Racing in Iceland

[Guest Hjaltland]

Hey Hogni ,how about some info on your racing in Iceland?

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

ive been chatting to him theres only 15 members out ther for 2008

[Hogni]

There is not much info to give as the number of racers have been declining rapidly over the last few years but we are now starting to see more people join the sport again both old fanciers starting again and new ones.For some years we only have had young bird races but thats about to change again.

 

After 2000 there were some disaster old bird races and after a few disaster races many fanciers lost interest and many fanciers also lost thier housing, there were two houses one with 4-5 fanciers and one with 6-8 fanciers that got torn down by the city and most of those men had nowhere to go and ultimately quit.

 

But just ask away and i´ll try to answer.

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

y were there lofts ripped apart?

[Hogni]

The city needed the space for something else, where the smaller house was there is now a training course for golfers and where the bigger house was nothing has been built yet so i don´t know, maybe they just wanted to get rid of the pigeons.

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

> :( :-/

[Ian McKay]

Hi Kenny

 

If I remember right you had a bird in Iceland????

 

Are you thinking of moving ! !

 

Remember they do not have Royal mail to send eggs out .

 

But hey if they can freeze sperm you might be in business

 

Cheers

Ian

 

Ps How you doing

[me]

Have I got this right is this where you run around the the freezer shop filling your trolley with as much as you can in 1 minute?????????????

[retired]

There is not much info to give as the number of racers have been declining rapidly over the last few years but we are now starting to see more people join the sport again both old fanciers starting again and new ones.For some years we only have had young bird races but thats about to change again.

 

After 2000 there were some disaster old bird races and after a few disaster races many fanciers lost interest and many fanciers also lost thier housing, there were two houses one with 4-5 fanciers and one with 6-8 fanciers that got torn down by the city and most of those men had nowhere to go and ultimately quit.

 

But just ask away and i´ll try to answer.

 

 

Hogni

 

Obviously e havebeen in dialougue regarding an exchange for 2008 however what race points do you have to go from?

 

What is the furthest race your birds get to?

is there any need for special installation dueto the weather?

 

I intendedasking you several questions such as these outof geberal interest howeer seeingthid thread has started its agood chance to do it.

 

I have seen some pictures of Hogni's Birds and they would credit any loft  

 

[Guest Hjaltland]

Back in 1991 I thnk,  I raced a red cock from Beauly which would have been something like 230 miles to me, ended up in Iceland.. it was bred off a BB hen - gift bird from Ian Mac...   and it ended up beside a fancier called Omar Runnolfson. I reckn it mstve flown something over 600 miles  (mostly over sea) to get there. I'd like to go to Iceland sometime, bit of a steppng stone for the vikings when they discovered America.

 

 

PS  doing fine Ian, off to Denmark for a visit on Monday (more crazy vikngs!)

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

i saw pics of his birds and wow there as good as what we have in looks if not better!!! i bet the good at racing too with those conditions out there

[Hogni]

 

 

Hogni

 

Obviously e havebeen in dialougue regarding an exchange for 2008 however what race points do you have to go from?

 

What is the furthest race your birds get to?

is there any need for special installation dueto the weather?

 

I intendedasking you several questions such as these outof geberal interest howeer seeingthid thread has started its agood chance to do it.

 

I have seen some pictures of Hogni's Birds and they would credit any loft  

 

 

We go from 100 km. up to 360- 380 km. but those race points have not been used for years because of the danger of a disaster race.

 

On the map you can see a red circle, thats where all the lofts are, the black circles are racepoints that we use now from 100 km. up to 320 km. and the white circles are racepoints we do not use because of past disaster races, in certain wind directions the birds would have to go through  Icelands biggest falcon colony.

 

We can garantee that the birds never take the straight line home because of high mountains and the weather changes are so rapid here that we have liberated in sunny warm weather but 15 mins. later it has started to rain so it is very unpredictable.

 

 

[Guest]

Didn't realise how mountainous Iceland was.  

 

Basically you are racing the pigeons along a coastal plain ?

[Hogni]

yes basically, and only the strongest survive

[Guest]

Back in 1991 I thnk,  I raced a red cock from Beauly which would have been something like 230 miles to me, ended up in Iceland.. it was bred off a BB hen - gift bird from Ian Mac...   and it ended up beside a fancier called Omar Runnolfson. I reckn it mstve flown something over 600 miles  (mostly over sea) to get there. I'd like to go to Iceland sometime, bit of a steppng stone for the vikings when they discovered America.

 

Can you recall what the wind was that day, Kenny? Carbon copy a couple of years ago, racing from Leicester, 257 miles south of me in a south or south west wind, bird end up around 70 miles north west of Bergen, on an oil platform.

 

[Guest]

Hogni, in an earlier post you said 'only young birds are raced' wondered why that was and what do you do then with the old birds?

[Hogni]

because of old bird disaster races no old bird racers existed and then when we tried again disaser struck again, by then the number of fanciers had diclined so much and it is only now we are getting back on track

[Guest Hjaltland]

 

Can you recall what the wind was that day, Kenny? Carbon copy a couple of years ago, racing from Leicester, 257 miles south of me in a south or south west wind, bird end up around 70 miles north west of Bergen, on an oil platform.

 

1991 was a wee while ago and I dont have the club records to hand but it wouldve been a fine day prob SW wind. I do remeber the day however because it was the first time I'd flown this distance and this bird's brother came through towards evening... you could have heard me shouting in Edinburgh! .. great feeling.. never goes away.

[DOVEScot]

because of old bird disaster races no old bird racers existed and then when we tried again disaser struck again, by then the number of fanciers had diclined so much and it is only now we are getting back on track

 

What was the disaster Hogni :-/

[Hogni]

A couple more disaster races >