is pigeon racing getting harder.

is pigeon racing getting harder or is it the modern fasters breeds makeing it harder.it would be good to hear others opinions on this.

no its no differance to 20 30 years ago just take out the sales and pigeons will be far better for it

tricky question fred some wil say yes and some no but i can tell you what i know
ive never bought a pigeon since ive been racing and thats since 1985 ive allways
had them giving from friends that way i think you get there best as they don,t want you saying them birds you gave me are no good . i think its as hard as you want to make it some people want to complicate things but me i like every thing natural so that way you have the best of both worlds with the cock and hen , in the past the country as been swamped with belg and dutch birds but ive seen things changing with people going for more home grown pigeons and having a go at the longer races , but to me fred it will always be simple to me regardles if i win or lose cheers kev .

i could write a book but will tell you in one word simple

i also loved to fly natural and i have bought birds but my best have been gifted birds.

bikesfred54 wrote:

is pigeon racing getting harder or is it the modern fasters breeds makeing it harder.it would be good to hear others opinions on this.

YES

I have to agree with birdy, I think the velocities are not much different these days a 5 hour race is still a 5 hour race, the racing is more difficult, with unexplained happenings and losses, just a few weeks ago on a routeen traning flight with our club 600 ybs were let go 15 miles from home, and half of them ended up over 65 miles away in the oposite direction, homing ability seemed to disapear, this sort of thing does make it harder, but not because of new strains, just unexplained things.

Things have got harder for our birds they have a lot more to contend now they have a over population of bops a lot more radio waves with GPS didge maps radar you name it and they have to contend with it plus about 40% of flyers dont care about the birds as long as they win pigeons wont get better as long as you have people like this in our sport its the ones they lose with having to win that takes the othjer birds off line

are people flying there birds to light now and not carrying enough to the race point so as when it is a hard race they burn what weight they have got off to quick.also i know theres alot of other things to take in but some how the real good birds home all the time even in the bigger races. this is just thoughts and opinions.

Yes thats something I do agree on, many fanciers are obsessed with keeping them light, I always get told at marking that my ybs are a bit heavy, but thats how I feed. Then last week disaster race tons of missing birds some only had 2 from 15 , and 5 from 20. I on the other hand had 10 from 14 by far the best returns in the whole section, so where was the light birds that day, ok I was 13th club but I would rather get them back and not win.

Rudderfett wrote:

Yes thats something I do agree on, many fanciers are obsessed with keeping them light, I always get told at marking that my ybs are a bit heavy, but thats how I feed. Then last week disaster race tons of missing birds some only had 2 from 15 , and 5 from 20. I on the other hand had 10 from 14 by far the best returns in the whole section, so where was the light birds that day, ok I was 13th club but I would rather get them back and not win.

Yes your right there Martyn

martins right stop skimping your y/b motivate um better thats where wins come from

Ginger wrote:

Things have got harder for our birds they have a lot more to contend now they have a over population of bops a lot more radio waves with GPS didge maps radar you name it and they have to contend with it plus about 40% of flyers dont care about the birds as long as they win pigeons wont get better as long as you have people like this in our sport its the ones they lose with having to win that takes the othjer birds off line

i agree with ginger in what he has said, also i think its getting more and more money orientated.......everything is about money and advertising the super product which will turn ordinary birds into champions........as we all know this isnt possible.

yes i agree everyone claims to have the miracle product or system that they want to sell its all to commercialised a complete transformation to the last involvement with pigeons over 25 years ago i cant believe the change and most of it not for the better of the sport to much medication to many rip off merchants to many people at the rpra who are not fighting our corner with the rspb( lets hope the new chairman has more input into this) maybe it would help if a ex fancier or fancier was at the healm with some passion for it.

hi darren, im glad you mentioned the new rpra manager........did you read the questions and answers the other week in the bhw ? what a load of crap that was, pointless s**t, altho it did give us some usefull information by reading between the lines as to who and what he is about.......

firstly i get the impression he is not a pigeon man, so therefor he isnt going to fight the corner of us all against the rspb and the hawk problem, the same as a pigeon fancier would.....why would he ? at th end of the day what does he know about pigeons being ripped to bits ?

secondly. ive forgot the other points untill i read it again, but it seems all he is there for is for the same reason as the other fella, a wage !!!!

oh, and another thing, the question was does he think mike tyson is a good ambassador for the pigeon sport...? he said no, definately not..........its strange tho that he should approve of the queen being the pstron of the rpra, when her son is the best friend of a pedo,......thats ok and acceptable.

pmsl, i think "lizzy" must have read my above post re the royal and the pedo........hes resigned