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Hi all,.
Hope some one can give me advice please .

My Youngsters were going great in training with around a dozen twelve mile tosses so far ..i was going to toss in stages of 12 miles ( this works for me )
but yesterday i had a hawk go through them flying above the loft ...carnage!!
All young birds hit the moon and everywhere else and did not return .The last bird returned today and judged myself lucky not to loose any ..
I have a young one being sick and a few going down as well with dodgy symptoms( hunched up shivering type of thing)
My question is 'how long after this event can i start training again and how far is it possible to jump them as they have not raced as yet and i guess i will miss a couple of races .
I will say, i am fasting them for a couple of days starting again with a light feed in the morning .
Thanks all.

DAVE

they will need to get there confidence back id go back to the same point a few times more id leave them for 4 or 5 days in loft not even leaving them out its a long haul when this happens put u back a week or more but could be worth it whats the biggest worry is this bird now living around your loft i hope not but if it is its a bigger problem than the one u have u should know your self when the birds start to quieten down in the loft and become there old selves im just going to throw another point in there do ppl think that some families of birds react better to this sort of stress than others

well if i had a bad toss with hawk amongst them would lock up for a few days feed light and move training point if possible , tossing birds later in afternoon will reduce the attacks on your pigeons as they would of already killed earlier in day

get the birds tested throwing up and sitting hunched up they could go down with y/b sickness

Don't think there's any question - stop training for a few days, keep the birds in, and keep them calm. Hopefully what you are seeing is down to fright and not illness. If so, I don't think you have anything to worry about race / training-wise.

They've done enough roadwork, they have been coming well. After they have been out and about again for a few days without another incident, maybe one 'good' one from 24 miles, and they should be OK for first race up to 85 miles.

Mine didn't go training farther than 20 miles last year and started racing at 62 and 85 miles without any problem.

Thanks all for the sound  advice .

IB, thats great to know that my birds don't need loads of distance tosses ,this gives me the confidence i was looking for, and the birds. ...Nice one and thank you all once again ....

DAVE

i always after a bad toss go back to the shorter ones to build up that confidence back then move em further

If as you say they were hit around the loft and not while training they need to gain confidence around home again first! If you keep them locked in and then train they aint gonna want to come home!
Shut them up for a couple of days to calm down, make sure they are calm with you and settled in the loft and then once, and only once they are flying well around home again should they be put back on the road!

Phil