Wiley

I’ve still not mastered the art of getting pigeons to fly two hours yet tho mate

With the blue pied from mark turning out a cock bird, the breeding plans had to take a slight change. He is now getting paired up to After Eight, as her first round she was paired with her grandsire. The son of Rainy Day Boy was paired to a full sister of the Blue Pied from Mark, that I picked up while visiting him, which I thank him for. This will give me an option of creating some sort of family of plans and results go well. The racers are out most days weather permitting and are really putting in an effort most days flying a good 50 minutes to an hour. With the first races looming around 7th April touch wood they’ll be fit enough to train early March. Once all there young birds are weaned it will be back onto the 100% barley until the first race. I have this year three spare cocks that I am trying something different with feeding wise. These were put into the yb section with the pipo boxes and were put in with a number of hens to chose a mate. When the first hen laid from all three pairs regardless of what position the others two were in. After 10 days sitting they all were split. These three cocks were then moved to the corridor of the widowhood section and three saddle perches were put up. They’ll be kept here until every Friday where they will move to the yb section for motivation with a number of hens to do as they please. My idea of racing these cocks is to have barley infront of them at all times also. Slightly different to how I feed normal racers. I am contemplating on racing the three pigeons on 100 barley for the first three races of there season. Especially as the distances are only 55miles 65 miles and 105 miles. These will be raced on the south. I may change this idea after reading a Steven van Bremen article on peanuts however and quiet possibly may give them as much as the require of peanuts possibly on a Thursday night, and Friday morning. It’s something I’m toying with.

I’ve just introduced Westcott based pigeons from Mark Bulled

My thoughts used to be the programme not so sure now the amount of my best yearlings and older not seeing past 177 miles

The fastest velocity according to squill from 100 mile race is 2578 recorded in New Zealand in 1968

Yes always best to be there before next year I’m going on the Thursday this years one flew by too quickly

Hi mate Yes will be raced and trained south all year and then sent to a North Road race Next Thursday will see me and Dad visiting Mark Bulleds loft to hopefully learn about how his transition was from north to south, and to see his fantastic family of birds

Watching a video he trains them on there line and just does the switch drastically

Terry Haley results doing similar interested me also mate, he’ll race birds south all year then send them to a north road race and vise versa and does very well

100% right mate just want to try and cover all angles if possible

Hello mate 12 old birds will be tried on the south that have never ever had a toss that way to just test the south road and get a feel of the differences

A Mark Bulled hen also joins the ranks her dam being 8th Open Tarbes, and 3 Grandparents are all London North Road Combine Hall of Famers.

A son of an ‘Isla Rainy Day Boy’ international winner from Pau 566 miles comes into the family, an already proven breeder.

I believe recently Dave has added these two bloodlines into his family, creating an even stronger gene pool

Tubby was a fantastic pigeon also Paddy I’m sure you’ll do great with the lines

Great fancier what lines do you have paddy?

Another great pigeon raced by David Hales in Essex, fantastic results in what is a real difficult race. Surely one of the best Barcelona pigeons in the Uk.

Fantastic gesture well done that man

Been doing a lot of research of late about long distance pigeons, how they are raced, prepared, feeding ect. When I came across this pigeon in my opinion it has to be one of the best long distance pigeons there has ever been raced in the uk Jack Jones, also sire of 2x2nd national, 5th national, 9th national and many more. Super Super Pigeon

Had the widowhood cocks out yesterday, as we do most days. Was a pleasure as it was a surprise that they exercised for 40 minutes, exercise is not something I tend to look at yet, I start to look at more so at the end of this month, to get the exercise up so the birds are flying with vigour 1 month before the first race so they can go in the basket, that way you can pick and choose the best days for training. I also rewatched a new dvd that has just come out made featuring Ronnie Bigwood and Dirk Van Den Bulcke, being honest the first time I watched it, I had very little time on my hands and was looking after my own boy and 2 of my nephews so it was chaos. The second watch was more enjoyable and I was able to take a few things in. I see the week ahead strong winds, rain and snow is forecast with Blackpool looming there’s is no surprise, I hope for many their travels are safe. This year is the first year I’ve ever driven up, with a 4 hour 50 journey looming I hope the weather is kind

Will there ever be a better winner of this award?

Nice hen, how was she bred billy

Are they not different pigeons both being half brothers?

While over the corn shop today, I picked up couple bags of Starts Plus, some barley and G10s. I’ve bought these G10 prematurely as they will be used when I have young birds and they are weaned but we’re on offer so I picked them up. The birds are on Barley as we speak, ounce per bird fed once a day. This will change when we have youngsters in the nest to 50% start plus, 25% diat mix and 25% maples. A miserable day in London and the amount of time spent over pigeons shop talking doos with the fanciers there meant the birds stayed in. However when I got home from the lofts I cooked myself up a ham and cheese omelette and sat on my balcony at my flat, and watched the streeters picking about on the green below my flat, and was surprised how many young birds there was amongst them. It made me think with all the snow we had, the past few months and the cold temperatures, and we still hear fanciers say there eggs didn’t hatch due to the chill. With the rings of the RPRA coming out now beginning of December it has got me thinkIng there will be a higher amount of young birds for sale at The Blackpool show this year, is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Cheers for your tip Billy.