methods for racing 500miles and over

[Guest bakes]

hi what methods do you guys use for racing these distances ie windowhood,roundabout,natural i no you need the strain of pigeon to be able to aquire this distances just asking as this is one off my goals im hopeing to achieve get a small team of doo's racing back from 500+ miles in a few years time any information more the merryer and will be very apreciated

 

all the best.

[ritchie1]

natural over 500 miles round about before that

[Guest]

natural for mine

[Guest bakes]

natural over 500 miles round about before that

 

thanks mate.

[Guest bakes]

natural for mine

 

thanks.

[REDCHEQHEN]

I haven't had much experience with long distance races, having only sent these past 2 seasons - but I came to a conclusion that  is probably the opposite of everybody elses LOL !!!  

 

The cocks did better on natural last year than the hens, and the hens did better on roundabout this year - than the hens on natural the year before, the cocks didn't perform at all from the distance on roundabout - in fact the majority didn't even bother coming home - whereas we only lost one hen from the distance racing roundabout

 

So next year cocks will be raced natural from the distance - but the hens will be on roundabout

[Guest bakes]

thanks redcheqhen much apreciated.

[marmite]

natural  hens a good hen very keen say sitting 10-12 days is hard to beat.

cocks i race on roundabout  find they are keener that way

[marmite]

forgot to say  hens i pair to flying out stock cocks and dont pair the hens to these cocks till may june time so its the hens 1st nest of the season so they are extra keen

[Guest bakes]

thanks marmite

much apreciated

[OLDYELLOW]

i prefer widowhood for 500 + miles

[Roland]

If one looks at the 'Nationals' results, and regardless of location, one sees that naturual dominate, and hens dominate the sexes.

[Guest bakes]

If one looks at the 'Nationals' results, and regardless of location, one sees that naturual dominate, and hens dominate the sexes.

 

i noticed that other day when looking through previous mnfc nfc results alot of hens taking cards.

 

all the best

 

 

[pjc]

Natural hens would be my choice, but with natural you need to know your birds, some fly better driving, some sitting 10 day and some to a youngster, the art of natural flying is knowing what makes individual birds tick and having them in the right condition for there tardet races.

Widowhood is easier for conditioning a team but not always easy to motivate them to fly 500+ obviously depending on the correct breeding as well of course.

[sapper756]

Natural,  hens sitting 10/12 day eggs.. cocks feeding a 7/10 day squab

[Guest bakes]

thanks sapper,pjc much apreciated.

[Kyleakin Lofts]

Just started this year, so definitely not speaking from experience, but the theory is that hens drive theirselves to return on the day so they are able to take their turn of sitting the eggs.  The cocks don't have the same drive since their turn is not till later in the morning.  The fact that hens seem to dominate the result either bears this out or this is why the theory arose, but this theory is from way back, well prior to the 60's.