y/b racing`

[vanreets]

hi

what would be your smallest y/b race team

[Guest briancol]

such a lot of questions.

[vanreets]

such a lot of questions.

 

you dont know untill you ask  

[Guest triballofts]

hi mine would be 15 mate

[Guest shadow]

always raced a team of 30 young birds :)

[vanreets]

so 12 would not be ok i see i would need more because of losses etc

[Guest]

12 is okay, see people fly with less, not many though,  we have a team of about 30 but usually end up racing 20 just to cover our backs.  You ask away with the questions but do us a favour and get rid of them puking smileys, making me sick.   ;D ;D ;D

[pjc]

100

[chris h]

between losses and hawk attacks your race team will be what you have left, whether its 2 0r 50

[Ronnie]

well i had me a big team of 36 this year(a few where later bred than others) 3rd race in i'm on 12

a few bad trainers and your team is gone.Ive 16 boxes in my oldbird loft the way things stand at the moment i will still have 5 empty come next year.Lol still quality not quantity i suppose.

[Guest]

well i had me a big team of 36 this year(a few where later bred than others) 3rd race in i'm on 12

a few bad trainers and your team is gone.Ive 16 boxes in my oldbird loft the way things stand at the moment i will still have 5 empty come next year.Lol still quality not quantity i suppose.

Not nice to see the numbers dwindle but it happens more and more.  Mob flyers throwing hundreds in the air and are nigh on impossible to beat in races with the numbers they put in but when you do win boy is it sweet, you know that quality has overcome the quantity even for just the one race, and your corn bill is a whole lot less.    8)  

 

 

[vanreets]

well i had me a big team of 36 this year(a few where later bred than others) 3rd race in i'm on 12

a few bad trainers and your team is gone.Ive 16 boxes in my oldbird loft the way things stand at the moment i will still have 5 empty come next year.Lol still quality not quantity i suppose.

 

quantity not quantity i will all ways remember that

[vanreets]

12 is okay, see people fly with less, not many though,  we have a team of about 30 but usually end up racing 20 just to cover our backs.  You ask away with the questions but do us a favour and get rid of them puking smileys, making me sick.   ;D ;D ;D

 

have got ride of the pukeing

[Guest briancol]

12 is okay, see people fly with less, not many though,  we have a team of about 30 but usually end up racing 20 just to cover our backs.  You ask away with the questions but do us a favour and get rid of them puking smileys, making me sick.   ;D ;D ;D

 

yes "you ask away with the questions"

i wasnt complaining it was just an observation.

[vanreets]

 

yes "you ask away with the questions"

i wasnt complaining it was just an observation.

 

:)

[andrecrock]

Hi mate,my first y/b season last year i started with 19.I only raced them up to 120 miles and missed bad weather like this week.My idea was to set them up for the yearling stage and more important the 2year old stage.I ended my season with 14 birds.Now i might have been lucky then but as soon as i started the yearlings this year,on my first race i lost 6 out of 14.This year i bred 50,half on the darkness and half natural.And i will be pushing them as hard as i can.

[vanreets]

Hi mate,my first y/b season last year i started with 19.I only raced them up to 120 miles and missed bad weather like this week.My idea was to set them up for the yearling stage and more important the 2year old stage.I ended my season with 14 birds.Now i might have been lucky then but as soon as i started the yearlings this year,on my first race i lost 6 out of 14.This year i bred 50,half on the darkness and half natural.And i will be pushing them as hard as i can.

 

thanks mate i will have too be very careful in respect of the guys that gave me the birds

[Guest triballofts]

i had 19 last year lost 6 off the loft and trainning so started raceing 13 and ended up with the 13 breed 14 this year but sold them all as i have not raced a pigeon at all this year might race next year but will only breed a few about 15 -20

[vanreets]

i had 19 last year lost 6 off the loft and trainning so started raceing 13 and ended up with the 13 breed 14 this year but sold them all as i have not raced a pigeon at all this year might race next year but will only breed a few about 15 -20

 

;)

[peterpau]

Well I've sent 5 tonight and they are my  birds planned for Lamballe.

[Guest Owen]

To me it is not about numbers. Obviously you will need enough to donate your fair share to the peregrine but it will be the quality that really matters. I do not find it worth breeding from birds that have done nothing. Their young will take up the space and air that could be used by better birds.

Why not consider getting yourself a really good cock and use him as a Bull. That way you will have winners on one side of the young birds you breed. Not that they will automatically all be great, but at least it will be a step in the right direction. And if you carry on doing that you will end up with very good pigeons. The only draw back could be that they will be crosses. If you are the sort of person who likes to bragg about having van this and that, you will not be able to do it. Of course you will be able to bragg about your wins which is better, much better.

[vanreets]

To me it is not about numbers. Obviously you will need enough to donate your fair share to the peregrine but it will be the quality that really matters. I do not find it worth breeding from birds that have done nothing. Their young will take up the space and air that could be used by better birds.

Why not consider getting yourself a really good cock and use him as a Bull. That way you will have winners on one side of the young birds you breed. Not that they will automatically all be great, but at least it will be a step in the right direction. And if you carry on doing that you will end up with very good pigeons. The only draw back could be that they will be crosses. If you are the sort of person who likes to bragg about having van this and that, you will not be able to do it. Of course you will be able to bragg about your wins which is better, much better.

 

i am not keeping stock birds no more as do not have the room and not the bragging sort lol ;) ;)

[Guest pigeon82]

i started with 17 and got 14 left im happy