Partnerships

[Blue Chequer]

Are partnerships a good thing or bad.  In my experience the partnerships that work are those involving family members or between two fanciers of whom one is prepared only to take a minor role in the running of the loft.    I see a succesful loft in the E.C. area has taken a new partner who himself is no stranger to the red cards,  will this work?  I have my doubts, everybody has different ideas and likes to do things as they have done previously, particulary when they have been at the top. If things don't go well they look for a scapegoat.  You can't beat being on your own even though it involves a lot of hard work.  How many partners draw up an agreement and lodge it with the Union in case of a fall out?

[Guest]

They have there obvious advantages like being able to take a day off from the birds or even a week or two to go on holiday etc. But for racing I feel its better for one person to do the work themselves. When I raced in a partnership there was things I wanted to do, but my mate didnt agree and there were things my mate did that I didnt like. We used to ignore the problems until one day when I had the widows out, my partner started to cut the grass with a pertrol mower and the birds wouldnt land, so I got pissed off and threw the keys at him and told him to do it himself. After this we did nowt but disagree so we now fly to seperate lofts.

[Guest]

Steve and I of course fly in partnership under Red Rose Lofts. when I arrived in the States we disagreed VIOLENTLY regarding our different methods.  He flew widowhood and he definately didn't like my young bird training methods especially Flag flying the babies.  So we agreed to split the tream he the old and me the young birds. He sets the breeding pairs up.

 

We both take care of the breeding loft, I feed mornings he feeds afternoons.  He drives the birds out training while I sit at the loft to call them in both young and old. Unfortunately I am always here when the birds arrive home and are used to me calling them, so I'm now lumbered with his birds on training tosses and race days

 

Does it work, NO WAY JOSE, we still fall out like cat and dog, but when he imported a Flyer from England (which he calls his automated English Scraping System) he never bargained for Lancashire stubborness.

[westburylofts]

 

THERE ARE PLENTY THAT DO WORK

AND WORK WELL.

 

WHEN I FIRST STARTED BACK IN THE 1980s

MY DAD AND I FLEW TOGETHER, HARD WORK AT TIMES BUT PLENTY OF REWARDS

GOT TO KNOW HIM BETTER THROUGH THE BIRDS THAN I EVER DID WITHOUT THEM.

 

GIVE AND TAKE,   ALWAYS TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE OTHERS VIEWS.

 

 

RAY

[swilcox]

They can at times be very difficult esp when the pigeons are one of the partners house as you can feel like an intruder but overall they do take the pressure off and allow you to tend to the birds better!!!

 

Stuart