Nosfed Racing ?

[philg50]

Say that some time in the not to distant future we are allowed to get racing would you like a combination of old & young birds or only old birds or only youngsters .For my own choice I would like Old bird & young bird races separate ,what do you lads think eh.

[Roland]

Don't matter Phig50. If sent together, make it two different races. Released at the same time the youngsters will invariably be home before the old bird. If two separate releases, then are two clocks set? Though that wouldn't be necessary I feel.

Mind it would, I feel, be what one hopes to achieve I guess.

[Joe tyre]

I think racing twice a week as some fanciers opinion is if racing starts again would that not give the BOPs more food and cuase more losses JMO

[Tayside tornados]

Would like to see old and young birds raced together up to 150 miles, lib at the same time but results still to be slit into the usual youngbirds/old bird categories.

[Joe tyre]

Would like to see old and young birds raced together up to 150 miles, lib at the same time but results still to be slit into the usual youngbirds/old bird categories.

Seems the best thing to do m8 if racing goes ahead later on JMO again

[Mattydoos79]

If both racing I have a sticky situation I only have one clock pad and young birds are in their own loft and old bird in main loft in future I would purchase another pad but expensive. So I still prefer separate races

[Roland]

Would like to see old and young birds raced together up to 150 miles, lib at the same time but results still to be slit into the usual youngbirds/old bird categories.

 

Yes agreed. Best way forward on many fronts... because by then, if so, the race season will have been curtailed quite a lot.

The adage 'We keep racing pigeons to race' will undoubtedly mean, if any given chance, fancier will try and savage anything to make up this bad case scenario.

[blackswan]

do your self a favour and shut the doors till next year . or buy some white mice .

[Tayside tornados]

Its not doing me or my young birds any favours by shutting up and not getting at least some basket and racing experience. Not so bothered about old birds but for this seasons youngsters I'd settle for even a couple of races.

[neila]

Say that some time in the not to distant future we are allowed to get racing would you like a combination of old & young birds or only old birds or only youngsters .For my own choice I would like Old bird & young bird races separate ,what do you lads think eh.

 

I would like separate racing I am not keen on any age

I think if we get to race young bird races could be cut from 9 to 5 or 6 or be allowed to run a week or two longer to allow for old races

[bigjamie]

its all right saying race old and young birds together were is all the baskets and space on the transporters coming from

 

its all right saying race old and young birds together were is all the baskets and space on the transporters coming from

[Ryan Hay]

I would like separate racing I am not keen on any age

I think if we get to race young bird races could be cut from 9 to 5 or 6 or be allowed to run a week or two longer to allow for old races

Yes I've been thinking on the same lines. Depending on when we start but there would be no harm In making the race programmes shorter. Most weeks the birds aren't jumping too far anyway.

[neila]

Yes I've been thinking on the same lines. Depending on when we start but there would be no harm In making the race programmes shorter. Most weeks the birds aren't jumping too far anyway.

 

We could start early June and get say 8 Saturdays of old birds then start babies a couple of weeks later than usual and race to the very end of September

[neila]

its all right saying race old and young birds together were is all the baskets and space on the transporters coming from

 

its all right saying race old and young birds together were is all the baskets and space on the transporters coming from

 

I agree

I race 20 cocks and 8 hens plus 30/35 youngsters our lorry holds 1000 and at times we get 9/00/ 1000 at the start of the season old birds youngsters about 850 so no way could we do any age and if they limit what we send It's no good to me as I wouldn't want to stop start the cocks or the babies once I stArt like them to go each week

[Roland]

Its not doing me or my young birds any favours by shutting up and not getting at least some basket and racing experience. Not so bothered about old birds but for this seasons youngsters I'd settle for even a couple of races.

 

It's just your relating to your Human side. Would not make the slightest of difference. Shutting the loft up and getting as far as possible outcrossed mating's etc.

Gosh! The Roman, Egyptians, and many others had pigeons locked up for way over a year and more. Their pigeons went all over the place, and very vast distances and yet when released, they homed very well and in good time. indeed wars and whatnot were won./ Lifes lost of saved.

Lofts even moved around in forests built by wood and bark finished, for hiding, and yet they birds found the!

Same as when on ships housed just in baskets 'FOR TIME UPON TIMES'. They homed to their' basket on ships, to baskets in/on battlefields. After being kept in for months on end!

Gosh what a yearly book was 'Scotland's Own' eh! How and what the pigeons did, and could do! Makes many of us wonder just what and how aspect do pigeons, and other creatures life adheres to humans, eh! They don't. It is us that do THEM a disservice. Us that tamper and ruin their very make, trying to improve what A. we don't understand. B. Refuse, in hope AND IGNORANCE, to be the odd one out and improve - once in a while a good bird. It is us welcoming commercial useless and worthless enhancement, making themselves rich, though not productive! Till we are scared still of reality and wander aimlessly looking for a gold star. A one-upmanship because they are mainly are behind most weeks and the upper above in the ladder often pout rubbish which they WANT to believe withy HOPE!

Time to face facts for many Pigeons, like all creatures, are not human. Nor anything like, and to - as often heard ' Well WOULD YOU...!

[john cumming]

IMO for all thats worth, ob racing,s pretty much goosed so no an issue

Yb racing if we get it, fine, plenty time now to get young birds schooled, sorted so there should be no excuses like thatll happen, just wait n see

 

John

[walterboswell59]

IMO for all thats worth, ob racing,s pretty much goosed so no an issue

Yb racing if we get it, fine, plenty time now to get young birds schooled, sorted so there should be no excuses like thatll happen, just wait n see

 

John

 

 

john pigeon men will always find an excuse m8 and it will be the same guys as usual i agree with you if we are lucky we may get some youngbird racing if not we will just have to train them when the ban is lifted no one is more disappointed than myself as i had birds going for two gold awards and a silver but it will give me and others a chance to breed as many as we can from our good pigeons so might have some benefits take care guys and stay safe

[Roland]

Walter, agree with your post. In fact that is truth!

 

Further, as once posted, I feel many will and can think out much and make amends. Indeed start a new regime that will, or could improve their racing. J.M.O.