Nice work!! Great to see their progress!!

No one ever wants to lose birds... but it is inevitable, part of the sport! My 1st year I lost a bunch, likely 50% indeed. 2nd year likely 40%, this year, sadly, and still in progress, but looking like much worse than 50%... Good video buddy!!

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Silvio! Hopefully your year for YB's improves. Those hawks are brutal!

Last year altogether I started training 22-birds by the first race I had about 8 left and at the end of the race season 3 finished.....Enjoying the videos!

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Was that your first year racing?

@cavenderloft

Жыл бұрын

@@littleloftonthehill Yes Sir, I made many mistakes I'm surprised my birds did as good as they did with so many things that I did wrong.

Tom I've been in pigeons only 2 years but what you are doing is the coolest thing I've seen. YBs last year started with 42 and ended the season with 13. I flew all the birds on all the races. I lost a hand full earlier this week when a flock of low fly geese went right over the loft and a third of the team was out all night.

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Having a lot of fun. Hopefully I can keep them all progressing and healthy. That is tough with the geese, it seems just about anything can spook them sometimes. All the best!

Super good the birds de firebird. I Have of him😊

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

He sent two great birds 💪

Great idea with the tunnel some thing I will do when I get them back hopefully next year.

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Go for it! It works great!

Nice work cant wait to see how they do👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mario!

Great footage as usual! They're all looking good. Some of them are really cutting the air and dive bombing when they are let loose. They are feeling their oats for sure. Sad that the white bird didn't make it back. Maybe there's still hope..

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

They are looking great. I really like it when they drop bombing down like that. I just want to get them all together as a group. Thanks for watching!

@ausfuhrpramienjagar

Жыл бұрын

@@littleloftonthehill .. Yeah, that'll be nice.. BTW, that was JT doing the dive bombing! .. LOL

The first 2 years racing I let them out early and would lose 10 at a time to hawks scaring them up and them flying off. So I raised 100 and raced 30 the 1st year. Raised 100 and raced 20 the 2nd year. Last year I raised 80 and raced 45 or so. About 30 made it to the end of the season. Losses are going to happen but with a small team it hurts more. Nice update as always.

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you do notice when one is missing! All the best!

That seems rather high for losses. I havent raced for years and the weather has changed a lot plus we didnt fly over the desert. Id be curious to see what Dennis says at Hawkbait, hes been flying a long time with decent birds.

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Next time I talk to Dennis I will ask. They don’t fly over the east course anymore.

Ps put a board up against your front mess when racing so the birds inside don't put them of all 😊😊

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Good idea! A board would work. I have second hand, shade roll up shutter I am going to try.

@christophersherratt7299

Жыл бұрын

Don't think I would use a roller blind it will move with the birds inside just cut a board and put it on hinges or slide it in and out if it can't fold down just make right handle brackets from wood 15 mins work mate

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

@@christophersherratt7299 good point

Losses will always happen. Especially with anything that isn't the same color as the majority of the flock. Birds look great!

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

They do stand out, so your saying next year only grizzle/white birds in the loft😉

Your Landing board is to small for the birds to come straight onto they will need several passes to slow down on there approach causing Lost time make it full length of loft and double the depth and paint it a bright colour yellow and black diagonal stripes so can be seen at distance

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

For sure! 👍🏻 I will be working on this shortly. I am almost done with my table and I will be using that as my landing board

So far in training I’m down 7 birds from 35 to 28. It’s all been hawk related.

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

They are everywhere and I guess need to eat, just wish it would not be racing pigeons

The way they are flying and how they look under your training. You wouldn't lose much at all. Just watch for wild cats instead and whenever you leave, I rather you get them back inside the loft and close the trap. They are looking sharp, so hawk would be no problem at all. When a wild cat grab a pigeon, you will not see any mess. Just a heads up to look out for. It is a possibility.

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, for the heads up! All the best 👍

hi Tom, I'm new to the sports your video really help a lot on settling them . I just got few question/advise how long do you keep your birds on the loft before you let them fly out? how do you do your feeding? I been training them to go to the trapdoor so far its been good, what would be my next step? I want to let them flyout but I'm scared they might not come back any advice would be greatly appreciated.

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Depending on how you approach it, I would keep them locked up about one week. The past two pairs of new birds were flying from the crate to the loft in six days. I start them through the tunnel the day they arrived. Do it once a day before I feed them. You want them to be hungry each time you work them through the trap. kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2d_j8infMW7m5M.html

Trapping well

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

They are coming around good, I just want to get them all flying.

Do you whistle constantly, when you're trapping, when you're feeding or none stop?

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

I have whistling issues… I probably do it too much. What I want it to mean to the birds is “trap in and eat”. If they are out flying and I want them trap in, I whistle and hope they will trap in and eat. On race day when a bird comes home he is used to the whistle and hopefully will trap and eat.

May I ask how many races do you have for ybs and how far is the longest race .

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

We start last Saturday in August, we race for 8 weeks. Mileage for me: 90, 120, 180, 205, 240, 255, 290, 300. Pretty brutal course through NV desert over the Sierra Nevadas.

Last season I bred over 70 ended the season with 20.

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

That is brutal… the twenty left must be great birds

@ThundercatLoft

Жыл бұрын

​@Little loft on the hill yessir I lost almost half to hawks. This year I kept them in. Waiting for leaves on trees method.

I lose about 1/2 my younger birds ever year. So I still got a chance I got one bird left. Lol it happens not worry

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

I do wonder what happens to them?

@burakloft568

Жыл бұрын

@@littleloftonthehill I always wonder but not much I can do about it

Nothing better than dropping a deuce and watching your video. 👍

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Thanks... I think 🤣

I lose about 75% of youngsters up in NEW ENGLAND 😕

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Rough up there!

The more you breed or hatch the more you’ll loose.. First season 46 young ones one lost..training and racing season lost 17, end up with 28..last year 66+…loose more on first release then road training and racing season…

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

That is tough, my 50% losses last year only two were on races the rest, training, two loft flying. Good luck this weekend!

توقف عن تدريب من قريب دربهم مسافة ٣ أو ٥ كيلو متر او ابعد وعلمهم الطيران القوي بالضروف

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the advice, the younger ones are only 6 weeks old, I will get them out to 300 miles by the end of the year, all the best

@user-uc4su7iv7p

Жыл бұрын

@@littleloftonthehill بالتوفيق.جيد جداً

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

@@user-uc4su7iv7p Thank you!

My bird? I do not want to watch the video 🤣🤣🤣

@littleloftonthehill

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t want to make it 😔

HKPA 2023 0008498 any idea who's bird this would be? Has a band in Spanish as well says The Master Mind?

@littleloftonthehill

9 ай бұрын

There should be an IF or AU or some other two digit letter as well. AU band listing for H is here: www.pigeon.org/pages/bandlist.php?year=2023&f=H