Welsh North Road and every other fed as well!

[rasbull]

I think there are lots of different factors as to why the races keep being poor. These include - clashing, poor information collecting regarding liberations, sickness, untrained birds, Care of birds on transporter, Birds of Prey, Airports, Telephone masts, K index, the list is endless.

 

As a fancy we should be looking to solve the list of problems on that list that are in our hands. Things like Kindex and BOP are nature and we can do nothing in our power to stop.

However, other things like clashing, sickness,poor information collecting we can most definitely improve.

I think as PJC said the different routes should be looking to liberate on different days then at least all the birds will be flying in the same direction. That would go a long way to solving the clashing and there the information collecting would be a lot easier.

 

The airports are another we can look at, why have feds having racing directly in line of flight with airports? Change the race point to another. The same as poor racepoints, if a racepoint continually gives poor returns we should be looking to scrap that and find an alternative. If there are radio masts, bop around these areas we cant do anything about, but we can choose where to let them go!

 

Untrained birds is really upto the individual fanciers concerned, however, if the other factors are reduced to give the trained and healthy birds a good chance then is it going to matter if 100 birds out of 2000 are uneducated? I dont think so.

 

The health of the pigeons must again come down to the individual fancier, but failing this every club should have someone looking at the birds waiting to be marked and highlighting anything that looks unwell.

 

Everyone moans about the things that are causing these loses but there are many, many things that the fancy can do to help improve the situation. Polictics and infighting has plagued the sport for far to long and its about time everyone come together and pulled in the right direction. I agree with what a lot of fanciers have said about the Welsh Feds all liberating together. This is another thing we can change to help ourselves. If the people in charge of these feds are unwilling to pull together for the better of the fancy then surely a new fed should be formed and all members who believe in what has been said and not interested in petty politics and want to purely race there birds for the enjoyment of the sport should join. These others feds will then die off with declining membership and the people who were unwilling to cooperate to help find a solution will have nothing to do with the pigeons and that can only be a good thing! Its about time the people who are unwilling to change, cooperate and listen need to be removed from there positions and people who are willing take up the reigns and carry this sport forward.