When To Pair Up?

[Guest Hairylayer]

When does everyone pair there stock birds up?

What are the pros and cons of early or later?

Some people seem to already done it and have eggs and others are telling me febuary/early March.

I know as a boy my dad paired up boxing day.

But confused as when is the best time if flying natural young birds.

[andy Burgess]

we pair up a week or so after the Blackpool show . always used to be February 14th when i was younger

[yeboah]

If you are only racing YB on natural anytime from Valentine 's day till 14 th March is fine

Pairing early and racing natural you are only feeding youngsters longer before racing

[Guest Hairylayer]

Thanks Andy, Do you fly them natural or on the darkness?

 

Thanks yeboah

[andy Burgess]

Thanks Andy, Do you fly them natural or on the darkness?

 

Thanks yeboah

 

mainly darkness , with a few "later" natural youngsters .

[seaforth]

Had a lazy year this year mines haven't been split lol

[blaz]

that's a good question . some fanciers wait some don,t you get yb,s that are bred early and late both winning. yeboah said your only feeding yb,s longer before racing . a fair point and right enough .hears a question team of ybs hatched late dec rung start of jan then team of yb,s rung late feb mid march .come the 1st yb race witch is the stronger team ?. sometimes worth that bit extra seed only my opinion . the thing to watch for is the moult with natural yb,s will catch the early bred yb,s 1st. for me if you want 2/3 rounds of yb,s from stock birds breed as soon as you can. then again get it a bit wrong like I just did and you are phoning SHU for a few extra 2015 rings

[Guest jason]

I paired up on the 28th of November...due to the fact that I'm just coming back into the sport after an 8 year break and

 

A... I'm itching to have some birds flying out

 

B... I wasn't sure that the birds that I have would pair up straight away

 

anyway, I have 20 eggs in the nests....due to hatch the day after boxing day!

 

that 20 will be the first round, then I'll let them go down again for a second round then separate them.

so if they all hatch I'll be starting with 40 young birds.