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You would never get those sort of drops in our combine. Even the best fanciers don’t get big percentage drops. Yes they get drops of 10+ birds but these are fanciers sending 50+. Also how many of the ones that drop with the leading bunch to a fancier have just followed their loft mates. I remember one difficult young bird race last year where one of our members who had been having big drops and taking a lot of the top positions before this race had 3 I think it was drop together but then had to wait an hour before getting another one. In that time I had got most of mine.Anthony webster wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 7:55 am I was taught by a fantastic flyer you need your team to be driving the batch home like a train if there middle or back there going where the driving batch is going, that's how u get the big drops 75 to 90 percent of team on drop race day.
Excellent example just shows it can be done by top fanciers and the right pigeonsMIL wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 8:20 am Here's an image of the super Gordon Bros & sons training their birds via GPS
They have to navigate mountains and Strangford Lough to get home
Consider that they hold various records in the NIPA and EDC you'll see these birds conducting a 20 miles training toss in a pretty straight line.
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In the tighter south Rd fed I can drop 75 percent regularly but on North Rd where is 100 miles by 50 miles minimum iv dropped 50 percent but most weeks it would be 10 to 20 percent on drop.Andy wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 8:15 amYou would never get those sort of drops in our combine. Even the best fanciers don’t get big percentage drops. Yes they get drops of 10+ birds but these are fanciers sending 50+. Also how many of the ones that drop with the leading bunch to a fancier have just followed their loft mates. I remember one difficult young bird race last year where one of our members who had been having big drops and taking a lot of the top positions before this race had 3 I think it was drop together but then had to wait an hour before getting another one. In that time I had got most of mine.Anthony webster wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 7:55 am I was taught by a fantastic flyer you need your team to be driving the batch home like a train if there middle or back there going where the driving batch is going, that's how u get the big drops 75 to 90 percent of team on drop race day.
Absolutely right Andy, the bigger the area the fed covers and the further they go the less likely it is you'll get a big percentage drop. The job of the fancier to get the best out of them for the situation you race in.Andy wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 8:15 amYou would never get those sort of drops in our combine. Even the best fanciers don’t get big percentage drops. Yes they get drops of 10+ birds but these are fanciers sending 50+. Also how many of the ones that drop with the leading bunch to a fancier have just followed their loft mates. I remember one difficult young bird race last year where one of our members who had been having big drops and taking a lot of the top positions before this race had 3 I think it was drop together but then had to wait an hour before getting another one. In that time I had got most of mine.Anthony webster wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 7:55 am I was taught by a fantastic flyer you need your team to be driving the batch home like a train if there middle or back there going where the driving batch is going, that's how u get the big drops 75 to 90 percent of team on drop race day.