Help Please on(BREAKING BIRDS)

[Guest Blue Pied Cock]

I have a team of 23 youngsters trained upto 15 miles but i am moving house in mid September, the new loft location is about 25 miles east of the current one. My question is do i continue to train then race the birds upto the moving date or would it be better to stop them now and think of next year? I have only been racing for three years and only have a couple of old birds left so i really need a team for next year but how easy will it be to break them.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

[THE FIFER]

as yearlings with their first nest they should not be hard to brake to ure new loft, will they still have a loft to go to at ur old place when breaking, at the new place make sure they get plenty view before letting out, a wire cage on top of the loft,

[/td]

[Guest]

Wondered if it was possible to shift the birds to the new location now? Quicker the better as daylight hours disappear fast in September. You could maybe have them broken to the new location before you move.  

[doos r us]

best to have big avery bigest you can fit have the birds walking about on the grass and big enough so they can fly a bit in and out of the new loft would leave them till next feb/march last time i moved the avery was bigger than the loft hard work but worth it as it was the o/birds that paid occasional visit back but they were back by feed time

[jimmy white]

i would continue to race and train ,,,, these young birds should be broken very easy whenever you move ,, as long as they spend time in an aviary ,where they can see out ,,,,i did this in a matter  of days  

[me]

I have a team of 23 youngsters trained upto 15 miles but i am moving house in mid September, the new loft location is about 25 miles east of the current one. My question is do i continue to train then race the birds upto the moving date or would it be better to stop them now and think of next year? I have only been racing for three years and only have a couple of old birds left so i really need a team for next year but how easy will it be to break them.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

 

To a certain extent it depends on which way you race but I don't know many people who race east.

 

To be blunt about this they will not be much use to you as racers broken doos very seldom are unless the loft location is south (nearer) the race point. Hammer them down the road and take the best of them with you for breeding any others gift to local doomen roundabout. You never know they might breed you a few youngsters if they doo well for them.

 

All the best at your new location!

 

[Guest]

welsh north road races east...well southeast.......paul

[ALF]

MAKES A HELL OF A DIFFERANCE IF YOU ARE PUTTING THE BIRDS BACK INTO THE SAME LOFT WHEN YOU MOVE THEM I HAD THEM ALL BROKE IN A FORTNIGHT AFTER I MOVED MIND YOU THAT WAS ONLY A MILE BUT THEIR OWN LOFT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERANCE TRUST ME

[me]

MAKES A HELL OF A DIFFERANCE IF YOU ARE PUTTING THE BIRDS BACK INTO THE SAME LOFT WHEN YOU MOVE THEM I HAD THEM ALL BROKE IN A FORTNIGHT AFTER I MOVED MIND YOU THAT WAS ONLY A MILE BUT THEIR OWN LOFT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERANCE TRUST ME

 

Very true done something similar "me"self but it wisnae 25 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[me]

welsh north road races east...well southeast.......paul

 

welsh NORTH road races EAST...well SOUTH east... yae pissed paul ye forgot WEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

[Guest]

I have just moved last nov alf is bang on if you can take the old loft with you its worth the hassel dont change it in any way dont paint inside or out and as the other posts say try and let them see out as much as pos but you still need a bit of luck and as me says dont expect to set the hills on fire next season any birds that are special to you forsake them for a season as i have done and iam breaking them 2/3 a day just now by pairing them up to birds i brok in jan and lightly raced good luck

[stantheman]

A few years ago i moved about ten miles and broke all the birds old and young with the exception of five old cocks and it only took two weeks. I followed the advice of Bill Carney and trained all the birds from the new location as often as i could before actually moving there bills theory was if they knew the way from the new location back to the original loft they would also know the reverse route once they had been relocated. It worked a treat for me and the first time i let them out sure enough yhey headed for the old place but and the end of the day most had come back like he said they would and in two weeks they had settled to the new place.

[me]

A few years ago i moved about ten miles and broke all the birds old and young with the exception of five old cocks and it only took two weeks. I followed the advice of Bill Carney and trained all the birds from the new location as often as i could before actually moving there bills theory was if they knew the way from the new location back to the original loft they would also know the reverse route once they had been relocated. It worked a treat for me and the first time i let them out sure enough yhey headed for the old place but and the end of the day most had come back like he said they would and in two weeks they had settled to the new place.

 

Yes a good point I remember reading the exact same thing somewhere years ago maybe the same bloke?

 

Still don't know how well they will race as they tend to come home via the old location but certainly worth a try.

 

 

[Guest Blue Pied Cock]

Cheer's for the advice.

[doo.racer]

Some old timers suggest tossing the birds from intended location several times before the move,