Yearling Pigeons

Kyleakin Lofts · April 2, 2016

tam how dae you know he never trained them ? some of my best pigeons never raced as young birds

I breed a lot of latebreds and don't train them. I give them a couple of chucks at 6 mile, get fed up with them messing about and take them to 20 or 30 miles and they start to work. They race the sprint programme to 165 miles and I usually get around 66% of them at the end of it.

Mossgiel · April 3, 2016

Keep them at 10 miles until they are doing a mile a minute

My thoughts also.

walterboswell59 · April 3, 2016

keep them at ten miles m8 they will get faster and learn as they go there acting the same way a youngbird team does because they were not trained as youngbirds so will be a bit backward till they get the hang of it nothing to worry about

C WRIGHT · April 3, 2016

your doing well to get untrained late breed home

rhey are a nite mare

tossed 2 yesterday 15 miles with my racing team

yes your right 2 short the latebreeds

only good thing is if they come today

they will have to have made it on thier own

and hopefully learned something

if not there life ring most likely

in a big nest somewhere

philg50 · April 3, 2016

Is 1oz of feed a day enough i dont think so ,they need fuel to fly whether it be at home or training .

Kyleakin Lofts · April 3, 2016

The big problem with fanciers giving advice on a site like this is the large variation of methods and requirements. Pigeons racing into different areas require different feeding and training methods. As has been mentioned, advice from a distance enthusiast will be different from a sprint enthusiast. The receiver of this combined wisdom then has to sift out what they require.

The old way of having a fancier on your doorstep to assist you was far better, in so far as, it was only one set of advice and correct for your area and type of racing.

There is loads of great advice given on this site, but you have to know who to listen to and what advice to try.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

james mcguire · April 3, 2016

The big problem with fanciers giving advice on a site like this is the large variation of methods and requirements. Pigeons racing into different areas require different feeding and training methods. As has been mentioned, advice from a distance enthusiast will be different from a sprint enthusiast. The receiver of this combined wisdom then has to sift out what they require.
The old way of having a fancier on your doorstep to assist you was far better, in so far as, it was only one set of advice and correct for your area and type of racing.
There is loads of great advice given on this site, but you have to know who to listen to and what advice to try.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Well said

JohnQuinn · April 3, 2016

Ma hens just gave me 55 mins in the p**sin rain, nae flag or baw. I feed what a think is right without measuring but can only be about an ounce per bird just now. Al no be training Doos before the first race, it's nae mare than a toss anyway fae Kelso, how the F we ended up back there is beyond me. :emoticon-0179-headbang:

Tony C · April 3, 2016

The big problem with fanciers giving advice on a site like this is the large variation of methods and requirements. Pigeons racing into different areas require different feeding and training methods. As has been mentioned, advice from a distance enthusiast will be different from a sprint enthusiast. The receiver of this combined wisdom then has to sift out what they require.
The old way of having a fancier on your doorstep to assist you was far better, in so far as, it was only one set of advice and correct for your area and type of racing.
There is loads of great advice given on this site, but you have to know who to listen to and what advice to try.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

:emoticon-0137-clapping:

REDCHEQHEN · April 4, 2016

I must be over feeding then - but my birds were doing almost a mile a minute on it from a 40 mile training toss last Wednesday

birds are getting at least an ounce and a half a day (fed twice a day) and loft flying atleast 40 minutes twice a day (sometimes a lot longer)

bullcock · April 4, 2016

I must be over feeding then - but my birds were doing almost a mile a minute on it from a 40 mile training toss last Wednesday

birds are getting at least an ounce and a half a day (fed twice a day) and loft flying atleast 40 minutes twice a day (sometimes a lot longer)

If you add a control feed then you can watch and they will tell you when they have had enough, mines are feeding young birds at the moment so plenty feed three times a day, but they let us know when and what they need.

Control feed is a grain they don't particularly like, like barley or tic beans.