enjoyed your videos, hope all goes well with the youngster! if your youngster have a good apatite before letting them out before the net comes off you so be ok 😀 wish you health and success with it 😁 love your enthusiasm cavender 🙌keep at it
I would recommend possibly using a little barely in their diet. Just to keep them lighter but still have the energy to fly home. I have heard many racers that use 25% barley in their feed and they are at the top of the list almost every week. Glad to see that you’re still racing them. That’s the best way to learn. Good luck on future races!
Thanks for the update! Yeah, we all have that dilemma with YBs: never have enough room to separate them into different age groups, and you don't want to put them in one large group and risk losing younger ones. Besides, hawks can just grab one with their eyes closed when the YBs are let out in a large group. That's the problem I'm facing now: still have 60+ YBs in one loft and I need to let them out soon before they become too strong and fly away. Anyway, that's part of pigeon racing. Good luck with YB and OB!
When I started I only had one loft and it was a mess, i was getting young and old birds mixed up and everything else. You need at least four sections to race and be able to separate the sexes. Make sure you begin training before they get too old or they just become homers instead of racers, 10 weeks for road training is a good rule of thumb, and they should be routing for an hour per day a week or two before then. With such a small team of old birds its hard to compete, Frank Mclaughlin wins with celibate hens so you might check out his videos. Good luck!
125 miles isn't a hard race.. The birds just didn't perform good.. You did get one good clocking though, so that's a good thing.. There's always next week. That's what makes it fun. What kind of racing prep are you doing for them leading up to basketing? Are they getting any kind of 'special' things for the last 3 days of the week to get them pumped up and ready to rock n roll on the weekend? What kind of training are you doing in the middle of the week leading up to the races? It all goes hand in hand with how they will do during the race..
Nothing special...I give them 36 mile toss 3 times a week; 1- 26 mile toss that's pretty much it...I need a loft to race old birds out of and use some type of a system ...I probably should not have raced them until I had a loft for them.
@@cavenderloft .. I don't know what you mean when you say the birds felt light.. They aren't supposed to feel heavy. It's the heavy ones that shouldn't be going to the race. They should feel light and "corky" in the hand. That's how you want them to feel. Heavy feeling is not good. How and what to feed them as well as added supplements in their diet while leading up to race day is an art.. If and when a person masters that art, they will be unstoppable on race day, providing they have good blood in their birds to start with..
I'm not as big of a fan of OB'S racing, not as exciting for me as YB'S but I still enjoy it. I too don't have the room to race Widowhood. Some races are tougher than others, but you still did ok 👍
@@cavenderloft The mix of food that your feeding and how much you give them is the most important Saturday through to Wednesday morning feed a light mix mainly barley All they can eat for 5 minutes then take the food away Wednesday night Thursday and Friday morning feed a high energy mix No food Friday evening before basketing (if your birds go to the race on the Friday night that is) On return from race back to the light mix mainly barley Repeat all the way through old birds season Motivation! All males should have a breeding box that is his box hens should be kept separate every time the cocks or hens enter any kind of basket weather it be racing or training they must always see each other and spend 30 minutes together on return Put garlic infused sunflower oil on there food Tuesday and Thursdays and apple cider vinegar in the water on a Wednesday and Thursday Every week Treat for cocci canker and worms every 5 weeks by tablet as a preventative And respiratory with nose drops every 6 weeks through racing