 hours we got a batch of about 30.that was it no more but these ybs went on to win 7 races the following year, unbelievable.. it happened again not so long ago in a thunder storm and again some good birds came through..normally I am a good weather trainer and won't take any chances as I like you get ybs to first race ..we did lose a few but the best got home .never again though lol..whats your stories ?

peel bros wrote:

What's the worst thing or things you have done to your birds but turned out ok..I will start.. a few years ago we took our birds 20 miles away , ybs that is and all of a sudden the fog came in. Got one hen back after about 45 mins , we thought that's it no more . Got the odd one and 2 back and it was terrible . You couldn't see a thing then eventually after I think it was about 4 hours we got a batch of about 30.that was it no more but these ybs went on to win 7 races the following year, unbelievable.. it happened again not so long ago in a thunder storm and again some good birds came through..normally I am a good weather trainer and won't take any chances as I like you get ybs to first race ..we did lose a few but the best got home .never again though lol..whats your stories ?

This ones easy for me Ray it actually nearly brought a break up in my marriage etc with the heart ache it caused on my 3 young kids at the time here along with my wife. Kids, took a Big Big fancy to a baby un-rung race pigeon bred on the floor in the race loft which lost its parents in a race. They decided wisely, to hand raise it in the kitchen & keep it as a pet. Near human it was with what it would allow them to do with it over the years along with the wife etc. Any way Some bright spake not having any trapper type birds, decided to use it as a trapper by tapping one of its wings, so it could just fly so he thought at the time. Race bird comes I threw my decore I'm "every ones pet" & up up & away it went down into the valley here in a flash. Night fall comes, nothing to be seen any where, next day I roamed the valley in  the hope of just findind it type of thing so no one other than me would be the wiser . 3rd day comes around & it was confession day/time unfortunately for some one who thought he knew every thing type of thing back then & all hell broke loose in the house with verbal abuse & tears from the ******* clan here when I confessed up to my stupidity etc. End of the story 4th day comes, wife & kids went roaming the valley looking with our dog Ebony for their pet bird called Piepa. Dog runs off & starts barking, barking & there, sitting on a log beside the stream just waiting      was Piepa with a big smile on her face I suspect unable to fly up the valley back home. Tears were flowing big time by every one there at the time & I escaped a divorce type situation, thankfully by the skin of my teeth just. Final note, Piepa lived a most happy life here for the next 16 odd years & now rests under our lemon tree etc where very few birds have finished up so to speak in my time, being such a special type place here for only a chosen few.

Love that one!!!

halcanada wrote:

Love that one!!!

Wouldn't impress the Vanderbeel types I would suggest Hal as she had no value in money terms type of thing etc. But as we both know I suspect, money doesn't govern every thing as such which has a value in pigeon terms, or even maybe life in general .

Excellent knackered. Great story

great yarn oz ...

Cannot beat that one Knackered, you must have done a lot of washing up to before you could get a cuddle.

Myself, plenty of disasters that did not turn out for the better.


Regards.

A lovely post mate. It confirms what I often posted.
I went 60 miles one morning. Was a light mist or fog. I thought it would clear when the sun came out etc. It didn't and it was a thick fog at Oxford.
Any way I was wanting away and had never ever brought birds back regardless of wind / rain come what may. I phoned Barry as I also had his birds with me. I told him the score like. He said 'What you waiting for. Let them up'!
I ask the obvious and he laughed! 'Weer that will be no problem Roly, they will just rise up above it and BEAT you home still'!
How true! Many look sideways at the story, but it is true.

Been on many a training toss and got 30 Miles away and its been thick of fog just a light mist at home but the birds went up in it made no difference to them 28 minutes all home mind you that was when I was younger not now gone soft on them one mistake I made and never do again was to let the young birds out on a Wednesday evening when the mid week was going over lost half a team one night

Workmate non fancier was taking his daughter to Manchester Airport so asked him to take small basket of yearlings and put them up at Wetherby. He lost a bit time in traffic and forgot about the birds until he got lasses suitcase out the back of car at the airport. So he puts the pigeons up (big no no at an airport!) And it's after 5pm on the opposite side of the country. Non back on the night, .4 out of 6 next day, I reported near Leeds a few days later and 1 lost. He's a good pal and I told him the birds had a great chuck and all got home but made sure he understood about liberating near an airport and the prosecution he might have faced .

