racing this weekend 11/12 july

where ya too lads we go to crieff perthshire not many venture up there but we may have 2 candidates to send 350 miles to me ,this race always turns into a slog for some reason and even a disaster some years ,plenty bop about up there and then over the pennines the worst area is the bottleneck near carlisle on the border of england and scotland ...we basket tomorrow for sunday race ,will make final decision this evening when i handle them ,good luck to all members sending this weekend

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We will be at newton Abbott this week 150ish to me only second race for the cocks and the first one for the hens had a short training toss on Tuesday first one since they was bad first for all the yearlings see what comes back then next week Lyndhurst then fourgeres with MCC and messac

our club is at falaise with the leeds amal ..........

redrog wrote:

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All the best etc Rog many locals here would just love to have a team like you racing this week end. Not to be thou as everything local is cancelled because of the virus scenario saga here & the borders being shut . Only good thing thankfully, many of our country type clubs out in bush tucker type country     can still race here fortunately, even if it's only up to around 2/300 miles for some of them. & take care.

Knackered wrote:

redrog wrote:

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All the best etc Rog many locals here would just love to have a team like you racing this week end. Not to be thou as everything local is cancelled because of the virus scenario saga here & the borders being shut . Only good thing thankfully, many of our country type clubs out in bush tucker type country     can still race here fortunately, even if it's only up to around 2/300 miles for some of them. & take care.

cheers pal, they have been poor this season too big a gap from parting to racing, bit the bullet for the later channel races so pairing back up tomorrow see what happens

same here rog too big a gap from being split after pairing ....paired mine back up but its difficult with the feed once feeding ybs especially when they have crop milk ...just have to keep plugging away ,only 2 old bird races left for us now ,we will be sending 2 cocks

good luck all .......

We’re at Berwick this week 306 miles for our last old bird race.

Good, Boozy. Wish you and all the others the best. Any folks on here compete with others on here?

Boosey wrote:

We’re at Berwick this week 306 miles for our last old bird race.

good luck steve ,what day you racing we basketed for crieff (perth) tonight for a sunday race ,god knows why 2 nights in the basket we have derbyshire birds to pick up for a amalgamation race but still 2 nights in the basket for a 350 mile race we sent 2

Boosey wrote:

We’re at Berwick this week 306 miles for our last old bird race.

I'll watch for them coming over here about 65 miles south on line of flight

We basketed Thursday for a Saturday race Darren.

Boosey wrote:

We basketed Thursday for a Saturday race Darren.

good luck boosey ......

oldstrain wrote:

Boosey wrote:

We’re at Berwick this week 306 miles for our last old bird race.

good luck steve ,what day you racing we basketed for crieff (perth) tonight for a sunday race ,god knows why 2 nights in the basket we have derbyshire birds to pick up for a amalgamation race but still 2 nights in the basket for a 350 mile race we sent 2

2 nights quite normal down here etc O/S for a 350 miler type race, we are even happy to have them in the units/baskets for 2 nights from 250 odd miles. Found its a walk in the park for most pigeons on average & never really had any concerns about the whole issue here as such.
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The think I dont like is, they’re not allowed to use wood-shavings in the crates any more because some lib sites don’t like the mess, so all our birds get in the crate is a roll of  corrugated cardboard, which doesn't dry out the droppings quick enough so there’s two problems with that.

1/ when there’s a two or more days in the crate the droppings build up and starts sticking to their feet, especially if the atmosphere is damp or humid.
I’ve had them come home and land on the board unable to walk before because their toes were stuck together like balls, I thought the birds were injured or hawked, I couldn’t believe it when I saw what happened.

2/ Most keep our birds nice at home and would dream of feeding our birds on top of wet droppings, yet we send them to the races, and they feed them in the crates by pouring food over the top of them, so it sticks to all the droppings, so your
birds will pick up any illness from any other lofts that arnt kept as well as yours.

Surely it’s going backwards, and the birds should be the number one priority.
They won’t use sand because it will grind up the release mechanism in the metal crates.

Good luck all This weekend

some good points there steve ....we use easybed but still not ideal and as you say surely in this day and age with our road network 1 day in the basket for 350 mile is surely enough ffs they using a horse and cart to get there

Not a very enviable position for any pigeon for the reasons mentioned Boosey on top of which it will affect the fittest pigeons the most.

The pigeons kept in clinical conditions at home will not cope as well as others.

Only need a couple with loose droppings and off colour.

Once new a fancier who only ever scored on a long hold over, the only time they received decent food.

Hope you have a good one Boosey, cannot think the Old Bird season nearly over.

Regards.

leeds amal / york road fc birds up at 7.00am from falaise in a light north wind , turning north west in the uk

i agree with what your saying there boosey, ive not race so i dont know what our club are doing re bedding ........but i agree about feeding them by just pouring the corn onto wet droppings, my loft isnt cleaned out twice a day like some, but i always make sure the water is changed daily, and the corn is kept clean and fresh daily.......i feed in trays with wire tops so the birds cannot walk on the corn, which is a recipe for disaster if you ask me, i know they do need to build a natural immunity to a certain degree but not to the point where its creating illness .

with so many birds from different lofts its dangerous enough anyway, some fanciers arnt bothered if their birds are sick and send them regardless, little wonder our birds pick things up in the race pannier.

we liberated from crieff ,perth at 6am 345 miles to me we have
2 in the race they were liberated into a light headwind

Think it will be a toughie oldstrain, best of luck.

Regards.

MISTY wrote:

Think it will be a toughie oldstrain, best of luck.

Regards.

oh aye fi sure these scottish races usually turnout to be a toughie

oldstrain wrote:

we liberated from crieff ,perth at 6am 345 miles to me we have
2 in the race they were liberated into a light headwind

good luck darren .......let us know how they do

well we clocked 1 just after 3.30 bird could go again 9-1/2 hours on the wing 345 miles slight headwind ,bird is pooled all the way in club and open ya never know but think they will have them before that we got the other bird about 30 mins after that...i had this bird in mind for this one all season so job done for me hopefully  he can score in the club ,see what happens at clocks ,this was a amalgamation race to with derbyshire lads ,yeah unbeleavable condition hardly no weight loss at all earned his corn tonight he is now nestled nicely on his 7 day old baby this bird was bred from davids van reets ,60 david,all in all a good day 2/2 both returned in top order