This is the last week to claim birds. All checks and money orders must be in the office by Friday 9/20/2024!!!
NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
Any payments received after Friday will be returned!!!
Inventory on all remaining birds posted yesterday. If you are interested in those birds you MUST contact the breeder directly, NOT the office, to ask permission to claim those birds and pay shipping by Friday. DO NOT contact us directly for breeders information.
Shipping will be $65 for 1 bird. $75 for 2 birds.
All unclaimed birds will be donated to new flyers.
We will ONLY accept CHECK or MONEY ORDER as payment.
Payments must be sent to:
Americas International Challenge
406 Casey Rd
Woodruff SC 29388
Please include a note with Loft name, return address, phone number, band numbers and colors of the birds you would like to have shipped.
This is the last week to claim birds. All checks and money orders must be in the office by Friday 9/20/2024.
Tomorrow we will be sorting birds for shipping Monday on the payments we have already received. We will then run an inventory on all remaining birds. If you are interested in those birds you MUST contact the breeder directly, NOT the office, to ask permission to claim those birds and pay shipping by Friday. DO NOT contact us directly for breeders information.
We will ONLY accept check or money order as payment.
Please include a note with Loft name, return address, band numbers and colors of the birds you would like to have shipped.
It is with the deepest regret that we are informing everyone that the race is cancelled.
In over 20 years of operating a one loft race we have never seen anything like this. The birds are in great health and shape. We all know that pigeons are flock animals by nature and should not be coming in in groups of 2-6 on short tosses from 5 to 9 miles. There is no explaination for the birds to come home 1 day and half are missing from the same release point as the previous day. We are completely baffled and devastated.
We have invested a large amount of money on feed, vaccines, preventative medications, and chip rings. All without charging any perch fees. Not to mention countless hours.
If we had the answers we would have had a great race series this year.
All birds remaing in the loft will be shipped to the breeders upon request and payment.
All birds being shipped must be claimed within 2 weeks.
We will only accept check or money order as payment.
In 21 years of running an OLR we have never had a toss like this.
The birds were released in 2 groups at 9 miles. The first group went up and circled a few times then headed of in the right direction over the tree line and out of sight. 15 mins later the second group was released and began to circle. The birds were released in an open church parking and as the basket doors were being closed the pastor walked out to ask questions about the birds. After a 2 minute conversation about how birds navigate we look out and both groups are merging together. Not good. They all head off in the right direction over the trees and we head home. The birds started trickling in ones and twos then about 50, another set of ones and twos then about 50. Obviously the entire flock was broken apart big time. The last decent group returned about 2 hours from the time of release. As the birds hit the board they were struting and cooing. Not one bird even looked tired or winded so we know that they are super healthy and they were ready for a toss that short. After 11 am the temps climbed to almost 100 degrees and as most of you know in that heat, if the birds go down for water, they stay down. The clock will continue to run this morning.
If we had the answers to what happens after birds go up then there would never be a bird lost.
We did not charge a perch fee so we are just as devasted as all of our breeders. We have a lot of time and money invested in the care of the birds over the last 6 months. All we can do is sit and watch the sky line today and hope to see more birds return.
Good morning breeders.
10th flights are almost complete and we will begin road training on Monday 8/26 weather permitting. Our goal, if all training goes well, will be to have the activation race in the first week of October.
The birds have not been out in a few days due to a major hawk issue. Birds were being hit coming out of the loft and going in. The hope is that these hawks realize that this is not an open buffet and begin looking for food elsewhere. We all have this problem every year but it seems to be a different type of obstacle this year. Just an example of what we are dealing with, Sunday we had a hawk behind the loft eating another hawk.
The birds are in great shape and the birds of prey have pushed them all up incredibly high and out of sight so the first toss should very easy for them.
We are excited to get on the road and get started.
Good morning Breeders.
This week we took a couple of early mornings to pull the 10th flights. 9ths were pulled about 4 weeks ago and are 1/2 to 3/4 back in. We are trying to keep the program rolling and have the birds ready while at the same time allowing them to avoid as much of this ridiculous heat as possible. The temps arent that unusual(95-100). The humidity is a different animal this year. 55%-75% every single day with little to no wind.
Birds are out flying this morning so watch and enjoy via our watch live link.
Good evening breeders.
The heat here in the south has been rough. Today was 96 with 56% humidity and no wind which makes for a real feel of 107. Tomorrow looks much better with a high of 90 and an 8-12 mph wind. There is a slight chance of rain so we will see how it looks in the morning. The future forecast looks good for the next few days also. If it all looks good in the morning we will have the birds out loft flying early. We will not be running the clock due to the fact that the birds have been on a round of preventative meds and we will not be forcing any birds out. It will be an open loft morning for birds to come and go as the please. We welcome everyone to watch live via our home page.
Good afternoon breeders.
We have received a few messages from people inquiring about loft flying. So we want to give a quick update. Late last week we noticed some of the birds were off when we had them out flying. As a precaution we brought all the birds in and are running the entire loft on a 7-10 day treatment.
All 9ths have been pulled and in a few weeks we will be doing another hands on inventory and pull 10ths.
The heat and humidity has been brutal this week so it actually worked out well to treat the birds and allow them all to rest. High 90's with 50-60% humidity is not pigeon friendly. The loft was built so that it gets full sun early in the morning and plenty of shade in the afternoon thankfully.
Another question we have been receiving is about loft flying being posted on Wincompanion. We do not always run the clock for loft flying. The cameras are live 24/7 and everyone can see when the birds are out, usually early in the morning. Once the birds are on the road the clock will run for every toss. To view the cameras simply go to our site. https://aicolr.com/ or to our link on wincompanion.com. On the left side column of our home page you will see "Watch Live".
We want to thank everyone again for all the support this year and we look forward to getting on the road.
$225,000 TOTAL PAYOUT
$100,000 FIRST DROP FINAL
(based on 1000 birds activated)
FLY FOR FREE UP TO 100 MILES
($350 due only after activation race)
We offically close our intake period on Saturday 6/1/2024. Today and tomorrow will be the last days to ship your birds.
