Returns For Saturday 25Th May

[ALF]

Up yin week doon the next Al? hope they turn in at some point mate

Aye that's pigeons for ye Steven eh mate.

[alec guinness]

Aye that's pigeons for ye Steven eh mate.

Not so good Alan,just got a cock who was our second doo fae alencon last year,so doos still moving,hope a few more turn in,we are 5 short from 30 between thirsk and Newark.

[jonl6280]

25/31 none since 17.30 yest! 4 yearlings 2 year old and a three year old hen that scored last year from Ypres.

[Delboy]

22/24

[geordie1234]

Im now at the point the missing ten can stay away. They were racing well enough but the first hard yeen they have shat a brick

[bigjamie]

george you dont know whats happened to them one of our club members got 2 back today all busted up

[dal2]

Aye that's pigeons for ye Steven eh mate.

Countless times have I sat in the shed on friday thinking'No a bad wee squad for the water' only to be sitting on a saturday night wondering where it all went wrong?? It happens to everybody and the best you can do is make sure your birds are fit and healthy because motivation,medication,breed etc are all toooo much of a variable, what works for somebody doesnt mean it will work for somebody else!!

 

I had 10 candidates for the water this year and have 7 left. Some will go back to newbury before the water races but others will stay at home. I will be very fortunate if I still have 7 in two weeks time?

[slim45]

17\28 got 3 this morning

[steff30]

12 / 14 Got 3 this morning

[ALF]

Just aff the phone to the Samaritans and the fkr hung up oan me said there was no hope for me :lol: :lol:

[calder boy]

:emoticon-0140-rofl: :emoticon-0140-rofl:

[Delboy]

Just aff the phone to the Samaritans and the fkr hung up oan me said there was no hope for me :lol: :lol:

 

:lol: good 1 m8

[VMS]

Still only 7/12 .*expletive removed* all wrong with the pigeons,race was the problem but onwards and upwards

[Delboy]

Got one from Otterburn yesterday ( hawked )and got my last one from Thirsk today. The birds keep working in

[tyson]

I have told fanciers for long enough there is a problem with newark we have had this kind of race from there many times but does anybody listen no this race point needs changed simple as that

[ALF]

Just up fae the loft 8/20 hame but i have noticed some people only putting there returns up when they are good some people had bad returns last week and didnae post them up come on let everyone know if you had a good or bad race and you know who you are :lol:

[Delboy]

Just up fae the loft 8/20 hame but i have noticed some people only putting there returns up when they are good some people had bad returns last week and didnae post them up come on let everyone know if you had a good or bad race and you know who you are :lol:

 

Your 100% correct Alf, lets here all the bad returns so we can get a true reflection of the races.

[geordie1234]

Still 10/20 for me which is shocking but already looking forward to next week ye only can send whats in the loft

And as alf say the people wae bad yeens get them posted up maybe get big alf aff suicide watch lol

[clockman]

28/30 fae Wakefield

[DJWa]

20 from 32 from ripon

had 5 yearlings work back today

[jonl6280]

I have told fanciers for long enough there is a problem with newark we have had this kind of race from there many times but does anybody listen no this race point needs changed simple as that

 

Leicester is another stickler of a race, and possibly bad returns, yearling derby also !!

[hotrod]

Leicester is another stickler of a race, and possibly bad returns, yearling derby also !!

I think the problem is that Leicester lies in th middle of the country in fact just about dead centre ,and if its an easterly wind then they come up the west of the Pennines , but should be ok for the Lanarkshire if this happens this year

[Novice]

I know that electronic communications have been discussed on this site before especially with regard to racing losses but it seems this site at Menwith Hill just north of Harrowgate has been expanded. I note the web site suggests it is a tool used in drone attacks which makes me think it will be particularly active at the moment.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Menwith_Hill

[geordie1234]

Just back from the loft still 10/20 shocking but the doos just couldny hack it end off a yearling cock made it home with half a wing and a hole in its crop so where is the rest? better cleansing your loft of these ones imo

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

I know that electronic communications have been discussed on this site before especially with regard to racing losses but it seems this site at Menwith Hill just north of Harrowgate has been expanded. I note the web site suggests it is a tool used in drone attacks which makes me think it will be particularly active at the moment.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Menwith_Hill

Yes Menwith hill could well be the problem, it is 5 miles west of Harrogate and the pigeons flying into the west of Scotland were only 3-4 miles west of the base, this of course if they had taken a straight line, which is more than possible given that there was very little wind.

 

Remember Menwith hill, possibly being the cause of the Wetherby young bird disaster in 2009, at that time it was pointed out that local organisations whose members race and train in that area never encountered any problems. But as we know pigeons can pretty much adapt to anything, the problem we have into the west of Scotland, is that are pigeons are only exposed to Menwith Hill from Wetherby and Newark, in turn our pigeons dont have the opertunity to deal and adapt with, whatever signals it throws at our pigeons, not forgetting the fact that there still 150 miles from home. JMO