Birds have you got missing

How
Many you got missing this week.2 for me

im not racing edgie, but ive heard some loosing half their pigeons.....

Had 2 out of 2 this week but lost 4 last week

We didn't race this week either, but lost 4 last week, afraid to race now in case we lose any more, with such a small team want at least a couple for next year.

Lofty wrote:

We didn't race this week either, but lost 4 last week, afraid to race now in case we lose any more, with such a small team want at least a couple for next year.

Lofty don't take this the wrong way mate but I would race them and what ever is left at the end of the season you can say when you race them next season you have the confidence in your birds knowing they have had plenty of road work on the wing

have lost 9 in two weeks but like they say basket sorts them out they have to go in my opinion for experience

What we have left are a couple of older ybs which have gone into a moult and some later bred ones, we're going to get these trained up and put them into the later races when we come back to Swindon and Newbury later , then what we've got left will do us for next year

we have lost one in our two races we race sundays so still time yet for him to turn in, stiff race today but good experience for them ...like you lofty some of mine are moulting now so have to be careful with those

Lofty wrote:

What we have left are a couple of older ybs which have gone into a moult and some later bred ones, we're going to get these trained up and put them into the later races when we come back to Swindon and Newbury later , then what we've got left will do us for next year

Lofty if you can give your birds plenty of schooling (training) up to 60 miles on an arch and if you have the time and what I mean is if you have 20 birds if you can liberate them in two's or as I would say double them up every 5 min intervals then your birds will be using there brains and homing instincts and plenty of this type of training will do your birds loads of good

Plus your not putting them under loads of stress rushing them training to get them on the transporter with anything from 1 to 3,000+ pigeons

I have won using this system and I know loads of fanciers winning using this same system mate

just had our last yb from todays race he was first to the loft last week that's ybs eh ...no losses racing yet but I am not so stupid to count me chickens just yet but its going well up to now and that's all you can ask for I hope other members get their birds back that they are missing ...good luck

had 1 return tea time this bird did not come back till Thursday tea time from the week before so put it back in this weekend, some may think that is a bit harsh but I think its what it needed,wake the bugger up that's what I say ,anyway it had another night out but I will wager it wont do it again,so only 1 missing now

Lost about 4 or 5 training or off the doors and 1 this week racing

edgie wrote:

had 1 return tea time this bird did not come back till Thursday tea time from the week before so put it back in this weekend, some may think that is a bit harsh but I think its what it needed,wake the bugger up that's what I say ,anyway it had another night out but I will wager it wont do it again,so only 1 missing now

Hard task man Edgie but cream always rises to the top

Don Webb wrote:

Lofty wrote:

We didn't race this week either, but lost 4 last week, afraid to race now in case we lose any more, with such a small team want at least a couple for next year.

Lofty don't take this the wrong way mate but I would race them and what ever is left at the end of the season you can say when you race them next season you have the confidence in your birds knowing they have had plenty of road work on the wing

I agree totally with Don, there is not much point in having untried or part tried pigeons in your loft.

If you KNOW that the y/bs you have are really top notch, than maybe keep them back from the longer races, but in my opinion, young birds need to be pushed a bit.

As Don said - if you don't work them hard, how do you know that what you are keeping back or have at the end of the season is the BEST you could have.

I know there have been losses this year, but show me a year when we don't have losses, especially with young birds.

That is my advice anyway. But you must do what you think is the best.

Phil

peel bros wrote:

Lost about 4 or 5 training or off the doors and 1 this week racing

4 or 5 See the trouble you can get into Ray when they are all ing all round you in the loft etc. For me 2/28   from my race which was a walk in the park scenario from 225 miles, but my toss yesterday was a 1/2 bird at a time trick  from 75 odd miles into a header with 7 being out on the night for me, with 6 coming through today fortunately, so I suspect I should be able ??? to scrape up a small team for this week end coming .  

speakin to a club member yesterday and he lost over half his ybs in Saturdays race......think he sent around 40 and got about 15 back.....

guy in our club sent 27 only got 11 ...think a few sick birds were in the baskets at least 4 of the 13 members who sent have sick birds us included not the whole team but about half but they are looking better and very hungry and alert again still on lockdown for a few more days yet though but they turned a corner today

yes I think your right oldstrain, a lot of sick pigeons are being sent racing, no wonder they don't make it home.

plus they infect other members birds.

it just shows what your up against,some pigeon persons don't learn,it stands to reason if you send birds to race they must be fit and well or you will loose them,and then they blame the pigeon,there is no bad pigeons only bad pigeon fanciers ?.

edgie wrote:

it just shows what your up against,some pigeon persons don't learn,it stands to reason if you send birds to race they must be fit and well or you will loose them,and then they blame the pigeon,there is no bad pigeons only bad pigeon fanciers ?.

yes I agree ...you know the ones as they have the most away or are the ones with the usual high yb losses ....I was chatting with a fancier yesterday who has had pigeons for 40 years he has a yb twisting its neck for over a week and asked me what to do with it and what has it got is it any wonder

is it because fanciers should be more vigilant and keep a closer eye on the pigeons health, droppings etc. and they miss the fact they arnt well....or is it that they don't give a feck and send them anyway...?

In the past if we had any problems we stopped our birds but I know for a fact others do send them..A lot still hide the fact when their birds are ill.they are ashamed or something .I think nowadays we should all help each other and it would be beneficial to us all but it all boils down to fear of getting beat ect ect .it should be like the old days all birds on equal par and the fancier with the best motivation methods ect ect be the ones at the top not the ones who use the best drugs and that

in my opinion nothing wrong with using treatments to keep your birds healthy as long as what your using is legal surely this is better for birds and fancier to keep them healthy , anybody who says they dont treat i dont beleive them jmo though

eamon Kelly was certainly best at what he did eh people do cheat with drugs in pigeons and prop birds up and sell them on and when they go to a new loft they go down ...the beytril and enrofloxacin boys are the worst culprits just to get a result but its all shortlived thankfully not all though just a percentage people will always try to cheat where theirs money theirs a con man