I only started this post to try to find out why there are so many youngbirds being lost but you get the people coming on who seem not to care about the losses thats why some are breeding 100s of birds each year to be left with some when I first started in pigeons some 40yrs ago you could bred 20 youngbirds fly the programme to stafford and slill be left with a dozen birds is this the main problem large teams of inferior pigeons not good enough resulting in high losses honest opinions please