Cant Get My Head Round It

[Guest bakes]

sent this morning on training transporter down to evasham 30 miles before this there had 10 chucks from other side corly 10miles from over side of warwick 25 miles and a good few chucks from 30 to 40 miles i aint seen a bloody feather said they be up at half 9 this morning wear have they gone there experienced enough to now there way home now absolute gutted got 7 ybs stitched up do to percy attack and two latebreds lofts bear empty if they dont turn up my season is well and trully over birds was sent in full of health was bouncing when they was put on transporter this morning there been doing evasham in under 40 minutes even the latecomers are all back by the hour cant get me head round it i hold my hands up if loft was not set out properly or the birds are not fit and in good health but the birds are bouncing been flying an hr morning and just under an hr at night cant put me hand on it

[Guest bakes]

just got one back meally van hee bred by demolition man off here 13 still missing

[Guest bakes]

another just dropped one misses bought me from armstrong wheatley come on getting there slowly still 12 missing

[kirky]

thay may have been held at lib point due to poor weather, and released later.hope you get them ok.

[clayton moore]

You will get them all just be patient. Good luck.

[Guest paulrstokes]

Bakes

 

All of my early season training was like this, 20 miles and after 3 hours I would get one, and they would come all day.

 

After a day or so took them to the same spot, and bang 22 minutes, I would think they have finaly cracked it, next day take them back and again three hours, and split.

 

I went from 33 youngsters to 16 in days, every time I tossed i would drop one or two, however I decided to percivere and after around 6 weeks the penny has dropped the kit of 16 will do the 20 mile stage in 20 minutes whatever the weather.

 

I do not know whether it was Bop, illness, clashing or what, if self critical I was perhaps a little liberal with the corn.

 

I know it is hard, but stick with it, they will soon get the hang of it, I was going to close the YB loft until next year, but I stuck at it and suddenly out of nowhere they started to race home.

 

Saturday from 135 miles in the rain I had 5 drop together from 13 sent to take 2,3,4,5,6 club.

 

All the best

[Guest mick bowler]

I'm sure they will turn in Bakes.

 

Paulrstokes, sounds very much like BOP. The ybs will eventually find a safe route, they will know where they are hunting and avoid it, these birds not stupid. My main problem pair is enroute (work in progress ), and seem to hunt one side of the mountains, my birds just wont go anywhere near they always come to the north despite wind weather and lib point. I only found out by libbing them directly under the "hunting area" and my birds went mental, trying to clear the area while staying as low as they could.

[Roland]

B.O.P.

However I believe those worth having will get back. - Hopefully all of them. I. like every one else can't put a realism of course when this happens.

Have released in gale force nigh, all home after a hard work out. Pouring rain and fog. Yet have lost - far too many - from 5 miles on good days when over looking their loft. When aside a mssive church, and a 2 1/2 square mils of lakes.... must be seen 40 -50 miles away when birds are up high. Yet straight past, or lost! Personally I went back to 20 odd miles first chuck.Was hitting Nottingham regularly after 3 chucks, and losseses no where near as bad.

(Lost a little bottle I guess as would normally be 35 -miles or so. Then two / three longer chucks in different direction. then first catch up race of 112 or 140 miles.

So we just don't know, and seem to hit on a routine hat suits us, and then we are happy and swear by it.

Good luck Bakes, I'm sure most will get home ... doing them the world of good I guess. Won't race well Saturday though I fear as it will have took the edge of them I believe.

[greenlands]

Hi Klaus,hope they turn in mate,it's hard enough to get a team together when you have an established loft,where as once over if you had 20/30 youngens you could fly the whole program and have birds to spare .Now your lucky to get to the first race breeding 60.

Good luck mate.

Lindsay.

[Guest bakes]

just had one reported dead in coventry by a factory worker in there car park at the dunlop said hole in back under wing feathers every bloody were the one of my jos thone grizzles and havent had nothink else back i be happy when this year has passed as all i have is nock after nock

[Guest Tooshy Boy]

HOPE YOU GET THEM SON ..TOOSHY BOY..//

[Roland]

How they coming Bakes? A few more, if not all, home I hope.

[blaz]

sorry to hear that hope they turn up

[Guest bakes]

How they coming Bakes? A few more, if not all, home I hope.

