Guest BRYANBROCK Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 STEVE ARE YOU OKAY THIS NOT LIKE YOU (shrug)(shrug)(shrug) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dignity DAZ Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 In my opinion and having proven it in practice, your young birds only require education and that racing them is not essential and my yearlings do win in april on widowhood, although admittedly most take 2 or 3 races to get fully in to the swing of things, there are no hard and fast rules in this game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew gooch Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 well reading the threads thats me out the window 25 augest bread cocks never had a toss yet but are still rangeing and not droped a flight yet 2 me thay are like darkness yb but being 08 bread hope u guys are wrong other wise my loft is back at square1 hopping 4 first toss this week if weather lets me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kev d Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 andrew , one of my saintes entrys was bred in july last year so dont worry all will be fine , he going on saturday 380 miles . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 I don't think so but I think they do need some basket work. Rearing out of untried yearlings is an interesting point. Good pigeons I believe fall into 3 categories, a) the majority good racers but poor breeders, so you will breed mainly rubbish from these, a small percentage that will breed and race c) a tiny minority that are out and out breeders and invariably get lost racing before realising they can breed. But most lofts have many birds that are not good birds and they will breed rubbish anyway. So for me I think you will breed far more rubbish from yearlings regardless of whether they are tried or not. Hope that makes sense! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spin cycle Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 The idea of not racing young birds is old fashioned and bad for the sport. Since young bird racing became profitable owen must be on a different planet from you. when did yb racing become profitable????? at most nowadays you get 2 bob and a ballon for it and thats usually a burst one. dont rmember it ever being profitable here. dont think the idea of not racing yb is old fashioned. think with all the trouble with yb nowadays and the horrific loses more and more fanciers are going this way and only training them. Going back 20 and 30 years i think most ybs went to the end and a lot were left. unless you are extremly lucky nowadays most dissapear. yb racing is profitable...just not for us. think of the sales, the advertising, the carriage....it far outweighs the stock side of things. then there are 1 loft races ....not to mention the ring sales 1,000,000 isn't it ? for the rpra alone. i don't know if pigeon racing could exsist without the money or whether yb losses will ultimately be our downfall.JMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Little Posted July 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Got a message from Dennis Anderson earlier, he is Scotalnd's Fancier of The Year 2009 for the 2nd year running..... not bad for a guy who doesn't race young uns ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JADE Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 i would say they dont "need" to be raced but a duffer is a duffer whether it is raced as a young bird or not and will eventually be found out. i enjoy yb racing (some of the time anyway lol) and the season is short enough as it is but its a free country and everyone is entitled to do as they wish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W.D. Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Dont think Kevin Lawson raced his YB's last year,yet he won 2 NRCC races with them this season???!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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