Training and Racing

After the initial homing period, and having the birds training sufficiently well at their home after some months, having now been vaccinated for pigeon pox and coming through the moult, it would be expected that birds in the gold coast 50000 would be expected to fly 8 tosses at approximately 30 km, 8 tosses at approximately 45 km, as well as 15 tosses at approximately 60 -75 km before being ready to fly the two lead up races of 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 hours. After this preparation we are confident that an approx. 9 hour race would be easily achieved by pigeons with good genetics. (assuming all 3 races were to be at 1000 mpm, we would be flying from approximately 150 km, 270 km and ultimately 540 km for the feature race.)