UkPigeonRacing

Mark69 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2024 5:08 pm Will follow this post with great interest

It’s not been much use yet mate

As I don’t even have my widowhood hens out of the loft whilst being used for widowhood they are fed depurative at the beginning of the week but will be given a couple of days, Wednesday and Thursday, of diet supreme. This is a facing mix for sprint racing. It just makes them a little keener for the cocks at the end of the week.

Now they have been repaired and on open loft they are getting a bit more of the supreme mix plus a widowhood mix Wednesday, Thursday. They are flying well. I may have to stop with the open loft though as I have lost 2 cocks to the peregrine this week.

NeilA wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:06 pm

Mark69 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2024 5:08 pm Will follow this post with great interest

It’s not been much use yet mate

Hopefully it will improve ,looking at racing a small team of hens next year, always raced cocks so its a learning curve for me

Andy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 4:20 pm Now they have been repaired and on open loft they are getting a bit more of the supreme mix plus a widowhood mix Wednesday, Thursday. They are flying well. I may have to stop with the open loft though as I have lost 2 cocks to the peregrine this week.

Are you racing the hens now Andy

As they haven’t been out since early April up until last week and they are just going down on eggs I’m not yet but will look to give them a Stoney Cross 34 miles in a couple of weeks time. I could then give them the odd race as trainers with the young birds but will wait and see.

I'm afraid I don't fly widowhood so can't help much Niel, all I know is that the two top widowhood men in our club don't race their hens. There are some in the fed that do, these seem to race them several different ways, Chaos, Roundabout or even just normal widowhood sending both each week !! The early/shorter races do seem to be dominated by the cocks, although the odd hen will get in there, but as the season draws on and the distance gets a bit further the hens seem to come to the fore, but I think a lot of these hens are probably flying to eggs !!
I couldn't tell you what their preparation is though, sorry.

I'm afraid me and reading don't mix very well so I've not read this properly but thought it might be of some interest.

http://www.stevenvanbreemen.nl/?Hints_2 ... n%20aviary.

Andy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 11:41 pm As they haven’t been out since early April up until last week and they are just going down on eggs I’m not yet but will look to give them a Stoney Cross 34 miles in a couple of weeks time. I could then give them the odd race as trainers with the young birds but will wait and see.

Would give you a few options for next year but also fill more time up
With mum on dialysis two days and 2 teams of ybs I found flying 4 lots our a day hard work my work was all over the place hours wise it become a mess trying to get them all out and I know with your shop you have limited time