longest race

[Guest WINGS 04]

longest race you would send a yearling  

[Guest coxy]

sent mine to 506 miles and prized

[Beanz]

As far as the longest race is that we fly, if yearlings are treated right they will win from the longer distances but you cannot send them every week and expect them to keep coming, one fancier I know had a yearling that kept coming week after week even winning at 500 mls tried to do the same with it year after came the first couple of races and then it came late the next two and he sent it back its still coming.

[Guest]

I think if you are an experienced distance man then your yearlings will do 500 miles. People I can quote are Jim Cullen, Uddingston ("Lille, 465 miles is a yearling race") and John Ellis, Wellbank (video) "you'll get them but you'll lose a few good ones"

 

I'm not an experienced distance man and my target is to get them from 270 - 370 miles, the coast.

[Guest]

Every year since I started in 2001 my yearlings in the distance team have been sent to bergerac 440miles to me. They have to be bred from the right birds though and I do not start them off before middle of may. They then go straight over the channel at 180miles first race, two weeks later 238miles, 2 weeks later 300miles and finally 3 weeks later Bergerac. Nearly always my first few birds are yearlings treated like this and I very rarely lose them. You do get the odd late one (ie a few days to a couple of weeks late) but they generally all make it home. Funny last years bergerac was the toughest for a few years, velo down to 900ypm for winner and very hot - only 5 birds made it on the day but I didn't lose a single yearling, dropped a couple of experienced ones though.

 

Toying with the idea of sending a couple of yearlings to Pau this year 548miles.

 

My mate has never sent yearlings past 300miles for years and he flys a good distance bird, after talking about it with me he decided the last two seasons to send yearlings. Last year he won the club from bergerac with a yearling and this year he was second in the combine with a yearling from there. If treated right they can easily take on the distance.

[Roland]

Personaly I believe as far as any. Jackson and a few others sent the 1000 miles with great results. Many 70 - 100 years ago went and returned, to do the same again many times. Y/b farthest for me was 460 miles. Now on the North won't allow yearlings to lerwicke, which is, I feel, a great pity.

  400 odd miles BACK to back FOR MOST YOUNG BIRDS in Canada, after all the others leading up to it. And returns are good. Do we molly cuddle too much! Makes a mockery of all thoses that breed 50 - 100 or more y/b's - mainly to lose, which they do!  BUT are scare to send them over 200 miles, yes even 150 miles, That, to me, is the sad joke.

[Guest Vic]

Yearlings from 500 miles!  Over the years, I have won on  numerous occasions, with yearlings from 500 miles. The do and end all, is condition, and unless they  are "asking" to go, don't send 'em.      An "in form" pigeon cannot hide its supreme condition,  and if it has distance breeding, SEND IT.  

 

BUT after saying that, SEE MY LATEST POST! but  ;D

[swilcox]

For me i would look at Saintes 400 miles, Bergerac or Bordeuax but i also keep a few arou nd the 200 mark