RPRA Oneloft 25/8/22

Jeremy Davies
3 h ·
UPDATE 25/08/2022 MID MORNING
August 25th, 2022
Good morning good job we did not go for the race today its not stopped raining as yet and closed in here.
We will be marking late afternoon today , a marked list will be online not long after 8pm tonight.
There will be around 25 not going that were late on the last trainer or took a night out , four were waiting by the trap last night after the rain so these four are not going either, i handled all the other late ones this morning and sectioned off any that i thought needed more time to recoup and be ready for the next race Hot Spot 3.
Tomorrow i will be at the lofts again while Duncan and James take the birds to Wincanton.
I will update again tonight with a list of the birds not going etc.
Jeremy.

David wrote:

Jeremy Davies
3 h  ·
UPDATE 25/08/2022 MID MORNING
August 25th, 2022
Good morning good job we did not go for the race today its not stopped raining as yet and closed in here.
We will be marking late afternoon today , a marked list will be online not long after 8pm tonight.
There will be around 25 not going that were late on the last trainer or took a night out , four were waiting by the trap last night after the rain so these four are not going either, i handled all the other late ones this morning and sectioned off any that i thought needed more time to recoup and be ready for the next race Hot Spot 3.
Tomorrow i will be at the lofts again while Duncan and James take the birds to Wincanton.
I will update again tonight with a list of the birds not going etc.
Jeremy.

Here I was David thinking things couldn't get any worse etc how wrong was I thou sadly, as 4 hours after the first bunch there today & half apparently are still home it appears I'm   .

Thought Pathetic appropriate but on reflection that is being too kind.

Regards.

MISTY wrote:

Thought Pathetic appropriate but on reflection that is being too kind.

Regards.

We all must show a certain type restraint here with our general thought process etc I suggest Misty. Where would we be now if we all really said what we thought about your RPRA O/L race debacle, as a general example.

and to think its £125 a go eh ....people will buy these birds for stock to ,well if theres any left eh

yes i bought one Darren few years ago but knew the owner not raced any ybs from her yet hope to buy few this year you know what they have done and they have been raced early or late it's not a bad bird that doe's the final

rainbow wrote:

yes i bought one  Darren few years ago  but knew  the owner not raced any ybs from her yet hope to buy few this year you know what they have done and they have been raced early or late  it's not a bad bird that doe's the final

Agree that there is every likelyhood of those actually suffering the treatment and conditions that are preverlant in most OL races and comming through to the end
may be worth a chance in new ownership,not forgetting that fanciers will only be sending from their best.

But the whole set up in the RPRA OL does not auger well for the best to survive,
just a lottery.

Regards. .

there will be some good birds and bargains in there no doubt ,immunity will have been tested to the max to eh

much better than buying say 6 untried ybs

yes some decent birds at a fair price can be bought from the one loft auctions, lets face it if they have survived the training and racing and made it to the final, they have done well ........

oldstrain wrote:

and to think its £125 a go eh ....people will buy these birds for stock to ,well if theres any left eh

Have faith O/S surely one or two will be left there to auction off as such hopefully. Now make of it what you will. 2nd hot spot race down here today, 850 odd bird's away there apparently, from the 1700 odd that first started in my local O/L/Race. 300 odd miles (compared to 65    ) they will have here if they wish to get home somehow by nightfall for a feed etc .

David wrote:

yes some decent birds at a fair price can be bought from the one loft auctions, lets face it if they have survived the training and racing and made it to the final, they have done well ........

Hero types if they are normally there at the finish etc David under normal type circumstances. This year thou I wouldn't take them as a gift etc from your RPRA race as such. Pigeons there are on a road to nowhere for the most part from my perspective here & the reason being, there are 600 odd pigeons here sitting on their perch tonight in my local O/L/R here today from 300 odd miles for the 2nd hot spot race here & they are battling to get them there from around 65 odd miles sadly for their 2nd hot spot race. End of the day     easy to turn a blind eye etc maybe with the standards being set on the day , like with your RPRA race     but I can suggest the birds & owners there deserve a far better outcome somehow.

the rpra should be ashamed at its flagship one loft ,what an example eh...remember when we dared to criticise and our birds suddenly stopped performing the races this year are nothing but tosses and the losses are massive lets be fair this is the cream of every loft around the country

oldstrain wrote:

the rpra should be ashamed at its flagship one loft ,what an example eh...remember when we dared to criticise and our birds suddenly stopped performing the races this year are nothing but tosses and the losses are massive lets be fair this is the cream of every loft around the country

Water of a ducks back somehow I suggest etc unfortunately O/S  Crazy part for me here thou   I'm    with my thinking process     is that they are now basically in general terms the same birds with your race there as the local one here on average since the imports arrived here locally, back when.

the best year they had was when they sent them to the hotspots on a transporter with a racing organisation ,of course its easier to send them from the loft and not basket at a club and i get that but how much did the one loft transporter cost the rpra funds eh ,and has it been cost effective ....i just cant understand the whole set up really

numbers must come down 1500 is too many also should only be open to non club members who can't race for what ever reason

George & Morgan wrote:

numbers must come down  1500 is too many also should only be open to non club members who can't race for what ever reason

Under the right management structure & care etc George I could maybe quite easily mount a feasible case that 1500 birds is a manageable type number for a O/L race. Problem with the one here in question thou that we have had dealings with in the past is they keep shooting themselves in the foot type thing regularly from my perspective, with their general care somehow & the training of the birds there.

had 2 few years back they took them 3 mls for first toss let 300 go they got to the loft they then let 300 more go the first batch returned and got in with the 2nd batch loads loss from 3 mls was in 2 more olr run by con men one was M N F C
the other was in Summerset think most went in the bin in both to save on the corn bill

George & Morgan wrote:

had 2 few years back they took them 3 mls for first toss let 300 go they got to the loft they then let 300 more go the first batch returned and got in with the 2nd batch loads loss from 3 mls  was in 2 more olr run by con men one was M N F C
the other was in Summerset think most went in the bin in both to save on the corn bill

3 miles the day I knew here they were on the road to no where etc George was when they loaded their unit up there with birds & then let them all go in the paddock next door Don't remember them mentioning the losses at the time but I suspect somehow there would have been few there that didn't quite make home on the day     unfortunately .