thought id lost all my yb

let them out this morn 8.30 beautifull blue sky hardly no wind up and away they go
sky high i was watching them till they went out of sight all 20 of them ,
3 hrs later no birds over a 6 hr period just got one missing now but still time but boy have they flown .

and it would have done them the world of good

yes steve i think so as well , better then training better start soon as there starting to
range now we start on july 20th so a while yet .

bet they hit a race batch soft lad ya lucky but at least they learnt from it glad you got them one never knows where or how far they go

you,ve been very lucky getting them back concidering a lot have been racing today.i kept ours in for that reason

Blue skies--no clouds
Pigeon have problems.
Just think back how your birds did on Races that were only Blue skies and no clouds.

I live on the coast and the Irish birds flying from the channel come across here all the time, a few years ago one sunny sunday morning not knowing the Irish birds were in penzance I let my 35 ybs out, they flew for about 1 hour and 10 came back really high.
I wondered where the rest were and waited, 3 hours, 5 hours and 8 hours went by and no birds. I had 1 back the next morning 24 missing never seen them again.
True story.
I would say thats whats happened to your birds followed some birds heading somewhere.

skytx wrote:

Blue skies--no clouds
Pigeon have problems.
Just think back how your birds did on Races that were only Blue skies and no clouds.

yes blue skies the sun and the moon up together not good ?.

kev d wrote:

let them out this morn 8.30 beautifull blue sky hardly no wind up and away they go
sky high i was watching them till they went out of sight all 20 of them ,
3 hrs later no birds over a 6 hr period just got one missing now but still time but boy have they flown .

Kev that has done them the world of good mate and yes i would also say they need training now

But why not do what Richard Boylin used to do never raced his youngsters but always feed them well one hour before he let them out but he always let them out when the fed birds would clash with his birds and then they would be all day getting him but the ones that were left were the one which win for him the following years

I love to see this happen because it shows the birds charactoristics plus it shows if they have anything between there eyes as the cream will rise to the top

forgot to say "I KNOW NOTHING" mate

skytx wrote:

Blue skies--no clouds
Pigeon have problems.
Just think back how your birds did on Races that were only Blue skies and no clouds.

Your right there Don 2 but was also told Blue Skies which are still is not good plus always leave your birds in when sun is in its highest position (mid-day)

Don Webb wrote:

kev d wrote:

let them out this morn 8.30 beautifull blue sky hardly no wind up and away they go
sky high i was watching them till they went out of sight all 20 of them ,
3 hrs later no birds over a 6 hr period just got one missing now but still time but boy have they flown .

Kev that has done them the world of good mate and yes i would also say they need training now

But why not do what Richard Boylin used to do never raced his youngsters but always feed them well one hour before he let them out but he always let them out when the fed birds would clash with his birds and then they would be all day getting him but the ones that were left were the one which win for him the following years

I love to see this happen because it shows the birds charactoristics plus it shows if they have anything between there eyes as the cream will rise to the top

forgot to say "I KNOW NOTHING" mate

"I KNOW NOTHING" I would have thought after 10,864 post's etc you should know something.
"Please explain" what went wrong.
*****

Spot on Don webb again.

When I was in to it in a big way I use to take my youngbirds down to the transeporter and let them go with them I lost some but the ones that came back turned out to make good racers sometimes and another thing I use to do we have the old Martello towers over here and I use to go down nearly dark and put my youngbirds in the holes and let them sleep their for the night, that was 2 days befor the race as when the race came they didn't want to spend a night out

got my last one back last night about 6.30 pm din,t look to botherd about been away for 10 hrs its happend to me a few times over the years ,like don days if they got any sense what so ever they they will work back on there own and not in a box ive never wraped them up in cotton wool and i never will . in a few weeks they will be up with over 5,000 birds , they look very good at the mo flying well and eating well .

no ome dose the same kev but amire you for the way you treat your birds an trust me lads i had one of his birds via stray collecton ant she went on to wi ket 90th national worst thing i did was sending her hom
e lol xx

i sent her on sat for a prep race ready for next sat when i come home from work she was in the loft so i clocked her i was 30 mins behind the winner , i will never know how long she was home but she looks good for cholet on sat 300 miles .

check updates on web site for test birds i cant get used to this laptop but alls well we have a few pink rings naughty birds funny how quick they learn and we got a few lesbians but and i say but im not to sure about rene fink opnes a cock other a slut davids hen is deffo a lesbo seand well them blacks fight a lot then rays sort um stans piss weak ah then theres flash from some t**t in mids nice bird but is it flash in pan then we got stew and there rest of you all i can say is its a pleasure to see such nice youngsters hope to get pics on soon but have to go libay to up date cuss my pc is knacked

birdy2011 wrote:

check updates on web site for test birds i cant get used to this laptop but alls well we have a few pink rings naughty birds funny how quick they learn and we got a few lesbians but and i say but im not to sure about rene fink opnes a cock other a slut davids hen is deffo a lesbo seand well them blacks fight a lot then rays sort um stans piss weak ah then theres flash from some t**t in mids nice bird but is it flash in pan then we got stew and there rest of you all i can say is its a pleasure to see such nice youngsters hope to get pics on soon but have to go libay to up date cuss my pc is knacked

Knackered wrote:

Don Webb wrote:

kev d wrote:

let them out this morn 8.30 beautifull blue sky hardly no wind up and away they go
sky high i was watching them till they went out of sight all 20 of them ,
3 hrs later no birds over a 6 hr period just got one missing now but still time but boy have they flown .

Kev that has done them the world of good mate and yes i would also say they need training now

But why not do what Richard Boylin used to do never raced his youngsters but always feed them well one hour before he let them out but he always let them out when the fed birds would clash with his birds and then they would be all day getting him but the ones that were left were the one which win for him the following years

I love to see this happen because it shows the birds charactoristics plus it shows if they have anything between there eyes as the cream will rise to the top

forgot to say "I KNOW NOTHING" mate

"I KNOW NOTHING" I would have thought after 10,864 post's etc you should know something.
"Please explain" what went wrong.
*****

Its all the punches i have taken over the years from the boxing its the drive to comment on posts about nothing i know

But at the moment not to sure something must be going right

Rudderfett wrote:

Spot on Don webb again.

Cheers Martyn but what is it im spot on about

CONFUSED.DON

kev d wrote:

got my last one back last night about 6.30 pm din,t look to botherd about been away for 10 hrs its happend to me a few times over the years ,like don days if they got any sense what so ever they they will work back on there own and not in a box ive never wraped them up in cotton wool and i never will . in a few weeks they will be up with over 5,000 birds , they look very good at the mo flying well and eating well .

Cheers Kev

Had a young hen reported she was only 2 miles from the loft and the fancier who reported her said it has taken him just over 3 weeks to get her in when i collected here she was just flesh and bone

The fancier said she would go from the roof every morning and return every night at dusk, this hen was placed in a section on her own for a week and allowed to eat and rest placed her in the youngbird section started to let her out then when she was strong again started to train her and then race her

Kev this young hen was only very small you could fit her into a half pint glass she had every race 14 in total including 3 channel races and she never nighted out again and was always one of the first 3 pigeons back to the loft think she was on the clock about 5 times

The most consistent youngster i had ever raced never put a foot wrong after the mistake when first on the wing

Sorry for being a boring