YB feeding/excercise ?

when do members let their ybs out for exercise, morning or evening...?do they feed once or twice a day ?

when i raced as long as the y/b were flying together round the loft i would feed and let them out twice a day.

hi fred, im letting mine out only once a day at the moment, and feeding once a day too..........a few weeks ago before i put them onto the dark they were flying for an hour easily, now they dont want to fly....they look and handle fine and are not ill so i wonder is it because they are moulting or just got lazy...?

i never tried the darkness system so i dont know how they should fly all i can say is when i had y/bs they would fly at least a hour or more when starting to range.

most other fanciers i have spoke to say their birds fly ok when on the dark...just that mine have been like this last year and again this year........maybe just me.,

I have always fed twice a day always old and young, they fly morning and evening weather permitting, early as possible 5.30 best in summer, and no later than 4/5 pm evening.

i feed mine in the morning before work, then between 5.30 and 6.00 when i come home from work at night i let them out for as long as they want, sometimes its 15 mins sometimes its half an hour, then they come in and have a final feed of the day,
dont know if its the right thing to do, but i do the same time every day except weekends, weather permiting that it.

doing the above suits my lifestyle and it creates a routine for the birds.

i feed mine in the morning before work, then between 5.30 and 6.00 when i come home from work at night i let them out for as long as they want, sometimes its 15 mins sometimes its half an hour, then they come in and have a final feed of the day,
dont know if its the right thing to do, but i do the same time every day except weekends, weather permiting that it.

doing the above suits my lifestyle and it creates a routine for the birds.

thats what you have to do , suit them to your lifestyle

routine is one of the key factors in pigeon racing chris stick with it mate as ray says work it best you can to suit you but once in a routine it makes life easy for you and the birds to enjoy and at the end of the day its only a hobby lets not forget that and we should enjoy our hobby not make it like a chore

i feed yb once a day at 4.30 pm and they are let out 0nce a day at 3.00pm and are flying for about 1 hour they were on a ounce and a third but this has been slowly cut back to an ounce now as some were not traping as i liked and some handled a bit heavy

i prob know a lot less then most on here but i would give one teaspoon of trapping mix per 4 birds in the morning fly and one and a half oz of there main feed when they went out on there second fly but i only left it in the loft for around 20-30 mins this worked ok for me but i only raced old and young on natural.