Anyone training YBs yet...

is anyone training their ybs yet or planning on starting soon...?

I am starting to train mine a little and hope to get them going more soon. But as you know I live a long way away from the general public on this site.

going to start training the week after they come off the dark

how far you had them to chad...?

oldstrain wrote:

going to start training the week after they come off the dark

is that on the longest day darren, and are they ranging well now.....?

David wrote:

how far you had them to chad...?

Maybe 300 feet
I am trying to hold the older ones back while my last few catch up.

thats a problem i have at the moment, my older birds are flying and the youngers second rounders are only fluttering around just now, and cannot compete against the older birds at feeding time, so ive had to seperate them into two sections for now.

Thats what I did at first and now everybody lives together, I just dont fly them all together yet. It probably wouldnt hurt I just baby mine

i have mine living seperat but once the older ybs have had a fly i then let the younger birds out and they all peck around the loft which learns the younger ones to know where they live and stay around home untill they are a bit older/bigger.

David wrote:

oldstrain wrote:

going to start training the week after they come off the dark

is that on the longest day darren, and are they ranging well now.....?

just this last few days they been ranging david and im taking mine off the dark this weekend as i wont be racing ybs late september our last club race is the 3rd then two opens which i may not enter see how its gone

Just started; 3 chucks and coming ok so far. I think I might be a bit early as we don't start the YB program until the 3rd Sat in Jul but was prompted by Mark getting the One-lofter's going plus I'll be taking it gently for the next 2 weeks and they're accompanied by at least one yearling, I can't risk a big loss as I've only got the 10.

ah right, so how far on with the moult are they darren...? are they nearly done ?

yes nearly all david apart from a few distance ybs which will only have a few races anyway

ah right, so did you put them on when the clocks altered or when you weaned them.....?

the day the clocks altered david

right, so they have had the full time needed then, i did the same last year but with pairing later this year missed the clocks altering............think i`ll leave them on a bit longer see if they catch up..........

most leave until the longest day david dont they but thats because they want to race through to late september in the opens and nationals and classics mine should be ok for club programme

yes your right darren, ive only got 12 older ybs which have been on the dark longer........so if i can keep the younger 23 ybs dark for a while longer it might stop them dropping to bits and hold the wing flights a bit longer.......

I took mine off darkness saturday david, should give me enough of an advantage, theres only 2 of us in the club on darkness. plus i wont send to the last few.

and how far on in the moult are they alex.....?

YES ITS THAT TIME WE ALL DREAD Y/B TRAINING ALL THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU

JUST GO EASY DONT RUSH THEM AND DONT TAKE CHANCES IF THE WEATHER ISNT

RIGHT IF IN DOUBT LEAVE FOR ANOTHER DAY

Alex wrote:

I took mine off darkness saturday david, should give me enough of an advantage, theres only 2 of us in the club on darkness. plus i wont send to the last few.

your too early alex should have waited until the longest day about three weeks time, it will make a difference

ian wrote:

Alex wrote:

I took mine off darkness saturday david, should give me enough of an advantage, theres only 2 of us in the club on darkness. plus i wont send to the last few.

your too early alex should have waited until the longest day about three weeks time, it will make a difference

i did think that ian...i was going to keep them on till the longest day