Everyone finished Breeding ?

that's it now, no more ybs this year....have just taken away 20 eggs and replaced with plastic ones.

just a few ybs in nest still but once they are weaned that's it for this year....

Got a few in the nest and 4 off my best pairs then done...I will have about 90 lol

Ah but I have brought in 32 in

no more ybs here now ...all on dummy eggs

I have one left will be parted in a week or so, very pleased from a 2004 cock which is sire and grand sire of good pigeons

The widower and roundabout flyers would probably have not seen young in the nest since March

peel bros wrote:

Got a few in the nest and 4 off my best pairs then done...I will have about 90 lol

Chicken farmer Just put my last lot out on the landing board here etc & now I have to figure out how to bring them all up to scratch by early June for our first race. Shouldn't be an issue as they will be all old birds as we class them down here.

David wrote:

that's it now, no more ybs this year....have just taken away 20 eggs and replaced with plastic ones.

just a few ybs in nest still but once they are weaned that's it for this year....

I guess I am a bit different to the rest of you guys that are racing.

As you may know by now - I am starting again from scratch, having just come back into our sport after a long time away due to illness. I had to have an emergency Liver Transplant.

I only have 4.5 pairs of breeding birds and will be breeding as long as I can - maybe up until the end of July. I need to build myself a new family of quality birds, so I can have a go at the Y/B program in 2017.

QUESTION - Are any of you lovely people breeding for you top Stock Birds still? I understand that the racers will not have any more babies, but do you treat your stock birds differently - OR would you normally stop breeding from ALL your birds around this time of year?

I am really looking forward to hearing all about your racing seasons - so keep posting. atb

Phil (blueskylofts)

Everyone should not be breeding of racers especially sprint ones.distance ones might be different. The stock birds could still be breeding. I for one still have some more to come out of my stock but only selected one

phil...it makes life a lot easier if the ybs are all around the same age for vaccinating etc....

Totally agree if you can do that

oldstrain wrote:

phil...it makes life a lot easier if the ybs are all around the same age for vaccinating etc....

Easy to say O/S harder to achieve thou at times I'm  . Always a risk factor with what ever way one may decide to do/go with  the vaccination scenaro. Now, Phil being your first year back with new stock etc which way you choose I suspect sadly, you will be on a hiding to nothing type of thing for many reasons from my point of view. Next year when your stock are more settled there I have confidence on you having a much better breeding season as such. If your fortunate enough to find good healthy stock that like to breed like chooks & 6 rounds should be like a walk in the park for them I suspect.

We will be moving the last 2,this weekend then that's it split them up and let them have a rest.

I re started approx. 6 years ago, after a 20 year break.....I bought 6 pigeons and bred ybs off them, now after breeding and introducing other pigeons ive more than I want to have and need to cut numbers drastically. if I was in the position of starting again with 6 pigeons, I would breed very slowly, and only introduce very few birds....I would do this over a few year period and not rush to establish a team of birds, otherwise its easy to loose control and be over stocked if you are not racing every week.

I had a late start so I'm letting mine go again, just to try and get some ybs to race and, hopefully, have some for next years old bird racing

Like me david.far to many

just starting to ween the young birds of the racers and the stock are just hatching their first round

markevans wrote:

just starting to ween the young birds of the racers and the stock are just hatching their first round

Why this late Mark with your stock birds?

Phil

too many birds phil was not going to have any young birds this year but changed my mind so paired the stock up on easter sunday race birds only had two training tosses up to yet maybe another three weeks before any racing for me

Lofty wrote:

I had a late start so I'm letting mine go again, just to try and get some ybs to race and, hopefully, have some for next years old bird racing

what did the 1st round come out like m8

oldstrain wrote:

Lofty wrote:

I had a late start so I'm letting mine go again, just to try and get some ybs to race and, hopefully, have some for next years old bird racing

what did the 1st round come out like m8

Pm on its way daz

okey dokey bud

i am still breeding in my little s/loft 3 pair as they are getting on and i want some younger stock that are not prisoners

shippy wrote:

i am still breeding in my little s/loft 3 pair as they are getting on and i want some younger stock that are not prisoners

Sounds reasonable to me Shippy . Perfect world for me would be to have all stock birds free to roam at will. Sadly I'm when one takes in the risk factor, it is but a dream . Especially when you have 33 pair .  

Must admit I hate prisoner stock but it has to be

I think it is a bonus if you have prisoner birds that you have an aviary .....they can enjoy the sun, rain and fresh air, plus have a nice safe bath......