Feed before?or split

[Guest Vic]

What are your views on feeding the W/H cocks prior to excercise? Before, let's say lightly, or not at all.  Vic

[Guest]

Depends on how much and what you are giving them! Personally i don't do it, but have witnessed a competitor carrying this out. His birds exercised extremely well, but when it came to getting them in, no control, his frustration was witnesed by more than me. Maybe he fed them too much!

[Tony C]

I tried it Vic and it made no difference at all. No matter how much they're fed if they've got their hen on their mind they're not going to rake the skies. I believe cutting back how much they see their hen is the answer to how long they fly. Fill their pots up on Sunday & Monday and they'll still not want to venture far from the loft whilst their hen is still fresh in their memory. I'm not saying I advocate this, on the contrary I keep them short at the beginning of the week and use this to my advantage.

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Obviously this was closing time at your place vic , you must have been seeing double for some reason or other.  

[pearse1888]

not at all feed when arrive home

[Wiley]

Hi Vic,

I've never practiced it myself, but there are many fanciers who do, but i believe they feed 2-3 hours before they wish for there widowers to be exercised. Personally i always feed after exercise, i suppose its just different fanciers preferences

[Guest Vic]

 

Wiley, the reason I asked the question,was to determine why, sometimes, unless fed, before exercise. they are more eager to land. Another 15 minutes is the key! for superior fitnesss, Surely?

[schouwman71]

i carnt flag since been in the back garden due to the houses,but agree with vic,i do believe its the last 15 mins that gets that superior fitness to reach fed level.

 

Les

[kev]

I belive its in the feeding, if you feed them to fly for an hour they will, if you feed them to fly for 40 minutes also they will , its a learning period and every team is differant, some pigeons in form will not fly at all some will not come in.

But if your whole team are not keen on flying there is something wrong, I use barley the feckers fly their *expletive removed* off on it, After I split them they got 100% but need to be built up for the racing.

At the moment they get 1/2 gerry plus 1/4 barley and the other 1/4 pellets, cant get them out of the sky, might not win a thing but happy as a pig in sh** with them now

[Tony C]

If mine exercised throughout the week for a full hour at a time, come Saturday I’ll be behind (sprint races, 1 night in the basket)

[Wiley]

Wiley, the reason I asked the question,was to determine why, sometimes, unless fed, before exercise. they are more eager to land. Another 15 minutes is the key! for superior fitnesss, Surely?

 

Personally Vic i dont like my birds exercising for a full hour full on especially widowhood cocks, young birds is a different matter, I like and know when my widowers are on song when they fly 10-15 mins, land on the house roof or shed roof, for less then a minute, before the spanking and clapping away again,

[jimmy white]

i would never have w hood cocks hungry , this does stop them flying , at this time of year i would only ask for 20 mins to a  half an hour am and pm but when the better weather arrives[ may ];D ;D ;D hopefully i would excpect them to do a full hour am and pm ,preferably under their own steam ,, far too early just now  , only drain the cocks in the snow ;D

[Guest Paulo]

Bit piece of advice I have been given so far is:-

 

"hungry pigeons won't fly''

 

[DUBLINFLYER]

 

Personally Vic i dont like my birds exercising for a full hour full on especially widowhood cocks, young birds is a different matter, I like and know when my widowers are on song when they fly 10-15 mins, land on the house roof or shed roof, for less then a minute, before the spanking and clapping away again,

 

different folks different strokes..... but that wouldnt be me wouldnt allow them bad habbits... an landng on the roof of the house is a bad habbit that i wouldnt allow!!!! but dats just me as i said different folks etc  :-/

[Wiley]

 

different folks different strokes..... but that wouldnt be me wouldnt allow them bad habbits... an landng on the roof of the house is a bad habbit that i wouldnt allow!!!! but dats just me as i said different folks etc  :-/

 

ur right there fella, different folks different strokes, it isnt like there sitting on the roof or walking about in the yard, its an instant thing, touching the roof and spanking off. But at the end of the day i guess you have to know your own birds, everyones birds show different signs when there in condition. But one things for certain, those 30 secs on the roof don't teach them bad habbits, as from training and racing my old birds they trap 8/10 from the sky. However different Blokes different strokes  ;D

[swilcox]

Vic

 

I once visited a Belguim fancier, he wasnt that well known but well regarded by the locals who feed 5 times a day, little feeds, once in the morning, then exercise again afterwards, his wife feed a little at dinner time, them when he got home from work a lite feed exercise and then when they come in as much as they wanted.

 

He believed he could get more in them this way and that there metabolisam was higher.

 

He had some super results from 300 - 500 miles and only sends 2 or 3 and he would always get 1 or 2 in the top 100. He was 2nd Nat Castres season before last sending only 2 pigeons his 2nd was 70th.

[Guest Vic]

Stuart, Yes, there are a few lofts in the

Merseyside area that do the same.