Racing System

[sheppy27]

As a new fancier i like the sound of racing both cocks and hens i will only have room for 12 cocks 16 at a push what i want to know how many hens will be needed to race along with the cocks ? what happens if say i lose a couple of hens would that not effect the cocks that are paired to the missing hens having no hen to race home to or are you meant to have surplus hens incase this happens thanks

[andy Burgess]

if you had 16 cocks and 1 hen left after the youngbird season , "what would you do"? .perhaps give 15 young cocks away ?

 

 

 

 

race rgardless , dont worry about a balance of numbers , and very good luck

[Guest paulrstokes]

check the BHW stud book from 2010 ( I think) and look for the Chaos system used by J & D Staddon, from arrien vereckt, uses uneven numbers, tried last year worked OK for me

[Tony C]

As a new starter I would suggest you just race your cocks. There's a lot to be learnt and it'll be a case of learning as you go along. It can often be the case by taking on to much that you cant see the woods for the tree's. If you were intending to exercise the race team (cocks & hens)twice a day it will take up 3-4 hours of your time, young birds will take up another hour. You need to observe then reflect on how your pigeons are exercising/acting around home, having pigeons out for 5 hours a day isn't conducive with this, you will miss things.

[geordie1234]

check the BHW stud book from 2010 ( I think) and look for the Chaos system used by J & D Staddon, from arrien vereckt, uses uneven numbers, tried last year worked OK for me

 

Watched his dvd the other day... very easy