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They are rung in July or there after so in 2017 are yearlings by ring.....do you then keep them to 2018 before starting on the road or do you start them at6+ months?

These are yearlings (by ring)? How many?

From the excellent website http://www.solwayfederation.co.uk/race-calendar/

Have a nice night lol......I can only speak from experience and for me the rewards don't merit the work. 100% stock

150 miles every week tells ye nowt much about untested blood....and without blood sending to 300 miles unprepared is as big a lottery as say........breeding 40 late breeds lol

Aye a race programme that went 150 miles would deffo suit someone wae a team of untested late breds.....wait a minute.....Is that not just a normal yb programme???. Are you seriously telling us that what has went for 150yr in pigeons racing has now to be CHANGED cos late breds are the future? Tried....tested...found to be hard work

Percentage of good yins Jim? Is it viable to have a team full 9 months after their birth and expect results? Am saying no chance

I canny get my head roon it Derek......why make an already difficult job harder??

Full on mental........untested late breds over spring bred youngsters.....cmon Peter

Ye mate.......who gives a fookin anyway lol

Did they not say the didn't want extra time in the basket with hot weather forecast that the ferry dispute was going to cause?

Ye and they took some pelters for that decision

2nd yin for me. Hens on perches and thru sliding door on a kinda widow system....the partition is solid obviously between the Cocks and hens.

Is this for 15 pair (30 racers)?

I canny believe anybody wrote journey and the Who in the same post....sacrilege

Anything by the Who

We sent to the rural olr last year and will probably give it a miss this year....it's pretty expensive?

Good worms Roland?.....Aye? Good worms Roland?.....Aye?

Get back the the drinking big man lol

The treatment of canker at this time of year is hee-haw to with racing results That's the point that I am trying to make.

The birds are experienced and have no idea how far it is from palamos to the loft. Most fanciers would have no faith in the birds he sends for their first go as they are late from short tosses or races....showing no formal means he has to trust in his bloodlines....well done

Umbilical canker......that's why a coarse is no a bad idea before breeding....does not harm if ye Dinny have it and a wee bit pace of mind that you aren't passing onto the babies

You look at them from the summer they are born and think to yourself.....these are smashing......come round the following season and they are ready for the racing.....your numbers are dwindling because it's inevitable you will loose some regardless of quality (disappointment). You manage to get one or two to maybe 250/300 and you congratulate yourself on a decent effort. The next year those 2 you have left you now think are magic ....well bred.....good effort last year as late breds...but sadly when the heat is on you find the go down too (disappointment). When you look at the percentage that make it from say 10 bred to what stands up you question the logic when you could have bred 10 in the spring? This is just what I find and obviously there will be some good yins found but for me they are best in the stock loft.

Late breds= disappointment

If any bird had a looked the part on returning from bedhampton in good time and looking the part then 10days at home and back In is fine