Really enjoy ur videos only started out in pigeons 6 months ago an you share a lot off knowledge too younger people starting out, Your not too far from me either am just outside ballymena 👍
@@BrooklynHanson-h8l thanks Brooklyn, I’m near sure I saw you post on north and south you started with Peter pigeons? Is your first race this weekend pal? 😄
Another very honest video mate. We are certainly fed up with the yb's this year, as are lots of fanciers in our area. It's getting tougher every year and I unfortunately can't see it improving. We look forward to seeing how the rest of your season pans out, I know you will be trying your hardest.
Yeah it certainly isn’t any easier, the people in them our breeding more to keep up the numbers to what being lost with fellas picking them in and so forth. But if we didn’t have this Andrew what’s are alternative… walks along the sea front, football, golf, nothing on them touch the frills of breeding rearing and train in your pigeons to come home! ❤️❤️ Just gotta keep moving ✊ thanks for watching 💪
Good honest videos and just amazed with the gps tracking , always had a wee idea in my head as in chip the pigeons like they do with cats and dogs but it would be more like a tracking device and you could locate them through a app lol just me over thinking lol hope you had good returns though.
They came back in the end but who knows what goes on when they leave the basket good to see the GPS info hopefully all goes well for the coming races and the birds do really well for you mate hopefully the Hawk stay away for a while now. Look forward to the race videos mate
Good video Stephen, as you said busy time for the hawks, it's good you got them all, some fanciers will be missing a few. Good to see the tracker image, something thing has to stop them going from A to B but been happening for years now, is it weather or hawks? Hope you keep up the good work filming, good luck to yourselves and indeed all fanciers for good returns, results can come 2nd all you can ask for is decent racing to give them a fighting chance to race home.🤞
@@robertbingham-9287 thanks Robert that’s very kind of you! Who really knows pal, we can only guess but would be interesting to put a lot of research into it! Unfortunately not enough money in it to make it worth will unless your seeking pedigree pigeons 😂😂 That’s it mate 100% just good honest competitive racing to roll us nicely for a good d team mate 💪appreciate you watching and for your comment 👍
years ago when I was racing there was and still are people thinking there is something in the atmosphere interfering with the homing instinct of the Birds I think I still have Bilco;s book where he says about solar flares I never really believed it ,but with the gps rings does look like something is amiss and it seems all the birds are affected, I could feel your pain Steven and can only wish for better weeks ahead for you my friend
Yeah mervyn I think pigeons have a multitude of things to contend with. I never looked too much into the solar flares or Chen trails or anything like that which in turn leaves us questioning our sanity 😂😂😂 onwards and upwards hopefully 🤞🤞thanks for watching pal 👏🤝
12.14 in to the video, over Magheralin approx 10 - 10-15am that pigeon was in a batch 200 plus as i watched them go back and forth mate. i took mine in in case they got dragged away.
No pal there’s certainly plenty of field but where that pigeon dropped was on someone’s house. As you can zoom in and see! Hopefully not to many more of them 😂🤞🤞
@@ssbrownracingpigeons37 ahh ok just a thought ! I have heard the new tech like cell phone towers may affect pigeons !. I have see a video where a camera was on a pigeons chest that would give a visual anyway. Wish ya well with your birds man.
@ssbrownracingpigeons37 let me know if ye are coming to pilmore again my cousin is a documentary film maker, we are working on a short documentary for RUclips about the local club would like to film your birds being liberated and use it in the film . Complete Control Films some of his work on RUclips you would see the kind of work he does..thanks
We pigeon men are also having trouble with young birds, exactly the same. 😮 now what can we learn ? I personally think it’s been the weather here in the uk we’ve had 1 clear day not overcast or cloudy for 2 or more weeks. We need to learn. Keep that gps ring on the youngsters that made a meal of the toss and see if he/ she learns anything from previous training . Interested to see.
It’s mental Neil, talking and seeing the post from people certainly has had us scratching our heads!!! Hope things settle for us and we get good competitive racing 🤞🤞🤞🤞 Good luck with your youngster mate 🤝
@@ssbrownracingpigeons37 I think the writings on the wall so to speak for this year, time to close the doors keep the young in and wait to see next year.
It’s a difficult decision….you train youngsters but do you race them ? Or as some fanciers do let them grow on and just educate but there are so many things to affect them now, hate losing them
@@hedleycrick7373 tbh dad has many years at this game hedley never once in his pigeon career keep a youngster back for to do anything special. So that reason we bred and race them from a youngsters… Certainly there a lot of hate due to maybe losing youngsters. You’ve watched many videos the effects it has on us, but we also have to weigh the factors human error to pigeon error! Personally we will never understand them fully as pigeons learn us something new every year 😂 thanks for watching pal
Never seen you look so nervous on raceday stephen, that bad toss had you on Edge big time, you look like someone whos piles where at them lol. Get the second race into them and you will relax after them, im sure you no alot of fanciers skip the first race as it can be a bit mad in many ways, lads trowing birds in not enough training so not fit and want the flock to drag them home and that can lead to them going all directions 😔 . How many did you lads drop stephen??, and do you have a second team to introduce for the second half of the season of say third rounders, so you can start to put away some first and second rounders who have shown you enough to earn a perch for next years old bird season, or do you just have the one big team and race them out to pretty much the last race pal?
