Injuries

[yeboah]

Just wondering how many casualties each member has in their Loft

I Now have nine birds that are out of action till 2015

I have been liberating birds lately at 25 miles in groups of 5 at 6 minute intervals

Clearing liberation point immediately and heading for home

I have been documenting their numbers prior to release and time each group liberated

The birds have been retuning in their groups

But the groups that are split have all signs of Falcon Attack

Tails missing large parts of wings missing and others that have dived for cover at speed with broken legs and undercarriage with very bad bruising and no feathers

The falcon has followed them right to the loft on two occasions

As I am still on holiday have been training during the warmest part of the day as that is when the falcon is least active

Apart from injured I have only dropped 3

If I change to early morning or evening the losses will rise very sharply

Good Luck to All

Especially the wee doos who don't get a say in this

[greenlands]

Several of us had birds at Bootle yesterday which were hit on liberation,luckily I have all my small team back but noticed when I went to feed them later in the day that there was blood on the loft floor,two weren't happy at feed time.Not too keen on exercising this mo.will wait to see what happens this afternoon and decide what's next. :emoticon-0138-thinking:

I have one injured from Sundays joke/disaster/ WTF so called race,it returned on Tuesday. :emoticon-0127-lipssealed:

[Smithy1]

Just wondering how many casualties each member has in their Loft

I Now have nine birds that are out of action till 2015

I have been liberating birds lately at 25 miles in groups of 5 at 6 minute intervals

Clearing liberation point immediately and heading for home

I have been documenting their numbers prior to release and time each group liberated

The birds have been retuning in their groups

But the groups that are split have all signs of Falcon Attack

Tails missing large parts of wings missing and others that have dived for cover at speed with broken legs and undercarriage with very bad bruising and no feathers

The falcon has followed them right to the loft on two occasions

As I am still on holiday have been training during the warmest part of the day as that is when the falcon is least active

Apart from injured I have only dropped 3

If I change to early morning or evening the losses will rise very sharply

Good Luck to All

Especially the wee doos who don't get a say in this

 

I think if you are being hit at a particular point then maybe some decoys are needed.Its a real pity putting your birds through this without fighting back...

[William Reid]

Morning Mick . Training now has as much to do with luck than ever before IMO especially if you are training on your own . I wasn't working on Tuesday so took the birds for a toss liberated them at 3.30 from a distance that has been taken them 45minutes / 1 hour. 48 birds cleared great . Got a single bird at 4.50 had the coming from all directions . Got my 25th bird at 9.05 that night got my 37th pigeon yesterday at 4.03(ETS ) so 11 AWOL out of the 37 four of them are carrying injuries .

[yeboah]

I think if you are being hit at a particular point then maybe some decoys are needed.Its a real pity putting your birds through this without fighting back...

Decoys now your having a laugh

From where I liberate them known to me there are 7 nest sites just on line of flight

Possibly 3 young now well strong and flying

That equites to a possible 35

I would need the United Nations Involved to clear that air space

No offence intended my friend

Doo games fecked

[JohnQuinn]

Been quite lucky training so far. Dropped 2 and only one other came back with some secondaries missing but not enough to put it off the road. Like yersel Mike i release small groups about 5/10 mins apart and i'm positive it helps re losses and injuries. Atb for the rest of the year. Cheers.

[walterboswell59]

id let them all up together mick chance percie is hunting else where but could be your giving percie time to get to one your libs so more chance of being hit m8 jmo

[yeboah]

id let them all up together mick chance percie is hunting else where but could be your giving percie time to get to one your libs so more chance of being hit m8 jmo

You are 100% correct in what you state Walter

My dilemma is that when the birds hit the Gretna area mine then have 30 mls north to fly from the main convoy breaking ,I need to educate them to be confident enough to perhaps on many occasions fly alone

Batch training would not achieve this goal

Used to put them up as one

In the 1990s a friend liberated 80 of my youngsters at 10 mls and I watched in horror as 3 falcons went through the batch 1-1/2 miles from my loft

Took a real big hit that night hence the change of thinking

Atb mick

[philg50]

3 BIRDS IN SHED HURT luckily not to bad 2 youngsters and 1 old doo ,sometimes you just dont know the reason,hawk,wires,whatever its a sickner.

[kirky]

only one hit wires not far from loft on a windy day my fault should not have gone out, but its on the mend now and will race later on.