young bird losses

[adam owen]

how many ybs u breed each year and how many u have left how far did u send them ????

[Guest]

how many ybs u breed each year and how many u have left how far did u send them ????

 

bred about 120 ish gave away about 45 split the rest into 2 teams kept 1 team at home just trained them

raced 38 every fed race if they were fit to go and 5 to the SNFC have 12 of them left :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

[ALF]

was doing ok until....until.....Wetherby :X :X :X :X

[adam owen]

crikey good job u add your trained ones how do u find them as old birds how do they do as they were just trained how far u send them as yearlings

[Guest kev d]

20rings every year haven,t raced yb for 4or 5 years now can,t bear to lose them as babys

just train up not very often but just let them mature with out stress not bad as yearlings ok

one or two go down but i choose there races very carefully and the weather before i send them .

[REDCHEQHEN]

raced 27, one culled because of illness and lost 3 in racing

[Guest]

crikey good job u add your trained ones how do u find them as old birds how do they do as they were just trained how far u send them as yearlings

 

this year i sent as far as newbury 399 miles i think if a birds a good 1 it will be a good 1 raced as a y/b or not

did similar last year and have a mix left this year

ive gone to more distance minded birds the last couple of years so will have to see how they go

[adam owen]

interesting,theres a few differant cercumstances there i like the look of 399 as ybsits a challange and a thrill i guess good going

[Guest]

interesting,theres a few differant cercumstances there i like the look of 399 as ybsits a challange and a thrill i guess good going

 

399 as yearlings adam but missed the last race at 456 from easbourne

out to 317 as y/bs with the SNFC

[adam owen]

sorry missed read it still 317 is good going we dnt fly no where near that in wales

[Guest frank dooman]

started training with 43 racers sent to every race out to weatherby 160 odd mls then sent six to y/b nat leicester 264mls left with 26 yearlings and also sent to every wed race 65mls

[adam owen]

looking at it i think i will breed what i want for old birds in the summer and leave them natral and train them and keep 20 on darkness to race the programe just to compete as the yb losses are so many know it seems a better idea to look after a team of ybs and train them yea ull loose some but ull have a nice team of yearlings stress free as ybs looking the part as they wont have the darkness

[dwh]

started 47 + 6 imports ended up with 27 yb loses in our area over last 5yrs have been terrible not just us but having said that we lost a few training 2nd toss with ybs clashed with up north combine transporter yb training

[adam owen]

thats most of the trouble i think clashing with the tech we got thease days i dnt see why like????

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

Bred 35 for my self for racing lost one training and lost 3 racing cocks went to 130 miles hens went to 183 miles still got to many left lol

[adam owen]

thats good going fair play best yet

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

did lose some but they kept working home lol Had lenwade bob and gooner round one day in the racing season on a weds we was in the loft and had one work in as we was standing there lol .also had one hen return on a thursday and didnt really like her so sent her on the fri to 183 miles needless to say she was my first bird home lol why do they do that lol all the rest had been trained and fed well that week and she comes back after two weeks out send her back and shes first bird home lol

[adam owen]

that has happ to me and others really cnt make it out sometimes they win as well makes u wonder

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

Yer does make you wonder . well im now going to watch the football COME ON NORWICH lol

[adam owen]

lmao gud luck

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

Well we are only playing paulton rovers lol but we all know what norwich are like lol

[Guest Thunder Birds]

50 youngsters started training, 40 made it to the first race. 1/2 stopped early (between 70 and 120 miles) due to moult (didn't use darkness this year) and keeping cocks back for next year. The rest through to 200 miles. 35 left at the end of the season. 3 of the 5 lost were at the last race!

[adam owen]

good going when u say no darkness wen did u breed them as u got them to 200 miles

[Guest Thunder Birds]

Paired at beginning of December so some had gone through

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

i done the same paired up on boxingday