markevans wrote:

Been on many a training toss and got 30 Miles away and its been thick of fog just a light mist at home but the birds went up in it made no difference to them 28 minutes all home mind you that was when I was younger not now gone soft on them one mistake I made and never do again was to let the young birds out on a Wednesday evening when the mid week was going over lost half a team one night

Here's one for you 1982 got a team of 30 youngsters Saturday morning dad had not sent got home from work and thought clean the lofts and let the youngsters out

Now this is a team off youngsters that had been trained but not had a race anyway out they went flying round 10 mins and a kit of 2 to 3,000 pigeons come racing over the loft the whole kit was caught up with the birds going north

we only had 2 return Red Cock and a Cheq W/F Cock theses 2 pigeons flew the young bird programme and the icing on the cake was the last race Guernsey finished 3rd Club with Cheq W/F Cock the Red Cock is still coming

barnie wrote:

Workmate non fancier was taking his daughter to Manchester Airport so asked him to take small basket of yearlings and put them up at Wetherby. He lost a bit time in traffic and forgot about the birds until he got lasses suitcase out the back of car at the airport. So he puts the pigeons up (big no no at an airport!) And it's after 5pm on the opposite side of the country. Non back on the night, .4 out of 6 next day, I reported near Leeds a few days later and 1 lost. He's a good pal and I told him the birds had a great chuck and all got home but made sure he understood about liberating near an airport and the prosecution he might have faced .

Forgot 2 little stories under that scenario, about an old club mate etc here. Known as     the Beep, Beep man. Rush, rush type of bloke basketed his birds for a toss  jumped in his ute type of thing & went tossing to his favourite spot to release them . Unfortunately thou he left all his toss birds in his garage . Same bloke this year, went tossing again hilly type country arrived at the toss point, basket missing slid/lost off the back of his ute etc as he forgot to put the back up when going up a hill type of thing. Old dear nearly run over them but luckily she didn't & she then took them to the local police station, who then reported them to the ring secretary type of thing who then rang the bloke while he was at the toss point & told him where his missing pigeons were so he could just pick them up on his way home as such    .

MISTY wrote:

Cannot beat that one Knackered, you must have done a lot of washing up to before you could get a cuddle.

Myself, plenty of disasters that did not turn out for the better.


Regards.

True Wife here & my kids Misty have memories like an elephant etc unfortunately & often remind me of the stupid thing I did back then     & even today, I often get reminded of the heart ache it caused too them all.

Good one knackeroo
I can't think of one that stands out more than the multitude of others...

fieldwalker wrote:

Good one knackeroo
I can't think of one that stands out more than the multitude of others...

& here I was FW thinking I was the only one who had sh**e happening on a regular type basis as such Mentioned this one before here because it cost me a small fortune in dollar terms with what my birds did on toss so to speak. The memory bank here named it the Wallan disaster . Let my toss birds go beside a highway up country, birds headed north OK "wrong direction thou" then turned south "right direction" 5 minutes later into a gale of a wind. Unfortunately in their wisdom they chose the middle of the highway at ground level, crashing in front of my own eyes right into the oncoming traffic, sadly. Worst part thou 3 cars behind those that got hit, was a police car who stopped & gave me hell & an education on the finer arts of how to toss pigeons & where . Final note when I arrived home also & confessed up to my other half here & told her what the bill was going to be in dollar terms I got more wisdom thrown my way which was far far worse than I got from the coppers who were on the spot when the disaster actually happened .

Terry and nephew took their youngster birds 20 miles. Then a rain storm hit them big time.
Terry put his back in the car, Nephew let his up. All home safely.

Next day Terry let his out for a fly, the filled the baths with water for them. preparation for basketing that night for next day race. Needn't have bother, never saw a feather off them. 2 were reported after a week of so.

Daz wrote:

Terry and nephew took their youngster birds 20 miles. Then a rain storm hit them big time.
Terry put his back in the car, Nephew let his up. All home safely.

Next day Terry let his out for a fly, the filled the baths with water for them. preparation for basketing that night for next day race. Needn't have bother, never saw a feather off them. 2 were reported after a week of so.

Reminds me of one of the wizard types here Daz Tossed his birds for the first time from 3 miles lost 100 odd suspect maybe     he wished he had just stopped in bed etc .
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