Post by flyingfox5 on Oct 28, 2011 14:57:40 GMT 10
Hi, thought id share my other interest in racing. First off my partner got me started with pigeons (he has kept them for most of his life) and it started from there atm we would have roughly 300 with plenty of new young in the nest roughly about 60 of them. Racing is a great sport which can be enjoyed by the whole family,its their instinct to come home which amazes me most.
The club which we are in has 6 members and Cairns has roughly 15 (i think). How we race is mostly what we get asked so i'll give you a quick rundown on how it works, first off we have timed clocks or ets ( electronic), the clocks are set to time and sealed so no one can tamper with them, on basketing night (generally the night before the race depending on how far we send them)we have plastic rubbers which get put on the birds leg opposite the id ring, all the rubber numbers are recorded and the pigeons get put in a crate awaiting release.
Once this is completed the birds get driven down to the release point, (our club flies as far as yaamba)so for instance the driver releases the birds at say rollingstone (roughly 250k from us as the crow flies) at a set time and they fly back to our loft, ideally everyones pigeons go back to their own loft, once they have arrived we take the plastic rubber off and put it inside the clock and it stamps off the time which the bird came in. Electronic systems work differently though, i dont know much about them, we prefer to do it the old fashioned way.
We have members down tully way (40k distance from us) it is natural that they have birds before we do, the velocity the winning bird is worked out on how many mpm (miles per minute) that bird has flown from point A (rollingstone) to point b (our loft), I do the calculations for our club and it is quite simple we have specially designed programs to calculate it out and therefore the bird with the highest velocity wins.
I hope that is not too confusing my partner is the expert on this subject We got tied club champion for the year with another member, worked out quite well, we only fly in the winter as summers up this way are just too hot.
Now a photo of a few of our race team relaxing on the fence.
regards eileen
The club which we are in has 6 members and Cairns has roughly 15 (i think). How we race is mostly what we get asked so i'll give you a quick rundown on how it works, first off we have timed clocks or ets ( electronic), the clocks are set to time and sealed so no one can tamper with them, on basketing night (generally the night before the race depending on how far we send them)we have plastic rubbers which get put on the birds leg opposite the id ring, all the rubber numbers are recorded and the pigeons get put in a crate awaiting release.
Once this is completed the birds get driven down to the release point, (our club flies as far as yaamba)so for instance the driver releases the birds at say rollingstone (roughly 250k from us as the crow flies) at a set time and they fly back to our loft, ideally everyones pigeons go back to their own loft, once they have arrived we take the plastic rubber off and put it inside the clock and it stamps off the time which the bird came in. Electronic systems work differently though, i dont know much about them, we prefer to do it the old fashioned way.
We have members down tully way (40k distance from us) it is natural that they have birds before we do, the velocity the winning bird is worked out on how many mpm (miles per minute) that bird has flown from point A (rollingstone) to point b (our loft), I do the calculations for our club and it is quite simple we have specially designed programs to calculate it out and therefore the bird with the highest velocity wins.
I hope that is not too confusing my partner is the expert on this subject We got tied club champion for the year with another member, worked out quite well, we only fly in the winter as summers up this way are just too hot.
Now a photo of a few of our race team relaxing on the fence.
regards eileen
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