Training old birds

Do members still train widowhood cocks during racing season.a lot stop once racing starts but we still train ours.they will be going 45 miles once a week weather permitting. It only costs 3 pound a time so we are taking advantage of it.if we used our own transport it would cost us nearly a tenner for a 20 mile chuck..anyway who still trains ?

not the cocks but this year we are racing hens so we will see how they come because its expensive

when we raced before we stopped training widowhood cocks once they started racing, but since I restarted on the rare occasion ive raced old birds once racing has started ive still trained once a week, or if I didn't think they were getting enough exercise.....

peel bros wrote:

Do members still train widowhood cocks during racing season.a lot stop once racing starts but we still train ours.they will be going 45 miles once a week weather permitting. It only costs 3 pound a time so we are taking advantage of it.if we used our own transport it would cost us nearly a tenner for a 20 mile chuck..anyway who still trains ?

Differant strokes for differant folks Ray Costs me $15 for my weekly toss here for 60 odd miles etc & 5/6000 birds going in all directions is the norm there. 40 odd years ago I would have been up before dawn & 60 odd  miles down the track waiting for the sun to come up as such with my mate just raring to put them all up. Now all that is just part of my history & now I take the easy way & just think of it as $15 well spent.

don't usually train once they start racing by then the mrs has had a guts full of it

oldstrain wrote:

don't usually train once they start racing by then the mrs has had a guts full of it

Crack the whip O/S don't put up with her rebelling etc just tell her there are plenty of fish in the sea, happy to do the hard yards tossing your birds.

Our hens will go on 2x30, milers on Tuesday and Thursday weather permitting no toss today due to the lousy weather.The widowers won't go on any more trainers just loft fly unless they get lazy then they will go on a toss.

I will be training from 30 miles, hens 2 times a week and cocks 2 times a week until the distance goes up. Weather permitting of course.
I've got a delivery job that I have to go 30 miles every day on the line of flight.
Perfect for me,

Boosey wrote:

I will be training from 30 miles, hens 2 times a week and cocks 2 times a week until the distance goes up. Weather permitting of course.
I've got a delivery job that I have to go 30 miles every day on the line of flight.
Perfect for me,

i think if they are flying well around the loft then no training but if not and all is well they should be trained ours will be as i think their is no substitute for training they just dont work as hard just flying

Boosey wrote:

I will be training from 30 miles, hens 2 times a week and cocks 2 times a week until the distance goes up. Weather permitting of course.
I've got a delivery job that I have to go 30 miles every day on the line of flight.
Perfect for me,

Perfect Boosey but I hope someone is going to get the birds in for you

Boosey wrote:

I will be training from 30 miles, hens 2 times a week and cocks 2 times a week until the distance goes up. Weather permitting of course.
I've got a delivery job that I have to go 30 miles every day on the line of flight.
Perfect for me,

Must be a tough job their Boosey putting up with those type of conditions etc.

Boosey wrote:

I will be training from 30 miles, hens 2 times a week and cocks 2 times a week until the distance goes up. Weather permitting of course.
I've got a delivery job that I have to go 30 miles every day on the line of flight.
Perfect for me,

eutopia

shippy wrote:

Boosey wrote:

I will be training from 30 miles, hens 2 times a week and cocks 2 times a week until the distance goes up. Weather permitting of course.
I've got a delivery job that I have to go 30 miles every day on the line of flight.
Perfect for me,

eutopia

It can be Shippy depending on what one is carrying etc. Years ago here I used to do a similar thing, Sadly       one time a large container of spirits of salts spilled all over the back of my truck without me knowing & my birds did not really appreciate it at all at the time & were total rat sh*te     for the rest of the season unfortunately.