 

no good mate had 3 more work back today they was well and trully creamed crackered mate first bird back white gay pied bred by demolition man an busshaert came with 3 strags landed on loft the gay pied trapped and the strags got back up and flew off 2 whites and an black came with her then looked up seen another folding up an blue pied we bred from birds we got from lenwade bob and gooner of here bussheart/dordin then nothink for a while then seen another folding up one of the stickbaks they looked like they had done 500 miles bud not the 30 miles they was sent to can not get my head round it mate there iver crap or somethink dropped a b***ck some were down the line when they was working back could of been due to clash could of be due to pob or could of been due to there was not good enough but not as if there havent been evasham before hand they was doing it in under 40 minutes late comers was back with in the hour so not as if there not been there before hand was going to give them one last chuck before i was going to work out what me and the misses will send to come back race but didnt work out like we planned it in the end o well nowt i can do now damage has been done just gutted as alot of the birds lost friends have put them self out to breed them for us putting the pairs together we wonted somethink off is bloody hard trying to get a team together specially when you still learning the ropes ive looked back at all angles was it my folt but birds was sent in amculate condition they was boucing when was put on transporter a picture of health and been coming very well before hand.

the joys of by a pigeon fancier got a loft with a nice team of youngbirds one day next day you got an empty loft.

 

all best

klaus

[gooner]

Klaus i will glkadly breed you half a dozen young uns next next year all you gotta do is pay the carriage

[billt]

Klaus I'm sure it's not something you're doing wrong, did the the other guys on the trainer have bad returns?, sounds like a BOP attack to split well trained birds like that, don't lose heart, you'll get there with your enthusiasum, Stay with it. All the best

[micko and jack]

thinking of you mo chara

[Grim Reaper]

Remember, when a flock of pigeons are subject to a BOP strike, their only thought is to escape. They will panic fly in all directions, and will continue for some miles. It's only when they regain their composure do they think of home, this journey could take a few days. I sincerely hope your returns get better.

[Guest bakes]

thinking of you mo chara

 

can only get better micko on wards and upwards from now on mate

 

all the best

klaus

nikki

[Guest bakes]

Klaus I'm sure it's not something you're doing wrong, did the the other guys on the trainer have bad returns?, sounds like a BOP attack to split well trained birds like that, don't lose heart, you'll get there with your enthusiasum, Stay with it. All the best

 

it take more than this for me to take the lofts down mate quitters never get no were in the end ive had nock after nock but the thought havent even crossed my mind a quote my mate as well as a good friend of family said to me when i was a kid going into anythink your always hopeing if you get a nock makes shore you come back with a bang and im intending to mate that quote was from a top greyhound trainer and multipul derby winner and ive always remembered that since i was a younglad the returns i dont really now how they turned out mate i now armstrong & wheatley had a slow un as well but got theres back over a good few hours was suprised to here ian saying this as usualy there birds are up and off like rockets takes a good bird to take them of the top spot when the lads are in full flow

 

all the best.

klaus

[Guest bakes]

two reported dead today one in guernsey ripped to bits and with in 10 minutes after getting the call to say the least i wasnt happy got a phone call saying i mate ive got one of your birds said brill bud were are ya then went on to say im in stanley durham but the birds dead found it while i was walking dogs looks like a hawk has had it so got 5 home 3 reported dead all by bloody hawk/falcon attack and no sign of nothink else i be really suprised if i see anythink else back now so looks like pob has smashed into them a good un on way back home and they went in all directions not the happest of chaps at the moment in time

 

klaus.

[geordie1234]

Gutted for you mate I took six a training toss today one missing the other back six hours late with a big hole in its crop from a perigrine

[billt]

two reported dead today one in guernsey ripped to bits and with in 10 minutes after getting the call to say the least i wasnt happy got a phone call saying i mate ive got one of your birds said brill bud were are ya then went on to say im in stanley durham but the birds dead found it while i was walking dogs looks like a hawk has had it so got 5 home 3 reported dead all by bloody hawk/falcon attack and no sign of nothink else i be really suprised if i see anythink else back now so looks like pob has smashed into them a good un on way back home and they went in all directions not the happest of chaps at the moment in time

 

klaus.

Certainly nothing wrong with the health and fitness of your birds, they travelled some distance, sorry things aren't going your way, can only get better