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I believe so Middle Route have struggled as well so im told sea fret here and drizzling coming up 12 hours at 6.15pm

If any Lincolnshire members hear of any times please add to this thread thanks already heard that there's none back in to South lincs at the present time , doesn't look too good

if not he will be back for more food and water then time to find the owner

probably from yesterdays race , from Hougton , Sunderland perhaps feed and water first then see if clears

why you letting ybs out on a race day ???? i always let my young birds out later in afternoon less chance of them been hit , hope a few more work there way back for ya perhaps give your others some pigeon tea

What type of birds ???

I'd imagine they would go up together yup they did

dam shame ,lol :emoticon-0167-beer:

cant you get a partner ????

i like a 5 mile toss to start with , if the young birds have been ranging well then they would of covered this easily , but i believe better to release them closer to home as 1 gets them used to been basketed , and 2 better to be familiar with the area and build there confidence and if get a bad toss at 5 mile there more likely to wander back , once there covering a to b well move them on it's not about fitness its more about gaining there confidence and get them ready for what's ahead of them imo

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lol red what you feeding them bricks , lighten there corn

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I still am at a lost why they choose the worse design the ring with the hole on the outside looked to me as a better option think it was the belgs that had them looked like you slipped a peg type chip in apart from been plastic looked to be best design imo

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most say about 10 weeks old personally i believe this differs from one strain to another some mature much quicker than others , once the birds are ranging and going of for an hour then stop ranging , i believe this is the best time to get them in the basket , but ill be starting mine off on 1st of July they will get put in the baskets in there loft the Friday before and be fed and watered that weekend then released on garden on the Sunday this should calm them down prior to road training on the Monday then at least then they wont be afraid of the basket and should reduce stress

i think the ruling is out of order as race rings should not be tampered with , that's already within there rules i say leave them alone

if you have all day yes lol , but there's safety in numbers , so if want to liberate a bird every 30 minutes go for it but better to do it with birds that are already trained and schooled

10 miles is ok but your relying on them returning in a big batch to the area before breaking up , it will work for some but not for all , i like mine up to 30 mile x 3 times , rather they use there own brains than follow the pack as if ever got left on there own they'd be looking to join a bigger bunch

everyone to there own 1.5 miles is not far enough to train your birds the least id take them is 5 miles , once my young birds are racing i'd only give them two more tosses before there next race , then id just keep them exercising around loft

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lol very true

was on on front of bhw many years ago that won a big race that was a tippler cross