News and Updates
Feb-05-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

It's 3:10 right now. I have to leave until late tonight. I will post the results of our 55 mile toss when I get back.

Feb-05-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

Finally! Good weather tomorrow (Sunday). We plan to toss from 55 miles.

We flagged the birds every day for the last 3 days.

Feb-02-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

We were able to flag the birds today and call them inside before it began to rain.

Jan-30-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

We have had a lot of poor pigeon flying weather this last week. We've been flagging the birds every day that's possible. Right now we have freezing rain. Our area will be shut down until Wednesday.

I'm hoping we will be able to toss from 55 miles on Friday.

Jan-23-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

We tossed the birds from 41 miles today. They had a little wind on the left side and they went slightly south of the loft. They had to hook back and caused them to be 4 or 5 minutes late. Other than that it was an excellent result.

We had about 9 birds that were later than the group. All birds are home.

Our next toss will be 50-55 miles.

Jan-20-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

We tossed the birds from 41 miles today. They flew home as fast as was possible for a calm day.

We plan to toss from here 1 more time and then 55 miles.

Jan-18-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

We tossed the birds from 29 miles again today with excellent results. The birds flew home about as quickly as is possible with 5 mph head winds. 

The birds circled for 2 minutes before trapping.

We are still missing 1 bird. Hopefully it will return tomorrow.

Jan-16-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

We tossed the birds from 29 miles on Saturday morning. The 1st 2 birds returned in very good time. After that they came back in singles, doubles and small groups. I have no idea why it was a problem. It was a little hazy but nothing extreme.

These tosses are great for training. 

One bird returned injured today.

Hopefully, more of our missing 8 birds will return tomorrow.

Jan-14-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

We tossed the birds from 20 miles today (Friday). The flew straight home in 39 minutes. They circled for about 5 minutes after arriving. All the birds came together except 4. They arrived a little later.

Tomorrow (Saturday) we plan to toss from 25 Miles.

Jan-12-2023
RIVER VALLEY ROUNDUP RACE UPDATE

We had thick heavy fog this morning until noon. 

Tomorrow we have wind gusts uo to 29 mph. 

Our next toss will be at least 20 miles.

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