condition of birds

what is the condition of your young birds , are they fit to finish the programme, will they still have there feathers , or will they be dropping in the moult ,how far do you intend to send them ?, and do they realy need to go ,we have 3 weeks left we have a 150 miles a 177 miles and 205 miles, plus midland national 200 miles and 300 miles, think I will give the midlands a big miss , don't trust them, as for club will play it by ear, my birds are in very good condition and look the part , the lights are on till 10 pm, but it can go all t**s up over night , there is also the weather factor, good luck to all , soon be over

Our young birds are in real condition good feathering and bloom on the flights our cocks will get this race this week which is Bath 163,miles then they will be stopped the hens will go to the next race then they could be stopped all depends on the weather not going to throw them away.

Not blowing our own trumpet so to speak but our ybs are in fantastic condition as I would expect at this time if year but we are on the dark .it's makes all the difference. .ours barr certain ones will go all the way

Mine are falling apart, I had sickness so they were shut in for 2 weeks then I went on holiday for 11 days, when I got back some were balder than me. :

will most of the natural ybs be too far into the moult by now to race again...?

mine are on their 6 and 7th flight but differ in their body moult the ones too far gone have been stopped the others will have their last race on sunday

will you be trying darkness for the ybs next season Darren, or staying with natural...?

have had darkies david and raced out to 300 mile with them ...will be reverting back to darkness next year it was just not possible to do this year ...we have done well to get 4 races into the naturals this year

Very hard on natural. Even harder on allotments when you see darkest 20 mins before yours. That's why we went back on the dark to compete..at the end of the day being on the dark doubles your chances of winning because not many birds get past the yearling stage anyway