pit stop...........

2 years ago i got in a lost racer,reported it to the s.u and gave the guy the bird back.last summer the bird came back to me and i fed it on top of the loft.it stayed about 40 mins on the house roof then went home i think.the guy lives about 15 miles south of me so maybe it now uses me as a pit stop for a feed.if i see the bird this year do you think i should not feed it as its stopping the bird getting home on good time.

if it comes to you before returning home then it is beat already so feeding it wont make any difference if this bird was mine i know what would happen if i knew

well the thing is he didnt know as i nevr contacted him the second time but he may have sussed it out if his bird came home with a crop full of feed lol

hi geordiejen, maybe you might not see the bird anyway as the owner might have binned it because of it coming back late........some fanciers will only give so many chances and if they keep failing they are gone.....

dont think i could be a racing man becaus i cant put a healthy bird in the bin.

Mark will remember this Charlie once trained is youngsters with us, he had a chocolate hen which always came back to my place it would go home first then turn round and come back to my loft, so used to ring charlie tell him she was here, that bird even scored 4th 2 counties combine for him he still as her tothis day she no longer pays me a visit she as won many prizes on the channel for charlie
Ken

just goes to show ken that even good birds can make a mistake cant they, that where your excellent records could come in handy ken.......

Lol she came back on purpose, she only did it as a young bird after that she never bothered
Ken

three mistakes and they are out thats my motto no room for rubbish

End of the day ian she was not rubbish and repaid charlie back upteen times
Ken

i wasnt refering to her ken was just stating what i do

sorry Ian no problem
ken

we can be wrong tho probably got rid of some good birds over the years but you cant keep everything what do you do

Thats very true i bet a lot of good pigeons have gone , all i can say is charlie saw something in this bird that made him persivere with it
Ken

if you get riid you will never know anyway,but we all do that i have and sometimes regretted it

this is going back to what i said before your gut feeling for certain birds

I got to be honest if birds keep coming i dont care where they have been, just shows they got brains. send them on a long channel race with that kind of experience they might come good. Wouldnt kil a healthy bird if it comes home.

even if its late everyweek

ian wrote:

even if its late everyweek

if its late everyweek i would let it go end of year

The only thing i would say never kill anything until the end of the season

Many times killed old birds at the end of the old bird season , and yes there young birds have gone on to win and win well

if you get rid of old birds then get rid of there young then they wont prove you wrong

i would,nt get rid untill end of season because you never know like you say,that happened to me i tried a cock that raced ok and paired it with a good hen that won and they bred a hen to win a yb race for me and that same bird won today as well...so there you go be carefull lik ian says gut instinct

Agree Ray, but just saying what has happened in my early days, but from experience always waited till the end of the whole season

that what ray says wait until nd of season

read it wrong sorry Ray