Good morning, Breeders,
Sunday, Feb. 4th, will be the 175 Mile Race. We’ll have nice weather for the next couple of days; after that, it's all downhill from then. Birds have had a day of free lofting with a bath. Then four days of loft exercise, 40 minutes to an hour. Birds are still routing, dipping, and diving!
Birds that are not paid for by Sunday will be available to purchase.
Mail is still slow around here; you could have sent it by carrier pigeon faster.
Good Luck to all.
Take care and be safe!
GOLDEN VALLEY LATE HATCH RACE Brian Crossen 1661 S Egar Rd Golden Valley, AZ 86413
For any questions, please call 760 900 6486.
Good Morning Breeders,
The 135-mile race will be held on 1/30 Tuesday. This is the first average-speed race and the only sprint race. Dave Jones and I are the drivers on this trip. Look under races in Wincompanion. Not all the entries have been submitted due to weather problems with the Post Office. All the birds will go to the race. For late entries 135 Sprint, you can use ZELLE® today Under Ph# 760 900 6486. Do not use PAYPAL.
The weather here is getting unstable. We will pick and choose race dates as we go along. Main race is still on Feb. 23rd, Friday.
FYI. Rumor has it, GVLHR is up for sale "We are Not." We are the LATE HATCH RACE. We will still start receiving late hatch youngers on June 1st. Nothing earlier!
Good luck to all. Take care and be safe
Monday, we are having a 45-mile toss. Tuesday will be the 100-mile activation toss. All entries are due in full after the 100-mile Activation Toss. The 135-mile race is also our sprint race and 1st average race. There is a voluntary $100 for each bird, 10 for 1 payout. You may pick one or all of your birds for $100 each. I wish you all the best of luck.
P.S. If you are sending Payment Through Pay-Pal, please use the payment portal on our website; if you don’t have success, then send Pay-Pal to the email address briancrossen49@gmail.com. Please note the birds you are activating and add 3% to cover the cost of Pay-Pal.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Good Morning Breeders
1/4/2024 toss was cancelled due to closure of I 40 because of ice and snow with white out conditions. Will try again tomorrow for 2nd 65 mile toss. We still have alot of time. NO SUN NO TOSS.
Take Care and Be Safe
BRIAN CROSSEN
Good day, Breeders,
Hope you’re enjoying the Holidays, the birds are doing good, their health is excellent, and we are now road training and letting out the birds in groups; this will continue until we reach approximately 50 miles. As a heads-up, we expect the Activation Race in mid-January.
Enjoy your Christmas.
All the birds are now all chipped and out flying. As soon as the replacement birds start going over the pads and into the tunnels. Will post another inventory on Wincompanion and Benzing live.
Birds are healthy and finishing up a real clean molt. Most are flyng a good hour on the wing, with 200 to 300 flying 2 hours.
Can't wait to start training them.
We are just now getting out of the high 90's. Looks like we will have a short fall before winter sets in.
Hope you all are having a great young bird season.
GVLHR TEAM
Good day, Breeders
We would like to give you an Update on the progress of the Birds as of 09/27/2023. The health has been good; we have all the birds loft flying and tracking.
We haven’t posted loft fly’s because our computer in the shop getting repaired. We start road training in the Month of November.
All the replacement birds have been sent; we now have 1390 Birds flying as of 09/27. Please refer to Wincompaion Breeder List and click on the Loft Name. You then can see any missing or lost birds in your breeder list.
We have confirmed the Main 325 Mile Race date is February 23, 2024, the day before the I Pigeon Gala in Las Vegas. Hope to see everyone there and at the loft.
Brian Crossen and GVLHR Team
Dear GVLHR Breeders,
We are now finishing up the Hand Inventory and Full Bird Count, we had some bad chips and made some corrections. All in all, the birds are doing very well. We will be posting the results as of the end of the day, God Willing.
P.S Brian has misplaced his Phone, we are now on a world search, so give us some time to retrieve it.
Thanks for your patience.
Any questions, please call: 760 900 6486.
Morning breeders
No Inventory till 9/4 and 9/5. Due to monsoons coming in for the exit 2 days.
Thanks for understanding.
Brian Crossen
Good morning, breeders,
We now have 1100 birds flying and tracking the 400+ remaining are learning how to trap and getting used to their new surroundings. A quick note: If you're sending replacement birds, send only the ones you're replacing. Do not add any extra birds, the loft is at its limit we are only thinking about the welfare of the remaining birds. Remember that younger birds need to catch up to the rest of the group, and older ones are Going through the end of the molt. They are too strong and flying off. It’s just a thought.
The rest of the birds are doing fine, their health is good overall we're doing much better than last year regarding losses off the loft.
We are now testing out all the equipment We are fixing many problems the vermin have had a field day on our wires and such, so Please be patient we should have it up and running. We will be posting the trainers on Wincompanion and Benzing One Loft.
We will do a complete Hand Scan beginning on the 31st of this month.
Please be safe out there and batten down the hatches as we face a tropical storm, “Hillary.” This gives a bad name for tropical storms…. Well, anyway, be safe out there.
