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Well its been a class first season with my old birds. As some of you will be aware I won my first ever old bird race taking 1st club and 5th fed. After that things have been a bit lean with the birds coming well but being a few mins behind the winners most weeks apart from the channel races which have been gash.

Have sent on average 7 -10 birds a race on natural system against people sending 40 - 60's on widowhood and roundabout. All my birds are yearlings. Lost only 5 birds all season mostly from the channel.

Figured out where I had went wrong with my feeding and sorted it a few weeks ago with one bird just missing out on 10th fed by 2 seconds.

Well this week the birds have excelled themselves and my hard work has paid off.

This weekend won:-

1st club, 1st Fed (beat fed by 2 minutes) (Beat next bird in club by 5 minutes) (Busschaert hen that won first race for me)

3rd Club, (fed pos unknown but in top 10) (Gaby Hen brought off Mike Lycett in 07 to race)

I'd like to thank Davey Barkel and Jim Bambling for their advice. Also like to thank Mike Lycett for the bird that won the third she's been unlucky as has a string of near misses to her credit.

Now the young bird season approaches and I'm on the dark as well as natural this year so I hope I do a bit better than last year where I only got a poxy fourth all YB Season.

well done paulo

well done and may you win many more races

keep up the good work and keep it simple and consistant, that way you won't go far wrong!

Phil

Well Done mate pleased to say the Advice is working lol and topping the fed aswell in your first season against some very good flyers you can't do any better than that !!! keep it up and build on it !!!

well done paulo your hard work n dedication have paid off....

Thanks lads best feeling is beating the mob men with their 4 helpers lots of cash and lots of pigeons.

One of them told me to kill her as a YB as she has a frill on her belly and one said it was feather rot and another said pigeons with frills go down and never win in cold winds.

It shows what they know !!!! Its whats in there head what counts mate !!!!

Quoted from Paulo

Thanks lads best feeling is beating the mob men with their 4 helpers lots of cash and lots of pigeons.

One of them told me to kill her as a YB as she has a frill on her belly and one said it was feather rot and another said pigeons with frills go down and never win in cold winds.

my mate inwales has a hen i bred him a klak with a frill chest she has bred him plenty of winners.........arnt you just glad you never took there advise well done keep it up....

Well done Paulo, well chuffed for ya mate!  Start turning the screw now

Well done paulo shows quality not quantity is what counts.

well done paulo first year flying great stuff. iv flew pigeons for 30 year never toped the fed

+ loft location ronnie

well done mate

Quoted from ken

+ loft location ronnie

Thats the best thing as well my loft location is pants I give away overfly to every club member. Some pigeon I'm very lucky to have one as good in my first batch last years young uns. She only cost me 20 quid as well

well done again paulo im not on about over fly im on about dead ground where i live we fly 12 mile dead ground and all we get is 2 min the fed has been topped twice in the last 20 odd years up here the onley chance we have is bourges 581 ml other than that your baging your head of the wall you just fly for club tickets

Well thats two of my pigeon racing ambitions complete:-

1. win the club

2. top the fed

now I need to:-

1. Win the amal

2. Meet Ray Forbes say you are a pigeon racing god and bow down before him

good luck to you mate ken

Quoted from ken

well done again paulo im not on about over fly im on about dead ground where i live we fly 12 mile dead ground and all we get is 2 min the fed has been topped twice in the last 20 odd years up here the onley chance we have is bourges 581 ml other than that your baging your head of the wall you just fly for club tickets

You up in Hexham then near Ron Strong? Top channel man I'm a great admirer of his feats from Bourges

Well done Paulo. Top class flying .....................Amanda & Davey

good luck with the young birds

well done  lot of good flyers in your neck of the woods

top chanell man in his club but not mine 2 diffrent clubs in hexham one with 4  members the other with 15.  

