Battling the short distance and highspeed races
BY WYNAND WOLMARANS SEE ALSO superacepigeon.blogger.com The more experienced a pigeon fancier become , the more they have learned about the body ,the wing, feeding ,training and other aspects of pigeon racing. I got my first racing pigeon in 1972 . After years a fancier tends to get fixed on a certain type of pigeon...There is nothing wrong with that. Almost all older and experienced racing pigeon fanciers will tell you , so and so many years ago they won the shorts and can't figure out why they are battling now!!!!
If you ask the older fancier if he like
1. Closed ventbones
2. Good covering on the wing
3. Longer rather than shorter body shapes
4. Long muscles
5. One tail feather like tail
6. Headwind races
He will CERTAINLY tell you that is a must FOR GOOD PIGEONS .........!!!!!
Shortdistance OR SPEED birds is normally the opposite of that
AND THEY CANT KEEP UP TO THE DISTANCE......
So for you as fancier to fly races from 200km to 1100km you must at least have 2 different mindsets ...
EVEN UNDER PEOPLE YOU WILL SEE THE MATATHON RUNNERS AND THE SPRINTERS IS TOTALLY OPPOSITES........
IN PIGEONS IT IS THE SAME
HORSES FOR COURSES.....
OLDER FANCIERS TEND TO FLY ALL THEIR BIRDS UP TO THE END OF THE SEASON , MAY BE THEY FLY THE YEARLINGS TO 600 OR 700 KM.. BUT NORMALLY THE OLD BIRDS UP TO THE END...
I HAVE SEEN ALL THE SPEEDSTERS AND HIGH SPEED (VELOCITY) BIRDS GET LOST..
-They now breed more and more stamina in to their team
-Every year the speed genes get less and less in the loft
-All the speed genes is now lost in racers ,
-Now the racers become so slow that they cant even win on one day races
