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 03/07/24
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, […]
UPDATE 02/07/24
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 […]
UPDATE 01/07/24
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 […]
Training Monday 01/07/24
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 […]
Training Update 28/06/24
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 […]
Training update 25/06/24
No training again today – the temperature reached 30 degrees at lunchtime, and the same is forecast again tomorrow, but expected to drop to 19 on Thursday, so at the moment we’re aiming for Thursday […]
Update 24/06./24 – Training Cancelled
Good Morning, Today was scheduled to be our first trainer from 5 miles, but it is 26 degrees now (9.25am), and it takes a couple hours to basket the birds. It is expected to be […]
Update 18/06/24
Afternoon, The loft list is now up on Benzing – click here to access it. 378 birds were hand scanned yesterday, one returner today and 2 rings which were not working, but this is rectified […]
Update 17/06/24
Good afternoon. Apologies for the lack of communication. Two weeks ago the pigeons were all flying well, and we were looking at starting to train. This came to an abrupt halt when I went up […]