Congratulations 👏🏼 and it was a slow start to the race earlier today and half ain't back is wild but congratulations to everyone that raced and hope all is well with the new loft build
Congrats! 88th is nothing to sneeze about.. That's a good finish with a lot of birds.. The Hoosier has a bad habit of loosing many birds. It's quite ridiculous if you ask me.. After last year, I wasn't to impressed with the training methods nor the stupid decision that was made on the final big money race. The breeders pretty much got screwed over on that one. That's why I'll never send another bird there ever again. That said, good luck on the big finale.. Hopefully you can win a bigger pot of cash.
@ausfuhrpramienjagar Yes, I'm pretty happy with 88th and it's an improvement on 143rd last race. I still have three missing among the 1100+ that weren't back by evening. Something kind of tells me that something major went on this race and that a good number of the 1100 or so will not be back. As it is, even before this race, losses seemed pretty high. I probably won't do Hoosier next year. I accept the losses, but it seems like with 3000+ birds, if they can't get the first drop to trap immediately, next thing you know, there are 500 pigeons behind them. At that point, it's really whoever traps first opposed to whoever arrived first just because of the sheer size of the mob. That happened during the activation race where several drops refused to trap and almost 1000 birds trapped inside of a pretty short time frame because all the drops just continued to fly. At that point, it's pretty much luck of the trap. It strikes me that some of the smaller OLRs are probably delivering truer results just because the drops are smaller and there's not a 500 to 1000 pigeon mob behind the first few drops. In hindsight, I really should have done Martinez. Prize money is smaller on those smaller races, but it seems like the better pigeons have a much better chance of placing.
@@kerbyjackson88 .. It all comes down to the training methods of the owner, which I don't like.. The Hoosier birds are allowed to sit around in front of the loft whenever they get back from flying from a toss or loft flying.. That just gives them bad habits and not trapping quickly when returning is one of them.. And yes, the smaller OLR's are much more fun and personal.. The first place money on the final at the Martinez is $50,000 and $8,000 for 1st avg speed bird, so it's not that shabby. And, there is no perch fee either. Same with the Apple Cup.. Screw those big crap shoot money races with thousands of birds.. LOL
@ausfuhrpramienjagar I think another factor in this is that these losses coincided with a big enough geomagnetic storm to make the Northern Lights widely visible in the northern half of the Lower 48. They should be paying closer attention to it as I don't think 1100 birds going MIA is a coincidence. I'm still out 3 out of 5 birds, which are among the 700 still missing going into Day 3 from only 220 miles out.
@@kerbyjackson88 .. I'm sticking with the terrible training methods.. I don't think the borealis has any effect on the birds returning to the loft.. Last year when it was happening for a couple of days right in the middle of a race or two, they birds all came back fine with barely any losses.
Congratulations sir 👏 for your achievement. GOD BLESS
@@shehanfernando3580 Thank you.
Congratulations 👏🏼 and it was a slow start to the race earlier today and half ain't back is wild but congratulations to everyone that raced and hope all is well with the new loft build
Yeah, it's looking pretty wild so far. I'm hoping most of them manage to come back so there's still plenty on the last race.
@@kerbyjackson88 for sure good luck 🙏🏼🤞🏼
Good job.
@arvinarevalo8824 Thanks, Arvin.
Try to make video at least once a week 🤗
Congrats! 88th is nothing to sneeze about.. That's a good finish with a lot of birds.. The Hoosier has a bad habit of loosing many birds. It's quite ridiculous if you ask me.. After last year, I wasn't to impressed with the training methods nor the stupid decision that was made on the final big money race. The breeders pretty much got screwed over on that one. That's why I'll never send another bird there ever again. That said, good luck on the big finale.. Hopefully you can win a bigger pot of cash.
@ausfuhrpramienjagar Yes, I'm pretty happy with 88th and it's an improvement on 143rd last race. I still have three missing among the 1100+ that weren't back by evening. Something kind of tells me that something major went on this race and that a good number of the 1100 or so will not be back. As it is, even before this race, losses seemed pretty high. I probably won't do Hoosier next year. I accept the losses, but it seems like with 3000+ birds, if they can't get the first drop to trap immediately, next thing you know, there are 500 pigeons behind them. At that point, it's really whoever traps first opposed to whoever arrived first just because of the sheer size of the mob. That happened during the activation race where several drops refused to trap and almost 1000 birds trapped inside of a pretty short time frame because all the drops just continued to fly. At that point, it's pretty much luck of the trap. It strikes me that some of the smaller OLRs are probably delivering truer results just because the drops are smaller and there's not a 500 to 1000 pigeon mob behind the first few drops. In hindsight, I really should have done Martinez. Prize money is smaller on those smaller races, but it seems like the better pigeons have a much better chance of placing.
@@kerbyjackson88 .. It all comes down to the training methods of the owner, which I don't like.. The Hoosier birds are allowed to sit around in front of the loft whenever they get back from flying from a toss or loft flying.. That just gives them bad habits and not trapping quickly when returning is one of them.. And yes, the smaller OLR's are much more fun and personal.. The first place money on the final at the Martinez is $50,000 and $8,000 for 1st avg speed bird, so it's not that shabby. And, there is no perch fee either. Same with the Apple Cup.. Screw those big crap shoot money races with thousands of birds.. LOL
@ausfuhrpramienjagar I think another factor in this is that these losses coincided with a big enough geomagnetic storm to make the Northern Lights widely visible in the northern half of the Lower 48. They should be paying closer attention to it as I don't think 1100 birds going MIA is a coincidence. I'm still out 3 out of 5 birds, which are among the 700 still missing going into Day 3 from only 220 miles out.
@@kerbyjackson88 .. I'm sticking with the terrible training methods.. I don't think the borealis has any effect on the birds returning to the loft.. Last year when it was happening for a couple of days right in the middle of a race or two, they birds all came back fine with barely any losses.
@@ausfuhrpramienjagar What do you think are good smaller OLRs?