Hi AndyAndy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2024 2:34 pmCan I ask Neil why don’t you breed out of your racing cocks?
In theory these should be superior to what they’re bred out of if your breeding is right. I know some will still be being tested/unproven. But as you know I don’t keep stock birds. The only stock birds I would keep would be retired races, but they would have already proved their breeding quality before being stopped. So for me as much as I’m testing a birds racing ability I’m also testing their future breeding potential.
To bred from the racers, especially if on widowhood, you do have to breed early and split them before re-pairing to sit a second round for 10 days just prior to racing to stop them from starting moulting. My cocks are just dropping their third flights. They have been rearing a round of latebreds which have now been weaned and are back down on pot eggs. They are now starting to fall apart.
My babies are bred from pigeons with 5/6 fed cards min that I retire at 3 or 4
Of my current team I slip a few eggs under the stock if one dates are close
I never breed from yearlings as yb results are not really much to go on
I race natural ybs so I want them late but I want my cocks in fire early April
So the thought of them pumping ybs late March with all that protein and fat isn’t. For me
I never repair
They go together 10th Jan sit to 10th feb
I have 8 weeks then with them
Every other weekend they have a night together to 3 weeks out from the season