N.F.C. CHOLET

make my mind up time, must post my entry today, will give the birds a good going over this morning,see what might be going, (BUT) the weather dont look like it is going to do anybody any favours, it has forcast north -north-west winds, and we could have a hold over till sunday,this is 459 miles to me, no good moaning, off to go make my decision, one thing for sure everybody in the same boat.

entry now posted, decided to send 8 birds across the channel, fingers crossed ?.phisicly they are fine, mentaly well we will have to wait and see, still got 7 days to work on them before they go ? .

well done edgie, a brave decision........but like you say, everyone`s in the same boat and you gotta be in it to win it. good luck

good luck in the nfc edgie

cheers lads thanks for your support

edgie wrote:

cheers lads thanks for your support

Nice to see you having another crack etc, at it Edgie. I wish you well.
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edgie wrote:

make my mind up time, must post my entry today, will give the birds a good going over this morning,see what might be going, (BUT) the weather dont look like it is going to do anybody any favours, it has forcast north -north-west winds, and we could have a hold over till sunday,this is 459 miles to me, no good moaning, off to go make my decision, one thing for sure everybody in the same boat.

Fair play to you mate,460 miles this early in season a tough call,do you send to tarbs later,and is this your prep race before,as you must be flying around740miles from there
\best \wishes

yes good luck.let us know how you get on

GRIZZLECOCK wrote:

edgie wrote:

make my mind up time, must post my entry today, will give the birds a good going over this morning,see what might be going, (BUT) the weather dont look like it is going to do anybody any favours, it has forcast north -north-west winds, and we could have a hold over till sunday,this is 459 miles to me, no good moaning, off to go make my decision, one thing for sure everybody in the same boat.

Fair play to you mate,460 miles this early in season a tough call,do you send to tarbes later,and is this your prep race before,as you must be flying around740miles from there
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i have not raced in the n.f.c. for 4 years in fact not raced at all, due to not having a club, and barret builders building an estate right in front of me, i moved house last january converted some old out buildings that were knackerd,and turned them into my loft, settled around 60 birds, then set about breeding some youngsters, but alass my birds caught a virus, i lost two rounds of young birds, and most of my stock birds, i managed to sort the problem out with the help of my vet, and of course the usual bill,so then picked up the peices so to speak, and then got on with another round of youngsters, all birds over 4 years old were then disposed of, i now have 10 yearling cocks left all made home from carentan, these will be shelved till next season, the other 8 cocks i have all went to carentan with the exception of 1 , he has been as far as the coast, but these are 2 3 and 4 years old none have been this far in there life,in fact this is there first year racing, but they are booked in for cholet, this to me is a distance of around 460 miles, as for tarbes maybe not this year?, but i have not ruled it out, will see how these 8 cocks perform,tarbes is a distance of around 726 miles to me, hope this answers your question.

\best \wishes[/quote] i have not raced in the n.f.c. for 4 years in fact not raced at all, due to not having a club, and barret builders building an estate right in front of me, i moved house last january converted some old out buildings that were knackerd,and turned them into my loft, settled around 60 birds, then set about breeding some youngsters, but alass my birds caught a virus, i lost two rounds of young birds, and most of my stock birds, i managed to sort the problem out with the help of my vet, and of course the usual bill,so then picked up the peices so to speak, and then got on with another round of youngsters, all birds over 4 years old were then disposed of, i now have 10 yearling cocks left all made home from carentan, these will be shelved till next season, the other 8 cocks i have all went to carentan with the exception of 1 , he has been as far as the coast, but these are 2 3 and 4 years old none have been this far in there life,in fact this is there first year racing, but they are booked in for cholet, this to me is a distance of around 460 miles, as for tarbes maybe not this year?, but i have not ruled it out, will see how these 8 cocks perform,tarbes is a distance of around 726 miles to me, hope this answers your question. [/quote]

Interesting read Edgie, not by my standards would I class your situation as perfect etc as I imagine you also would agree. but !!!!!!!!! as you well know it only takes one pigeon & you could be sitting on top of the world.
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one thing is for sure, i am of the bottom rung of the ladder, but it is one hell of a long ladder to clime ?, but it wont be for the want of trying.

good luck in your quest for national racing edgie , i came out of the national this season due to my working hours and stop all the running about it causes , im just club racing at the mo but you can,t beat clocking a good one from the NFC it gets harder every year because every one ups there game . i will keep an eye out for results in future good luck and enjoy .

edgie wrote:

one thing is for sure, i am of the bottom rung of the ladder, but it is one hell of a long ladder to clime ?, but it wont be for the want of trying.

if your birds got balls as big as yours you will get them mate good for you

kev d wrote:

good luck in your quest for national racing edgie , i came out of the national this season due to my working hours and stop all the running about it causes , im just club racing at the mo but you can,t beat clocking a good one from the NFC it gets harder every year because every one ups there game . i will keep an eye out for results in future good luck and enjoy .

Your right there Kev d

edgie wrote:

one thing is for sure, i am of the bottom rung of the ladder, but it is one hell of a long ladder to clime ?, but it wont be for the want of trying.

Edgie fair play mate at least you have the balls to start at the bottom and say that than being like some fanciers full of you know what and stories to the reason why they havent sent

Hope all goes well for the next few years so you can get established then live the dream mate with a true and tested team of pigeons

GRIZZLECOCK wrote:

edgie wrote:

one thing is for sure, i am of the bottom rung of the ladder, but it is one hell of a long ladder to clime ?, but it wont be for the want of trying.

if your birds got balls as big as yours you will get them mate good for you

I will second that

thanks again for your coments and words of support, shit or bust i will put on hear weather we have done anygood or not ?, like you say only takes 1 , i will either be bouncing, or putting my head in the gas oven "ha ha" guess what im on electric,

the weather for the next 2 days is crap to say the least, so it looks like they will not get any training this week, they will be going on there own merrits, they all have a good reason to be home one way or another, depends how much they want to realy be home, definatley going to be a tough one?

edgie wrote:

thanks again for your coments and words of support, shit or bust i will put on hear weather we have done anygood or not ?, like you say only takes 1 , i will either be bouncing, or putting my head in the gas oven "ha ha" guess what im on electric,

Gas oven what ever the outcome & I'm sure you know by now I wish you well etc Edgie. But !!!!!!! if at the end of the day, it all goes belly up unfortunately & you have a tree handy I can lend you a rope.
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as long as he does,nt want my rope knackered.lol if we all hung ourselves due to results there would,nt be many of us left would there

If we all gave up cos of a bad race their wouldent be any one left but I think Ill give up and call them Hermins I could do with 3 mil just to make life a bit esyer

just had the birds exercising around 40 min, they are all enjoying a bath now in the puddles, they can then have there food, rest till tea time, in the loft or aviry there choice ?.

peel bros wrote:

as long as he does,nt want my rope knackered.lol if we all hung ourselves due to results there would,nt be many of us left would there

Actually !!!!!!!!, it is your rope Ray But it is good strong one & can be used more than once if required. I'm just happy thou that I have something I can share with every one here.
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just checked the weather for saturday, if the birds get liberation on time, we should have a good race, with winds forcast north westerly and north north westerly, sun on there backs most of the way home, apart from the distance between north and south lofts, it should be as good as it gets,no one has any real advantage, its work hard all the way home, the fit ones will come through and there the ones for the future, all i have to do now is send them,i have done all i can, now i will go pick the car winner? , still wish it was a van , good luck to all that are sending.

off to bed now , got to be on my way to sheffield early morning, just checked the weather again, looks still good to go saturday, i think it will be a decent bird around 12 hours for me,in fact i shall be very happy to get them home.