welcome to the site and hope you do get started again!
Take no notice of the pill poppers, obtain birds from fanciers who don't continualy medicate as they will be healthier and have a better constitution then keep your lofts healthy and you will fly just as well as anybody else!
takes 3 weeks to grow but as has been said when they throw the 8th flight its time to stop them for next year let alone the 9th & 10th as the wing tip will be very sore!
Its a shame when big feds/ amalgamations and combines don't get the publicity it deserves but its all down to somebody being prepared to gather the information, put it together and send it to the BHW!