Birds not flying well at home

Hi all. Im after more advice please. I fly my birds on natural and always have done. I just cant seem to get my birds to fly round the loft, its a problem i have always had. I only have 7 pairs and have never kept many more. They only fly on average for 20 minutes, then they land and want to go straight in the loft. They are beating me home from training now. In the last few years i have done well from the channel races and even winning the fed, and getting very good returns from very very hard channel races. I watch other peoples birds flying and they are flying for ages. Do you think it should be something to worry about or just leave them to it. Thanks for reading Mass

my mates fly same ass u they dont fly that good round home u after keep naturals training hard how far u gettin them mate

its hard to keep natural birds excercising well,training is the key i would think.try letting them out so that thet clap about then train them,i bet they improve

nikkimass35 wrote:

Hi all. Im after more advice please. I fly my birds on natural and always have done. I just cant seem to get my birds to fly round the loft, its a problem i have always had. I only have 7 pairs and have never kept many more. They only fly on average for 20 minutes, then they land and want to go straight in the loft. They are beating me home from training now. In the last few years i have done well from the channel races and even winning the fed, and getting very good returns from very very hard channel races. I watch other peoples birds flying and they are flying for ages. Do you think it should be something to worry about or just leave them to it. Thanks for reading Mass

i wouldnt worry about them they are just keen to the loft nothing wrong in that just train them a few times a week to keep them on there toes sure they will be ok come race day thats all that matters

Hi ya i have been letting them out before training and it does help. I have only got them 11 miles and that is how far as i can get them really as i dont drive and am relying on people, they are well home before i am. They have had about 5 or 6 tosses, as my first race is only 66 miles. They have all been raced and my first race is saturday. Do you think they will be ok to send only having 5 or 6 tosses. Cheers Mass

Hi Ian. I think your right they seem very keen to the loft. The birds are in great condition and look very well. I let them out this evening after work, they were flying 10 minutes and you could here the cocks calling for the hens, i suppose it was time to change over on the eggs, and the hens were dropping out the pack straight onto the loft. I suppose that is one of the down sides of racing natural. Cheers Mass

they will be ok, as long as trained like you say

very strange

hi mate , if the birds are coming well in there races and training why worry the birds
are obviously content in the suroundings and love there home
you seem to be doing ok to me well done on your past performances keep it up .
i also fly natural cheers kev

Hi kev thanks for the reply. The thing that gets to me most is, if they flew longer round the house im sure i would get more good results. For example i bread my mate some late breads out of my family of birds, and his pigeons fly for over an hour and he was getting cards from sprint races and even winning pointers 366 miles with latebreds.Yes i do ok from the channel races but would also love to compete at the shorter races, I just dont know. Next year i wuill put them on roundabout i think.

i dont think you will get naturals to fly for long as they will be wanting to get back to their mates or ybs/eggs etc......what about having them open hole ???

exactly

could it just be the birds are quite content?i dont race pigeons but it seems to me on watching taking on tyson one of the problems they have is birds finishing.if i were you i would worry more if the birds were sitting out for hours.

it was the same with my ybs last year (2010), when they were cocks and hens all in the same section they were pairing up and not wanting to fly much round home.........then when i seperated the cocks and hens the hens flew or hours, altho the cocks didnt fly that long they still flew longer than if they had been left togeather.

i had the same problem aswell last year but i paired 2 months later this year david so might leave them together when did you pair last year mine were paired december 15th

think i pair round about end of december darren, this year i waited till 5th feb but think i made a bit of a mistake and shoud have paired maybe 3 weeks earlier........

i paired at that time david aswell and thought i should have earlier but things are comeing together now mate

think i will pair mine around same time i think next year worked out quite well really for me but will see. maybe blackpool weekend im not sure

Mass can not see anything wrong with your birds but what i would say is naturals have to be trained a lot more than compared to widowhood cocks mate

If your freind is winning sprint races with your birds you must be feeding a little more than compared to your freind