how much birds you lost in the last three races

well just about wiped out with the last three races all been bad races here been far to much losses in our club in the last three races my self i have lost 22 birds cant believe how much losses theres been this year

down by 4 started with 24 got twenty left

thought so.

W/E 5/6/10, lost 1 from National Messac 1 from Combine Messac

W/E 12/6/10, lost 1 from Yelverton (dead in Plymouth)

thing is with this year we have had a hell of a lot of funny races esspecially the channel races, with poor returns across the uk (some area's a lot worse than others), add this to the constant N/E winds we have had for last months and the birds are not recovering enough between races

we have had 1200ypm races for last 6 weeks now and it takes it out of the birds, lucky enough we feed heavy so the birds ok, but even so if they make a mistake on the day you rarely see them again

rudderfett wrote:

thought so.

what does this mean iam confused .com

havnt raced obs this season, but am loosing a yb a day over the last week for some reason.....?

evening all , i started with 16 down to six thats over 6 races
no more than 75 miles racing down the SW route hawk infested
if there not here on the day i don,t see them again realy bad this season
for some reason .

I think this years racing has been good with North Winds as this has sorted the wheat from the shaft, it is better to have a few hard races than all blow homes and at the end of the season you are left with a loft full of pigeons which have not been tested, and the first hard race and they are gone

Just think all the south winds we on the south road have had compared to the north roaders now they are having a few easy races about time

ive 28 ybs and i know it might sound stupid but i will need to loose half of them by the end of the racing season, or ill be too over crowded...........

David the only thing i would say as it is your first year back push them hard to test them out mate

yes i agree don, will need to or im going to finish up with a loft full of birds which are no good...........or at least birds of unknown ability, altho either way ill be needing a big clear out of birds as the 10 breeding pairs i have will be too many to keep just for breeding from as they wiull never race.

It's all about selection mate

although fully agree with whats been written, you have also got to give yourself a chance. Firstly split your team in two never sending all eggs in one basket so to speak (hard lesson i learnt when trying to build a team down here)

Also not all birds perform as youngsters, after last year i gave the youngsters 4 youngbird races then stopped all cocks and majority of hens for race team of 2010, got to be careful with burnout with youngsters a lot depends on the type of racing you have, what you are feeding etc etc etc

Our youngsters which we stopped have performed very well this year, basically gained some good experience as babies and then developed well. They are now here to race as yearlings, 2yr old, 3yr old etc - your youngsters are your future

lost 25 round loft and training 12 darkness left, all back training for 1st time yesterday, it was 1st chuck from southwell 30 mile, 23 natural aswell just starting to fly theyre to be trained well for next year

Lightning McQueen wrote:

although fully agree with whats been written, you have also got to give yourself a chance. Firstly split your team in two never sending all eggs in one basket so to speak (hard lesson i learnt when trying to build a team down here)

Also not all birds perform as youngsters, after last year i gave the youngsters 4 youngbird races then stopped all cocks and majority of hens for race team of 2010, got to be careful with burnout with youngsters a lot depends on the type of racing you have, what you are feeding etc etc etc

Our youngsters which we stopped have performed very well this year, basically gained some good experience as babies and then developed well. They are now here to race as yearlings, 2yr old, 3yr old etc - your youngsters are your future

totally agree mark pushing your youngbirds hard is not the answer why burn them out after all youngbird racing is about giving them exsperience for the following year ,schooling them , after all they are you future race team

Mark your 100% right but as long as you school them right then everything will be o.k

But will say as long as you take care and feed plenty and not put them on rations they should be o.k

still not happy with my yb feeding, need to get it right for training and racing because if i dont i cant expect them to perform well........


can members tell me what they are feeding there ybs on, how many times a day do they feed and how much per bird.....?

thanks.

David the only way i feed my youngbirds was by the truff by the cup

Once the truff was placed on the floor i would watch the birds feed the first two that go to the drinker then i remove the truff as the rest of the birds are over feeding

I agree Don, for me it will only be once a day,after training. If the 4 to 5 bird go to drinker, i took away. The truff must be long enough, that everybody get an equal opertunity to feed. Some days they are more hungry than other days, that is where the drinker show you when to stop.

yes niel, i agree.....some days they are more hungry and the mistake i think i make is to feed the same amount regardless, ive found the weather plays a part in how much they eat too.........

yes it does david ,especially in this weather they eat alot less

welcome arthur

Will agree with you both Ray and David the weather can play a major part

been cutting the food down drasticaly over the last few days, birds seem to be responding now re trapping ets but taking a while to get them right........dont think coming off the dark has helped them, maybe confused them.....???

youll get there in the end mte just persiver with it paceants is a vurtue as they say