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Devo1956 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:42 am Looking over this racing year, it has been a very hard year for some. Some great team birds were lost, and many youngsters. So time to get back on board and have a good think, of where it all went wrong. Time to plan ahead for the next season, what is going to give yourself and your birds the best motivation. You are in full control of your loft and birds,

In OLR we has owners do not have control of our birds. I would say the selection of youngsters. Also making sure they are fit and in good health, when they enter the OLR. We dont have a part in the feeding system, motivating of birds. Our even training of youngsters. So to me, most important is the selection of your youngsters for that type of OLR.

Good luck to all for your future planning.

MIL wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:35 pm

Devo1956 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:42 am Looking over this racing year, it has been a very hard year for some. Some great team birds were lost, and many youngsters. So time to get back on board and have a good think, of where it all went wrong. Time to plan ahead for the next season, what is going to give yourself and your birds the best motivation. You are in full control of your loft and birds,

In OLR we has owners do not have control of our birds. I would say the selection of youngsters. Also making sure they are fit and in good health, when they enter the OLR. We dont have a part in the feeding system, motivating of birds. Our even training of youngsters. So to me, most important is the selection of your youngsters for that type of OLR.

Good luck to all for your future planning.

Phil's work is pretty much done in temrs of decisiion making.

The squad for 2025 have been selected (both in terms of racing and at Stock)

An order for 12 x 2025 YB to be raced has gone in to Gordon Bros and been accepted

He'll also have 2 x 2025 YB coming in from an RPRA Award and Combine winning cock from Adam O'Hara

These too are going to be raced.

Andy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:06 am Yes it has been a difficult year. More on a personal note than with the pigeons. They just had to take a back seat.
I had hoped to of had my last race of the season this coming weekend. But because of the weather forecast this weekends race has been postponed until the next decent day, whenever that might be. It’s good being part of a very forward thinking club, The 3 Counties, that make decisions with the best interest of the birds at heart. It will happen at some point as it’s the longest young bird race and has big money on it with the £10 noms.
I won’t be sending now though as I’m having trouble with BOPs. I had the birds out Monday and the flew for hours being chased or doing the chasing. These were mainly my 4 youngsters and the 14 late breds, but there were a couple of old birds too. They wouldn’t come down long enough for me to get them in. Every time they landed the slightest noise and they were off again. They did eventually all come in with none missing. But since then they haven’t wanted to come out so have been kept in. I had a collard dove attacked in the garden Tuesday and a wood pigeon yesterday. She is a big bugger.
I will leave them in now for a while.