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Happy Labor Day weekend friends!

Did you see the super blue moon? It won't be back for a decade!

Here's the latest:

1. The weather FINALLY cooled down a bit, hovering around 99 for a few days. Not cool, but cooler - we'll take it.

2. We've been loading the birds into the trailer daily, and releasing them from the far side of the property & 1/2 mile down the road. On Tuesday we went 1 mile - it was a tough one, with about 50 birds not returning. There is a small valley that the birds went into, so maybe they couldn't see the loft?

3. We'll continue next week with 1/2 to 1 mile releases in a circle around the loft to familiarize the birds with the area.

4. We're still ahead of schedule, so still trying to ease the birds into training, to keep their stress levels low.

5. No hawks to speak of much. One day a red tail came by, but didn't attack the birds & moved on pretty quickly.

Thanks for supporting our race!

Hope you have a fun but relaxing holiday weekend :)

THURSDAY 8/31/23

Today's loft fly with some routing

MON 8/28/23 - TRAILER RELEASE FROM 1/2 MILE

THUR 8/24/23 - TRAILER RELEASE FROM FAR SIDE OF PROPERTY & LOFT FLY

FRIDAY, 8/18/23
Thank you, Eric Olson of Olson Family Loft (MN),
for coming to visit.
We had a great time showing him "a day at the Longhorn".

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We are now pushing all the birds into the trailerthen after about 45 minutes in it, letting them out to loft fly.We want the birds to slowly get used to the trailer, so not to stress.The birds are in excellent health.Last week we had a group of birds go missing,it turned out to be about 60 birds.We have had a falcon coming by regularly, but we haven't seen him hit any birds.He has scared them some, but nothing terrible that we've seen.Some groups have been routing, so its possible they were hit away from the loft,or they got caught up with local club flyers.We've called club members to find out their training schedules.Dove season starts September 1st.Hope everyone is doing well and we'll post another update soon.

MON 8/7/23 - ONE OF “THE LUCKY ONES“ WINS A T-SHIRT

FRI 8/4/23 - 1ST TIME RUNNING BIRDS THRU TRAILER, LOFT FLY, THEN BATHS

SAT 7/29/23 - LOFT FLY

MON 7/24/23 - Longhorn Classic update

Open loft and feeding time at the Longhorn Classic