Well done very good performance, and whoever told you pigeons with frills are no good does'nt know his a**e from his elbow

well done paulo,, great going

welldone,,, I hope you have a great young birds..

the very best of luck to you

ant

Well yb's this week will my luck hold out

Well done mate. Hope its a first of many.

well done paulo se you sunday,hope you win the first race so have some good news when you ring saturday

                                          billy

Quoted from Paulo

Well yb's this week will my luck hold out

lol luck, if only it was that easy . You only get out of this game what you put in so I've no doubt more wins will follow for you paulo.

Well just found out that my bird will be in Bobs top 10 in the homing world for the fastest birds in the amal. I've even been told theres a very strong possibability that its going to be the fastest bird on the day from the WDA.

Believe it when I see it in print like but quite a few people have told me that like.

hey  well  done  m8  great feeling  ah  keep  up  the  good  flying speck

Well done mate, the dark bushy hen you gave me has bred a couple of cracking ybs, hope to do well with them.
Good luck with the ybs.
Dave

Quoted from davebuttle

Well done mate, the dark bushy hen you gave me has bred a couple of cracking ybs, hope to do well with them.
Good luck with the ybs.
Dave

Hope they win for you mate. Give me a shout next year and I'll bred you some more just being getting some cracking stock birds all with fed and club chalks

Quoted from Paulo

Well just found out that my bird will be in Bobs top 10 in the homing world for the fastest birds in the amal. I've even been told theres a very strong possibability that its going to be the fastest bird on the day from the WDA.

Believe it when I see it in print like but quite a few people have told me that like.

Well its true this weeks Homing World page 69. Paul Fullard of Bearpark fastest bird on the day beating 5,056 birds and all the top men in the Amal. Not bad for a young lad in his first season with old birds who works full time and only sent 6 birds against all the big team business men in the amal who send tons of birds a race.

Makes you choke up a bit at what a gallent effort the little hen has put in to race back to my loft which isn't a palace but she must love living there.

Bit of a rocky moment really just shows you it is possible to win with just a few birds.
Just shows you you get the good birds and they will come for you if you treat them nice.

Shame it wasn't an official amal race then I would have achieved my dream of topping the WDA

Quoted from Paulo

Now the young bird season approaches and I'm on the dark as well as natural this year so I hope I do a bit better than last year where I only got a poxy fourth all YB Season.

We only got a poxy 5th all young bird season 2007 - and that was in the last race
but we don't take young bird racing that seriously - they did very well as yearlings though

Good Luck with your young birds Paulo - good returns are better than positions though

Quoted from REDCHEQHEN

We only got a poxy 5th all young bird season 2007 - and that was in the last race
but we don't take young bird racing that seriously - they did very well as yearlings though

Good Luck with your young birds Paulo - good returns are better than positions though

They've come well this season Susan. Now i've got a bit more experience and half the birds are on the dark they are starting to show a bit more. Won a 1st the first race and got a 3rd last week.

Its an education for the yb's really I didn't want to go on the dark but it appears you have to to win. Takes all the fun out of the yb's with the ampount of work you have to put in especially if your a one man band

Quoted from Paulo

Well its true this weeks Homing World page 69. Paul Fullard of Bearpark fastest bird on the day beating 5,056 birds and all the top men in the Amal. Not bad for a young lad in his first season with old birds who works full time and only sent 6 birds against all the big team business men in the amal who send tons of birds a race.

Makes you choke up a bit at what a gallent effort the little hen has put in to race back to my loft which isn't a palace but she must love living there.

Bit of a rocky moment really just shows you it is possible to win with just a few birds.
Just shows you you get the good birds and they will come for you if you treat them nice.

Shame it wasn't an official amal race then I would have achieved my dream of topping the WDA

i am not a expert, or fortune teller but i have a funny idea you will top the WDA,another stunning example that numbers mean nothing well done mate

Well done mate !!! That W.D.A. Win is almost certainly just round the corner !!!

GREAT GOING MATE

Well done Paulo you’ve not only kicked a lot of good flyers butts you’ve learnt some very valuable lessons early doors to boot, mainly you don’t need mobs to win and you’ll get the results if your willing to put the hard work in. I wish you continued success.