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No way better fanciers,just willing to try a different approuch

How right you are even 100miles each week then jump into 700mile racing works well

Hi geordie,think you will find aussies only race youngbirds ,and a few old birds if they have any left

You need to put time in...never belive the lies many winning fanciers con you with...esecially youngbird racing...time is everything for winners of youngbird races...until you get way out distance racing ..everthing changes then the football pitch we play on begins to level up...many many times i have seen brilliant sprint teams hit a brick wall as they reach outside their distance controlled comfort zone... best Regards

We tried just that ..no racing as yougbirds ...no racing as yearlings...as 2year olds flew very well north,then south... i blue cock won 50 mile sprint in 35 member club...and as broken pigeon few years later won 2nd section out of Barcelona well over 700 miles,another in same batch has flew Barcelona 3 times ...just shows at those distances its all PIGEON..not fancier...Regards..

Indeed the medical professions have for a decade or more been trying to cut down on their use .Shame the very same medical "so called" professionals were they ones giving antibiotics out like sweets for 50 years before...i s**t on them!!!!...

Have you ever tried to raced these birds kev?would be intresting to see how they have shaped up racing mate

so 54 oldbirds and your only club /fed racing....what about the classic,nfc,bbc,bicc

i totally agree with you,crazy numbers,but thats how it is now,its only going to get worst year by year,working fanciers are leaving the sport by the bucketful...just look at the top flyers down here ..never work..huge and i mean huge lofts...

just go to locals near you like mr and mrs mears/ray strawbridge mate...minutes away with the finest exteme distance birdsb you could wish for

..Not totally correct sir.the formula although well acknowledged throughout pigeon literature,could only ever be proven by test matings over huge timescale using massive numbers.

i think down here ,to be competetive you need at least 100 plus youngbirds min,then 50+cocks and 50+hensmin for oldbird season,plus 35pairs of stock to bred your youngbird teams/but more important than that...time factor is everything,everything,if you want to compete right through....family and friends must come poor 2nd to the birds..i know its not very nice reading ,but its the way to go... if you boys need to work your on the backfoot before you start/

Grizzle is not a colour mate,your better of breeding a grizzle with a blue or mealy to get a better strike rate than 2 grizzles paired together

thanks for that Sparko,very intresting mate,thats the good thing about the internet,meeting people...best of luck

Hi Sparko,What would be more intresting would be yourself telling us how you train and what type of race programme you boys fly?,looking at Iceland it seemsabout 300 miles long/200miles high,mountainous inland,perhaps your races traverse around/along the coastline..would be intresting on how you look after them,with very cold winters?and aaround the clock daylight in seasdon....could you give us lads insight into your racing and the problems you need to overcome...many thanks...by the way..i think..dont worry about type of racers....just see what surveve and breed around these...