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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Trainining and Care
Managing the Birds for The A.P.P Race
Will be
done solely by myself (J. Van Beers) when you read the term "managing" think
cleaning, feeding, training, medicating etc: Most fanciers reading this will be aware that I race pigeons myself, within the Victorian Homing Association. (VHA) So I will have very little free time, to fit the A.P.P race in. I have virtually closed the gate on my beef breeding farm. I used the term credibility I think I have some of it. Within the sport in reference to this I mean that for your entry - management you have my expertise caring for your birds. And my expertise or experience has enabled me to boast that I have won more federation positions in the VHA (biggest Fed in Melbourne by far) Than any other fancier in the history of the VHA (108yrs). And no fancier has won more federation races or federation aggregates than I.
I have won at least 1 federation race from every distance on the VHA race schedule, Tasmanian race point included. I believe I have a reasonable appreciation of what it takes to race pigeons successfully. The entry-management fee you pay gives you my experience if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.
Training
I intend to duplicate what happens in my loft, to the A.P.P loft they will exercise once a day only. And be fed once a day only. Road training , tossing will occur only 1 to 2 times a week. Once the initial educational tossing is over and done with my birds historically have been tossed once a week from 100 - 150 Klms nearly always on a Sunday, but they fly the roof for an hour a day 5 days a week. Hens will not be separated in the A.P.P loft.
Medication
This will be done generally on a flock basis treatment, I will with whatever I think they need whenever I think they need something. But once all the birds are in the loft, (no new entries) flock treatment commences the Veterinarian I use is Dr Walker of the Knox veterinary Clinic.
Feeding
APP birds on arrival at the loft have hoppers with a mix, in them available to the birds from morning to night. The hoppers are removed and hand feeding once a day begins, once all the birds are well and truly settled. Typically around March 1st, by this time the birds should be broken in, remember some birds came to the loft early January and some late January. Hand feeding to me means giving them as much as they can eat only once a day.
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