Thank you for your support , it’s much appreciated 👍

Thank you Phil , always have to look to the future and make sure this never happens again , thanks for watching 👍

Thanks as always Robert , really appreciate your support 👍

Thanks Graham mate , appreciate your words, il be honest we all dread ybs but it will be a breath of fresh air for us racing our own pigeons , but god help us if we get a bad season with them as we need them all for next year as not a single bird in the old bird team is staying so 🤞and best of luck to yourselves

Thanks as always Tony mate 👍

Thanks as always paul mate

You are welcome my friend I love the videos

Thanks Robert , it’s been very trying I won’t lie , it’s not a position we are used to finding ourselves in , but as I e said in previous videos total transparency is the only way to do videos like these . Ps where not 100% sure if we send this week or not , but with 8-10 birds only for the race I might wait and see if the video is worth posting if we race , then I plan on showing the channel race but that’s another race where I’m sure many fanciers won’t get any home but pressure off for us as I don’t think it makes much difference if they return or not 🤣

Ah mate it’s bad , not many birds away this time of the season mate , example we only have 8 for next week if we bother racing as it’s crazy going 240 miles for the 2nd last race of the season , it’s borderline cruelty after the year they have had , we are in 2 minds to send or not , only about 400 in the entire fed this weekend whereas start of season between 1200-1500, I think in the entire section maybe 1500 where start of year between 4000-6000 so it tells it’s own story mate

Don't know if any racing today but very large stock just flew over my house next to Ryhope directed your way and Very fast too !!

@@stephenwright3094 might be our ybs lol 🤞

Il be honest Micheal we only have 8 birds for next week so we need to have a think if we race or not , we have the 10 hens off this week for the channel race in 2 weeks so we will see mate

👍

Silly season just around the corner mate , but for the first time I’m actually looking forward to it 🤣

There is guys at the front of our combine doing 2300ypm, and where hearing horrific loses in the combine , ourselves only 2 to come , but there is something not right in this sport at the moment , ybs u expect this but not old birds ?

That’s crazy isn’t it

Electrolytes Arthur 👍

Haven’t got the result yet mate , but 5th at first glance

Hi David , inland we fly up to 280 miles , channel racing is back this year and where going to have a go at the final channel race around 368 miles from arras in France

Thanks David , I won’t lie it’s been difficult to keep going this year but I believe in full transparency is the only way to do these videos , the 3 seasons leading into this season we had 54x1st and virtually unbeatable with old birds , I covered what happened this year in our stock loft tour with regards us not racing our own pigeons this year , but I’m with you 100% with regards to an underlying problem in pigeon racing in general with loses , I mean these our old birds and should not be getting lost but for some reason now if you don’t get them back by the following day you don’t see them again, is it the darkness system as ybs as these ybs do not range like natural ybs , or is it something health wise which is stopping these birds from navigating or is it the atmosphere but we’ve never known the likes of the loses that are happening these days

Pigeon racing is very difficult,the birds have huge obstacles to tackle may it be birds of prey need food for the family or wind turbines,mobile phone mast's but that the chance you gotta take,health wise ,do we have a huge infection of another form of bird flew,I do know hundreds of sea birds or dieing among other species

​@@alibrospigeons8317m

We would take a straight north every week if we could Eddie , I agree with you that head winds sort out the good from the bad , we haven’t had a straight wind this season , east for the first 9 races I believe and now it’s switched to west 🤦‍♂️

Do you take any regards to eyesign. As i got more involved in it I found it very fascinated by it. I brought books about it. And try to study it and got right involved. Until one day this Mealy pied squeaker drop in. I reported it and the owner said i could keep it. That pigeon ended up to be gold mine to the loft. It bred 11 out of 12 young birds to be prize winners. four of them where stop for stock as they took after the Dam. Three years later the Mealy pied got shot. The four pigeons I stop where the back bone of my loft. All through eyesign. Do you take any notice of eyesign mate cheers.

@@eddiewright5271 hi Eddie, if I’m entirely honest we don’t , but that’s not to dismiss the idea as our very good friends John May was a big believer in eyes , he could often pick the top breeder in a loft by looking at the eyes , he used to say like a volcano was what your looking for but my dad couldn’t quite get to grips with it . We solely breed best to best but as I say I certainly wouldn’t rule anything out if you know what your looking for

Thanks mate yeah i like to see character in a pigeons eye especially around the iris. It has to have depth mountains tadpole affect despite the colour. But that's another thing. Good luck with your young bird. Cheers mate 👍

@@eddiewright5271 thanks Eddie

Thanks Andrew this is what’s keeping us going the thought of having our own lines back , but the fear of losing these ybs is through the roof mate , I think this year we have to be our own convoyers and if it’s looks dodgy or east winds we have to seriously consider not sending or maybe send half , we brought this problem on ourselves but it’s vital we are not in this position ever again 🤞

@@alibrospigeons8317 Love that idea of being your own Weve found staying true to yourself is easier said than done! Promises are easy broke when we get into the competitive season! Maybe making the promises public via your channel will make them easier to stick too?? Just a thought 👍

@@alibrospigeons8317 sorry missed the word 'conveyer' of the last post 🙈

@@AndrewKenmare I know what your saying Andrew , competitive nature and all of that , I think east winds are what where going to try and avoid if at all possible

@@alibrospigeons8317 Yeah let's hope the east winds stay away, our old bird season had nothing but N/E winds. All the best mate, look forward to see how it all pans out

Myself being fully involved only 5yrs , my dad has raced pigeons since he was a child , the original Ali Bros was my dad and his brother Tony , my dad then went it alone for nearly 30yrs , I’ve always tried to be there for the races but my father did everything singe handed in all that time , work has now allowed myself to be more actively involved

From wirral

You did mate ?

There is 100% days like your describing, them are the days when the atmosphere is wrong or solar flares and you always get strange races on them days , a friend of mine says it when the sun and moon are visible , but 100% atmospheric disturbances do have an effect of pigeons

No tomorrow for us , we only have 9 hens away though mate

@@alibrospigeons8317 Ok good luck I hope you had a good race .

Richard there is no doubt loft location and wind is huge in pigeon racing , our federation is pretty fair as 90% of us our in a straight line , obviously the further the distance you can negate that bias a little bit it’s always there

It’s just electrolytes Sean called restore lyte

​@@alibrospigeons8317 thank you lads love your videos

i got some of that lyte is it just for after a race and how much you put in to a drinker if you dont mind me asking ali brothers

@@seanmurphy6955 5ml to a lite Sean

thank you

Lol you don’t miss much 🤣, it’s an electrolyte 5ml to 1 litre restore lyte

@@alibrospigeons8317 I just seen it no good getting tips of you been down the pan lately lol

@@Gang-zy7lqdon’t you worry about that mate , we will be back next season , u are only as good as the pigeons , but not many people have won as much as us in the last few years mate , we would have stopped for the season but I think it’s important to show both sides of pigeon racing, but we are banging our heads against the wall with these unfortunately

@@alibrospigeons8317 am messing mate been some quality watching I enjoy it

@@Gang-zy7lqI know mate , but where a bit wounded at the min 🤣