when i started to race pigeons young birds. I was luck enough to get a helping hand from some local fanciers that gave me birds. I had a hen always way behind the rest at training and on race day well behind along with another few the hen always last home i also got told to kill birds that are no good basketing the for yb open 216 mile i was going to kill the hen but i could not i thought you wont be back from that distance and on the saturday she was 1st home and won the clubs Carling cup by 20 min after young bird season i was not happy with the performance of 2or 3but again did not wont to kill them and asked a local fancier jock beck if he knew some one i could give them to he told me give them a chance fly them as yearlings and if no good kill them as yearlings 2 that i tried to give away won 3 club races each from78 mile to 316 mile so my point is this you need to give them all a chance because if i had listen to them that told me to kill all 3 would have been dead it was also a small club that i was in then so don't be to quick in killing birds