What have i done? what happened??

[pigeonpete]

Hi all had a really bad week this week with my ybs, will start the story from the start. ybs had been flying well for over an hour every day, been off ranging 3//4 times for over an hour,3 hours on 1 occasion, let them out monday and some kind person decided to release about 80/100 trainers down the lane frome me!! bang all went with them, after 4 hours i had 35 out of 53 back and 1 next day thats it the rest of them this week i decided to train, had them 4 times this week at 5 miles and were all coming together, took them 11 miles today released at 10.30 with 6 obs got 1 ob at 11.30, 2 obs with 1 yb at 11.45 :o then the remaining obs were spread out all over the place!! were scared as hell  when they returned, really on edge!! so hope youve all had a better week than me lol :-/ started the week with 53 ybs finished the week with 1! so looks like my yb season is over already, and i only started last year ??) ??) just goes to show what adifference a week makes! by the way there all stamped so will wait and see what happens, but im gutted to say the least. :'( :X thinking of jackin it in altogether at the moment it was 4pm when i left and no sign of any ybs!!! 1 yb in a 18ft loft  :B

[Guest]

Keep your chin up mate, looks like you had a preditor in your flock, same happened to me yesterday and I'm still 8 birds, took mine all day to come back in ones and two's.  You will find that some will work their way back over the thext few days. I will say one thing though, should you have been tossing on race day, if a hawk or falcoln attacked your flock they will have spread out 360 degrees in panic and may have joined up and followed race birds.

 

[Guest]

sorry I misread your post, about when you tossed, but I bet there are still a lot of race birds making their way home, especially up North

[pigeonpete]

cheers linda thinking it was maybe to hot aswell!!! oh well life goes on i suppose :-/ was really looking forward to yb racing aswell :'(

[Guest]

You'll get some back, I'm sure of that, and remember it only takes one to win

[pigeonpete]

lol good cause thats all i got !! ;D

[Henrik]

Aye Pete they will make their way home eventually

[Guest]

So you will have to call it Tony, tonyone you got left lol let me know if any more work their way back

[Mike Lycett]

Pete

 

For future reference, never EVER take OB's with the YBs - it only encourages 'em to get split up.  I know you think of it as "insurance" but you gotta let 'em work it out for themselves

[pigeonpete]

Cheers for that mike, bit late now lol, but surely they still should have come?? :-/ really dont get it!! had a really bad storm hear 20 mins ago only lasted 15 mins!! but was torential rain and thunder and lightening!! wind got up 2!! so if there out in that somewhere think its bye bye for them!! :'(

[Pompey Mick]

If they,re caught up in the rain pigeonpete it wil give you a better chance of getting them back because they will be forced to sit it out and will not venture too far, also they should be able to get some water, more a necessity than food. 14 of my youngsters went for a run 10 days ago, I had 5 after 5hrs another two after 7 hrs away, one the next morning and one more at midday, I had one reported in a non-fanciers garden some 60mls away a week later. Have some faith in your birds ability, all is not lost.

[pigeonpete]

Cheers for the vote of confidence mick!! made me feel a tad better cheers mate

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Pete

 

For future reference, never EVER take OB's with the YBs - it only encourages 'em to get split up.  I know you think of it as "insurance" but you gotta let 'em work it out for themselves

 

FOR ONCE I AGREE TOTALLY WITH YOU MIKE,WHEN WE STARTED PIGEONS WHICH IS 7  YEARS AGO THAT WAS SOMETHING THE OLDER FLIERS TOLD ME NEVER TAKE OLD BIRDS ALONG WITH YOUNG ONES WHEN TRAINING. ANOTHER THING THEY DID TELL ME THOUGH WAS WHEN I WAS TRAINING OLD BIRDS MAYBE STICK ONE OR TWO YOUNG BIRDS AT MOST IN ALONG WITH THEM IF I WANTED AND THAT WAY YOU CAN ONLY LOSE TWO AT MOST BUT I FOUND I NEVER LOST ANY YOUNG ONES THIS WAY BUT IT IS STILL BETTER TAKING YOUNG BIRDS THEMSELVES.SOME WILL COME HOME AND THEY WILL BE ALL THE BETTER FOR IT PETE.

[Matthew]

hope you get them bak m8.. you wil have to remember next time dont lift your ybs when the weather is like this. I had myn away yesterday 9miles theyve been doin it in 10- 12 mins evry day but yesterday it took them 35 mins i put it down to the heat and the east wind

[pigeonpete]

My wife had just been down to the stables where i keep my birds as i did nt have the heart to look again today!! and 3 were back so 3 is better than none i suppose :-/

[sapper756]

KEEP YOUR CHIN UP MATE, I,M SURE MORE WILL WORK THEIR WAY BACK OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, AND BE ALL THE BETTER FOR THE EXPERIENCE. GOOD LUCK.

[Marky5]

Agree with Sapper do hope you get more work back pigeonpete , good luck

[Guest shadow]

I made the mistake of letting my young birds out late evening last saturday all 19 of them come nightfall I only had seven home.  Today had another work back and have now got seventeen back in the loft and as yet none reported although all have address rings on so still hope the other two make it back keep your chin up they can still come back.

[westy]

Pete

 

For future reference, never EVER take OB's with the YBs - it only encourages 'em to get split up.  I know you think of it as "insurance" but you gotta let 'em work it out for themselves

 

would it make a differance taking a ob hen.

[V1JSL]

 

IF IT'S ANY HELP I HAVE 6 YB READY TO GO FROM THE STOCK LOFT AND A FURTHER 4 NEXT WEEK  (RENENEWART & VANREET) . BEST SEASON I EVER HAD WAS WITH JUNE BRED YB'S JUMPED IN AT THE SECOND OR THID RACE.

 

THEY WILL WORK THEIR WAY HOME OVER THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. THE SAME HAPPENED TO ME LAST YEAR LOST 60 BY THE END THE WEEK 7 SHORT.

 

GOOD LUCK

[Guest slugmonkey]

I still have birds coming from 600 a week ago you will get some more home I think you need to go farther I have found I do better at 15-20 than 5

[Guest WINGS 04]

PETE WHEN WE STARTED IN 2000 WE HAD 70 YOUNG BIRDS AND THE WERE WELL TRAIND AND WE WHERE TOLD THAT WE SHOULD TAKE THEM TO ANOTHER POINT TO TRAIN THEM THAT WAS AT 8AM WE DID NOT GET A BIRD BACK TILL 7.30 PM WE GOT 35 OUT OF 70 AFTER 2 DAYS BUT THEY BIRDS WON US AS YEARLING THE OLD BIRD AVREGS IN OR FIRST FULL YEAR SO DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE

[jimmy white]

so sorry thats happened pete, i would agree about not putting old birds in , as they just break off the batch and split them up, but that sounds more like a hawck attack to me, , i would think youll get a lot of these birds back yet, i certainly hope so,

a few years ago i released ybs for a trainer and saw the perigrine attack it killed one ,the rest dived for cover in the trees etc, out of about 60 ybs i finished up with about half of them during the next week [plus a few that were injured,[ but after settling them down , they flew very well as ybs and old birds

[pigeonpete]

A big thanks to everyones kind words, and offers of young birds just been down to look at have 6 back! will give you an update later on tonight! if i can get on lol would june bred babies be o.k to step in to a 120+ race first week in june?? most of mine were jan/feb bred and cant come back from 11 miles lol :-/

[Guest]

A word of advice: Never toss young birds in a East wind and clear blue sky, that includes races. Also when training young birds let them go in small batches, never all together.

 

I hope you get a few more return.