Thanks, Buster.
It's been wet and cold here the last couple of days, but I have the shed shut up and it is warm and dry.
I have two pairs of pigeons on big youngsters, eggs due to hatch, (which won't ), pigeons laying and pigeons going to nest.
So I am rather busy keeping things clean and nice in the shed. I am going through lots of newspaper and straw and red pigeon grit. And spending a lot of energy scraping out.
The pigeons are still in very good condition as a result.
Even though it was cool and damp this afternoon they exercised really well.
If it isn't enough, I am fresh out of ideas.
Life in Bendigo.
Well, that was a disaster.
Only 8 members entered the first race, 82 pigeons were sent. That's disappointing, but it's surprising how many blokes cannot trap a sprinter and don't want to try. I sent 20 and was optimistic.
Birds were liberated at 8.30am. There was a strong south wind, (Think north wind at your end) and clear skies. I was thinking somewhere between 1 hour 5, and 1 hour 20 minutes.
Wrong!
I got one at 11:13:29. Soon after I got a call, asking if I had any. They had gone missing and were just arriving.
Summary, I ended up 6th of 8, 20 minutes behind the winner, and 2 hours ahead of the last one. From 65 miles.
Not good.
I still had pigeons arriving home today. I can only think that they have clashed with another race and gone away. One of mine is 30 miles away and being bought back tomorrow.
I have lost half of them, but, I suppose, half of them would not have been good enough.
We have more, and will go back again this week
Only 8 members entered the first race, 82 pigeons were sent. That's disappointing, but it's surprising how many blokes cannot trap a sprinter and don't want to try. I sent 20 and was optimistic.
Birds were liberated at 8.30am. There was a strong south wind, (Think north wind at your end) and clear skies. I was thinking somewhere between 1 hour 5, and 1 hour 20 minutes.
Wrong!
I got one at 11:13:29. Soon after I got a call, asking if I had any. They had gone missing and were just arriving.
Summary, I ended up 6th of 8, 20 minutes behind the winner, and 2 hours ahead of the last one. From 65 miles.
Not good.
I still had pigeons arriving home today. I can only think that they have clashed with another race and gone away. One of mine is 30 miles away and being bought back tomorrow.
I have lost half of them, but, I suppose, half of them would not have been good enough.
We have more, and will go back again this week
Greetings from the land down under.
I was pretty disappointed but everyone else was in the same boat.
It was just a bad race.
The clock bird was a little hen out of the 600 mile hen, and she has benefited from the race, she is bouncing around. She is like her mother, has a real attitude about her.
She will go again and I think she will go very well.
Strangely, I have a few cocks back, but the hens are missing. One hen is being returned today, but some nice hens which I thought would go well have gone. I think they are 100 miles away in Melbourne.
I tossed 10 fresh ones on Sunday and they went well, so I will have a nice team this week.
It was just a bad race.
The clock bird was a little hen out of the 600 mile hen, and she has benefited from the race, she is bouncing around. She is like her mother, has a real attitude about her.
She will go again and I think she will go very well.
Strangely, I have a few cocks back, but the hens are missing. One hen is being returned today, but some nice hens which I thought would go well have gone. I think they are 100 miles away in Melbourne.
I tossed 10 fresh ones on Sunday and they went well, so I will have a nice team this week.
Greetings from the land down under.
Had a phone call last night reporting 2 more of mine about 50 miles north of me. By the Murray river, on the line of flight for the race.
I called the bloke and he said that the falcons were tearing into them and there were pigeons going everywhere. This might explain why the race was a crash.
I am quite lucky in the circumstances. I have a fair few of mine back or coming back. I hear some only have 1 or 2.
I called the bloke and he said that the falcons were tearing into them and there were pigeons going everywhere. This might explain why the race was a crash.
I am quite lucky in the circumstances. I have a fair few of mine back or coming back. I hear some only have 1 or 2.
Greetings from the land down under.
Good to see still coming, damn hawks hope you get others mateMurray wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:33 pm Had a phone call last night reporting 2 more of mine about 50 miles north of me. By the Murray river, on the line of flight for the race.
I called the bloke and he said that the falcons were tearing into them and there were pigeons going everywhere. This might explain why the race was a crash.
I am quite lucky in the circumstances. I have a fair few of mine back or coming back. I hear some only have 1 or 2.