My Race Up The Swanny For Sunday

[eastcoaster]

Looks like my race is fooked for weekend!

let hens out 7,00 flew well for an hour then a couple of stray ybs joined them so kept them up a little longer then after flying 2 hours a hawk of some kind went into them ! have`nt seen them since pitch black now and gutted don`t think i will send the cocks if i do i wont show hens before they go incase the hens are too stressed.

Gutted.

[shasha]

that no good m8 sorry 2 hear that hope u get them all back .

[andy Burgess]

Looks like my race is fooked for weekend!

let hens out 7,00 flew well for an hour then a couple of stray ybs joined them so kept them up a little longer then after flying 2 hours a hawk of some kind went into them ! have`nt seen them since pitch black now and gutted don`t think i will send the cocks if i do i wont show hens before they go incase the hens are too stressed.

Gutted.

ouch , . i would still send the cocks Colin .

[yeboah]

Good Luck with the hens return Colin ,no probs for the cocks mine are going well they don,t know what a hen is ,those women just mess a man's head up .

[shasha]

Good Luck with the hens return Colin ,no probs for the cocks mine are going well they don,t know what a hen is ,those women just mess a man's head up .

to true m8 haha

[JohnQuinn]

Looks like my race is fooked for weekend!

let hens out 7,00 flew well for an hour then a couple of stray ybs joined them so kept them up a little longer then after flying 2 hours a hawk of some kind went into them ! have`nt seen them since pitch black now and gutted don`t think i will send the cocks if i do i wont show hens before they go incase the hens are too stressed.

Gutted.

 

In an ideal world the hens will return unharmed and be in a separate loft from the Ck's altogether, i say that because the Fear permeates through a loft from one section to another and that imo MIGHT knock the Ck's confidence too. Hope not and all goes well for you though. atb John.

[andy Burgess]

well ? did you send ?

[eastcoaster]

In an ideal world the hens will return unharmed and be in a separate loft from the Ck's altogether, i say that because the Fear permeates through a loft from one section to another and that imo MIGHT knock the Ck's confidence too. Hope not and all goes well for you though. atb John.

All hens there at 5.30 this morning ! but decided not to show them to the cocks but give just the bowls .

but agree that birds do pass on the stress,

fingers crossed but for the first time this year not confident , but thats me not the birds.#

all best for weekend.

[Delboy]

Looks like my race is fooked for weekend!

let hens out 7,00 flew well for an hour then a couple of stray ybs joined them so kept them up a little longer then after flying 2 hours a hawk of some kind went into them ! have`nt seen them since pitch black now and gutted don`t think i will send the cocks if i do i wont show hens before they go incase the hens are too stressed.

Gutted.

 

I remember when I was in the Midland fed Colin. It was the Thursday before the yb Open race and my birds were let out around 6pm, they got a spook and they flew right into the night. I could hear them swoosh by in the pitch dark.I was crapping myself about what damage would be done to them with wires etc. I got up early in the morning and they were dots in the sky. By 7am I had them all in and they were completely knackered. I fed them up as much as I could and darkened them down. I watched them fall asleep on the perches. I woke them up again in the afternoon ( 3.30pm) with a light feed again. Could I go to the race ??? I picked the best 8 ybs and sent them, the race turned out a disaster with a head wind in poor weather and very few homed on the night. I had 5 on the first page ( top 25) of the Open result. Food for thought Colin, are we too soft on them?? atb this weekend m8

[Guest stb-]

I remember when I was in the Midland fed Colin. It was the Thursday before the yb Open race and my birds were let out around 6pm, they got a spook and they flew right into the night. I could hear them swoosh by in the pitch dark.I was crapping myself about what damage would be done to them with wires etc. I got up early in the morning and they were dots in the sky. By 7am I had them all in and they were completely knackered. I fed them up as much as I could and darkened them down. I watched them fall asleep on the perches. I woke them up again in the afternoon ( 3.30pm) with a light feed again. Could I go to the race ??? I picked the best 8 ybs and sent them, the race turned out a disaster with a head wind in poor weather and very few homed on the night. I had 5 on the first page ( top 25) of the Open result. Food for thought Colin, are we too soft on them?? atb this weekend m8

 

 

 

del were deffo to soft at times,