2021 YB Auction Live

YOUNG BIRDS 2021 AUCTION
November 1st, 2021
The auction of the RPRA One Loft 2021 Young Birds opens on our dedicated auction site at 11am this morning and will run until Wednesday 10th November. The provisional list of birds being auctioned can be downloaded here, the lot numbers being determined initially by the birds’ finishing places in the Final Race. Please note that lots may be withdrawn by owners entering the Yearling Race, and other lots may be added for late returns.

Additionally, there will be 10 lots of birds from RPRA One Loft Manager, Jeremy Davies, for sale.

You will need to be registered on the site to be able to bid online – just follow the detailed instructions on the home page. By registering/bidding you agree to accept and abide by the Auction Rules. The usual site terms & conditions apply.


https://auction.rpra.org/

looks like the winner of the final has gone into the yearling races ........

our bird has turned out a nice type ...looks like his sire ,strong as an ox lot 305 page 17 in the auction

oldstrain wrote:

our bird has turned out a nice type ...looks like his sire ,strong as an ox lot 305 page 17 in the auction

thats what i was going to ask darren, which lot number our bird was ..........

looks a lovely bird darren, very nice type and stance ..........


https://auction.rpra.org/auctions/one-loft-young-birds/lot-305-gb21d03675-blue-cock/

i think this pigeon of ours, deserves as much credit as our other birds in previous years, even though it was out of the prizes, when you think of what it has been through and the crazy training / racing it has endured to make it home ..........yes, this pigeon is no less worthy than our previous entries .

agree david, never got a fair crack at it really

Can't fpr love or money believe the incredible stupidity of keeping the birds in, let alone training.
Proved absolutely nothin! No yard stick whatsoever. Just a lucky time in on the day.
Out side of a little Pize money. they might as well just called it a breeder's BUYER! J.M.O.

is there any need to have the rpra one loft young birds on darkness, after all they are all in the same boat, and racing to the same loft ..........whenever we saw update videos the birds were either pecking on the grass or sat on the loft roof ........sometimes we saw a bunch of birds exercising, yet we never saw them all exercising .

i dont think the birds on the whole were exercising / flying that well around the loft , when they first went training, thats why so many were lost so early on.

ive also found dark ybs caan very easily become lazy, they do not want to fly or exercise, and also they are very interested in pairing up , rather than flying .

Think oldstrain has done the syndicste the best anyone could and better than most,
we have had an interest in every trainer and all up to and including the final, many were without an interest from day one.

As for the manner the pigeons were dealt with, I think no one can give so many pigeons an ideal means of being healthy and fit.

But darkness, in my opinion helps nothing, the less a pigeon is confined the better the chance of it being both healthy and fit.

An open loft all daylight hours would be a better means of having fit and healthy pigeons.

Going up and down all day even if for short flights around the loft makes a pigeon fit.

They do not need short training flights they know their way home.

Every training toss is risk taking, obvious solution only have those that are necessary and not in sight of the loft.

Think the numbers in the final is clear indication, THINGS AIN'T RIGHT.

However,glad I have not to look after so many from so many different fanciers.

 
And thank you oldstrain.

Regards.

David wrote:

oldstrain wrote:

our bird has turned out a nice type ...looks like his sire ,strong as an ox lot 305 page 17 in the auction

thats what i was going to ask darren, which lot number our bird was ..........

Looks as though he has had a hard time and gone through the mill, moult not going so good, both wings and tail have suffered along the way, makes one wonder if some are sent when they should not have done. 

Having gone through the mill think it would be a bad decision all round for both bird and syndicate to put into yearling farce.

Regards.

yes they are in the moult now but looking at the shredded tail and primaries left it has indeed been through the mill ,a full brother to this was sent by a ex member racing north and they did very well with the bird and should have topped the open with it but they lost 4 minutes trapping it was still 2nd and a sister was 2x 1st club and 1 x 2nd club for another local fancier and both still in there lofts having flown there respective programmes so no mugs eh ,would be a fair purchase and certainly worth a punt ,this was a new pairing for me and only 4 bred from them last year the other 2 went to the one loft

good strong looking bird darren, hes got a bid on i see ........

ive noticed the top birds which homed quickest in the final, are all better in the body moult, they arnt dropping to bits like some are, they tend to have finished moulting and have full bars, rather than still moulting or having partial bars etc

do members reckon the first birds back were simply better birds, or because they might have been better in feather........or just because they were lucky ?

would make a difference for sure

Think the moult will certainly have an effect depending on the weather conditions as to what extent.

Would like to know just what they were fed on.

Vastly differences between those left and who knows the state  of those lost.

Think they would have been better kept natural.

Regards.

yes misty, thats what i think too ......obviously with having so many birds at the loft, some will be further into the moult than others are ,then when they come off the dark some will be like yearlings and others partially moulted.

i do think a great number of the birds would be barely exercising around the loft when traing started, and most likely not even exercising well when racing started .

David wrote:

yes misty, thats what i think too ......obviously with having so many birds at the loft, some will be further into the moult than others are ,then when they come off the dark some will be like yearlings and others partially moulted.

i do think a great number of the birds would be barely exercising around the loft when traing started, and most likely not even exercising well when racing started .

Hard to deny that etc David I suggest. In fact about as close to reality as one could be I suspect unfortunately. End of the day thou if the winners there get payed out what's due & deserving they will be thankful I suspect, after the disgraceful debacle going on with that other local O/L type race there now apparently.

jeremy davies has 10 lots of his own pigeons in the rpra auction, they are on pages 25 and 26 .

i think the tracker bird is lot 06, at the time of typing this there is no bid on it ..

last day of the auction today theres some bargains there with no pedigrees but performed well enough throughout people get to bogged down with pedigrees jmo

yes i agree darren, some decent birds there that deserve a chance, going cheap too ..

oldstrain wrote:

last day of the auction today theres some bargains there with no pedigrees but performed well enough throughout people get to bogged down with pedigrees jmo

Agree O/S bit of homework etc & one could walk away with some real bargains I somehow suspect.
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