After that toss, I thought what are we in for in terms of racing! Just look at pigeons chat groups boys getting empty!! Ridiculous des! But we can only try our best to get the pigeons right for the race! We are lucky as we sent 50 and got 50 pal so was more delighted at the overall outcome mate. No mate we just start and finish with one team theres first rounders/second/third and fourths 😂😂😂 so hopefully we get the settle after race 3 mate
@ssbrownracingpigeons37 well you can't complain about that so stephen 50/50, the first race and some times the second race where allways strange and sometimes a clocking match, and lads that had never won a race or had not won a race In Years woyld win it, its over now so onwards and upwards after Saturday. Here in Dublin the weather has being strange as fcuk, scattered showers daily, you could drive 5 miles away and its sunny and the roads are soaking, and where you left seen no rain all day, but in saying that the visibility is generally very good can see the dublin mountains clear as day light daily, bad enough loosing them racing,but tobe loosing them training would be very painful, snd if it got to bad you would have to consider putting them away for yearlings. Beat of luck for the weekend especially with the gang you held back from the first race, and as allways enjoy
@ssbrownracingpigeons37 tink you're Mrs is loading you're coffie with laxative lol. No bother stephen, very enjoyable as always, so deserves a like a comment. Good luck the weekend and fpr the rest of the season pal
Really enjoy ur videos only started out in pigeons 6 months ago an you share a lot off knowledge too younger people starting out, Your not too far from me either am just outside ballymena 👍
@@BrooklynHanson-h8l thanks Brooklyn, I’m near sure I saw you post on north and south you started with Peter pigeons?
Is your first race this weekend pal? 😄
Another very honest video mate.
We are certainly fed up with the yb's this year, as are lots of fanciers in our area. It's getting tougher every year and I unfortunately can't see it improving.
We look forward to seeing how the rest of your season pans out, I know you will be trying your hardest.
Yeah it certainly isn’t any easier, the people in them our breeding more to keep up the numbers to what being lost with fellas picking them in and so forth. But if we didn’t have this Andrew what’s are alternative… walks along the sea front, football, golf, nothing on them touch the frills of breeding rearing and train in your pigeons to come home! ❤️❤️
Just gotta keep moving ✊ thanks for watching 💪
Unbelievable mate
It’s mental mate 😅
That GPS information is absolutely mental m8. The mind boggles at what happens to em. And thanks for the mention 🙏
Mental brian! Question your sanity with pigeons 😂😂
No worries mate fantastic mate 👍👏👏
That's crazy mate, roll on when we get our gps 😊 we'll done pal and all the best for the rest of the season 👍 💪
Did u get sorted with some? Same to you Gary! Is a long few weeks 🙈😂
Good honest videos and just amazed with the gps tracking , always had a wee idea in my head as in chip the pigeons like they do with cats and dogs but it would be more like a tracking device and you could locate them through a app lol just me over thinking lol hope you had good returns though.
Mental pal! But I think if they designed something smaller it would be great!
Appreciate that pal 🤝👏
They came back in the end but who knows what goes on when they leave the basket good to see the GPS info hopefully all goes well for the coming races and the birds do really well for you mate hopefully the Hawk stay away for a while now. Look forward to the race videos mate
Yeah main thing is they got home! Hawks by the looks of things are devastating boys teams 👎 fingers crossed for a better week mate
Good video Stephen, as you said busy time for the hawks, it's good you got them all, some fanciers will be missing a few. Good to see the tracker image, something thing has to stop them going from A to B but been happening for years now, is it weather or hawks?
Hope you keep up the good work filming, good luck to yourselves and indeed all fanciers for good returns, results can come 2nd all you can ask for is decent racing to give them a fighting chance to race home.🤞
@@robertbingham-9287 thanks Robert that’s very kind of you! Who really knows pal, we can only guess but would be interesting to put a lot of research into it! Unfortunately not enough money in it to make it worth will unless your seeking pedigree pigeons 😂😂
That’s it mate 100% just good honest competitive racing to roll us nicely for a good d team mate 💪appreciate you watching and for your comment 👍
Another great video
@@noelmckendry-yr9hc appreciate that Noel 👏👏
years ago when I was racing there was and still are people thinking there is something in the atmosphere interfering with the homing instinct of the Birds I think I still have Bilco;s book where he says about solar flares I never really believed it ,but with the gps rings does look like something is amiss and it seems all the birds are affected, I could feel your pain Steven and can only wish for better weeks ahead for you my friend
Yeah mervyn I think pigeons have a multitude of things to contend with. I never looked too much into the solar flares or Chen trails or anything like that which in turn leaves us questioning our sanity 😂😂😂 onwards and upwards hopefully 🤞🤞thanks for watching pal 👏🤝
Bad tosses common place nowadays you did well to get so many back and time to regroup better days ahead.
