DO YOU LET YOUR YOUNG BIRDS OUT ON A RACEDAY ?

[Guest TAMMY_1]

I READ THE POST BY POMPEY MICK WHEN HE SAID HIS YB'S WERE IN THE BATH WHEN BIRDS WENT OVER WHEN I FIRST JOINED OUR CLUB AN OLDER FANCIER SAID ONE THING YOU MUST NEVER DO IS LET YOUR YOUNG BIRDS OUT WHEN RACERS COULD BE GOING OVER AS YOU COULD BE SAYING CHEERIO TO THEM.

[Guest]

No we do not let yb's out. and they have a bath in the avairy yb lofts every weekly

[Guest jason]

I've always let my young birds out, after timing in.

never had any of them fly off with the racers going over now and again we get an odd stray landing on loft roof.

[T_T]

NO

[peterpau]

Always have 'em out in the evening

[Guest shadow]

Yes in the evening.

[Guest WINGS 04]

I've always let my young birds out, after timing in.

never had any of them fly off with the racers going over now and again we get an odd stray landing on loft roof.

 

HOW LONG AFTER YOU TIME IN ?

[Guest jason]

I let them out about 3 hours after timing in

[Guest]

i may let them out on the vening but usually keep them in till sunday and if birds are racing on sunday let them out in the evening because once someone i know bred 18 young birds and he let them out and about 10 mins after he let them out he saw a big cloud of birds go over and his young birds were all over the place every single one went missing. Anyway it turned out that all his 18 young birds ended up within 10 miles of each otherin newcastle..lol he got them all back though. (thats a true story by the way)

[Pompey Mick]

I wouldn't let my Yb's out on a race day if they were flying really strong but mine are at the madcap stage not kitted properly yet and they're not really flying very high at the moment. Where I live in Portsmouth I am in The SE corner of Portsea Island and unless there is North in the wind I don't get many racing batches passing through at a low level. I knew the Kent boys had held at Portsmouth and I would not let my YBs out if they had been stronger on the wing. I must have seen the 10.30 lib go over ,but they were very high, like a swarm of bees ,racing NE.

[NANCYVIEWLOFTS]

whats the point dont tempt fate

[robert.sutherland]

NO never  lost two many trying to be clever in years past                                    yours in sport   BOB

[westy]

nope because they could get taken away in some on the way back from a race but if i do not ontil late afternoon

[Guest]

Any kit of pigeons going over would lift an old bid team, never mind a young bird one. Difference is the old un's break-off and come back.

 

On race days, put yb's out early morning and have them back in before normal lib times. Normally that would be them in until next day.

[rockinrick]

sometimes if i know friend down road has his old birds out

[square_peg]

NEVER   OUR YOUNGSTERS ARE PUT IN RACE BASKETS FOR NEARLY EVERY OLD BIRD RACE , FED AND WATERED  AND SPEND OVERNIGHT THERE   COME TRAINING TIME THEY HAVE NO FEAR OF BASKETS AND CAN DRINK AND EAT IN THE BASKET

[Guest TAMMY_1]

NEVER DONE THAT BUT WILL TRY IT THIS YEAR. I PUT THE YBS IN A BASKET BUT THATIS A GOOD IDEA . THANKS

[pigeonland]

always keep ybs in on day of liberation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[95smcdonald]

I PUT MY YOUNG ONES OOT EVERY OPPURTUNITY I CAN BUT AT WKNDS I ONLY LET THEM OUT LATE ON.

[Mike Lycett]

NEVER   OUR YOUNGSTERS ARE PUT IN RACE BASKETS FOR NEARLY EVERY OLD BIRD RACE , FED AND WATERED  AND SPEND OVERNIGHT THERE   COME TRAINING TIME THEY HAVE NO FEAR OF BASKETS AND CAN DRINK AND EAT IN THE BASKET

 

Halelujah!!! - Another geezer making sense!!

[THE FIFER]

put a grate on the floor of ur loft and put food in it birds will go in and feed, gets them used to them

[mealybar]

If the youngsters are strong enough and old enough that they've been ranging properly, I wouldnt have any problem in letting them out on race day. Some of the best free training you can get However you;ll notice if letting them out early on (before the days race) that there will be one that returns home just when your racers are due, just to give the heart a little flutter..lol

[pigeonland]

old birds sometimes have problems breaking from flocks so there's not much of a chance if say the unc is liberating and young birds get in with them.

ok if you can afford £22 each to get them back and late ybs returning can also cost you a win.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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