todays race melton mowbray

hi don, do you train widowhood cocks once racing has started ? or just excercise round the loft.

exercise round the loft but if they go of boil then give them a toss

we stoped training once racing had started, they were doing maybe an hour twice a day so we thought it was good enough....i remember on the morning they would go off like ybs.....then we would let them come and go from the loft for a while,but not ages they would be clapping off the loft roof and circling round the house and landing again...

can't see anything wrong with that David

The only reason for the training is to put an edge back on them if they start to loss that edge they had at the start of the season

once you got the distance with them i dont think they need training

im going to train my ybs this year and also my 08 birds so that whan i race next year i might be able to compete with old birds as well...dont think ill have many ybs but i should have about 24 all being well, will that be enough to race with ?

more than enough david wish you all the luck next year

thanks ian, im learning as much as i can from our members to get me started next season....if i do manage to race old birds it will just be basic widowhood which will then progress to roundabout hopefully when ive got into it more, then with ybs i will try darkness so i can compete on even terms with thew other members in the club as with yb racing anyone can win.....

young bird racing is just as hard to win now with all these new systems like the dark the light and anymore which i am sure there is

your probably right ray, by what i see and read yb racing seems more competative nowadays than it used to be...

the reason that it harder is because people have more birds so your racing against bigger numbers

Dont know, have no clue

what you on about

Maybe i have a clue

I am here to learn more, not making a fool of anybody.

niel if i come across that i think i know everything i apoligise dont mean to just like to help soory you misinterpreted my reply before genuinly didnt mean anthing by it once again i sicerely appoligise

there have always been mob flyers in clubs , but do you think fanciers are breeding and keeping more than ever nowadays to try to compete with the top flyers, thinking that mob flying will get them a position....maybe they think that quantity is better than quality ? what do you think ?

yes i think your right david people think they have a better chance sending more but not always right

ian, do you think a small team flyer can still compete and be competative these days ?

yes i do you get to know your pigeons better personaly also manage them better quality not quantity

they dont get any smaller than mine...

not the size that counts david

thats what i keep telling the wife ian....