UkPigeonRacing

Murray wrote: Wed Jun 28, 2023 10:12 pm I put $95 worth in before we left, put $30 worth in when we stopped on the way back and still have half a tank. Probably cost about $80 for the trip? About 40 pounds. And I run the car on Premium which is 20 cents or about 10p a litre more than regular unleaded.

Murray wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:19 am Thanks Andy.
Actually it wasn't a great result. It was a win in a small club race over about 50 miles. It will not go down in history like Mark Gilbert with a Barcelona win or something
But I was pleased.
When you have a very small loft and only breed a small team every year, getting a win is always nice.

Trev wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:25 pm

Murray wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:04 am

Murray wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:34 am I took 12 young birds, which are really yearlings in a minute, out to the 20 mile point. Including the ones that raced on Sunday.
Partly cloudy and not warm, quite a strong wind almost behind them.
They walked out of the boxes, stood for a moment, then took off! By the time I put the boxes back in the car they had a mile head start on me. I was peddling pretty hard on the way back, and might have been going 70 miles per hour on a road that you are not meant to...
A couple of speed restrictions in town, and they beat me back by two minutes, my wife said.
Crikey those things must have been hoofing it!
I lost 7 last weekend, which is disappointing . I suspect some blokes may have lost more than that.
But the ones that remain, they are well. I am getting light on pigeons, and will have to select a few to go each week. At least I have some to select from.

Talking to David today when he delivered some feed, it appears that there were quite a few losses in the club last weekend. It was a perfectly clear sky, which is not ideal, is it?
I am still feeling the hit, there's some empty perches out there. But we just have to regroup and carry on.

I know we sadly have to lose birds to enable us to keep breeding and hopefully improving our stock but nevertheless these losses are hard to take I've been reasonably lucky this year compared to some, I've had more birds work back this year than I did on the South Road. I have lost some good and promising birds again this year, I couple of them I'd put down to me and some I suspect have almost certainly met a grisly end. Although I'd still have liked them home I can take losing birds from the longer races especially if it's the first time of asking, its losing birds from the shorter races that have previously flown further. I do think sometimes our birds suffer in ways we can't see and although they appear fit and healthy just mentally aren't right.