2010 old/young bird team

[Guest frank dooman]

raceing would be alot dearer without the big team boys so the more the merrier once they go over the 300ml stage the small team man can beat them every time IF the birds and management is right

[schouwman71]

8 yearlings and 20 young uns

 

nice 1.

[adam owen]

cant argue with that boys i do like a couple tho much nicer when you win and u got more time with them and theres more pounds in me pocket  ;D ;D

[just ask me]

ive done the big team with 44 widowhood cocks and 44 widowhood hens raceing but at the end of the day the same pigeons where winning for me and i can count on them with one hand lol so i might as well be keeping five . now and again you get one fluke a race but when your team is on form you know which one of your birds is going to be there

 

if u dont mind me saying that must have been some work  :-/

[Guest strapper]

one thing we can all agree on...in pigeons we will be crying more than we will be laughing  ;D

 

one min your up the next your down.

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

i was in partnership with my mate and he is retired we had some fantastic seasons winning 25 firsts then 22 then 27 then 20 then 15 also fed average butwe had certain birds for certain races my pencil gevart would all ways win from eastbourne in a north west wind he ended up with 8 firsts . blue cock had 10 firsts the racist had 7 firsts so you can see the same pigeons won the rest just got fed and would just take minor cards now and again

[owen101]

nice 1.

 

this will be my first official season

last season got gifted a few birds from vallance

and i still have 7 of them and one from a club member

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

in 2001 when i raced on my own i had 6 yearling widowhood cocks and these won me 10 firsts but i never sent over 200 miles i only like sprint racing so owen you dont nd big teams mind you that season again two cocks won 4 firsts each so i might as well just raced two lol

[owen101]

i dont want a big team i wont be seding across the channel or doinf the nationals

so i only need a few pigeons the more i get the more it costs

so there is no point at the end of the day

 

but will be looking to buy a few different strains of birds to try out in my area for the sprint races

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

yep i think for the sprints you dont nd many you just need qaulity because once a cock hits form hr will win for 4 or 5 weeks

[owen101]

i had a few tosses with the club last season and they did well  

thanks vallance for the birds

even though i got told he did not think i was how old i said i was lol

the birds are brill

[Matt D.]

7 pairs of Old birds raced on the nest. I also have 12 June/July Hatches which have been trained to 100 miles so I'll be sending those to 350 miles.

 

In my experiences, if you ask anyone that has a 50-80 old bird team which are their very best birds they will show you exactly which birds are the birds who they can count on. The birds they will pool every week. Those birds might not win every race but you can almost always count on them to win a decent prize. So if the mob flyers know which are their best, why fly the rest?  

[Jeams]

quallity not quantity in my eyes

The more qualified pigeons you have,more chance you will win the game,am i right?

 

 

[Jeams]

quallity not quantity in my eyes

The more qualified pigeons you have,more chance you will win the game,am i right?

 

 

[Guest grizzler]

4 yearlings,and about 20 youngsters for me

[Guest spin cycle]

24 pairs of oldbirds (like to get down to 20 pairs next year) , 16 ybs, 2 latebred hens to go with ybs, 6 pairs of stock. looking at size of yb teams on here there's going to be a lot of culling come sept. thats not for me JMO

[Taylorsloft]

40 old 60 y/birds

[ritchie1]

i have 52 old birds to race this year and 50 youngsters will be raced as well

[WHITTY]

24 cocks and 24 hens on roundabout aprox 60 ybs

[Guest]

ive 67 old birds 7 of them latebreds also looking at having around 50 y/bs

[Bluedoo]

25 old and 12 - 15 youngsters.

[chichichi]

14 widowhood cocks

16 roundabout yearlings

50 latebreds for the future, these will get trained and raced to 200 in 2010 only.

 

70 young birds to be raced.

 

have a great 2010

 

ant

[sapper756]

12 widowhood cocks

 

18 naturals

 

40 young birds

 

I may have 4 late breds also to race

[Guest]

12 widowhood cocks (of which 5 are latebred??)  so might be less by time first race comes around?? . and hopefully (not counting ...before they hatch)  30 something youngsters.     andy.

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

24 pairs of oldbirds (like to get down to 20 pairs next year) , 16 ybs, 2 latebred hens to go with ybs, 6 pairs of stock. looking at size of yb teams on here there's going to be a lot of culling come sept. thats not for me JMO

 

dependes what sort of yb season we have . if we have a easy one where no one  in our fed really lost any birds in the young bird season but you no as well as i do another yer and every one is wiped out after the first two races . plus any one who dosent kill isnt selecting very well because we all dont breed winners we all have birds where they get to 3 and still havent taken a card they just come home so the old make way for the new i could quite easily get down to 20 pairs lol you carnt tell me you have 48 winners sittin in your loft lol