WHY OPEN LOFT PERSISTS
by Jim Emerton
The sport is flushed by modern regimes of applied widowhood/celibate/roundabout/darkness and lightness systems, yet the irony remains that most 7 to 800 mile UK Barcelona International birds will have been on types of the natural system, perhaps combined with some controlled separation of the sexes. If you can tolerate the activities of birds of prey with occasional kills, relative to your home area, natural birds may attain optimal race condition. With applied, modern nutritional science and working on the total beings of the birds i.e. a holistic approach, it is almost perfect preparation for marathon, speed-endurance races. Normally around 10 percent cover themselves with distinction from the Barcelona International, it being the ultimate contemporary test of a pigeon. Study the behaviour of wild doves and pigeons, feel your way around how they survive in the raw elements of nature, on the generations of survival of the species, then apply this lore to your racing management - it works!
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Elimar - March 2014
