Talking on my own federations experience the East London, we so far this year have had fairly easy races, as the weather and wind had been favorable. However, this week we was at scotch corner, which is around 216 miles to my loft, and with the weather as bad as it was supposed to be, many predicted a held over. Consequently, Saturday morning came and the birds were up at seven fifteen in the morning. I predicted the birds to take around the five hour mark, but with the elements against us thought it may have predicted the result. The early birds were all around the five hours, so my prediction was accurate. However the birds were few and far between, and many members mentioned the huge lengths of waiting times for there next birds, some even clocking in twenty to thirty minutes behind there first birds. Speaking to members of two different other North road federations their races were very similar.
I have one result from the Dagenham Trades Hall of the West Essex Federation, who was at Ripon a distance of around 191 miles to some of the flyers in their federation. Seventeen members sent 354 birds. This weeks winner is B&J WILLSON clocking a velocity of 1282.9, 2nd club was B SCOTT beaten by a decimal at 1282.2, 3rd club was T WILLIAMS doing 1280, 4th A TAYLOR & SON doing 1279.
I noticed a few month back that ‘The RP’, had been publishing articles about Red Rose’s starter lofts. I made one of these a few months prior to those articles being published but I went around an easy way about it by purchasing a 6 x 4 garden shed, so all that I was left to do was to build the trap and aviary/landing board. I had for a while spoke to Linda who’s website it was over msn messenger about constructing one for my young birds. So in the end we finally got round to putting the 6 x 4 shed up, and then constructing the aviary/landing board to 6 x 3 and this took the majority of the time, by constructing it and putting wire mesh on the flooring and door. Then had to fit it out with perches and such, and once it was finally finished I was extremely happy with the results. I am only keeping 11 young birds in this shed maximum, and I tried to get them used to using the trap from weaning. This is my only loft in my garden with a trap, so I have had no experience of getting pigeons used to a trap before. But what I did the first time was show them how to use the trap, so as I put them through I made sure the hopper was filled with food, so they used this as an association, that when the go in there was food there. Then from there on then they got the hang of it, and were going in through there own accord. The lofts are a great design, and you can get the birds used to there surroundings before they are even big enough to fly, and as I mentioned earlier get them used to trapping even when the birds are not even out. If you are interested in building your own loft please visit www.redroselofts.com there is also some other interesting bits and bobs on the site that fanciers may find of interest. Another website I must mention that fanciers may find of interest and help to them is www.pigeonbasics.com/forum where there is many fanciers willing to help one another. Two similar site is www.pigeonland.co.uk and www.pigeon-chat.com .
A little message to Dicky Flint and his wife Pat, hope that you are both keeping well, and the weather is shining brightly, I just hope that during your retirement in sunny Spain, that you don’t drink to much Spanish Sangria, I bet you cannot buy that in the Custom House Working Man Club.
Well ladies and Gentlemen; think that’s it for another week from me, any news or views don’t hesitate to email me at racing-pigeon@hotmail.co.uk Sayonara for now!
Grasshopper
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