training

[westy]

have you started training yet.

[antwerptom03]

I single tossed all youngsters from my first round from 1,3,5 and 10 miles. At each station i gave one toss from east ,west,north and south. The birds were about 8 weeks old at that time (April)

[rockinrick]

ybs doing 60mile now so racing next week

[Guest]

The Barmy Army will be going down the road starting tomorrow, we don't start racing until mid August

[Guest]

Where in New York are you antwerptom

[antwerptom03]

Watertown

 

[Guest]

rockingrick you starting racing yb's next week?

[slatey]

i give them 1st chuck 2 weeks before 1st race so plenty time yet

tomo

[Diamond dave]

I'm taking Jack Barkels advice - my younguns have just started to throw their first

flight and have been ranging well - so I will start within the next week or so.

- Fingers crossed for every one -  the first four or five chucks is the most anxious time for me, even worse than waiting for the birds on Saturdays.

[westburylofts]

SAME HERE TOMO

 

 

RAY

[snowy]

3rd toss today from same spot 3 miles.( all straight out of basket & home)

any advice on next distance to toss from?

[bewted]

go 5 mls snowy,should do it easy,,ted

[jimmy white]

what i would say snowy, is when you start,,keep them going, every day if poss.

[T_T]

Agree with Jimmy, once you start with youngsters, MUST go every day.  That's why I start two weeks before the first YB race and keep em going, sometimes twice a day, depending on how well they are coming. I also train no further than 20mls but that's my own thing.

[speedbird]

its a confidence thing start em at 3miles working up to 60miles but like jimmy said once you start you must keep em going

[snowy]

up to 9 miles last toss, all bak ok.

but the last one back on his own half hour later than the rest.

today, took them a shorter toss than before 5 miles, all been there & straight back, but today, the one that came last on the 9 mile toss aint come back?

any reasons you think?

[Guest shadow]

Once you start training young birds as you move them further away I never drop mine back to a shorter distance as they tend to overfly. But then I start my young birds at 20 miles and keep them there until they beat me home.

[superstar]

yes hostilities have started! 4 tosses from 1 1/2 miles all in less than 2 mins each and 1 from 3 miles in slightly over 3 mins so not a bad start but theres plenty of time for that to change lol. I also think your right about keeping them going and never bringing them back to short tosses, i have never done that myself but have heard of people doing it and having complete disasters losing entire teams of youngsters, each to their own though i say! Good luck to you all with your YB's however you go about training them and my fingers are crossed its a good year for everyone, especially my 15yr old son John whos taken up racing from me. Good luck kidder! Give 'um hell not lol  ;D

[jimmy white]

great pics, superstar

 

snowy ybs are bad for taking knocks, just maybe that bird had ,had a knock, if its back give it a good check over,,best of luck

[snowy]

up to 9 miles last toss, all bak ok.

but the last one back on his own half hour later than the rest.

today, took them a shorter toss than before 5 miles, all been there & straight back, but today, the one that came last on the 9 mile toss aint come back?

any reasons you think?

 

back 2 days after, ;D

a bit thin & worse for where, just gagging to get in loft ;D

[jimmy white]

one way of looking at it snowy  ;D ill bet that bird learned more than the others ;D

[Guest slugmonkey]

When they come way late like that its like sending them to college I wish all mine would get lost early like that it smartens them up in a hurry I start at 10 - 15 miles and try to get to 100, 2 weeks before races start

[shiftty]

i just give them basket training and all ma youngsters baring 2 (which i have just recieved of a good friend that will be entering the comeback races), from 30 or so miles and i got good returns, the traing toss educated them as well because they were not straight home, they were ranging which is always good for the youngsters in my opinion