Peterborough disaster !!!

what a dissaster the peterborough race today was, they were up at 7.30am and by 11.30 there was only a handfull of birds back in the club............its been raining most of the morning and the sky was grey with no visible clouds, i wouldnt have let my birds out for exercise given the conditions here.......

ive only 2 birds home out of 11 so far, im hoping to get some more working their way back home of im finished racing...........

hi david , ive heard about your race today everybody knew what the weather
was going to be like today down the east side of the country doesn,t any one
check the line of flight any more , makes my blood boil just throwing them away like that
only takes a few phone calls , hope you get more back david .

David wrote:

what a dissaster the peterborough race today was, they were up at 7.30am and by 11.30 there was only a handfull of birds back in the club............its been raining most of the morning and the sky was grey with no visible clouds, i wouldnt have let my birds out for exercise given the conditions here.......

ive only 2 birds home out of 11 so far, im hoping to get some more working their way back home of im finished racing...........

Hope you get en workin back mate

lets hope you get them work back.

kev d wrote:

hi david , ive heard about your race today everybody knew what the weather
was going to be like today down the east side of the country doesn,t any one
check the line of flight any more , makes my blood boil just throwing them away like that
only takes a few phone calls , hope you get more back david .

same down here kev 3 raves my mates were in and all turnned out disasters 2 from 20 sent 1 from 33 and 4 from 45 all races under 120 miles pissing down this end ffs and david dont blame ya birds mate they shouldnt have been up there months of work waisted

hope you get em back david gutted for ya mate. and everybody else who sent or has birds that have raced threw this terrible weather, our club and fed have postponed the race until tommorow !! why if one does this and has the good reason for doing it does evrybody not do it????? considering the forcast and tech we have nowadays it just plain idiocy in my opinion, i may be new to the sport but i am no idiot that could not see this coming!!!!!! people put far to much time effort and money into there birds just for someone to throw them away. evrybody knows that this kind of weather is no good for a race especialy the youngans man. evrybody wants a race and has it timed to a tee to send them but there has got to be a point where plain common sense takes over. i am not getting at fanciers as they will send if fed combine or whatever say they are going . they at the end of the day control when where and how we send dnt they??? am i right or wrong? we dnt live in the dark ages do we and we have the tech to be ahead so this kind of thing does not happen. on long distance races i grant it is harder to judge weather it is good enough or not but on short distance races it should just not happen. jmo .

terrible david ,i hope ours are ok tomorrow,the weather is crap so they are going to get them up early....i hope i do,nt lose too many...its a lot of hard work to throw away in one go...i hope you get more back,let us know

well was talking to few people flying in gya club and few members sent 50 and only one back other bloke 75 away and only 1 back people in my club had 12 away and one back other 8 away and 1 back

kev d wrote:

hi david , ive heard about your race today everybody knew what the weather
was going to be like today down the east side of the country doesn,t any one
check the line of flight any more , makes my blood boil just throwing them away like that
only takes a few phone calls , hope you get more back david .

totally agree with you kev, dont they check.....? i dont think they care to be honest, i cant understand why they liberated at 7.30, all morning it was terrible then come the afternoon the skies cleared and the rain stopped..........couldnt they have held them for a few hours ???

David wrote:

kev d wrote:

hi david , ive heard about your race today everybody knew what the weather
was going to be like today down the east side of the country doesn,t any one
check the line of flight any more , makes my blood boil just throwing them away like that
only takes a few phone calls , hope you get more back david .

totally agree with you kev, dont they check.....? i dont think they care to be honest, i cant understand why they liberated at 7.30, all morning it was terrible then come the afternoon the skies cleared and the rain stopped..........couldnt they have held them for a few hours ???

The problem today is the biggest amount of conveyors are non fanciers and are only interested in getting back home as soon as were years ago the conveyor was also a pigeon fancier and even had there own club birds on board the same transporter

i agree don, ive just said the same thing on another topic..........your dead right .

another one back this morning, that makes 7 out of 11 from peterborough, will see how they recover during the week...........

put some glucose in the water david they will be fine

David wrote:

another one back this morning, that makes 7 out of 11 from peterborough, will see how they recover during the week...........

Place honey in the water David for at least 2 days with lemon

tried to get some from the chemists ian, no one has any..............they look at me as tho im a nut case, "what, glucose powder" they say !!!!

dont think theyve ever heard of it.

got some honey don, ive been giving mutivits with added electrolytes..........will this be any good ?

david for whatever reason a race like this cotinues to happen and they never seem to learn from their mistakes maybe the time has come for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible like causing unnecessary suffering and cruelty to livestock

would make them think twice about liberating in such horrible weather rainbow, as some of our members said last night, dont they check the route to see what the weathers like.....?

they can wipe your full team out in one race by an idiotic decision

rainbow wrote:

david for whatever reason a race like this cotinues to happen and they never seem to learn from their mistakes maybe the time has come for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible like causing unnecessary suffering and cruelty to livestock

well if you were working on a farm and stressing animals this could well happen so why not ,bungle &george