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When sould i start doing the darkness system sould i start it now what date sould i start it.
as soon as ybs are weaned untill 6 weeks before 1st yb race.

 

 

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But is that even with the early birds mine r now 6-7 weeks old
ybs that are weaned and going out now should be on darkness now as thay will start the moult and cast the first flight before the end of the month.

 

 

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so best getting them on now some of the yb's r moulting now but not thier flight just round thier faces small feathers will start them on monday that sould be ok yea

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ybs that are weaned and going out now should be on darkness now as thay will start the moult and cast the first flight before the end of the month.

 

 

kirky ive been useing the darky for 11 years now,,,i was the first one on it in my club...my young birds never ever shoot a flight until the 3rd week in august...and thats going on it on the 20th march...till the 22nd june....

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Surely if you leave young birds a few weeks after they have been weaned they are going to start moulting their flights before you get them onto the dark system,I have allways put mine straight on the system the day they are weaned with no problems,infact i,m sometimes struggling at the end to get them through the moult,perhaps thats where I,m going wrong.

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early weaned ybs are naturally on the darkness hous so i cant see them chucking flight anyway

my first team are body moulting now and ive spoke to a wing specialist about this and hes advised me that i should put them on the dark between 20 and 29th march to be shore that they dont chuck any flights before 3rd wk in august

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early weaned ybs are naturally on the darkness hous so i cant see them chucking flight anyway

my first team are body moulting now and ive spoke to a wing specialist about this and hes advised me that i should put them on the dark between 20 and 29th march to be shore that they dont chuck any flights before 3rd wk in august

 

cheers m8...some people will just not listen.... :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

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early weaned ybs are naturally on the darkness hous so i cant see them chucking flight anyway

my first team are body moulting now and ive spoke to a wing specialist about this and hes advised me that i should put them on the dark between 20 and 29th march to be shore that they dont chuck any flights before 3rd wk in august

 

Hope you dont mind me asking Jason but didnt you have trouble with your darkness youngones last year throwing flights early was that doing it the same way.

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Hope you dont mind me asking Jason but didnt you have trouble with your darkness youngones last year throwing flights early was that doing it the same way.

 

i did the light system last yr mate thats why it all went horrible wrong they had chucked their flights and come the first race they was all pushing 9th and 10th primary flights which stopped me from entering into the first races

i hadnt worked out the lights propley when i weaned them i should have put them on lights then but i didnt so for the first few wks of weaning they was on natrual darkness hrs which was the cause of them not chucking the lot on time for the first races

i tried it and failed so im doing what i now and that will be darkness this yr and all the ybs will be going over the water  

cheers jason

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kirky ive been useing the darky for 11 years now,,,i was the first one on it in my club...my young birds never ever shoot a flight until the 3rd week in august...and thats going on it on the 20th march...till the 22nd june....

i first used darkness 1986 and over the years i have tried all different start dates and to me i have found best to put them on when weaned winning or ru up yb ave most years, but you have not said how old your ybs are now.

 

 

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my first team of youngsters are end jan weaned and are body moulting now even if the ybs was to chuck a flight now i would not be bothered as it would  be the only one they chuck cos as soon as you fool them by putting them on the dark they wll stop throwing their flights and straight away go into a body moult

 

fanciers around derby put their ybs on the darkness system for six wks and they still manage to race the whole programme with their ybs

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i first used darkness 1986 and over the years i have tried all different start dates and to me i have found best to put them on when weaned winning or ru up yb ave most years, but you have not said how old your ybs are now.

 

 

paired up on the 1st jan so there about 6 weeks old m8... :)

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my first team of youngsters are end jan weaned and are body moulting now even if the ybs was to chuck a flight now i would not be bothered as it would  be the only one they chuck cos as soon as you fool them by putting them on the dark they wll stop throwing their flights and straight away go into a body moult

 

fanciers around derby put their ybs on the darkness system for six wks and they still manage to race the whole programme with their ybs

the only problem when thay throw a flight and then stop them as above when thay come off darkness it is likey thay will throw two flights at a time.

 

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so have you tried it with jan weaned ybs ?

if so what happened ?

thay will throw flights and it is not good for the birds to stop and start moult once thay have thrown a flight you might as well let them carry on, the idea of darkness is to stop them throwing flights and just go throw body moult.

 

 

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