Listing # 5162
| Listing Format: | Auction |
| Current price : | £50.00 |
| Starting bid: | £50.00 |
| # of bids: | 1 |
| Closes: | Auction is closed |
| Location: | Great Britain (UK) |
| Started: | 3/23/2023 4:30:00 PM |
| Ended: | 4/2/2023 4:30:00 PM |
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Lot 19 A 2023 YB From Pete Jackson
Pete Was The First Fancier To Win
2 x 1st Open NFC on The Same Day
Lee still races under his late father’s loft name P Jackson & Son and has been preparing his team for many weeks by putting them on the darkness system in March and once training began, he has been liberating them from his fishing boat right behind Nab Tower, just to the right of the Isle of Wight. He showed me video of them being liberated some eight miles offshore, so they can learn to head for the landmark which is far enough away from the island to miss the three pairs of Peregrines which live there. He also races weekly in the Thames North & Eastern Counties Federation whose members are top-class fanciers and has had to up his game in all competition as the individual qualities of the membership is hard to match.
The federation holds any age racing through the young bird season, so all of his old birds are raced until the middle of August when the cocks are stopped with the hens kept on the road with the young birds. Whilst they are on the dark they are trained to 20 miles then the milage increases until they are trained from his boat and he set his stall out for the NFC event by entering 25 young birds and 15 old hens. All the birds are fed the same mixture year round with clean water twice per day and medication to combat stress whenever needed “putting too much pressure on the birds will result in a breakdown, they are athletes and rest is of paramount importance which should not be neglected”
The pigeons are raced on the widowhood/jealousy system and the old hen was really keen as she does not like other hens flirting with her cock and the young bird was sitting 10 days on eggs and was very protective of them so Lee was confident of good race although when they did not come at the time he expected he began to worry as a federation race from Yeovil earlier in the day had been a sticky one. When he saw the old hen swing around the loft and trap immediately he heard the ets clock beep and when he checked it he saw that a young bird had come with her and trapped to the other side of the loft unnoticed, “so happy days, one of each just three seconds apart” and verified to put them both at the top of their respective races
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