John Van Beers will be soley responsible for training, cleaning, feeding and medicating the birds.One Loft Race
2 Jan - 31 Jan
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$605/pigeon
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Sunday Sept 19th 2010
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$200,000 Prizes
| 1st | - | $60,000 |
| 2nd | - | $39,000 |
| 3rd | - | $19,000 |
| 4th | - | $10,000 |
| 5th | - | $8,000 |
| 6th | - | $8,000 |
| 7th | - | $8,000 |
| 8th | - | $6,000 |
| 9th | - | $6,000 |
| 10th | - | $6,000 |
| 11th | - | $4,000 |
| 12th | - | $4,000 |
| 13th | - | $4,000 |
| 14th | - | $4,000 |
| 15th | - | $4,000 |
| 16th | - | $2,000 |
| 17th | - | $2,000 |
| 18th | - | $2,000 |
| 19th | - | $2,000 |
| 20th | - | $2,000 |
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Facilities
Built to cater for 750 Pigeons
The loft has been expressly built to cater for a One Loft, by overseas standards the loft is neither large or swish. By Australian standards it is better than any loft I have seen. There are 12 pens all with identical layout, perches, traps drinkers etc are all identical. The birds can if they wish can go from one end to the other. Or I can restrict them to a single pen There are fly-ins with bobs E.T.S at floor level, if for example 5 birds came together from the race and all 5 birds are used to resting in different pens and they landed at different points of the verandah - decking the furthest point from any one bird would be 1.8 metres.
The birds cannot land on the roof or ridge vent, the roof has a pitch of 45 degrees and the ridge vent has wires strung along the top. The loft is raised approx 1.0 metres above ground, and all the pens have a mesh floor a concrete slab has been poured at ground level and the base is completely enclosed in colourbond. The loft has a corridor running the full length, in front of the pens the corridor floors and the fly-in floors are solid.
The walls are all ply lined and the ceiling is a removable mesh to help with settling youngsters the loft has 6 look out bays extending out over the verandah-decking. Basketing will be done by running the birds via a chute directly into a unit. The fly-in openings are 1.5 metres wide tapering to 800mm at the E.T.S, once again I would like to point out that when the birds return from any exercise they can land on the verandah-decking or on the ground. Most of the loft can be seen visually on this website. The APP loft is approx 100 metres from my own race loft.
Location of APP Race Loft
The A.P.P Race Loft is located at 860 Thompson Road Lyndhurst, and sits on approximately .5 hectares of vacant land at the rear end of my home. And is surrounded by open farmland dotted with large red gums. The only hindrance to the birds in general is falcons and barbwire fences.
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Saturday September 04, 2010
