Training YB System

[MsPigeon]

When I do all that basket training I also teach them to eat and drink from the crate. So when race season comes they know how to do it.

[GREENGRASS]

my personal belief is that confidence is the key with young birds so long as they are in excellent health and fit from loft flying and ranging you can start at any distance(within reason). i start at 5 miles and only move on when they kit up real tight and clear straight away. i will do the same at 10 miles and 15 miles and then go to 30 miles until the first race which for us is approx 45 miles. i must add i always train on line of flight and any bad trappers go hungry but i find they are only bad trappers once. this year past was my best year ever with young birds and one thing i  noticed above all else was that the young birds after leaving the loft climbed up into the clouds and then dissapeared for hours at a time but when they returned home they would kit up and swoop low over the loft a few times before trapping. i spend a lot of time getting the youngsters used to using the stall traps from an early age and find this helps on race days as wings said with young birds races can be lost on a bad trap. health, fitness, confidence and you wont go far wrong.

[jimmy white]

IF YOU CANNOT GET A DECENT SYSTEM FOR YBS OUT OF ALL THESE GEEAT POSTS, I WOULD BE TENDING TO HAVE A GOOD LOOK AT MY MANAGEMENT AND INDEED MYSELF, I MEAN THAT IN A GENUINE WAY AND NOT SMART IN ANY WAY.

[Guest]

Speight

 

There's plenty of guys down here start 'em at 20 miles & get 'em ok.  We just like to build their confidence a bit.  When the youngsters are exercising/roaming for 2-3 hrs a day they're covering this ground anyway.

 

Mike

 

Mike

 

They only train 20 miles or will train  further than 20 miles?

[Guest]

 

 

I polled 22 miles Speight, and qualified that by saying that my birds had been ranging for weeks on end, with training beginning around 10 days before the first race i.e. mid July, when the youngsters are 5 months old and, I believe, have already covered their home territory. My next would be Newcraighall, 28 miles and then onto maximum, Longniddry or Drem railway stations, 35 and 40 miles respectively, then into 1st race Kelso, 57 miles.

 

Ok thanks, Bruno... our first race at 58 miles for yb's.

[Guest]

58 MILES THATS FURTHER THAN OUR 3RD RACE :-/

[Guest]

58 MILES THATS FURTHER THAN OUR 3RD RACE :-/

 

Clockman,

 

What is your first and 2nd race miles?

[Guest]

43 miles 2 arnistons

[Guest]

our race yb programme

 

First and second race at the race point : 58 miles Selby

third and foruth race at the race point : 85 Miles Mansfield

 

Then further races...................

[Guest]

Clockman,

 

Where is your racepoint for the third and forth yb's race and what miles?

[Guest]

After the training,

 

What drink do you give them?????????? Garlic is the good reason for  blooding round the body but i havent try it after the training....is it good to give them after the training?

[Guest]

Clockman,

 

Where is your racepoint for the third and forth yb's race and what miles?

 

3RD RACE STOW 4TH RACE OTTERBURN 97 MILES

[carl]

My youngbirs start at around 5 miles for 2 tosses,then 10 mile 2 tosses,20 mile around 10 tosses,then club transporter 35 miles 1 toss,club transporter 40 mile as many as i can.This year due to driving now rather than the club transporter i will take them myself and get plenty single handers in there.

[Guest]

Just shows how different parts of the country race different distances shortest race i can get is Seaton 109mls  then we have Exeter 131mls  Guernsey 149mls  Fougeres 206mls  My ybs have garlic and cider vinegar in the water all the time Craig add honey to it when they come back from race

 

Why do you give your ybs garlic/cider vinegar in the water all the time????Rose

[westburylofts]

 

SAME DOWN HERE ROSE IN KENT

OUR 1st RACE IS FROM 97 MILES OR 104 MILES IN THE OTHER FED

 

RAY

[Guest]

Ray

 

What is your miles for 2nd,3rd and fourth race for ybs ?

[MsPigeon]

Our proposed schedule for YB's is: 85mi, 125mi, 200mi, 125mi, 300mi, 125mi, ?, 200mi, ?

The two ? are up fro debate.

Carol

[westburylofts]

 

120 Miles then 147 miles  

last race exeter 200 miles

 

RAY

[Guest]

I think I might miss the first few YB races this year and wait until they are past the 100mile point, as it seems after the first few races you get fewer losses.

[Guest]

I wish our first races were over the channel, to give them the confidence later in life, mine have to go at least 350miles B4 they hit the channel. I have in the past trained them off the East coast at Whitby, which give them a bit of a sea view LOL, but sometimes had bad tosses, which I think was due to the hawks you get over the moors, so I stopped.

[Guest slugmonkey]

We start our 1st race at 100 then 150 then 200 the 3rd week of the season there are several guys who start there birds in excess of 25 miles on there first toss

[PC]

The first training ours get is teaching them to fly to the landing board from the lawn after weve moved them to the yb loft n then to go thru the bobs we did try some 2-3 mile starting tosses this year but the birds thought this was to short n went of for a 1 1/2 hour fly so we just went back to the ten mile mark we  normal use about 2-3 tosses here then out 2 40 miles as soon as they start clearing fast from the training point. normaly put a few old hens in for first toss  from each point

[Guest]

1st week - OLD BIRDS - when do you train them e.g 2 weeks before 1st race or 3 weeks before 1st race?

[MsPigeon]

we did try some 2-3 mile starting tosses this year but the birds thought this was to short n went of for a 1 1/2 hour fly

 

PC sometimes it helps to let them loft fly before basketing to go down the road, kinda tires them out a bit.

[jimmy white]

WHERE WE STAY ,I WOULD WATCH TRAINING YBS IN AN EAST WINDS, AS YOU CAN GET MIST COMMING IN FROM THE COAST, VERY QUICKLY