Tony C

3 times a week from 35 mile if possible. As well as instilling in them to race from a-b as quick as possible it also slows down the moult.

With youngsters what you have to avoid is sending them with food in their crops. There's two reasons for this, 1) they'll throw up in the basket, 2) YBS can strike overnight, if fed correctly their crops should be flat as a pancake...........if not they're holding food which = YBS. I suggest you feed them 3/4 of their normal ration on a Thursday & 1/2 ration Friday morning, come basketing if healthy no food will be felt in their crops. As for water on return from a race plain water is the best thing you can give them. Lactic acid plus other impurities build up in their body's during the race and this gets flushed out of their body's via kidneys & liver, anything added to the drinking water hinders this process.

Heavy showers pushing through here. Thunder & lightning not far away, the dog is hiding!

YBS has stopped play here so no racing for me this week.

Then all is required is a little patience. Good luck.

Have you a routine with your pigeons. By that i mean are they fed the same time everyday, exercised the same time everyday, trained the same time everyday. Having pigeons healthy is only part of the equation!

Yep! plus free transfers & a little bit of politics thrown in.

high thin cloud cover, misty with a light s/e wind

Lennie, Davey & Steve sent their cocks in the Invitation (County).

Huntingdon result West Essex FederationHunt1.pdf

Result to follow....

West Essex at Huntingdon again, 58 miles to me.

Mine either all go (barring injured) or all stay at home.

fill up a couple of pots with oyster shell grit, add a little seed to this so they have to forage through the grit to get to the seed.

I think it would be a mistake to excite the young cocks too early. Let them have a race or two before introducing them to the old hens.

All home so happy:emoticon-0123-party:

25/29 touching 50mph (North Rd)

West Essex 09:00 lib out of Huntingdon in a w/s/w.

Full cloud cover, light n/w wind.

Have sent 29 to Huntingdon (57mile) with the West Essex Fed, kept 2 back.

Submerse Its rear end in very hot water for 5 minutes, do this as many times throughout the day as you can. I would say unfortunately its a 1 in 10 chance it'll rectify itself.

I'm going to limit myself to watching 10 hours a day and thats it, no more. I'll be cheering anyone on wearing a GB badge.

Good luck Buster. You'll know when they're due home............... you'll be breaking your neck for a jimmy-riddle

http://forum.pigeonbasics.org/forum/123-west-essex-federation-and-club-results/ You'll find the West Essex Fed race program here.

Full cloud cover with light rain.