Young Bird Widowhood

[aaron21]

as anyone every tryed young bird widowhood and it worked thanks

[andy Burgess]

tried it in my 2nd year flying ,put 6 young cocks in with old hens . won the first race with one by a country mile. but lost 2 of them that day , week 2 sent the remaining 4 , miles behind and lost 3 of them ,week 3 sent the one cock ,still waiting

[aaron21]

ok thanks

[demolition man]

I would suggest that if you’re thinking of racing young birds on the widowhood I would say that you would need a few races under their belt natural first, then once the birds are put on the widowhood they would have some idea of racing to the loft. One thing I wouldn’t do is send them when it was a tail wind because they are more likely to get lost due excitement. jmo

 

[Wiley]

I cannot remember the exact two years that I experimented with it, however my findings were exactly as were written in the BHW this week. It must have been at least 9 years ago. The first year I tried 12 and only allowed them to sit for 10 days then straight on widowhood I dropped only 2 but they gave me 4 good races. The following year I tried 8 but they reared and raced even better then the previous year. What can be said I feel it affected them as yearlings, however the advantage was they knew the system, and I found The ones that lasted past the yearling stage performed again as 2 year olds, but maybe that was my family of birds at the time the Lefebre Dhaenens in my experience where late maturing.

[aaron21]

ok thanks

[andyyy]

I've raced young bird of part widowhood for last two and will be doing again for 2013, Cant fault it at all