welsh n r fed at swindon..returns

[Guest strapper]

whats the returns like today not too good by all accounts.

ive heard of a good few that have had a good few missing.

[rasbull]

Winner in the Gurnos doing 1056 ypm. 3 and 4 missing from most fanciers.

[Guest tom123]

they were struggling down here at 11am a lot away so they were says at checking

[Guest tom123]

also heard rv fed and s w glam had same sort of race but that only hear say

[Guest strapper]

yea heard same too tom m8...sign of the times now m8 ..hope this aint the same next week ...starting mine ??) ;D

[pjc]

Chichichi posted earlier they had 17 form 20 i think by lunch time. I know they have been training for a fair while, poor returns will in many cases be poor preperation and lack of training for which the weather hasn't helped.

As normal some have to send because its the first race and they might miss out on an average!

[dick]

swg had a good race

[Tenny]

where u race dick??

 

[Guest strapper]

3rd race for welsh north road fed...lots missing.

[Robert Hyde]

1st y/b race for our club,very dissapointing, lots missing at clock checking.birds had plenty of training,so not down to that.

[maxwell]

My friend Kieth phoned from tonypandy he had 20/20 with the RVF havent heared about the race in general though.

[Tenny]

KITH WAS 4TH+5TH TOO ALAN.  RV SEEMED TO HAVE AGOOD RACE    

[Guest tom123]

have spoke to a few since last post and they have been turning in in a few lofts but some are still a few away at present dont no what they hit thou

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Chichichi posted earlier they had 17 form 20 i think by lunch time. I know they have been training for a fair while, poor returns will in many cases be poor preperation and lack of training for which the weather hasn't helped.

As normal some have to send because its the first race and they might miss out on an average!

 

you are right there Phil,this year our young birds have been trained further than I used to have to send them to Lanarkshire's first young bird race [ which was Kelso and that was 58 miles or so to where I used to live ], we have had them out to 62 miles plus we had been single tossing them from 40 miles, so we are sure we have done the best we can in preparation for our first race next week which is 98 miles to our lofts

[Guest Owen]

Same old story Tom. Every year it's the same. And guess what, it is no one's fault, it never is.

The south east pigeons must fly accross the flight paths of goodness knows how many other Feds so obviously there will always be a risk of clashing. Inexperienced Babies have very little chance.

Surely it would be common sense to have some system of checking on the returns after these races so that there would be evidence of the results to work on. I did'nt send this week because I thought this would happen. Not that I have solved the problem for myself because the losses will mount as they always do.

I think people are so concerned about the losses and the fact that they could be reported that a lot are not wing stamping their birds. At least that is what I have seen in the strays that I have had here.  

 

[Guest tom123]

mine have had about 45 to 50 tosses but i decided last night with the weather we have had to leave them home

ok felt a little let down with my decition  when i got up to see the sun out no wind a good racing day

but now i know the end findings im personally glad i did

[chichichi]

we had 2 races today,, south west wales at hullavington ,, had 17 from 20 in 1 hour,,5 dropped together,, nothing since,, but they did come ok,, south road from salisbury we had 7 from 8 ,,but a much harder race with big gaps..

 

lots of birds having their first race today,,

 

best of luck and hope they work in..

 

 

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