Moon pairing

[king]

Can't say I've ever paired the birds by the Lunar Cycle.

[Donkey Kong]

2026 Moon Calendar - every phase and stage of the moon
The 2026 Full Moon Calendar features dates like the Wolf Moon (Jan 3), Snow Moon (Feb 1), Worm Moon (Mar 3), Pink Moon (Apr 2), Flower Moon (May 1), Blue Moon (May 31), Strawberry Moon (June 30), Buck Moon (July 29), Sturgeon Moon (Aug 28), Harvest Moon (Sep 26), Hunter's Moon (Oct 26), Beaver Supermoon (Nov 24), and Cold Supermoon (Dec 24)

I usually pair a couple of days after the full moon
Hopefully, so the young birds hatch out on the next full moon

[CHARLTON34]

That's not like you Neil, has been exceptionally wet & going into the loft lately just a mess with walking water in on your shoes & damp air.

[CHARLTON34]

I think you just need to enjoy your racing while you can, with falling membership & birdage it's hard to get yourself motivated.

[Diamond Dave]

I reckon its that time of year Neil - where you cant contribute too much to what the birds are doing. I feel a bit like that over winter when there is nothing going on.

[CHARLTON34]

Sounds a good plan Neil, & Mike's comments are bang on, you can't change things in your fed/ combine, just need to be positive about what your pigeons need to do in these longer races.

[CHARLTON34]

I would imagine that would be a totally different pigeon to what you have at the moment Neil.

[justalad982]

Hi Neil....re moon pairing there was a Scottish scribe that wrote in one of the weeklies possibly the homing world....many moons ago (pardon the pun).....wrote about the time he discovered the plummys....

[justalad982]

Sorry for delay Neil....i cant for the life of me remember the scribes pen name but the story goes something like this....every now and then the author discovered certain birds became super pigeons (or well above the average)and when looking back through his notes he had starred certain young in the nest because of it's appearance.. the plum like skin and thick golden main of down of one of the two young sitting in the nest bowl...he called them plummy's ...question why not both young ?? he put it down to timing of A the laying of the egg or B sitting of the egg...his finding's eventually with the help of an almanac writing of i think folsom... Planting by the Moon Phase: How It Works

The Old Farmer’s Almanac
https://www.almanac.com › planting-by-the-moon

[Steve Howells]

That's not like you Neil, has been exceptionally wet & going into the loft lately just a mess with walking water in on your shoes & damp air.

Probably weather and issues local with the feds membership losing members constantly particularly on the east side
I think there’s only 4 of us left now with the rest of the fed 12-30 miles west of us
Unfortunately the radius is closed here on the east and open west you would even be in the radius Dave but Essex wouldn’t be
I just think it’s time to open it up before it’s dead
Doing all the work with my birds that I need to do doesn’t currently seem worth the effort
I bet we only get 600 birds a week in the fed this year
One club has lost 6 members to a north rd fed next door and one to go south

It’s a shame that we still have fanciers who refuse to accept club and fed areas need to be opened up with clubs and feds merging where practical. We’ve two feds here one around 1000birds on a good week the other 14-1500, yet will they go together? Not a chance and what’s worse some weeks they’ll be at the same lib site.