walterboswell59

this year i have split my birds into four teams latebreds yearlings 2yr olds and 3 yr old latebreds and old birds all in different sections with each section being trained and conditioned to bring them to there peak for different races the latebreds for the first four or five to 150 to 18o miles the yearlings will start at 105 miles which is our 3rd race and will get 2 to 3 races the into our fed yearling derby 260 odd miles to set them up for the coast race 360 miles and the two year olds and 3yr old latebreds will get 3 or 4 races then into the inland national with a view of sending the best of them to ypres 450 miles or clermont 521 miles a long with any yearlings that are sticking out my old bird team will get 3 to 4 races then set up and trained after a rest for the gold cup 560 or the 600 mile race while allways looking out for a bird thats telling me its ready for the job i know treating each team separately gives me much more work to do with training and flagging at different times but while im still fit to do it this gives birds that should be able to win or keep me compeditive at every distance club fed and national whether they do or not is another story but keeping them heathy is paramout to my plan so heres hopeing it all comes togethere how do you plan your season or do you not

it will do no harm to jag the old birds again at the same time as it will help stop cross infection pigeon man

all at the same time is safer m8

yes and eddies peanuts were coated with chocolate lots of the time neila

morning guys

lets start a breeding program tam

have you recoverd alan phone davie see if theres any left m8 ops its a bit late now but

thats good there full gazz but the damage might already have been done m8 if the birds were off the eggs for to long the eggs chill and dont hatch even if full if they have not hatched in say 21 22 days they are not going to hatch cause the yb inside have died but i hope this is not the case and you just have dates mixed up good luck with them m8

i worry about my club and my section first dan the open is a bonus m8 the west section is not a great position for winning the open but good luck to the macs they have the birds the position and they do the work so deserve all they win great doo men with great doos imo but maybe the new lads over there now will give them a run

as far as i know white can turn up anytime andy

aye hes no bad sam lol

well thats me got two stars as wee ellie said im a star to when i asked her why she said cause your the best grandad in the whole world so there lol when i asked her but what about your other grandad she said hes to crabit he does not understand children and he does not take me anywhere lol shes 8 going on 18 keeps me on my toes lol so you know tam sammy

one of the guys at gordons feed store gave me a burguny one last year the birds went f k g mental think ill start wearing it when im flagging them lol

my mrs says she is going to burn mine tony ive got one on order with big alf but theres a que hope it lasts lol there was someone selling loft coats in the homing world for 20 pound a few months back but i cant fined the one it was in they were blue with a pigeon on

agree with you 100 percent wull i have found my double grandchildren and grandchildren are better producers than the direct children with my louella jan aardens and buying dbl granchildren the work has been done for you i like the way louella inbreed and line breed there birds and i do the same with them which is proving to be a goldmine for me producing winners and good birds every year but you must breed plenty off them to fined the winners there not all good ones the best thing i ever done was build the five single pair sections to fined out which pairs are breeding the goods and taking 14 to 18 yb off these pairs once you fined them works for me

in this cold weather it only takes un covered eggs 30 to 45 mins to chill i see it with my yearlings every year if i leave them out to long at this time of year thats why i seldom breed off them just the odd pair that have won as yb once the weather heats up they can be off the eggs for hours and have even sent both cock and hen to a race in warm weather and the eggs still hatched after being left overnight eggs are amazing at times tough wee things

gazz when you were trying to break them did some birds not stay out overnight m8

morning guys

only takes one dan tommy and jim get more than there share every year my eyes are on a different goal this year m8 but good luck to them wille millen is my bet for fed racing he will take a bit of beating in west billy gordon to three top flyers these guys are always hard to beat another coming back strong is john leggat another top flyer no easy races now m8 everyones out to win god luck to them all

im with pat empty or chilled with birds getting off them for some reason gazz

yes but ive found you dont get any birds reported if your na redcheqhen not had one gb bird reported in 30 years maybe better luck as a member

its a winde up andy lol does not sound as if im missing anything

cant get a picture ill just watch it on the radio as they say in larkhall lol

no need to do that dan just chap the door m8

been called a few things pete but not a star m8 lol