yearings laid

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Ian great minds think alike

ian wrote:

DAVID wrote:

would never get rid of a yb that had done nothing racing, would definately race it as a yearling and also try it as a two year old.....if it had not shown or done anything by this time i think as a racer its not much good.

yes maybe 9 times out of ten you will be correct but you still get that gut feeling about certain pigeons and they can prove you wrong

yes would agree more or less ian, but how long do you give them to show something.....?

Yes how like would you concider keeping a pigeon Ian with that gut feeling

i not saying you keep everything until 3 4 year olds all iam saying is that sometimes you get a gut feeling about a pigeon even when it hasnt done anything for two years but has been steady you wont understand as you have to be dedicated and watch them all the time then youll know what iam talking about

over 20 years ago i kept everything, wont be doing same again, marking y/bs and yearlings in book for each race any consistantly behind i wont be keeping

thats what youve got to do steve write down everything youll not go far wrong

I agree Ian you have to watch your pigeons and if it's a steady pigeon yes one more chance just to be let down, but i have done that in the past gut feeling second chance

Steve if you keep a record of everything during the racing season this will help you loads and make it a little easier at the end of the season

yes true

Always made notes made things easy when having to sort things out

been keeping notes better this year, but still forgot to note what day i paired them up......

im always writeing things down i have a wall in the loft full of little notes and the writeing pad with everything in there

Phil your a star in the making

if im talking to other flyers and they say somethink to me about birds i write it down i was talking to a old flyer which raced 32 year ago to day and he was onabout the old days when u never use to treat birds and never give this and could never do this and he said just wacth ur birds for a hour aday then u will learn ... u notic little things when u wacth them .. i wrote it down .. then he was talking about basketing for race day try and be the last one just befor the truck leaves ... less stress on the birds then ...
and he said there wasnt as many daft rules about and he said he couldnt race now ...

as any body tryed settleing birds with washing lic rub into the wings just that i was going to try this on a bird dose it work

yes phil have heard this before, i should think it would help as they wont be able to fly very good....

That's a new one to me Phil

or should i have said old one

phil411 wrote:

if im talking to other flyers and they say somethink to me about birds i write it down i was talking to a old flyer which raced 32 year ago to day and he was onabout the old days when u never use to treat birds and never give this and could never do this and he said just wacth ur birds for a hour aday then u will learn ... u notic little things when u wacth them .. i wrote it down .. then he was talking about basketing for race day try and be the last one just befor the truck leaves ... less stress on the birds then ...
and he said there wasnt as many daft rules about and he said he couldnt race now ...

an old guy in our club told me put a chair in with birds [ive got a fold away chair] and sit in loft with birds for 40 minutes a day, they get used to you better, and as Don says you see things happening what you normally wont see in the birds

About sitting with birds, when i was a young lad would place a little foot stool in the youngbird section and after a few weeks talking to them or just sitting there reading a pigeon book, the youngbirds would get used to me andsometimes come and rest on me

There were many times my mom or dad would come down the loft and wake me up as many a time i feel a sleep in the section

phil411 wrote:

as any body tryed settleing birds with washing lic rub into the wings just that i was going to try this on a bird dose it work

I would'nt have thought that was a good idea, if the bird decides to preen it's self it may well be sick. How old is the bird Phil and how long have you had him/her?

If your not going to race it this year why dont you cut just one wing down.

(How's colleen doing?)

hi amanda i have got two from local lad witch would be easy but i was going to try the ones from ian to see if they will settle in

colleen is in slow labour so could be anytime now ... there was a water lost yesterday and mid wife said any time ... but if not then she is in section on the 19th

this wouldnt be a good idea phil as the lad they come from has sold up so if they go missing then its bye bye