This Time Of Year

[yeboah]

With the Autumn feel now in the air and the racing nearly all but over it is now very obvious going by club and fed results that the fanciers with the darkness youngsters are winning the races,Darkness youngsters in our club are now streets ahead of the natural flyers and watching the federation results the same can be said for that,I do not get many strays in at this time of year as at the start of the yb racing but the natural one's that do drop in are shocking ,seventh flight ,no neck feathers half tails and cover feathers gone bloody shame for the poor wee devils expected to race in that condition,are there natural flyers still beating the darkness fanciers in your clubs or does the same apply as our results .

[hotrod]

With the Autumn feel now in the air and the racing nearly all but over it is now very obvious going by club and fed results that the fanciers with the darkness youngsters are winning the races,Darkness youngsters in our club are now streets ahead of the natural flyers and watching the federation results the same can be said for that,I do not get many strays in at this time of year as at the start of the yb racing but the natural one's that do drop in are shocking ,seventh flight ,no neck feathers half tails and cover feathers gone bloody shame for the poor wee devils expected to race in that condition,are there natural flyers still beating the darkness fanciers in your clubs or does the same apply as our results .

it all darkies thats winning our club micheal their miles ahead of any natural ones ,you must laugh when some put their natural ones in baskets ,its the same ones that said earlier in old bird racing i never sent that cock/hen this week as its dropped a flight , you wouldnt race yer old birds in that conditions .

[JAMBO]

the winner and second pigeons in winchburgh are not darkness doos so they can still compete but darkness young birds will probleby take over in last two races

[airdrie2]

it was natural birds that took the first 4 places at our club the last race lanarkshire and will be more than prob be in the first three in fed

[Guest IB]

IMO moult is a perfectly natural event. I watch the wild pigeons and wonder how many of them would starve to death if human whims were applied to their everyday lives? I’ve seen them flying between their roosting and feeding areas in all weathers at all times of the year and in all light conditions. Watching that makes me wonder when some pigeon folk actually fly their pigeons? Condensed opinions from the forum include not sending because:-

 

Too warm, too cold, east winds, north winds, cloudy, no cloud cover (clear blue sky). sun & moon in sky together, rain forecast, and of course – too far on in the moult.

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

There are some natural birds in good feather and still scoring be they early bred or laterbred with the occasional mad scraggly one popping up but would imagine if you look at any federation result in the country of the last couple of weeks over 75% of the birds featured will have been darkened and in some areas perhaps even lightened