Nervousness is always present but by the time races come whatever we did up to that point we just hope it was good. Race Day we should just enjoy but yes I often question whether or not I did what needed to be done correctly... it gets better with experience
ive seen a couple guys do old birds for the first time this year, seems like a steep learning curve. You made the sheets tho! and on a 419 miler, badass. congrats.
"Good job 5506, too bad you're too late" she looked like she wanted to cuss you. 🤣 She had to work hard to get home. I still haven't gotten the hang of old birds, myself. Trying to race with so few numbers ups the difficulty level. I've raced with 6-7 my 1st 3 years in old birds.
I figure a good 15 to 20 old birds would be the sweet spot. With longer races we do need to rotate some birds and if you race specials on top of the combine even more so.
Great video as usually ! Very informational. Hope you do a lot better with the yb this year brother. Old bird has been tough this year from what I see. Super excited from achivers babies for me she bred me the most babies this year
She’s on one last round for me for my late hatch paired her up with a really nice inbred harry from bob duhra. Anyway how is the black bird doing on your old bird team ?
The two clockers did good.. To even get a bird back from 418 miles on the day is an accomplishment in itself. That's a tough thing for a bird to do and flying all the way from Ohio to Jersey on the day makes it a winner. Just curios, what was the bloodline on those two birds that made it back on the day?
It's so that they regain their primary flights ahead of time to be fully moulted and be ready to race. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DMY0Nbxl6vc.html
taking young birds on such short tosses is wasting u time if they are not ranging 2 or three miles on their own then their is something wrong with ur managment i take mine 20 klms for their first toss.
I respect your approach, surely many people do that. There a a couple of reasons I go this short in the beginning. I have a timeline I follow since I'm on the Light System, pull 9th and 10th and they are lockdown for the month of June for the moult. I don't have time nor do I like to toss separately my younger ones from the first rounders and they were just starting to range. I like to instill confidence of being released from the basket and aiming for home, and discipline on the calling and trapping. I find that shorter tosses but more frequent, often twice per day in the very beginning of their learning makes a difference. I am not worried about going the distance at this stage. I have all of July and half of August to get them ready for the races.
