Working well.

My plans. Friend of mine brought me 2 bags of corn and wheat. Staple food. Plus 10 bands. Hours drive in a near blizzard. Both ways hour each. But he has 4 wheel drive truck.
So will be racing birds. 5 bands were in sequence, short numbers. 5 in sequece long numbers. Assume 5 are destined for someone else. Not bothered at all. Different lofts, different locations and management. Going to be an interesting year!!

halcanada81 wrote:

My plans. Friend of mine brought me 2 bags of corn and wheat. Staple food. Plus 10 bands. Hours drive in a near blizzard. Both ways hour each. But he has 4 wheel drive truck.
So will be racing birds. 5 bands were in sequence, short numbers. 5 in sequece long numbers. Assume 5 are destined for someone else. Not bothered at all. Different lofts, different locations and management. Going to be an interesting year!!

Can feel as rewarding as winning yourself when others win with your pigeons and the more that do the better the feeling.

Also gives a further interest ( and if they do not win it is always the other fanciers fault I have found ??????).


Regards.

great news will give interest for the year eh...is the one loft still on the cards hal ?

good luck, maybe he'll be back with more corn....

Defiantly be interesting to watch how they all do and its very nice when other fanciers do well and they let you no it let's you no your on the right track with the breeding loft

barnie wrote:

good luck, maybe he'll be back with more corn....

he will be I suggest if he is lucky & fortunate enough to have some success with Hals birds there etc I suspect Barnie .

sounds good hal, always nice for others to race, and possibly do well with your birds ...........

markevans wrote:

Defiantly be interesting to watch how they all do and its very nice when other fanciers do well  and they let you no it let's you no your on the right track with the breeding loft

Yes. That is the idea. Performers. Can cull easier this way.

If we win with someone else's bird I phone them instantly and I mean instantly.  Nothing better telling a bloke he has bred a winner

I look on line. All clubs and Feds post results weekly. Have the numbers here to check.
Young starting to leave the bowl now. Other 8 x 12 loft all ready. Thought for 6 young birds too intimidating. So have an older red cock, hurt wing did not mate. Put him over. White hen hurt leg did not mate. So she went over also. Maybe they will mate, maybe not. No matter. Company for the little guys. 1 white, 1 bbwf, 2 red checks 2 bcs. BC mother and 2 white mothers. BBwf throwback to a Ganus pigeon. Venus.

peel bros wrote:

If we win with someone else's bird I phone them instantly and I mean instantly.  Nothing better telling a bloke he has bred a winner

yeah fair shout to ya...the way it should be ,i found out only 2 weeks ago we bred 2 winners and a 3rd for a local fancier but no call nothing ,in fact i phoned him as i was surprised not to hear anything from him ,said he would have another 6 sorry sold out the 2 winners were from the same nest the dam was not paired this year ...now if i had known to$$£r ...david its the sister to the cock i sent to pair with your one loft hen

you do right darren, fella couldnt even be bothered to let you know, yet wanted more ybs .........thats pigeon men for you, most are ars*holes

David wrote:

you do right darren, fella couldnt even be bothered to let you know, yet wanted more ybs .........thats pigeon men for you, most are ars*holes

yes he wont be getting anymore ,i would phone on the evening or nextday if someone bred me a winner ,races alot of birds to always breeds 100 ybs but mine are "D" rings different letter to his so he knew where they came from just could not be bothered

Shocking...definitely wouldn't give him anymore

peel bros wrote:

If we win with someone else's bird I phone them instantly and I mean instantly.  Nothing better telling a bloke he has bred a winner

One hundred percent. I was actually always pleased to do so. Likewise was good to hear as such if one of mine.
A very well renowned fancier transferred a youngster to me that came back after being sent back to him. Doncaster.
It won as a yearling, second race. Only seconded time ia a basket , about 250 miler.
So I phoned him to say thanks etc.
He went on asking about who I was, how did I get the bird. Had I transferred it etc.
After about 10 minutes I told him he was an Arsoul, and .... well a lot more.

Later, when at a good fancier loft, who was a friend of his, laughed and stated the git when talking to him. He had brought up the subject of an uncaring foul mouthed threatening git.
We laughed, and my mate say he'd told him he was lucky not to get a slap from me lol.
But that certainly did rankled me.

typical of some pigeon fanciers daz, they dont want the trouble of getting the bird returned, yet dont like it when the person keeps it and wins with it ........

True in todays game I'm afraid David.

Was a time when very many strays won a good race.

Now I can see if that miffs them a mite.

However, just prior, they would be only too glad to get shot off!

yes daz, keen to off load their rubbish, or what they consider to be rubbish ....personally i think if a bird isnt good enough to send for, it isnt good enough to breed , ok not all pigeons are good, but they need to be more selective in what they breed from .

yeah had some real T0$$£R$ on the blower asking to cull or coming out with the spill as to why they cant send for it instead of taking the responsibility of there bird and doing right by it

A lot of tosses in this sport but still a few good uns

peel bros wrote:

A lot of tosses in this sport but still a few good uns

oh yeah met some great lads to ,some will be life long freinds i am sure

peel bros wrote:

A lot of tosses in this sport but still a few good uns

True   strange thing thou Ray Geordie types for all the ones I know etc     come across as genuine, genuine types .

Knackered wrote:

peel bros wrote:

A lot of tosses in this sport but still a few good uns

True   strange thing thou Ray Geordie types for all the ones I know etc     come across as genuine, genuine types .

the accent is fooling you knackered ..........ray genuine  never , ive known him nearly 12 years, those gay geordies would stab you in the back as soon as look at ya  

(only joking ray ....... )

David wrote:

Knackered wrote:

peel bros wrote:

A lot of tosses in this sport but still a few good uns

True   strange thing thou Ray Geordie types for all the ones I know etc     come across as genuine, genuine types .

the accent is fooling you knackered ..........ray genuine  never , ive known him nearly 12 years, those gay geordies would stab you in the back as soon as look at ya  

(only joking ray ....... )

say what nasties you like about our beloved Ray here etc David means little to me here as I know his just a big cuddle bear type with hardly a mean bone in his body as such . Now you may have actually made the news down here tonight David your famous as they say, if you were part the half whit moron crowd playing snow ball games there apparently in your local parks of Leeds       with out using any type of protection of any description against the virus scenario    .

nothing surprises me knackered, the whole world has gone mad ........rules are made up as they go along , and differ from person to person, dependant on your place in society .