Tips & Tricks : Racing

[Guest CS]

Tips & Tricks : Racing

 

share your racing tips & tricks with other fanciers

 

[Wiley]

dont put all your pigeons in one basket

[Chatrace]

Only race winners :-)

[Tony C]

Anything here that makes a mistake is given 3 or 4 tosses on fine days before being put back into a comeback race.

[stevebelbin]

Open the boxes for the widow cocks to spin in there bowls and leave them for ten mins. Then basket them up and release then hens into the section, leave them for ten mins so the cocks can see the hens and hopefully the hens will strut infront of the basket. Then take them to the club. You can only do this once or twice a season, normally at the end as it whinds them up something rotten, but it does make them perform out of their skins  

[Roland]

Put a cardboard box with a hole in the side into the Widowerhood and pool the last one- perhaps two that claims it.

[Guest ben]

Forget tricks for real distance ,let their class tell you all,nothing else matters

[ACE LOFTS]

wiley y did say dont put your pigeons in 1 basket

[birdman55678]

Here is a trick that works everytime and never fails.  Beware though as it usually only works once a season.

Remove all the birds from the loft before basketing.  Leave the cock bird you are going to race in his nest box.  Insert his hen for about 5 minutes.  At that time remove the cock and lock the hen in the nest compartment.  Just befoe you basket the cock insert another cock into the nest box with the hen.  Be sure the hens mate can see the new cock.  Immediately basket the cock and wait for your winner to come home.  Again only once per season.. Good luck.

[birdman55678]

wiley y did say dont put your pigeons in 1 basket

 

If you put all your birds in one basket if anything goes wrong then its likely all those birds are lost...........LOL...

Anyway that what the message relayed to me....  Later.

[Wiley]

wiley y did say dont put your pigeons in 1 basket

 

If you put all your birds in one basket if anything goes wrong then its likely all those birds are lost...........LOL...

Anyway that what the message relayed to me....  Later.

 

your right sorry only just found this post!

[jimmy white]

i think what wiley meant was the old saying,,",dont put all your eggs in the one basket"  off course meaning   keep some birds at home in case of disaster,, which really is quite true

[Wiley]

i think what wiley meant was the old saying,,",dont put all your eggs in the one basket"  off course meaning   keep some birds at home in case of disaster,, which really is quite true

 

happened to me 2-3 years back was racing really well decided to put all 18 into the race and was left with 1 bird lol and that was only mid way through the old bird season! But the 'Lone Ranger' put up one or 2 good performances afterwards though! but couldnt compete week in week out with just the one bird

[jimmy white]

i have found in the past that an older w,hood cock , never having even seen his hen for weeks will [on occasions take to a pair of 2 day old yb,s the day b4 basketing,]without seeing the hen ,,, off course the babies will need renewed[handy to have another pair on babies so you can keep changing them  quite often as the cock would have no milk,,,i was 15th gold cup nat, with a cock this way  

 

a young hen sitting on about 5 eggs 3 days b4 basketing ittl spend three days trying to tuck the eggs under it this will make it keen

 

a hen or cock sitting on its first eggs of the season [later in the season ]after sitting overdue and beginning to lose interest put a pair of ybs under it[ often good with a barren hen ],and keep the cockand  hen separated ,not seeing each other,both think their looking after the yb,s themselves

 

an old cock , driving some times works with certain cocks

 

no matter what you try , if the bird is not at its fittest ,nothing will work    

[jimmy white]

pray  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Wiley]

i have found in the past that an older w,hood cock , never having even seen his hen for weeks will [on occasions take to a pair of 2 day old yb,s the day b4 basketing,]without seeing the hen ,,, off course the babies will need renewed[handy to have another pair on babies so you can keep changing them  quite often as the cock would have no milk,,,i was 15th gold cup nat, with a cock this way  

 

 

 

thats a very good tip, but you must also know your cocks, i've found that cocks who are most aggressive on the nest during breeding times are the ones who take to this method best, however i use a slightly bigger yb about one size of your fist, placed in nest bowl with another nest bowl on top so the cock can just peek at it, if it looks as if he will take to it i let him in with the yb and the bowl ontop of the youing bird is removed, you will notice he will sit and feed the young bird

 

[jimmy white]

Tips & Tricks : Racing

 

share your racing tips & tricks with other fanciers

 

one of my tricks was   [well everyone that was sitting there thought it was a trick ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  was running to the loft to time in ,forgetting about the cloths line ,catapulted back further than when i started ;D ;D ;D ;D

[jimmy white]

i used to keep a few w, hood cocks  for the short races, and b4 the racing started , showed them the hens , then basketed them, took the 3 miles  "approx"

singled each bird up,,at first they would fly round for a while but when they were making a bee line home let the next one off, then repeated this , after a few times doing this , i could let each cock out , it wouldnt even circle, when i saw its tail allmost dissapearing let the next off and so on ,, these birds could actualy see the bird in front and was actualy racing it ,,,it was awkward at first , but after a few times i could do this in minutes , when i got home i let them in to the hens, when they had the hang of it, i would do this just  b4 basketing  

[jimmy white]

i found you could use a lot of tricks for the shorter races, but the longer races ,less work [ie races ] and calmer cocks paired up later

[jimmy white]

i would remember that the moult of the primaries [the wing ] is very important ,once they are on their 5th flight their usualy over the hill, and preparing for a bodymoult. a pigeon usualy throws its first flight after sitting 12 days on its second round, so either mate up later, for the longer races , or go w,hood only letting them sit 8 days on second round eggs , the bird is usualy at its best with the second or third flight peeping through

[jimmy white]

A FEW SPRIGS OF LAVENDER IN AND AROUND THE NEST PAN  WILL KEEP MITES AWAY

[Guest]

;D thanks for the above tips , keep em coming , any relevant to youngbirds ????                                                                   andy

[Wiley]

;D thanks for the above tips , keep em coming , any relevant to youngbirds ????                                                                   andy

 

all depends how you racing them if there on eggs i always get a dummy egg, and go over the local field and catch a grasshopper and put it in, its amazing, how long these things can live in  this egg and then never run out of energy, they jump about in the egg constantly making the bird believe its chipping. Another one i do, is if they lay out the week before the race, i add an egg everyday. I also make little dark hideouts with nest bowls in chrisp boxes, feeding the young birds near a keen hen or cocks box, watch them go mad, if you do this every day always a gd motivation. Also if your young birds are tame you can fight them for there perches every day. Or you got the widowhood method.

[Guest]

would you do above tips right from the start .. or let them have a couple of races under there belts first ?? if start , how to continue motivating as season goes on .?????                                                       andy  ;D

[Wiley]

i try to get pigeons at different stages at different points, some will be only eggs for first race, some will be driving ect, its just getting different birds into different conditions, you dont want all your birds on the same condition. If your racing young birds together not seperated, you can get many good weeks just going through the nesting conditions, however when doing this ive never let them be on a young bird over 10 days. However best results i have recieved is with the grasshoppers in the dummy egg, and seperated sexes.