Spoke too soon............

had a good first trainer yesterday, but took them same place today and when i got home one cock was already there.................then most of the others came 20 mins later in a bunch with the 4 latecomers ariving an hour later..........

when the main bunch came home i noticed about 3 other pigeons with them which flew off when mine landed so im wondering if mine clashed with someone elses birds.....?

still one missing tho, so ill be lucky to see that again i think........

seems like that david,but the best ones get home as they use their brains

still no sign of the one which didnt come back yesterday, that makes two training tosses and two birds lost.....................

wonder how many ill have for the first race.............

that,s why most people breed a few extra david just to cover loses
i my self don,t race yb but they get a few chucks up to 20 miles
but i start them off when there a little older so i don,t rush them
and there still ok as yearlings well most are any way .
i think it,s realy heart breaking when you have a loft full of yb one minute
and the next minute the loft is empty it makes you wander why you bother .

hi kev, yes your right......ive thought the same myself, after all the looking after and feeding every day and all the rest of the work we put into them, they are lost in an instance............

lofts looking empty already, be lucky to get to the first race............first two are newark for me which is approx 56 miles.

i know david that,s what makes me so bloody fed up with it all
this season i started with 20 old birds just before the first race i sent them to
i was thinking to my self there flying well and look and handle realy good it was only 40 od miles
to me it was like waiting for a channel race and i droped 3 birds all flown in national races the season before
and it was the same week after week now im down to 4 left what can you do you can,t blame the hawks every time im just at a loss to whats happened .

your right kev, cant blame the hawks every time....................did others in the club suffer heavy losses too? also by what ive read over this ob season the weather hasnt been too kind to them and theres been some tough races for them, and as we know there are a minefield of obsticles along route. maybe someone with more experience than me could throw some light on why so heavy losses.....?

yes it,s the same every year but with having a small team you can never get a good team together
you always relying on yearlings or a couple two year olds and thats not good enough , this season i think as been one of the worst i can remember even the shorter land races and shorter channel races have had bad loses and you never seem to get them back or reported . but the one thing realy i think is the cause is down to the high use of mobile phone users nearly every single person as one transmitters every where there is one less than half a mile from me at the local rugby club built in to the flood lights not many people know its there cos the club gets paid a fortune for it been on there land and people whould complain being it to close to the houses but most people dont see it .