ALLFLIGHT CARNIVAL CITY LOFT NEWS 14 APRIL 2009

The Easter weekend has come and gone which in my terms means it is time to get the pigeons up in the air and flying, I hope all of you had a nice relaxing weekend and that the ones who traveled to far destinations had a safe journey. We started chasing the winter intake last week and some of them can fly for longer than an hour already, but as per usual there are the ones that struggle’s to fly for more than 5minutes. We will be forcing them to fly for 30minutes the rest of this week and then increase it to 60minutes around the loft from next week. We are planning to get them on the road by the 27th of April. Hopefully the lazy ones will be able to get up in the air and keep up for the planned loft training the next two weeks otherwise they will have a big surprise come the first toss. It has been a very healthy off season this year and we only had a few pigeons that got sick, some of them returned to perfect health after a few days in the “Clinic” but unfortunately some had to be culled or died, we notified the owners and most were replaced and are in the team flying.

We will be fitting the electronic rings only after the first 75km training flight, which if all goes well with the road training will be middle of May, this means that the next loft listing will only be available then, sorry for the inconvenience but unfortunately with the cost of electronic rings and the fact that when a pigeon goes missing for a day or two in the early trainings it comes back without the electronic ring we decided to get the pigeons on the road first this year before we allocate electronic rings to them. I must just say that the fanciers who steals the electronic ring from a pigeon that he surely is not an asset for the sport of pigeon racing, but at least they are better than some of the utter fools out there who sometimes cut off the identification ring from a pigeon, we have had a few come back from training flights in the past without any rings on them, needless to say that this pigeon has no value either to us or the owner who entered it. The fool who cut off the identification ring has not only taken away the identity of this pigeon but has stolen the money from the fancier who entered the pigeon as this pigeon can no longer take part in the race. So if you really need the electronic ring you can take that off and use it but please do not cut off the identification ring from the pigeons.

To each and every pigeon fancier out there good luck for the 2009 season that lies ahead of us, let us all strive to give the pigeons all they need to compete in every race we enter them.

Herman

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