Recovering from a stomach bug I felt well enough this morning with some help from my wife to take the whole young bird team ( -2) up the highway 20 miles. I let them all out together and all but 1 came home together. The lone ranger came home by himself 15 minutes later. He is probably just out of shape.
I live right along an interstate highway that runs north and south. Our race stations are all straight north along this interstate 95. The best way to train, for me, is to teach these birds to simply follow I95 home. It is proven that homing pigeons will follow rivers and highways on their routes home. It is my training theory and I am sticking to it. I know it doesn't help me when the wind blows hard out of the East and the birds end up inland.
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