I am telling you to change anything. Just saying that thinking outside the box is a very good thing. It's how things move forward. The thing that drives me mad is people who do what they do because, "It's how I've always done it." I usually just walk away. It's hard to have a discussion wi...

I was reading the blog of Ad Schaerlaeckens earlier. Today he mentions pigeons flying at high speed after getting up high where the winds are stronger. It got me thinking. Last year I had a young bird that won a race by minutes, arriving home on his own well before I saw another one. It caused a few...

Partly cloudy today, low of 6 high of 16.

Terrible!
I hope they get the mongrels that did it, but I doubt they will. Those birds will have been stolen to order.
It makes you so angry

Morning all.

That's good to hear, Neil. Yes, absolutely, if your babies are roaming you have a massive head start. If they are ranging way for 15 to 30 minutes you can start training further away and go out in bigger steps. If they are only flying around the loft you must start close to home and go out in little...

Turned out a nice day, clear, sunny, mild

Quantity 1. Brick wall, head for the bashing of.

While it sounds like you are in a good, sound club, it is a shame that you can't get some distance into those pigeons. You spent years working on a family that would fly a distance, and now you have them on widowhood and inland racing, there's no distance! Never mind, you are racing pigeons, and tha...

Good to see they are coming well, Andy. The system seems to be working.
Just gotta get them going a bit quicker......