training place.s

[Guest numpty01]

were do you train youer birds from in relation to youer home end i.e  i train from glouster 35miles from myself

[kirky]

were do you train youer birds from in relation to youer home end i.e  i train from glouster 35miles from myself

 

I have trained out to 32miles south of where I live, have now dropped back to the first point of 12miles for my widowhood cocks.

[Guest numpty01]

do you find that by bringing them back they lose heart or do not come the same i was always tought not to comeback but increase

[pigeonpete]

18 miles for me thats the furthest they go. young and old, takes me 25 mins to basket 30 mins there and 30 mins back!! thats far enuff when im at work from 5.30 in the morn till 6 at night.

[peterpau]

18 miles for me thats the furthest they go. young and old, takes me 25 mins to basket 30 mins there and 30 mins back!! thats far enuff when im at work from 5.30 in the morn till 6 at night.

Sounds right to me. I used to take em to work, and take 'em 50 60 mile all points of the compass. Last year, me old birds had two 10 mile training chucks, in to racing, 7 inland races 1 over the water. Then Palamos 751 mile. Kind of got to the point where I think, why do we train? My pigeon that did well from Tarbes still turned round and did just as well from Perth and he had never been raced North. If they are fit they don't need the work and if they have a good instinct they don't need teaching. Young birds are a whole different thing though. Hmm or are they?