Question .why

Just wondering if anyone still keep birds in on the day of basketing. If so why ..We get ours out Friday weather permitting

i have done ray, simply for the reason I feed them early Friday morning, plus if they are exercising on Friday they might not come in, or might stay out longer than you want .....its just safer really if your wanting to basket them that day.

Ok .good answer

peel bros wrote:

Just wondering if anyone still keep birds in on the day of basketing. If so why ..We get ours out Friday weather permitting

I'm one of those that tends to keep them in on basket day Ray etc. Being winter here, nothing to be gained by having them all out in crap type weather as such & I suspect they are happier sitting on their perch with a good feed in their belly for when they go away. Now !!! short story talking to tubby little fat bloke today etc & he told me one of my old club mates told him on Friday night basketing his birds had to much food in there crop, with which he just smiled & moved on . The man had egg on his face thou as he again was placed in the Fed race today & that makes it 3/3 with around 2500 birds in each race.

I leave for work early Ray and I like to be about incase I have a cat in the garden,

Great answers lads .that what I want to hear .why

im exactley the opposit my birds go out at 7am every day, i feed them on basket day 9am , then let them out all day, put a bath on for them, then get them back in the loft 3pm with seed and peanuts,do it every day simple routine so no problem, during the week when not racing, they are let out again at 6pm after young birds exercise, and left till approx 8-9 pm, its called an open loft type of thing.

edgie wrote:

im exactley the opposit my birds go out at 7am every day, i feed them on basket day 9am , then let them out all day, put a bath on for them, then get them back in the loft 3pm with seed and peanuts,do it every day simple routine so no problem, during the week when not racing, they are let out again at 6pm after young birds exercise, and left till approx 8-9 pm, its called an open loft type of thing.

No issues with the above at the end of the day     we do what suits our own particular situation I suspect. Ask a100 differant people & you will get a 100 differant answers .

don't let ours out on Friday

when I was racing widowhood cocks would stay in the loft but when I was ready to basket them would place them in the basket take the 2 miles and they would come back to the hens 2minutes straight into the basket

YBs would get them out early between 5.00 - 5.30am get the in 7.00am light feed clean water but at 12.00 - 12.30 would give them another light feed but would take the water out the loft before I feed the YBs

would place fresh water back into the loft 2 hours before they were basketed for the race doing this I know the birds had plenty of water and were hydrated for the coming race