Praying for better days pal 😂😂😂 just out and home will do! 🙌
12.14 in to the video, over Magheralin approx 10 - 10-15am that pigeon was in a batch 200 plus as i watched them go back and forth mate. i took mine in in case they got dragged away.
Great video
Thanks Kenna abit to work on but if it was easy and all that 😂🙈🙈
That is really amazing to see that. Are there maize feilds in that area or crop gardens etc?.
No pal there’s certainly plenty of field but where that pigeon dropped was on someone’s house. As you can zoom in and see! Hopefully not to many more of them 😂🤞🤞
@@ssbrownracingpigeons37 ahh ok just a thought !
I have heard the new tech like cell phone towers may affect pigeons !. I have see a video where a camera was on a pigeons chest that would give a visual anyway. Wish ya well with your birds man.
Crazy mate. How was your returns
Surely was pal, we had 50/50 home last one came as I was at the club mate
@@ssbrownracingpigeons37 top flying mate
I think the GPS would do my head no good lol looking forward to the next video
I can officially say they certainly put head away 😂😂 but all a great insight none the less pal 👍👍
@ssbrownracingpigeons37 let me know if ye are coming to pilmore again my cousin is a documentary film maker, we are working on a short documentary for RUclips about the local club would like to film your birds being liberated and use it in the film . Complete Control Films some of his work on RUclips you would see the kind of work he does..thanks
We pigeon men are also having trouble with young birds, exactly the same. 😮 now what can we learn ? I personally think it’s been the weather here in the uk we’ve had 1 clear day not overcast or cloudy for 2 or more weeks. We need to learn. Keep that gps ring on the youngsters that made a meal of the toss and see if he/ she learns anything from previous training . Interested to see.
It’s mental Neil, talking and seeing the post from people certainly has had us scratching our heads!!!
Hope things settle for us and we get good competitive racing 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Good luck with your youngster mate 🤝
@@ssbrownracingpigeons37 I think the writings on the wall so to speak for this year, time to close the doors keep the young in and wait to see next year.
Could Internet signal be a factor
@mickclarke8749 could be mick God only knows pal 🙄
It’s a difficult decision….you train youngsters but do you race them ? Or as some fanciers do let them grow on and just educate but there are so many things to affect them now, hate losing them
@@hedleycrick7373 tbh dad has many years at this game hedley never once in his pigeon career keep a youngster back for to do anything special. So that reason we bred and race them from a youngsters…
Certainly there a lot of hate due to maybe losing youngsters. You’ve watched many videos the effects it has on us, but we also have to weigh the factors human error to pigeon error! Personally we will never understand them fully as pigeons learn us something new every year 😂 thanks for watching pal
Have to watch with the sound turned off, that whistle hurts my ears.
Never seen you look so nervous on raceday stephen, that bad toss had you on Edge big time, you look like someone whos piles where at them lol. Get the second race into them and you will relax after them, im sure you no alot of fanciers skip the first race as it can be a bit mad in many ways, lads trowing birds in not enough training so not fit and want the flock to drag them home and that can lead to them going all directions 😔 .
How many did you lads drop stephen??, and do you have a second team to introduce for the second half of the season of say third rounders, so you can start to put away some first and second rounders who have shown you enough to earn a perch for next years old bird season, or do you just have the one big team and race them out to pretty much the last race pal?
After that toss, I thought what are we in for in terms of racing! Just look at pigeons chat groups boys getting empty!! Ridiculous des! But we can only try our best to get the pigeons right for the race!
We are lucky as we sent 50 and got 50 pal so was more delighted at the overall outcome mate.
No mate we just start and finish with one team theres first rounders/second/third and fourths 😂😂😂 so hopefully we get the settle after race 3 mate
@ssbrownracingpigeons37 well you can't complain about that so stephen 50/50, the first race and some times the second race where allways strange and sometimes a clocking match, and lads that had never won a race or had not won a race In Years woyld win it, its over now so onwards and upwards after Saturday.
Here in Dublin the weather has being strange as fcuk, scattered showers daily, you could drive 5 miles away and its sunny and the roads are soaking, and where you left seen no rain all day, but in saying that the visibility is generally very good can see the dublin mountains clear as day light daily, bad enough loosing them racing,but tobe loosing them training would be very painful, snd if it got to bad you would have to consider putting them away for yearlings.
Beat of luck for the weekend especially with the gang you held back from the first race, and as allways enjoy
@@desburke7786 that’s it’s no point in panicking des! Only adds to trip to the loo 😂😂😂
See how we get on des!
Thanks for watching and comment 🤝💪
@ssbrownracingpigeons37 tink you're Mrs is loading you're coffie with laxative lol.
No bother stephen, very enjoyable as always, so deserves a like a comment.
Good luck the weekend and fpr the rest of the season pal
Pull your hair out stuff, crazy what goes on with the pigeons.
Ready for the hills mate 😂😂😂