Guest Hairylayer Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy Burgess Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 we pair up a week or so after the Blackpool show . always used to be February 14th when i was younger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeboah Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hairylayer Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 Thanks Andy, Do you fly them natural or on the darkness? Thanks yeboah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy Burgess Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 Thanks Andy, Do you fly them natural or on the darkness? Thanks yeboah mainly darkness , with a few "later" natural youngsters . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaforth Posted December 18, 2015 Report Share Posted December 18, 2015 Had a lazy year this year mines haven't been split lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaz Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jason Posted December 19, 2015 Report Share Posted December 19, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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