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In your case i'd say yes birds all of different ages the older ones start to go ranging and take the younger ones with them then the younger ones peel out and loose they way. Most losess are because birds are poorly trained when sent to races. The second reason is clashing and third is birds with poor homing abilitys and no love of home.
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different ages maybe [ i think that was my downfall this year] but bred in diffferent locations doubtful i can find many reasons for my little slaughter but not that one
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I break my losses down into: 'off the top' , training, racing. You would need to know in which of these categories your biggest losses are before you could start to solve the problem.
Agree differing ages are a problem. I also keep these seperate, working them as seperate groups, 1st round, 2nd round, latebreds, and my 'off the top' losses reduced from 6 last year to 2 this year. Both were 1st round, 1st time out, and reckoned a hawk had got them.
Also mate the club members have lost birds as well they may say they havnt but i bet they have.I fly into cheshire and round our way losse's have been terrible the last two weeks.
I break my losses down into: 'off the top' , training, racing. You would need to know in which of these categories your biggest losses are before you could start to solve the problem.
Agree differing ages are a problem. I also keep these seperate, working them as seperate groups, 1st round, 2nd round, latebreds, and my 'off the top' losses reduced from 6 last year to 2 this year. Both were 1st round, 1st time out, and reckoned a hawk had got them.
Would you say that some young bird losses are due to birds being brought in from different lofts and are not bread at home.
Yes. Further I's say that many, a good few don't perform as well as they sould till yearlings and been mated / reared a youngster or two in their new abode. This sort of concretes a bonding. -No pun intended lol
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