great returns for your first race mate!! well done!! i really think you need to get yourself a fantail or some sort of dropper, my trapping this year was 100x better having droppers not that i did well in the races but it was a lot better trapping from my birds than the previous year!! looking forward to the next race
Thank you my friend I am glad to hear from you. Definitely need to do something like that. It has never been so painfully obvious until now. I’m glad it helps you out.
We of course enjoyed your video (we do EVERY TIME) and are excited about the race and all that entails. Glad its not all about being first and you are enjoying this adventure. We'll be watching as always. Hello to your Mom & Dad‼️
Hi Mike I am glad the race started. I believe you have advantage because you are east of everyone. Don’t worry about first few short races you will do great on long races and hard races. In short races try not to feed them too much. You did great congratulations 🎉🎊🍾 what a exciting time I felt like was there my heart was beating faster. Great my friend 👍👍👍😘😘😘😘
It was a lot of fun seeing them come in like that. They made me very proud! I think you are right they need more distance to drop quicker. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and I hope it brought back some nice memories for you
HI MIKE, It's their first race, they sometimes get a bit spooked. If you can get a couple of pairs of fantails it would be better. You need droppers out to pull them down. If you can't get any fantails is there anything you can cut down and use for droppers. Or you could soap a couple of Pigeons under the wings it will come out when they have a bath. Droppers do make a big difference. GOOD LUCK MIKE 🌟👍
Good experience for them, they'll get more confident as they go on on the race season... can't blame them with the hawk right there. The first ones from the 2nd did good. Good luck on future ones
That was a good experience. It a lot of hard work to keep flying and training them. The checker that did clocked at 963 yards per min and went right in after landing, I see potential.
Mike good luck on the next race. I hope they fly home quick and go into the loft. I do not race but I have a few birds that love to just fly around and are very stubborn about wanting to go in.
Awesome job both for you and the birds for the first race ever! Great job brother I’d it hadn’t been for that darn hawk you would have made great time ! That’s pigeon racing for you just when you think you got everything right 😆 think again! But awesome job once again buddy can’t wait till the next one
Thanks buddy, It's exciting stuff - It was a great feeling to see them returning. Like nothing I've felt in a long time! I need to check and see if you made the second half of your video. I hope you did well 👍 😁
@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons if results would have come out I woulda done pretty good but they’re some mew guys in the club with brand new m3 clocks and something went wrong when we put all clocks info together the numbers were all screwed up but I still got 10th place out of 150 birds 😆. Like I said tho all the results were messed up, the winning bird was flying at 4, 477 yards per minute! Yeah your did read that right! We got it figured out now tho and should have a great 1st official race this coming Saturday. Good luck to you on your upcoming one
@@BlessingsLoft Glad you got it straightened out. I’d like to buy that bird that flew 4477 yd./min. I think I could use that one LOL. Congratulations on getting 10th Pl. and good luck this weekend.
@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons Put a few nest bowls in corners or a few box perches and you will see the difference especially if you send a cock off who is driving his hen hard to nest.
Very exciting 1st race! I’m learning a lot from your great videos. I’m also plagued with hawk problems as I’m sure most fanciers are. Due to reducing feed I had my young birds up in the air for 1hr + the other night 👍 Then the hawk turned up and kept them in the air for another hr 😬. Most trapped in after sunset (almost completely dark) and another the next am. Fortunately had NO losses. Did your 20th birds ever return from the race? Jon
I'm very glad your birds are flying well now. I hate to say it but those hawks did you a favor in helping strengthening your flock. When it happens they learn so much. But naturally we worry about them the whole time! I only got 19 and the one that I lost was one that was taken down by a hawk about two months ago and never was the same after that. Thanks for watching my friend 👍. Keep those birds going they will be fine now.
Well done on your first race mate, if they are flying around and won’t land try using a Fantail as a dropper, the birds should hopefully land quicker next time for u, but well done again on your first race
They are the only ones that are just completely molted out. Those two look like drown rats right now. It's a shame because I think they would have learnt a lot like the others but they had to miss out 😞
I heen in your shoes before on those short races I would feed them all they wanted on Thursday night then no feed Friday we shipped on Friday they was released on Saturday after I started doing that i started clocking quicker on them short races
Thanks, I actually was thinking of doing that but went with the 1/3 feed on Friday morning for the second race (87 Miles) But I lost a lot of birds because they went with the flock and didn't have enough energy to return. My next race is sunday 120 miles. Would you feed normal on sat?
