Ace's Orphans

[ace in the hole]

Originally Posted by Southwing

Hello,

Training has been hit and mis with the storms. I will be training in the morning 65 miles. And I think that some of us are getting together this weekened to have a release together before the race next week. I have one more bird to add to the #s 7707 so I still have them all. Southwing

That is good news in itself, to have them out that far without loosing a bird. You must also be doing a good job with your training methods.

Keep up the good work,

Ace

[Lovebirds]

Not looking good this week end weather wise. Rain in the afternoon, so of course OUR birds would probably be fine since they aren't flying far, but the guys down in NC and SC might be in trouble. We'll see if the race is shipped. I "suspect" a Sat. ship for a Sun. release, but with this crew, who the heck knows WHAT they'll do???

[Lovebirds]

Tonight's shipping has been postponed. Possibly will ship tomorrow night, but won't know until tonight or early tomorrow.

[Ed]

Same here
We might ship tomorrow night or Sunday night.
I hope its not Sunday.

[hillfamilyloft]

We flew the second race today from 125 miles. They are clocking in Sunday. The speeds are around 1500 ypm. Steve had 22 out of 25 home as of 2:00pm. All three silvers are in. His first bird was out of mine. I will keep you posted on how they did. I also handled all 45 of my young birds last night. The two Silvers are by far the largest birds. I did also notice one little hen out of your (Ace's) stock was by far the most boyant out of the bunch. She was solid as a rock and light as a feather. I am settling all of them to the new loft and getting them trap trained. They are a bit old and I want to make sure they like home. Getting a late start, but I have been really busy.

Randy

[Lovebirds]

Our whole week end has been postponed.
ACE?? Everett said to ask you if these birds are "winter weather" birds??? If you don't miss any other week ends, our last race will be the week end before Thanksgiving.
Rediculous...........
The average temp here in Oct is 60 to 70 during the day and 40 to 50 at night.
In Nov. it's 60 to 70 during the day and 30 to 40 at night. IMHO, 40 degrees is pretty darn cold to be traveling down the highway at 65 MPH all night.

[hillfamilyloft]

For those interested in the level of competition that ACE and I are flying against in ABQ, ABQ's own John Gutierrez won the 2008 Mega Classic in San Diego. He is always at the top of the race sheets. He had 17 on the drop in our first race all were in the top 10%. He was on the back of the RPD this month. He has some great birds.

Randy

[whitesnmore]

Originally Posted by Lovebirds

Our whole week end has been postponed.
ACE?? Everett said to ask you if these birds are "winter weather" birds??? If you don't miss any other week ends, our last race will be the week end before Thanksgiving.
Rediculous...........
The average temp here in Oct is 60 to 70 during the day and 40 to 50 at night.
In Nov. it's 60 to 70 during the day and 30 to 40 at night. IMHO, 40 degrees is pretty darn cold to be traveling down the highway at 65 MPH all night.

Welcome to my world. We have had these cold temps all the time in YB and OB every year. It is really hard to keep the birds in form with those low temps. Just make sure the birds aren't molting when you send them and they should do fine.

[ace in the hole]

Originally Posted by Lovebirds

Our whole week end has been postponed.
ACE?? Everett said to ask you if these birds are "winter weather" birds??? If you don't miss any other week ends, our last race will be the week end before Thanksgiving.
Rediculous...........
The average temp here in Oct is 60 to 70 during the day and 40 to 50 at night.
In Nov. it's 60 to 70 during the day and 30 to 40 at night. IMHO, 40 degrees is pretty darn cold to be traveling down the highway at 65 MPH all night.

These birds were flying in cool weather last year and did great. As Ken said just make sure they aren't to far in the moult to make the race.

Ace

[hillfamilyloft]

Steve is dealing with the molt right now with our ABQ birds. We have had a cold snap that has done crazy things with them. His loft also faces south and is up against a building. It stays quite warm. I am not sure, but I think he was using a bit of light in the AM. Hopefully by the money race they will be completely through it. You do not want porcupine heads when you ship to races, but that is what he has right now. I will get the results to see how individual birds are doing sometime today.

Randy

[Lovebirds]

Originally Posted by ace in the hole

These birds were flying in cool weather last year and did great. As Ken said just make sure they aren't to far in the moult to make the race.

Ace

Well, all of my birds are pretty much done molting. Maybe it's ME that I'm worried about, having to go ship at 11:00 PM until possibly 1:00 AM in the morning waiting for the trailer..........LOL...

[Southwing]

Hello, Ace
I got the chip bands on birds this week. They went 60 miles today. This is what my top ten in the loft came in. Went up at 7:45 first bird clocked in at 9:04 :45 I was not home to see what went on at home I was at work. 79 min= 1336ypm
Top 10 birds
9820
7715
9175
14957
9811
9185
7707
14954
7713
7743
Will be going 65 miles tomorrow over the lake in a different location.

[hillfamilyloft]

Well I do not know what to say. ACE's birds whooped me this weekend. The race was 125 miles with 352 birds. One positive is that my birds do not traditionally do well at the super sprints, the 100 and the 125. Next week will be from 150. ACE had four birds at the end of the top 10%. His birds were also the first to the loft. Not bad for a bunch of birds missing most of their feathers. I expect the loft to get stronger as they go. Adding the bloodline should help this weakness in my birds. Vern's 608 was 11th and 8th last. Keep in mind that the 36th bird was 5 minutes to win and that the 100th bird was 7:37 seconds from the win. 200 birds clocked within 20 minutes of the win. 8 lofts were in the top 10%. These are competitive races.

27th FM 1132 1st to loft
29th FM 7791 3rd to loft
35th FM 7795 7th to loft
36th FM 7734 8th to loft

Randy

[hillfamilyloft]

Ok I am a not so smart behind. I was searching for the wrong band numbers thinking that my birds were inferior. Here is how both ACE and I did in the race. Makes me feel much better. Steve had 8 birds in the top 10%. Four were Ace's and Three were mine.

27th FM 7732 1452ypm
28th LL 348 1452ypm
29th FM 7791 1451ypm
30th LL 344 1448ypm
34th LL 337 1447ypm
35th FM 7795 1446ypm
36th FM 7734 1441ypm
57th LL 699 1432ypm
64th LL 338 1431ypm

[ace in the hole]

Originally Posted by hillfamilyloft

Ok I am a not so smart behind. I was searching for the wrong band numbers thinking that my birds were inferior. Here is how both ACE and I did in the race. Makes me feel much better. Steve had 8 birds in the top 10%. Four were Ace's and Three were mine.

27th FM 7732 1452ypm
28th LL 348 1452ypm
29th FM 7791 1451ypm
30th LL 344 1448ypm
34th LL 337 1447ypm
35th FM 7795 1446ypm
36th FM 7734 1441ypm
57th LL 699 1432ypm
64th LL 338 1431ypm

Hey, I'm very happy with that. As I said before, I look at each race from each of you that has my birds as a one loft race.

Randy, seeing how I have told everyone on here that you have my three best pairs, it wouldn't say much for my birds or my breeding program if they weren't someware near his first bird in.

Thanks for the report,

Ace