When its time

[Devo1956]

When The Racing Season Is Finally Finished, It's Time To Evaluate


The end of the racing season is the occasion to look back. And not to forget to look ahead toward the new season because we wish to improve. Or do we? At this time of the year we must ask ourselves a number of questions:

What went well or even better than the past season?

Which things turned out badly?

Will we make some changes to the loft?

Will we try a new method next year?

Will we separate early or late in consideration of the molt?

Which birds are going to be transferred to the breeding loft?

Which pairs have produced the best youngsters?

Which breeding pairs will stay together and which pairs will be changed?

Will we import fresh blood?



Quite a lot of questions to address! A lot of important decisions are taken in this time of the year. We think a lot. We must analyze what went well the past racing season and especially give thought to what went wrong. That is the most important of all. We must not repeat our mistakes next year and we have to figure out what to do about them.

[MIL]

You've hit the nail on the head here George

A good fancier will make mistakes and learn from them

A poor fancier will make mistakes and repeat them (for a variety of reasons)

[Murray]

.........doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.

[MIL]

.........doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.

That's the definition of "lunacy"

[Murray]

Exactly