Young bird team

[North road racer]

Hi all, Im looking at trying a few diffrent families next season with my young bird team. Some sprint some long distance and middle distance birds. Does anybody beleive having diffrent families in a young bird team helps or hinders birds atall. For example when training etc.

 

 

Thanks

[Simeon Turner]

We have all kinds in ours, it makes no difference at all at the young bird stage.

 

 

[North road racer]

Cheers mate, i thought the same but thought id get the pro's advice on here.

[john@formula 1 lofts]

Hi mate

 

i think sprint - middle are fine but i think if you have proper long distance lines it can break the flock up a bit when training. or may slow down the sprint birds a little. fine to keep them in same loft section but i would train them separte.

 

hope this helps

 

John

[OLDYELLOW]

ive housed sprinters and distance pigeons in same loft for years and in same season have won shortest race and longest race due to space confines , if you have the room and time then best to keep seperate , but i find the sprinters tend to drag the distance birds behind them and it was never a problem having them together

[peterpau]

Now about this sprinters dragging distance pigeons behind. I have a pigeon in the pen that won Yelverton 179 mile and flown Palamos 751 mile. Don't sound like distance birds will slow your sprinters to me. Breed 'em together and that's a whole new ball game. That I would not recomend. Put 'em all together and let the basket be the judge. ( I can't get sprinters to fly round me hat but my distance birds will win inland.)

[dazza]

Hi don't think it makes any difference at all, Tours Princess raced 112 miles one week doing a velocity of 1844yds per minute winning club and finishing 3rd fed, the following week she raced from 444 miles finished 14th section 26th open MNFC doing 1200yds per minute. So is she a sprinter, a long distance pigeon or just a very good pigeon?

 

dazza

 

[john@formula 1 lofts]

Dazza

 

What i am talking about is the old distance lines pigeons that do not get started to 500 mile but like 700-800 mile races. in my loft in which i have out and out sprint pigeons (SVR) middle distance (gabys) & (Ron Williamsons) and some proper distance lines. new for 2008 i have found that in training and races these birds have nearly always been after my other birds even from a short 12 mile spin. maybe they are no good but as they are still there i am willing to give them a chance also the only other real distance bird i had which was gifted to me when a friend left the sport. always was last home inland and often came by himself training. but did fly Dax international,Bergerec twice, Bordeaux, all on the day also flew Perpignan just out of race time as a yearling before i broke him as a two year old to my house. i then broke him again when i moved this year and he raced alencon and Tours at 8 years old.