Pompey Lad Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 just wondered if anyone knows if there was any problems down the west side yesterday as few members from portsmouth and surrounding parts of the south had a training toss yesterday from dorchetser (60 miles) and there are load missing first birds didn't come through for about two hours this was preperation for the first race saturday and i am most of my team missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shadow Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 the pigeon navigation site forecast poor liberation its safe today and up too 28/8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whats it called Cumbernauld Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Yes this is best weekend for some time.Think it is safe to say, may wish they had took this warning with less than a pinch of salt. Will be interesting to see how this week (green and good for pigeons)and last week which was Black and you went if you dared. Cheers Rab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 the pigeon navigation site forecast poor liberation its safe today and up too 28/8can you please tell me how to get on this site ATB les Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDYELLOW Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 http://www.pigeonnavigation.com/#realtime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 http://www.pigeonnavigation.com/#realtimeTHANKS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
german owls rock Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 a friend of mine had a chuck last week. and it was 4 days berore we got all the birds back and a lot of broken legs came back with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Lad Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 just between three of the members that have sent there is 30 home and between 60 - 70 missing. and the thing that make me laugh all the ones i have got are only between 4 - 5 months old and the one i am missing 6 - 6 1/2 months old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Lad Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 i also spoke to someone from southampton this morning and they trained 38 from bournmouth bout 40 miles and they have only got 8 home from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leroy Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 a friend of mine had a chuck last week. and it was 4 days berore we got all the birds back and a lot of broken legs came back with them what causes a number of birds to break legs at the same time??? Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whats it called Cumbernauld Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 They have comr through wires somwhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shadow Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 not looking where they are going following the flock and do not lift in time to miss the top pylon wire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leroy Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 thanks for that fella, is it common, and do they recover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_T Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 I broke my golden rule today which is never to train my pigeons ( old or young ) beyond the 20ml stage. I took them to Rye which comes up 47ml to me. It is now 5pm from a 10am lib and I'm still 12 from 32 missing. There's still plenty of daylight left and the forecast is fine tomorrow so am expecting them back. Lesson learnt, will NEVER do that again, they will go back to the system of some 20/30 tosses from 20ml just to get them fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisMaidment08 Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 training smack i have some wizzzzzz anyway seems to be happening all over whats the answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 I took mine for there first training toss today 20 mile all back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retired Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Up until this week training had been going well for us however this week we have had losses which with a small team is disappointing - The best part of this is all barring one are hens. Once chap who liberated on the same training load as us on Monday 15 minutes later up until 4pm today had 3 out of 37 which is scary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Lad Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 this whole season has been the same in my club i have the most oldens left and i have lost half my team. the one i have left were the ones at the start i said we would loose apart from 1. the pigeons i regarded as my best are not here but it proves i thought wrong because in my eyes the best are here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey Lad Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 no exactly it one of those questions that can't be answered saying that they must still be out there as i sent to bergerac 2 weeks ago had 6 missing and one has just in the past five minutes dropped in shattered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back garden fancier Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 They don't all get lost, just been to club for first race and first six members put 30 birds each in ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjc Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 they may have sent 30 each but how many did they start with and how many have they still got at home? Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Swain Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Weather was hot and sunny here in Dorchester yesterday Mick and visibilty was good, but the wind was very strong from the east which would have made it a testing fly for YBs heading back to Portsmouth. It's been a strange couple of weeks though with our YBs regularly taking two hours and more to return in ones and twos from their first few training tosses of 5-15 miles and many having a night out. Thankfully we haven't lost too many as yet ! Old birds have also been struggling from across the Channel and locally the BBC race from Bordeaux last Saturday was nothing short of a disaster with no real explanantion for what went wrong. Only 90- odd birds were verified in two days and around this part of Dorset, where we only fly just over 400 miles, top fliers are still missing a lot of experienced birds. After a very testing Palamos with only a comparatively small number of birds verified in race time, it hasn't been a good season so far for the BBC, let's hope the young bird channel race is better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALF Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 wE GOT A BAD UN ON OUR TRAINING VAN LAST SATURDAY WHEN JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ON IT HAD BAD RETURNS BUT HEY IT HAPPENS AND YOU HAVE TO GET ON WITH IT AS IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN & AGAIN STARTED TRAINING 47 AND NOW DOWN TO 32 BUT THEY WILL BE GOING TO MOST OF THE RACES UNLESS WE HAVE BIG LOSSES AGAIN AT MY PLACE : :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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