is it to late to let my birds go down again as iv not got many YBs for the coming season some of the birds havent even gone down at all yet whats your thoughts on this ?
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is it to late ?
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is it to late ?
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rene wrote:is it to late to let my birds go down again as iv not got many YBs for the coming season some of the birds havent even gone down at all yet whats your thoughts on this ?
i was speaking to a guy the other day whos breeding me some and he said the best yb season he had were born april but like he said he doesnt have time now he has so many old birds much easier with ybs all the same age as for me it doesnt matter as all my time is gunna be on my ybs as only racing ybs
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cheers mate just hope it will be ok cos i want to do the darkness and the round about system for the 1st time this year
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rene wrote:cheers mate just hope it will be ok cos i want to do the darkness and the round about system for the 1st time this year
good luck youll be busy that roundabout seems to much trouble to me but depends how much time you can spend with your birds, im putting all my ybs on darkness, ive been reading up on natural flying if you can suss natural thats a hard 1 to beat so ive been told and not just long distance either.
when u thinking of darkening your ybs and what times you opening or closing it off? i was thinking let mine see the natural sunrise but then others let them see it get dark so they can perch and im going with that system me thinks
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im going to lighten up at 9 in the morning cover up at 4 that gives em 7 hrs of light as for the round about it s just letin hen out move the cocks to the hen section hes in cocks out get em in then do it the same in the afternoon from wot i can make out any way
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rene wrote:cheers mate just hope it will be ok cos i want to do the darkness and the round about system for the 1st time this year
how you going to learn about the roundabout system rene?????
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some very nice guy lent me some brilliant dvds mate i gots start watchin em tomo
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rene wrote: some very nice guy lent me some brilliant dvds mate i gots start watchin em tomo
he sounds like one hell of a guy do you think he'll lend em me?? remember tomorrow never comes
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il av 2 ask him mate and tomorrow never comes was my wedding song
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rene wrote:im going to lighten up at 9 in the morning cover up at 4 that gives em 7 hrs of light as for the round about it s just letin hen out move the cocks to the hen section hes in cocks out get em in then do it the same in the afternoon from wot i can make out any way
sounds good how long you leaving them on darkness i was told they only need 6 weeks but others say leave longer, also what i meant was if you fly widowhood you only need to spend 2 hrs roughly aday but like you said on roundabout you have to fly both thats 4 hrs aday,let us no how well your hens and cocks perform this year compared to previous years, i can see why your thinking of trying it as most say the hens do great from 70 to 700miles, as you no its my first year racing but 2011 i need a system to fly but i only want to fly a small team no more than 6 pairs
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i will be keepin the ybs birds on the dark till the longest day of the year i think thets when most take em off of ot some dont put em on it till the clocks change but im puttin mine on now
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