Enjoyed the video, great job..That circling around when they got back killed ya! A big no no in the racing pigeon game as I'm sure you already know.. They need to come down and into the loft as fast as possible and should have been trained to come in by your whistling or with a real whistle of some sort anyway.. Using a couple of dropper pigeons would help as well as mentioned below... And, I'd be taking a chainsaw to those trees.. There's way too many making it hard for them to drop straight into the loft.. Beings they only flew 80 miles, this is part of the problem of why they circled around upon return. 80 miles is but a training toss basically, so they were just getting warmed up when they got back and wanted to fly and exercise a little bit longer.. They still should have came in on your whistling signal, however. They'll start coming in a little faster as the distance of the races goes up.
@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons .. I wouldn't send them to a basketing and race hungry... Give them light seeds on Friday before taking them to the clubhouse.. Safflower is a good one. and will give them energy.
Ok 👍, you should feed the birds early some very light food during the day of shipping or not feed at all, just water. They will be fine on a short race 150-350. I had a day bird on a 530 miles that was fed some light food (small grains) early morning during shipping and made it 5th place on a combine. You did great on the first race and you’ll be fine next time. 👍
Thank you Raymond! Do you have BOP because here it would just be hawk food unfortunatly. It is really tough this time of year. I had the birds landing really well a month ago but now the BOP are migrating and scaring them terrible. I lost one today in fact. I appreciate your comment my friend.
Yes we bops over here. Very very rare gets my droppers and I keep Rollers and never gets them but my tipplers gets all the time. I bred 40 this year and only got about 18 left and I only give away 4 to my friend. It's a rell big problem in England pigeon men what's had birds all their life are giving up mate.
Fantails would be the ticket, yet then again they would make a delightful meal for the hawks, and that you could immediately resolve, unless the hawks are a protected species. I’ve heard of some tricks that would bring relief to a loft cased by hawks.
Yes I wasn’t in a hurry to get droppers for that reason it seems like it would just be fuel on the fire. Funny ever since racing season stopped I haven’t seen any more hawks.! Yes hawks are A protected species here
That is tough on you guys, I flew up in the Bronx right near the BX Homing pigeon club back in the early 60’s sure learned a lot from the old timers. Hawks were scarce in that area back then. The only observations were related with long distance races many good birds never returned. I enlisted in the Army during the Vietnam war was out for five years and lost contact with many of my friends. I would like to start over but down here in the tropics hawks and falcons are everywhere.
U should do everything the same way even when ur training ir racing To get them in as fast as possible Have u watched any of old man danny videos He has a ebook if u not got it look into it
Das reinkommen mußt Du nächstes Jahr noch viel Stärker üben. Das macht man am besten schon mit den Jungen im Alter vom 28 Tagen. Meine Jungen Tauben brauchen keine 30 Sekunden und sind im Schlag verschwunden bei ca 150 Stück. Sie kommen auch aus der Luft auf und in den Schlag, wenn ich sie rufe. Ansonsten ist das Ergebnis doch gut. You have to practice getting in much harder next year. This is best done with the boys at the age of 28 days. My young pigeons do not need 30 seconds and have disappeared in the loft with about 150 pieces. They also come up and into the loft from the air when I call them. Otherwise the result is good.
Need to train the birds in a straight line from the release point to home.so they will break away as soon as possible and not follow the other birds. GREG GVJ LOFTS KEEP THEM FLYING 🕊
@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons yea I learned that this year myself those dam hawks be killing me once they see that dropper go in and it's safe there gonna follow, good luck this season
@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons hi good morning here from South Africa is there anyway other way i can get hold of you interested in buying black pigeons from you if your selling how good are they
You need to get your birds in a habit of when they come home they want to get in the loft when you train your birds on training tosses take them later in the day to where they only have a bout an hour and a half of daylight take them for a 10 mile toss their hurry up and get home then and they will waste no time getting in the loft you want them to do that every time taking them later in the day will teachThem to hurry up and get home and get in the loft before it gets dark good luck and enjoy the veg I didn’t check out any of my spelling here I’m using the microphone talk to you later buddy
Time to weed out the flock. If a bird comes home quick but doesn’t go in fast get rid of it. That’s a bad habit that’s hard to break. GREG GVJ LOFTS KEEP THEM FLYING 🕊
@@Rocky.Ridge.Pigeons Unfortunately you have to get rid of any bird that has a bad habit or the other birds will learn the bad habit too. If the birds wants to land on race day that 1 bird will keep the rest up.
