Ace's Orphans

[ace in the hole]

Originally Posted by Lovebirds

For once, I made a good decision. LOL
I only shipped 6 birds in yesterdays race and didn't send ANY of your birds. I only got 1 bird home all day. One is in a loft south of me and will be released to come home. It was a really BAD race for some and other did pretty darn good. I fall in the "BAD" catagory...........thankfully I was smart enough to not empty out my loft on what I figured to be a bad day.
Don't know what I'lll do next week...........stay tuned..........LOL

I knew it would be hard on them having so much drag south on their first race. How many of them have made it back?

Ace

[Lovebirds]

Originally Posted by ace in the hole

I knew it would be hard on them having so much drag south on their first race. How many of them have made it back?

Ace

Been gone all day and just saw your post.
I only got the one day bird, two came in the next morning and I haven't seen a feather since. I know where one bird is and it should be released tomorrow to come home. Assuming it makes it, I will have lost 2 out of 6 on this first race.
Some combine members sent the max (24 birds) and didn't see a single bird and still haven't seen one. Others shipped the max and got every single bird back.
Kinda weird............
We've had rain all week, so no training. We were supposed to take them tomorrow morning, but just got a call that my grandmother has been rushed to the hospital. I've been with her all day and had just pulled into the driveway at home when I got the call, so now it's all up in the air.........

[MaryOfExeter]

I shipped the max and only have two birds home, one of which Renee had to pass along to me. Another member in my club sent the max and hasn't seen a single bird at all. I'm thinking there's a good chance a lot of birds were lost because of the pull West, and if they kept flying west, the weather got worse and so did the terrain. But ya never know what happened, just that something DID happen.

[Lovebirds]

Took the birds this morning. All were home when we got here plus the one that was released down in NC.
Weather is looking REAL iffy for this week end.
We don't NEED to miss another week end, but we also don't NEED to loose the rest of our birds and if they get shipped this week end and the weather does what "they" say it's going to do.........well, there goes some more birds.
Long range forecast (I know, it COULD change) is, rain Sat, Sun and Mon. Sunny Tues, Wed, Thurs, and Fri. RAIN Sat. (that's NEXT week end).......it will be a small miracle if we finish this season with any birds and before the new year comes in........
Those two weeks that we could have flown on Sunday are looking better and better...........
PS: I wound up loosing 2 birds this past week end. That's 2 out of 6.

[Lovebirds]

Shipping our race has been postponed until at least tomorrow. We're all watching the weather for a Sunday race. It looks so so right now. Tomorrow probably isn't going to be a wash out by any means, but there is a system coming through and it most likely will hit the eastern states at the time the birds would be flying home and that's no good.
We'll see what happens tomorrow as far as shipping.

[hillfamilyloft]

The birds fell off a little bit this week in the Cortez Co 200 mile race. I did hit with my 200-250 mile family taking 3rd and 4th from birds off of brothers. This family loves this distance. There other brother bred last years 200 mile winner for Gary Miller. The race was hot for this time a year and some of the birds came in with mud on their feet. They stopped for water somewhere. Not much water in the desert. One of the Silver birds was Steve's Second bird in.

Steve is going to keep a few birds back next week to hold a few over for the 300 mile futurity. My thought are to split the siblings up, keeping one back and flying the other. As of 7PM he was still a few birds short. I will keep you posted of the inventory that are not on the race sheets. The race is posted at: www.loslobosrpc.com

Randy

[Lovebirds]

We shipped our race last night.
9194 and 9196 are in the B race. Don't know release time or distance yet. Should be around 135 miles or so.
Will update later.

[Lovebirds]

Sent 10 birds. 4 in the A race. 6 in the B race.
As of now (5:00 PM) I have 2 B birds and 1 A bird. 9194 or 9196 haven't come home, as well as 5 other birds.
First bird home was a B bird and is the same bird that came in first last week except this week he bettered his YPM by about 300.........
Actually haven't had a bird come in since around 12:00 so I really don't expect to see any more tonight. Maybe tomorrow. Don't know how anybody else did so have nothing to compare my birds too.

PS: The race was 132 miles this week. 6 miles longer than last week.

[Lovebirds]

It's o'dark30 here........LOL.........2 more birds showed up. 1 A and 1 B. 9194 and 9196 didn't make the day trip. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

[Lovebirds]

yesterday was a really bad day for birds to try to make it home. Rain over the state of NC and northern SC. IF the lost birds went south, they weren't coming home.
Today has been a pretty day. Foggy this AM but after the fog lifted, the sun came out.
I fully expected to see at least a couple of birds come in, but so far, nothing.
This means I'm missng 4 out of 10 from the week end. 9194 and 9196 are 2 of the 4.

[mr squeaks]

I am really so sad to hear about your lost(?) birds, Renee!!

I SO hope they make it home!! Sending wind under their wings and HOMING thoughts!!

With Love and Hugs!

Also, how is your grandmother??

Shi

[Southwing]

Hello, Ace we did not ship last week because of weather. Took birds out Sunday 50 miles and 60 today maybe Thursday depending on weather. Rain all day tomorrow its been rain every other day.

Southwing

[Lovebirds]

ACE? I see that you were on line this AM. Finding it very curious that you haven't commented on anything in a week?

[ace in the hole]

I have just been keeping an eye on the thread hopping and waiting for a post saying they have returned. We knew most of the drag was going to be to the south and hard on birds for their first race. Just crossing my fingers and hopping for the best (their return).

Ace

[Lovebirds]

Originally Posted by ace in the hole

I have just been keeping an eye on the thread hopping and waiting for a post saying they have returned. We knew most of the drag was going to be to the south and hard on birds for their first race. Just crossing my fingers and hopping for the best (their return).

Ace

The first race was a toss up. Birds being drug to the south OR west. But on the second race, the drag wasn't as bad. That's why I decided to send them.
In fact, sent more birds than in the first race. I remember at some point a few months ago, getting a schedule for one of the clubs up north. Can't remember which club or where I got it. I seem to remember that their race stations and ours were going to clash at some point. Now that we started two weeks later than we were supposed to, I think that might be having a effect and will continue to do so. One of our members got 3 different stray birds in his loft this week end from up north. Some of our birds are winding up, up north and the weather stinks so bad that it's hard for the birds to make it home. It has poured rain here all day and is supposed to rain every day till Saturday.