welcome bluewhiteflight

hi darren, have you been training your ybs this week......i know you are going to miss the first race out but when will you be sending, a week this friday ? will you be using the ets system for the ybs that you have installed.

darren, where abouts are you.....i cant remember if you told me or not. (if you would rather not say thats ok)

lancaster 20 mile north of blackpool

nice place there isnt it darren, whats the competition like there......have you just joined this club your racing in.

yes its nice.................. the club i raced the 2 races in i rejoined 2 years ago after moving out of the boundary 5 years ago and its the 1st club i joined when i was 16 , 24 years ago, the other club im in is also a good club and both got members capable of topping red rose fed week in week out

stiff oposition then darren, mind you the way you flew in those two comebacks give you an idea of how you could do next year, your birds are certainly capable of competing and winning against them arnt they......so are you going to stop some of them after a few races for next year, or fly them all until they get too bad in the moult and then stop them? i know you said you will have to race ybs natural because of other commitments so will you be racing ybs dark next year?

well i have 9 cocks for next year so want another 3 and i want 12 yearling hens to race roundabout so hopefully wont lose many so ill play it by ear with weather and moult, im not too bothered aslong as i get plenty of 50 mile tosses in, thats all them 9 cocks had as ybs , next year ill be paired up early and ybs on darkness

Darren a good cock to have if you are trying to do distance racing just hope he can repay you back with some winners

Darren have you got this cock in a place were him and his hen are left to pair up without being disturbed

thank you don..... i hope so too ill keep all birds back from him and put them into my family i have

similar to what i was going to try and do darren, but i planned on racing this year and didnt so ive yearlings now that havnt raced so next year they will be 2 year olds and never raced. its too much to ask of them to race as 2 year olds so i might just end up using them as stock and starting with a team of about 28 ybs next season.....there is only 3 pairs of yearlings and 3 pairs of stock so thats not too many i suppose.

david they are exactly the same as them 9 cocks i have n o racing till this year (2years old) i just waited as was alittle cold in april and give them plenty of 50 mile tosses with local trainer then sent them

oh right, did you train them as ybs or as yearlings before they raced as 2 year olds?

they had about 10 tosses upto 20 miles as ybs , then about 6x 9miles then 2 or 3 20 miles then about 3 x50 miles as yearlings

If you school them right and motivate them right they will win for you regardless of age

As you can see david, darren has schooled them in there year of birth which is the most important time to do

yes don, your right....they were well schooled by the look of it. mine only had a couple as ybs and none as yearlings, so i dont know where they would stand for racing...if they ever would. maybe do what i can regards training and just put them into the shorter races maybe....

i might end up doing the same with this years ybs for next year don if weather , moulting etc goes againgst me as i can pick my days etc to train them upto 50 miles

Darren doing this with your young birds you will have a fresh team of yearling cocks which will beable to put a lot of effort in there racing as they have not had anything taken from them as youngbirds

Don Webb wrote:

Darren doing this with your young birds you will have a fresh team of yearling cocks which will beable to put a lot of effort in there racing as they have not had anything taken from them as youngbirds

I have had a bad start to the year and wondered if it was ok to hold my ybs back till next year, do you think this is good for them?

yes don as i think theres too much stress on youngsters when racing etc

Just give them some good schooling up to 50 miles and this should help you out

ok don cheers

DOVEScot the origonal wrote:

Don Webb wrote:

Darren doing this with your young birds you will have a fresh team of yearling cocks which will beable to put a lot of effort in there racing as they have not had anything taken from them as youngbirds

I have had a bad start to the year and wondered if it was ok to hold my ybs back till next year, do you think this is good for them?

yes i would agree with don, give then good schooling while they are young....darren did this and hes have flown well for him even though he started racing them as 2 year olds. i wont be racing my ybs this season so ill try and train as much as i can to get them to know the ropes...

my opinion is that you have to give your youngbirds the experience of racing before they become yearlings you will get the odd one that will turn out ok without racing them but in past experience the majority you loose