training in opposite direction

[edthekid]

gonna have to train my birds in opersite direction..as cant get birds to trainner and i dont drive......will have to take em to work when i get picked up..........distance will be around 15 miles

anyone done this before

[ALF]

Yes but i took them 30 odd miles 1st toss the wrong way and it took them a wee bit longer but after that nae bother at all 8) 8) 8)

[ALF]

Just remember pigeons urnae daft ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest]

Every year the young birds first 4 tosses are in the opposite direction,get a bit of stick from club mates,but does them no harm.Personally i think it serves them well.

[ALF]

Every year the young birds first 4 tosses are in the opposite direction,get a bit of stick from club mates,but does them no harm.Personally i think it serves them well.

 

It sure does mate thats why i train my where ever i'm going ;)

[jimmy white]

in my opinion, pigeons trained from all directions , will do no harm

[fletch]

dont know about doing it reguarly but it wont hurt when they are learning one of the great flyers from by us always said before you start serious training short tosses in every direction gives the young birds a great basis to start with,,

[cemetary]

I no a lot of guys who train there birds in defferent directions, dosent doo them no harm, infact it does them good, makes them use there head when they shouldnt be where they are.

 

Alf but you are.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[ALF]

I no a lot of guys who train there birds in defferent directions, dosent doo them no harm, infact it does them good, makes them use there head when they shouldnt be where they are.

 

Alf but you are.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

dafty :P ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[PATTY BHOY]

when first had pigeons 23year ago,gave 2 winning birds to a lorry driver friend of mine took them over the forth to alloa for a toss,completely different direction too normal got 1 back lost the other,only talking about 20 miles.the bird that got lost had won from cheltenham 280 miles,puzzling.

[Blue Chequer Pied]

I used to do it all the time when I lived in Aberdeen. I would train north, south and west ( couldn't train east as it was the north sea and i didnt have a boat   ) I think it did the birds good taught them to think. I will add though i only did this once i felt they had a good line coming from the right direction so to speak. I took them wherever i was working it did them no harm.

 

Paul.

[cemetary]

Coming from up that neck of the woods, there has to be someone you new with a boat.   ;D

[Guest]

its not a probem to them they will home from any direction

the only thing i was told was if you train twice a day dont train from 2 directions

on the same day as it can screw them up

anyone else heard of this ?

 

dave

[mac1]

when first had pigeons 23year ago,gave 2 winning birds to a lorry driver friend of mine took them over the forth to alloa for a toss,completely different direction too normal got 1 back lost the other,only talking about 20 miles.the bird that got lost had won from cheltenham 280 miles,puzzling.

 

similar thing happened to me last year my freind took them about 80 mile past me :)they found their way about after about 9 hours

[Guest]

dinna tell me you take them to rig with you dougie (secrets) ;D ;D ;D

[Blue Chequer Pied]

Coming from up that neck of the woods, there has to be someone you new with a boat.   ;D

 

Captain Birdseye but he was a miserable sod!  ;D

[Mark Bulled]

I train wherever I go, usually against the wind. Can have some right sticky tosses by doing it. All depends really on what you want to achieve. If you want them to think and spend more time on the wing then do it with the risk of having a bad one (losses with babies).

 

If you want to win sprint races it is probably better to train on a line

[cemetary]

DJW am telling you no more of the secrets, shooooooo Alf will be watching this one.  

[REDCHEQHEN]

Never done this with young birds - but the old birds get trained from the 'wrong' direction every year - 15-20 miles two or 3 times a week

[Guest chrisss]

do you find that the birds come from the "wrong" direction on race days?

[REDCHEQHEN]

do you find that the birds come from the "wrong" direction on race days?

 

the young birds do anyway - and don't get trained from that direction

 

with the old birds - they do sometimes get dragged over - but when your 20 is in with 20,000 - 45,000 you kind of expect it at times