HOW FAR YOU GOING TO SEND YB THIS YEAR

hi chaps just a question how far you going to send your yb this season , mine have been to 94 miles and im picking four out for the NFC yb national in 2 weeks time

how far is your longest race for you, in n. ireland it used to be just over 300 mls inland

as i live in somerset we can,t really get any distance for yb racing but the yb national
will be 204 miles to me from fourgers .

our furthest race is Messac 120 mile all mine will be goin if not to far into their moult

Mine is to Carentan in France which is 240 miles. It's my intention to send but I'm not entirely decided yet - it depends on what I've got left, how they are in their moult and how they've come in the previous race(s).

thy will go to 246 miles in the club .
but if we go to the young bird national thats 320 miles.

kelso 298 miles for a select few

mine will go the full program,to many members think there ornaments,my pigeons have got to earn there crust lol,dont fancy feeding a team that are no good,all winter to lose them as yearlings

Madas you say you are sending your youngbirds all the way, if you send half your birds to the race and keep the other half home, I dont mean the ones that are no good some you think will be allright and see next year on a par how many you have left compered to the ones you have flown I think you will find the young one that was trained and not pushed you would have just as many if not more than the ones you flow the year befor things are going wrong with young birds now, you try it and see I think its got something to do with the vacination but thats my way of thinking any way

This is my opinion we are breeding too many youngsters,which leads to over crowding which is no good for the birds, we are breeding allmost from everything, we are not being serlective enough with the birds breed less and things would or should get better, We all no what problems the birds have to face these days, but I dont think we are doing anything to help the way we are going, a few years ago there was small back garden lofts/sheds where they had to breed from the good ones as their was not enough room to house all and I think then they where on a par better flyers then they lost some but they allways had their 20 24 in the loft I dont think the birds are as good now as they was then we might be getting better results but we are lossing a hell of a lot more birds WHERE HAVE WE GONE WRONG

mine are at 137 miles at the moment, our next race is billericay which im not sure of the distance, im not going to push them too far because i will need them as an oldbird team next season as ive only got 8 ybs......so if i loose them i`ll be back to square one again,the trouble is i need to decide when to stop them and when to send ???

why keep pigeons that aint gonna do anything for u?,wots point in feeding them all through winter just to loose em at the start of next season?, in my experience if u dont send them as young birds they make shite old birds

Madas all I was trying to say if you want to keep going with pigeons you have to builed a team of birds you should keep some for next year not all if you have trained them they be allright just trying help some one stay in pigeons I have made all the mistakes you can think of and will make a lot more if you loss all your birds it dont make me any richer or poorer just trying to help

madas26 wrote:

why keep pigeons that aint gonna do anything for u?,wots point in feeding them all through winter just to loose em at the start of next season?, in my experience if u dont send them as young birds they make shite old birds

in a way i agree midas, ive found that ybs who dont race were no good and i lost them pretty quickly.........also the reason why im considering stopping my ybs is because i only have 8 ybs and if i push tem any further and loose them this means i dont have an old bird team for next year, as ive just restarted in the sport after a long lay off im finding it very hard to get a team built up...........

i no when i raced there were some flyers that never raced young birds but still had top results racing them as yearlings and older.and if you dont race your young birds but still train theres no reason they should not turn out just as good.

david is there a reason you only have 8 young birds to race and what do you think will be there best distance as old birds .as you have kept pigeons before you must know young bird results mean very little i did post that the wind this weekend was going to be north east not sure if it still is so you could do well this weekend or get cleaned out it is a difficult decision good luck what ever you do

ive heard that the K index the sun solar flares is going to be very high this weekend
so take care with sending yb .

rainbow wrote:

david is there a reason you only have 8 young birds to race and what do you think will be there best distance as old birds .as you have kept pigeons before you must know young bird results mean very little i did post that the wind this weekend was going to be north east not sure if it still is so you could do well this weekend or get cleaned out it is a difficult decision good luck what ever you do

hi rainbow, i only started with 11 ybs this year.......this is due to sending 2 to ian for the fut race, and 4 to mark brown for the nfc test loft, i also sent 2 to martyn for the yb exchange so out of originally breeding 20 ybs i was left with approx 12, and by the time i started to race i had 11 to compete with...........

one thing i have learned tho is to breed as many as i can in one round, and keep them all to race because after joining the club two seasons ago im still no wiser as to which, if any are any good.

thanks for the tip re the weather, im maybe thinking to save them at home until our comeback race.......no point throwing them away.