UkPigeonRacing

So this morning I took the young birds on their 3rd trainer, 10 miles again. I took all 35 youngsters, 16 old birds and 3 strays. 54 in total.
I let them all go together at 6.42am. There was a fair bit of blue sky but the sun was behind a large cloud. The circled a couple of times before clearing in a homeward direction. I got back home at 7.05 and the majority were already home. Some of the old hens were already back on their eggs and several others in the loft, both old and young, so they had probably been back for a while. As the lofts were all open and I wasn’t going to get them in for a while I wasn’t sure if they were all back but it looked like most were, including “Steve” with only part of his tail and 2 of the 3 strays. There were a couple of old birds that I couldn’t see. After feeding them in at around 8.15 and having a count up all the youngsters were there. I was missing 2 old birds. One turned up a bit later but a latebred from last year is still missing. I also lost one of the strays .
All in all another successful trainer.

Well done mate going well, makes you wonder what happens to the older ones when training especially from 10 miles unless hawks in at em, glad free n easy back especially with his tail missing, when is the first race can't remember

Buster121 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:08 pm Well done mate going well, makes you wonder what happens to the older ones when training especially from 10 miles unless hawks in at em, glad free n easy back especially with his tail missing, when is the first race can't remember

I only have the one race coming up Buster as I’m going North with them. It’s Ashbourne 135 miles on the 20th August with the CSCFC. It’s for both young birds and any age birds. I will send most of the old birds to the any age race and hopefully quite a few youngsters to the race. This will all depend on the weather forecast and the state of the birds moult. I won’t send to many if it’s a strong westerly wind as they will be dragged to far over to the East of the country and I won’t send any that are too heavy in the moult.

The old hen that was a bit late has had 3 races this year and flew Elgin 457 miles last year as a yearling so I don’t know where she went.

That's a good result, Andy.
I hope they keep doing it well.