Advice needed

 As must if you no I am a distance flyer allthough I have the same birds they use to win from 60mls to 600, I think Iv gone over the top and I need to bring in some mid distance blood to speed them up a bit, what do you think and what birds are doing it at the moment, HELP           

you could do a lot worse than use the de weerdts for a cross but of course try them first whatever you decide to get in ...good luck ginger

Thanks mate

oldstrain wrote:

you could do a lot worse than use the de weerdts for a cross but of course try them first whatever you decide to get in ...good luck ginger

mark gilbert seems to do well with them

try looking on elimar site at the back end of the year geoff kirkland always has a few for sale at a fair price to

you wont go far wrong if you gets some gaby,s vandabeeles in to them ginger they are a dream to cross in to your distance birds very robust birds
and do the distance up to about 450 miles .

have to agree with kev gaby but think you have to cross them

gabies are the bigest mongrels since buchearts  

there all just names just go and find someone genuin and get honest birds that are winning names and peds are what they are all man made and most are costley but well premoted by most yet most cant fly 500 yards when asked to

the national flying club results always have the same names there on hard days ide say sift through them that are less favourable in winds

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there all just names just go and find someone genuin and get honest birds that are winning names and peds are what they are all man made and most are costley but well premoted by most yet most cant fly 500 yards when asked to

the national flying club results always have the same names there on hard days ide say sift through them that are less favourable in winds
Agree with that 100%!!!

Ginger what bird are you flying distance with? I'd agree with the lads on the gabys I done ok this year with old Birds up to 400 mile with gabys I'm looking for something to mix the opposite way to get a bit further distance hence my question, good call with the gabys I think.

Ginger wrote:

 As must if you no I am a distance flyer allthough I have the same birds they use to win from 60mls to 600, I think Iv gone over the top and I need to bring in some mid distance blood to speed them up a bit, what do you think and what birds are doing it at the moment, HELP           

No easy answer Bro    but what ever you do, make sure they  come from a loft that has had a long history of flying across the water etc     & I wouldn't worry too much about paper pedigrees     type of thing, as I believe you can find better pigeons coming out of a small backyard some where or an allotment type of thing.  

Thanks lads Im trying to edge my bets perhaps to liveing me up a bit the way our raceing here as been its been a total disaster not just me we have all had some smacks, I no its not all the birds are bad I have to move on to keep going at the moment I have 2 yearling left in the loft and I no Im not the only one in this way, and Joe most of my birds are Aarden blood I have bought in new stock like Jos Thon`e. mostly Poco lines Euro Diamond lines I have had the same result with these I cant exspect them to do much they have to aclimatize (spelling)to the islands way of live befor anything will come out of them.

Ginger wrote:

Thanks lads Im trying to edge my bets perhaps to liveing me up a bit the way our raceing here as been its been a total disaster not just me we have all had some smacks, I no its not all the birds are bad I have to move on to keep going at the moment I have 2 yearling left in the loft and I no Im not the only one in this way, and Joe most of my birds are Aarden blood I have bought in new stock like Jos Thon`e. mostly Poco lines Euro Diamond lines I have had the same result with these   I cant exspect them to do much they have to aclimatize (spelling)to the islands way of live befor anything will come out of them.

  Hi ginger,have you ever thought flying in the french federations mate,i think its cheaper,less time in the baskets,and i expect you could get some decent prep races along carcasonne cannel,into  narbonne ready for barcelona breaking in future years?

Yes mate we use to go with the french and their is some races with them but it getting more and more diffecult as they wont pick up birds unless their is so many as they do not pick up anymore from st malo, our boats are going late in the morning which means the birds go up after midday and we have found that we lose a lot of birds when they go up in the heat of the day I my self have lost over half my birds from Jersey 25mls and Im not the only one, we no that their is a lot hawks around and between us and jersey but I dont think that is all our prodlem we have radio masts beamming to jersey I think this is playing a good part of it and I my self is getting to old to be able to do anything about it roll on next year