Introduction to PERFORMANCE Aide

Let me be the first to extend a friendly welcome to all fanciers, new and old. First thing first, please allow me to introduce myself. I am your interactive aide for all matters related to condition diagnosing, feeding, training and motivating your birds for peak competitive PERFORMANCE condition. If you have not had the pleasure as of yet, you will meet my siblings LOFT aide and DISESASES aide later. For the time being, you and I will navigate a course for PERFORMANCE, the most important of the three success components (LOFT, PERFORMANCE, DISEASES) in my humble opinion, towards building your bird’s competition readiness condition to peak at the end of the seven-day week, just before basketing, for optimal PERFORMANCE on competition-day.

Next, allow me to explain how I work. Please notice the six PERFORMANCE category links to your left (Introduction to PERFORMANCE Aide, Read Your Pigeon’s PERFORMANCE POST Competition Health Condition, Choose a Winning PERFORMANCE Feeding Program, Create Optimal Race Bird PERFORMANCE Training Schedule, All Race Birds Need PERFORMANCE Motivation, Other Winning Systems). Of course, currently, you are being introduced to me, your PERFORMANCE aide. The next four interactive categories represent, in my opinion, the four MOST IMPORTANT variables of top PERFORMANCE. In order of importance, HEALTH, FEEDING, TRAINING, and MOTIVATION are your focus areas for long-term success.

The first step in our journey is reading your pigeon’s POST competition health condition. Please proceed to Read Your Pigeon’s PERFORMANCE POST Competition Health Condition concluding our introduction. Here I will assist you with understanding "why" your bird looks, acts and/ or feels the way it does upon returning home from competition. This is the first, and most important step, on your journey to shaping your birds into peak PERFORMANCE. Please locate, on your left, your pigeon’s POST competition condition. I have tried to be comprehensive with my list of various conditions. Finally, click the related diagnosis link(s) directly right of your pigeon’s condition of best fit. If you so desire, please feel free to jump ahead of me in this journey to delve directly into the various PERFORMANCE Health condition categories (PERFORMANCE| Health-Respiratory, PERFORMANCE| Health-Bacteria, PERFORMANCE| Health-Canker, PERFORMANCE| Health-Parasites, PERFORMANCE| Health-None, PERFORMANCE| Breeding). From there you will be able to research each and every one of my PERFORMANCE Health suggestions regardless of your pigeon’s particular condition. The rest of us will catch up later. Enjoy. The rest of us should stay with me for the time being.

At this stage in our journey I will take you through, based on a seven-day competition week, instructions for breaking-down (POST), building-up (PREP), and preparing (PEAK) your bird for next week’s competition. Please notice I have provided JEDDS product links for your shopping convenience. This way, you can easily and seamlessly locate, research and hold in your shopping bag PERFORMANCE POST, PREP, PEAK products for purchase at your own speed and will. I will only suggest various products to use during the 3-stage (POST, PREP, PEAK) race week. It is up to you to choose the best product based on price and quality. After-all I am simply your PERFORMANCE aide not PERFORMANCE emperor. Also, please remember while my advice and direction is founded on years (too many years to count if you ask me) of research, experience and most importantly, lengthy discussions with you – the fancier - all information is based on various experienced sources and not from a licensed physician.

For nearly 20 years, I have had the special privilege of speaking and working with fanciers of all types and locations. Believe it or not, I have been presented with almost every PERFORMANCE problem from new fanciers to experienced to weathered fanciers from every corner of the world, while working at JEDDS. It is with that knowledge that I suggest to you the following framework to view the world of PERFORMANCE.

The second step in our journey is for you to Choose a Winning PERFORMANCE Feeding program. As with reading your pigeon’s POST health condition, I have provided an interactive guide for you to choose the optimal feeding program for top PERFORMANCE of your particular birds.

The third step in our journey will be for you to Create the Optimal Race Bird PERFORMANCE Training Schedule given that week’s race distance. Finally, I will aide the course for motivating your bird’s during particular points in the season. Many fancier’s, new and old, dismiss race birds’ need for motivation as an important success factor of top PERFORMANCE. I believe motivation to be the icing of a cake. Attention to your bird’s motivation will put you over the top.

I want you to not only succeed as a competitor, but also more importantly, ENJOY time with the birds that bring you relaxation and pleasure. Many fanciers, unfortunately, forget this disposition. Fortunately for you, both winning and relaxation go hand and hand when you utilize my four-step PERFORMANCE framework.

I talk too much… now go forth and read your pigeon’s POST Competition Health Condition! – Read Your Pigeon’s PERFORMANCE POST Competition Health Condition