Race Results This Weekend.

anyone raced this weekend..............?

Disaster for me! 205 miles. First bird 8 hours plus. 4 home by night fall. Cloudy, humid, light showers. Fog rolling in off the lake. More back thru fog this morning. 5 missing. They will be good for 315 in two weeks. North clubs got decent times. Oh well.

sounds a bad race hal, I hope the other 5 turn up for you.....

Does not matter. The good ones will come through. Yearlings next week. 255 miles. 2nd race. Thinking here is this. Old or yearlings or whatever is in shape go to the 315 week after. Also will start training some young birds. Start them at 20 mile point and go from there. Should be able to race some in old bird races. Did it before in another club. Probably a 250 miler. Have to check the Fed. If they are not allowed for competition will send any way for my own satisfaction. Worked for me years ago. Never won with them but they were in the top ten often enough. Same Fed and clocked them. Will see.
Checked the Fed. No mention, old or young.
320 in two weeks the 400 milers. What I am aiming for.

halcanada wrote:

Does not matter. The good ones will come through. Yearlings next week. 255 miles. 2nd race. Thinking here is this. Old or yearlings or whatever is in shape go to the 315 week after. Also will start training some young birds. Start them at 20 mile point and go from there. Should be able to race some in old bird races. Did it before in another club. Probably a 250 miler. Have to check the Fed. If they are not allowed for competition will send any way for my own satisfaction. Worked for me years ago. Never won with them but they were in the top ten often enough. Same Fed and clocked them. Will see.
Checked the Fed.  No mention, old or young.
320 in two weeks the 400 milers. What I am aiming for.

Started mine off today here Hal Picked up a load of grain etc & tossed the cocks there "25 miles". Bloke at the grain store said I was a nutter type, as he was freezing with the cold wind & I had shorts on as such Didn't worry me thou as they went up into a dead set head wind, with ice on there nose as such. Lost one late bred bred in the deep litter on the race loft floor. Unfortunately didn't have a ring on it's leg so I suspect the chance of it being reported is rather slim I would suggest .

4th from Monmouth, nowhere in 2bird, only one bird on day, still missing one of mine

well done on taking 4th place r/rog, sounds like its not been a good weekend for most......

Well done

Another crap race here for us..be lucky to be 5th club which with 30 away is absolutely shocking..far to hot for the birds in my opinion. I think about 8 to 10 missing for us..pleased I have a A team still

cant win em all ray, maybe next week..........

peel bros wrote:

Another crap race here for us..be lucky to be 5th club which with 30 away is absolutely shocking..far to hot for the birds in my opinion. I think about 8 to 10 missing for us..pleased I have a A team still

Smart thinking Ray still having an A team in reserve there .

redrog wrote:

4th from Monmouth, nowhere in 2bird, only one bird on day, still missing one of mine

Hanging in their Rog I suggest. One thing thou you haven't as many empty perches etc I suspect as our beloved Ray here .
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Knackered wrote:

redrog wrote:

4th from Monmouth, nowhere in 2bird, only one bird on day, still missing one of mine

Hanging in their Rog I suggest. One thing thou you haven't as many empty perches etc I suspect as our beloved Ray here .
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no pleased with them in that respect mate, had a yearling cock back this morning from bad race 3 weeks ago so at least he tried to get back all be it a little late

well done rog

We managed to get 3rd place this week best we've done up to now We have also had young bird sicknessWhat a terrible thing Lost 14 Young birds

sorry to hear that jet, disheartening loosing ybs like that..............I hope its all sorted now .

jet2013uk wrote:

We managed to get 3rd place this week best we've done up to now We have also had young bird sicknessWhat a terrible thing Lost 14 Young birds

Crap, crap crap     I suggest Jet on average . I think many here could relate to how you just must be feeling at the moment there.

I bet yer not the only one jet seems rife this year and about very early 24 hrs is a long time with the ybs well done on yer result down at the club

Advantages of large teams. Always some for next week. 20 out of 21 from last week. Yearlings go this week. 2nd race.
Young bird sickness. Never had it for many years, probably would not recognise it now. But sad to lose birds like that.
Question being debated in the club.
Who has the advantage from a fast race? Short or long end fliers?
Same for a slow race. Who is favoured? 40 plus mile over fly.

was reading our fed results last week, none of our club members were in the top 40 places, maybe partly because we have just joined this fed, and its the first year of racing on this route........

maybe some of the fed members on the sheet sending 68, 58, 50 etc birds wont help either........

The fact is that there is no two races are alike, the weather can change within a couple of miles.

At the moment we have sea fret, a couple of miles down the road it is bright sunshine and there are numerous such possibilities just regarding the weather.

One would have thought that taking everything into consideration on a fast day it would suit the longest flyer, the birds having over come all the initial problems together and the extra miles would be a doddle.

On a bad day the birds would be more tired and not as advantaged as those already in their loft having to face possible several unexpected problems not met by the former.

But taking everything into consideration you cannot ever compare the performances of pigeons flying considerably different distances.


You can attempt to but without all the different relative information which can never be available ?????.


Regards.

no brainer here with the sprint races, back lofts have advantage, very rare we get east winds but have had them last few weeks and our club gets to show on the fed because of it,

we just got the yearling classic result we were 13th open from hexham 245 miles the bird was home bred from 2 van reets david sent us 2 years ago

oldstrain wrote:

we just got the yearling classic result we were 13th open from hexham 245 miles

well done Darren, 13th open is a very nice result.........

good going darren