Glad you enjoyed it

I saw 413 push your bird into that tree. He was told to take out the competition by any means necessary. Your bird looked like strong competition and 413s mom told him about the Jersey Terror from last year. All kidding aside, sucks to lose one before it even has a chance to compete. That was a good looking bird.

I believe you still have a bird at Larry’s loft 🤞

@@jasonjordan9101 🤣🤣 good one, lol

That’s sad but you still in the game with Larry @Maydisloft

@@littleloftonthehill Keep us posted on Larry's progress down the road too!

I figured it out I just was not paying enough attention when I was getting the birds to the loft

Thanks, it is part of racing

So far, yes I’ve always released from the crate. The reason being the birds exit and enter the loft is the same spot when I open the door I will get the first group that’ll go out and they’ll be out grouting and gone and they’ll be stragglers that come out last and aren’t with the rest of the group, one of the things on the to do list is to have an aviary underneath the landing board and I can run all the birds out there and then have it have a release store so I’ll be together. I just haven’t done it yet.

@@littleloftonthehill thanks for the reply! That’s good to know. I’ve read about using the basket early on to not only teach them how to get back to the loft but also to teach them from an early age that the basket means: out the basket, straight to the loft as quick as possible. That’s interesting that so far they have only flown from the basket. Evidently works as I’ve been following your great results for the last couple of years 👍 I’ve just got my first birds (after a 15 years break) but live in a built up area now with lots of ferals, and only a 30ft long garden. Just working out how best to navigate the settling stage 😅

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Unfortunately, in many areas of the West Coast, you're not going to find open areas for tossing. I have to go almost 25 miles out on the line of the course to come to the first place without wires. Getting away from trees isn't so hard in most cases, but wires are almost impossible to avoid in the populated areas.

It was a wire, broken wing and neck, a couple of the recent tosses they have done the same thing, flying very fast and low and below the tree line with some birds going over and others around either side. Fast enough that it hit then flew 100’ to where it landed.