widowhood?

hi there, last year was my first season racing and i raced semi natural because all i had were latebreds to race. i have decided to race widowhood this year and was just after some advice i have three 2 year olds, twelve yearlngs and one ten year old stock cock i broke and raced 4 times last year. any advice on any area thank you.

did you say you raced a ten year old 4 times ,at what distance

2xpoole 90 mile 1xpoitiers 365 miles.

sorry 4th was kingsdown 110

did you win anything

ian thought you ment you raced the stock cock at ten years old lol

are you planning on racing the ten year old

i did race the ten year old and i will send him again this year. he flew pau 3 times for the guy i got him off.

i think ya may be pushing ya luck mate at 11 years old

i think the 10 year old has done his bit and the old man deserves to be retired for stock as 3 x pau is a fair shout and he might breed you some good youngsters

bazzio73 wrote:

i did race the ten year old and i will send him again this year. he flew pau 3 times for the guy i got him off.

think you should put him to stock before you loose him think you might go one too many surprised hes still there now to be honest

yes me too, keep him at home for stock.......as for the others i see no reason why they shouldnt fly widowhood as long as the yearlings have had some experience at racing as young birds.......

p.s. as far as i know ron green who owned/trained the famous breakaway (59 1sts) eventually sent him one time too many and lost him.....

DAVID wrote:

yes me too, keep him at home for stock.......as for the others i see no reason why they shouldnt fly widowhood as long as the yearlings have had some experience at racing as young birds.......

p.s. as far as i know ron green who owned/trained the famous breakaway (59 1sts) eventually sent him one time too many and lost him.....

Yes your correct

The one thing i would say about age is look at this years squills front cover that cock at 11 years of age was clocked in from Barcelona for me if the bird is conditioned correctly and not seen to many miles then it is up to the fancier

don, a pigeon fancier at the end of my street has been to ron greens loft and he said he had handled breakaway........many years ago tho`

David everyone handled Breakaway mate and every top fancier paid money for there hens to be treaded by breakaway also

don i also got told breakaway only ever raced the shorter races and that if two or three birds all came togeather ron would always clock breakaway first rather than another bird, to build up his winning record.........have you heard this ?

Yes mate that is 100% true, if 3 birds came together Breakaway was the first in the clock

Was told once that Ron had 4 cocks in the loft before Breakaway came waited for him clocked him in and then clocked the other 4 in 1,2,3,4 club not sure about fed results

This aways happened loads of times

thanks everyone, any tips on training for widowhood.

so if he has clocked the bird first in his loft when actually it was maybe 3rd 4th or 5th or whatever isnt this faulse results in order to sell birds , not getting away from it was a top bird , how many other people do this to sell pigeons

in this day ian i doubt many because if you blink you lost the race mate
and for me it would be doing the first bird to the loft an injustist

birdy2011 wrote:

in this day ian i doubt many because if you blink you lost the race mate
and for me it would be doing the first bird to the loft an injustist

and with ets it would be difficult which most use today

yes your right but you can see what i was getting at , is it right

besides it would be nice to have 4 or five drop together and have a choice lol

ian wrote:

yes your right but you can see what i was getting at , is it right

i understand what your saying ian, and altho the others who say the use of ets would make this hard....i do agree some will still do it to create a champion, which means big money for any yb bred from it.