YB's not trained or raced

antwerptom03 · August 13, 2006

In reading the book about Gurnay i noticed he did'nt race the majority of his birds until they were 2 years old. He did train them as yearlings out to 100KM He insisted they needed time to develop. Anyone here follow a similar course of action???

andyb · August 13, 2006

i don't believe there are any hard and fast rules on this subject but what i can say is that my experience has been that it has always been beneficial to race them in their year of birth

jimmy white · August 13, 2006

i allways liked the ybs well trained as ybs, even if not raced, but would be happy with a couple of races

andyb · August 13, 2006

i may be an old stager in ths game but i have lways believed that they need a race or two. however as i am restaring with only 4 ybs left out of 10 i shall introduce some latebreds and they will have to fly

antwerptom03 · August 13, 2006

Late breds are all i have left! Too young to race this year but i'll have to get them down the road this fall to be ready for next years OB's

August 14, 2006

any more back Tom ?????

schouwman71 · August 14, 2006

over the years i have always put to side some really striking young birds ,not trained or race them just let them mature and exercise ,and as yearlings most have beaten the ones that have been raced,and took more cards,i think people are too afraid in doing this as they think they will go down as yearling,some may do but not all,also youngirds that get raced as young birds can still go down.Try it you might be supprised.

antwerptom03 · August 14, 2006

Evening Linda,

Not one back so far. It's raining pretty good so i'm already looking toward next year. My club pres. has offered my a dozen or more late hatches including a few Bekaerts from a "sweet honesty"??? cock bird from your loft. After thinking long and hard and handling bird from the lofts that had good returns i think my feeding may have been a bit light?

Tom

August 15, 2006

Take them Tom, they're off our best, we shouldn't have sold as many Bekaerts as all 4 of our top hens quit laying at the same time, and I couldn't replace then with the same quality. Who is sweet Honesty ??? Our top birds were Walter, Gold Strike Bert and Becky and anything out of pigeons bred originally by Clarence Morris of Denver.

Run your feeding regimen past me

Thanks

antwerptom03 · August 15, 2006

Our club presidents wife and daughters bought a Bekaert cock from you a few year back as a Christmas gift for him. He's always refered to that cock bird as the sweet honesty cock??. I'll post the mix &i Scheme info tommarow. Gotto be up @ 4am so i better run

Tom