Young Birds 2024 Loft News

The pigeons have been training again today from the 16 mile point. We are ready to jump up in distance again now, and return to the 21 mile spot tomorrow at 10am. We’ll stay there […]

Good afternoon everyone, Sorry for the delayed update – I have spent the last couple of days driving and collecting pigeons. In total I have picked up 8 pigeons and there are 2 more on […]

The birds went to the same 13 mile spot that we’ve been at all week with no issue. I released at 18.25 into a moderate SW wind, the same as yesterday, the birds came out […]

I thought I may have made a mistake yesterday. I took the birds training, and after I liberated it started to rain, but luckily the birds must have flown through or found a gap. Of […]

Good evening everyone. Firstly a couple of things to point out about Benzing – all of our trainings are measured in miles, but for some reason it says kilometres, and 511 is not the number […]

Training was cancelled today, due to low cloud and drizzle for the majority of the day. We will be going tomorrow morning, clock on, all together from the 5 mile spot. If it goes well, […]

Today we went for our first trainer, from 5 miles. The pigeons were released from 5pm (delayed because of the weather), in crates of 30 at a time, allowing each group to clear before releasing […]

All is looking well for the first trainer tomorrow morning; we will be basketing the birds once it’s gone dark, in a peaceful environment to  keep stress levels down. I have put all of the […]

Good Evening, The plan was to go training first thing tomorrow morning, but rain is forecast and I’m currently writing this from Lincoln A&E. My little girl has had an accident. I was going to […]

We have been unable to follow the training schedule this week, unfortunately. The temperature was almost 30 degrees on Monday to Thursday, which is not nice for the pigeons, although they have still flown well […]