Given Up Pigeons

Mr Paul Osborne Alderney who has had pigeons for a very long time and has helped a lot of fanciers both british and channelislands with libs both training and racing has given up pigeons due due to the vast losses,
thanks Paul for all your hard work and friendship

why would you give up though,i,ve lost loads as has everyone else but i would,nt pack in,its up to him but i bet there is other deciding factors involved..its a shame that anyone has to pack in this great sport of ours..godluck to him in whatever else he decides to do

yes ray your right there is more to it then the losses although this is part of the reason but its family matters he has spent a fourtune on birds and like richard has said he has helped many fanciers uk and the Islands

Their are other things much more than losses it nothing to do with that its personal so I wont go down that line

Ginger wrote:

Their are other things much more than losses it nothing to do with that its personal so I wont go down that line

yes i thought so ,as you say thats his business,but just be honest if it others things we,ll not call him for that..i hope he sorts it out ......we are all different ,i could,nt imagine like without my birds even if i only had 2 i would still have them myself,or even if i helped someone else i would have to be involved in some way or other

its a shame to see him have to give em up i now what ya sayin Ray but he has no where to keep the birds and dont know if there are any other fanciers left on Alderney for him to go too but i would try an do the same as you and visit and hang around with someone that dose have them

richardpayne wrote:

Mr Paul Osborne Alderney who has had pigeons for a very long time and has helped a lot of fanciers both british and channelislands with libs both training and racing has given up pigeons due due to the vast losses,
thanks Paul for all your hard work and friendship

Sorry to hear the bad news

i think the losses are enough to force people to pack in, must be gut wrenching with a season like we had.

I suspect it will be finances (although maybe not in this case) that turn the sport upside down, when i sent to the yb races with food, training, racing etc it was costing £100 a week which isnt acceptable on our income and thats with a small team by todays standards.

I earn nice money for someone reasonably uneducated sitting in an office at my desk however not really enough to race pigeons week in week out hence deciding to have a go at the BICC and NFC etc

Everyone loses pigeons especially from from long distance races because they cannot all be good birds but losing more than say half of your birds once racing begins from less than 170 miles is not acceptable. The best thing to do is to keep records of the stock pairs and breed at least 6 to 8 ybs from each and then see what birds are left at the end of the short young bird season and which pairs bred them.
A lot of fanciers on various chatsites seem to think that because they lost their Young birds then they will breed some more young pigeons (latebreds) from the same "failed stock birds". The best move is to Eliminate the stockbirds and get some better ones, it will save time and money in the longrun.