Darkness V Natural Y/Birds

[Guest Paulo]

darkness definately otherwise you may win first two races or so but as soon as distance gets up the naturals can't compete the darkies are like yearlings

[Guest stb-]

but you have to take in consideration, people also bred alot later, hence the reason they went the whole programme. I think the pigeons were also alot different, as the pigeons these days are far more mature, in the year of their birth then what they was 15 years ago. The maturity of the pigeons is in my opinion is the case of the losses in most cases, as many wait for 6 months of age before many train a bird, but in the time line you were quoting we was training them when they was 8-10 weeks of age to get them into the first race, many times training only started 2 weeks before the first race.

 

However i do feel the darkness is the reason for young bird sickness, as its going totally against nature.

had y b sickness once ,that was the year i had darkness yb,s aint had em again

[Guest Owen]

I had a team of youngsters on Darkness while I have 12 late breds not on darkness. The latebreds are well advanced in the moult while the Darkies are holding their fights well and still look a picture. I doubt if anyone could compete against the Darkies in this area because everyone does it. I know a very well known Fancier who specialises in the extreme distance who does not use the Darkness System. I have never heard of him winning a youngbird race in spite of the fact that he has some of the best pigeons in the Country.