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Sending mine to cheltenham this week as they are hens cocks for the national or should that be A cock

Only dropped a yearling from marlborough it was the gold cup that followed that was the nightmare .

Lost a cracker of a 2yo last night from 20mls the other yearling turned up this afternoon badly cut up 20 hours for 20 miles must have hit one of those ufo things again don't think so .

No rubbish Tam ,Just my opinion that when birds are raced in massive birdages each week when a question is asked of them eg bad race the followers ain't got the answers its the bop every 2-3 mls that are f-- our doos up big groups are stand out targets a lot of very good doos going down each week .

Had the sickness for 3 years ,Now when putting the youngsters into there section which is 100% bone dry put a thick layer of easibed on floor and perches then never clean section out again only adding new topping to floor after spraying with dettol only clean perches when they have no room to sit spray and cover with easibed ,also treated with parastop when weaned for 10 days and have never had sickness since ,works for me so have done same this year 60 in 12x 8 section 100% healthy

Just have to look at birds from all federations on the transporter at first races then look at federation birdage now and we are only at 200 mls tells its on story no hiding from figures lots of birds down nationwide must be frightening

Got to agree derek the west doos are working on a straight line from a to b once they are touching 200 mls as i have 5 in the basket again this week with others about the town ayrshire lanarkshire ballochmyle surely a racing pigeon will fly line of flight shortest route home ,The blue cock of mine raced west as a youngster and yearling then east as a two and three year old won on the east 2 weeks prior to first national then changed west to national and was 4th open ,think when a doo is on form it will win from anywhere but agree chopping and changing ain't helping them ,we the solway have passed at agm to stick west for a few years ,mate of mine who is very much into falcons told me because of food source they will have as many sites on the east in a couple of years as they have in the west sad but true .

Blowing a gale and raining .

Out sweeping up at front of loft just now and stood with a hot cuppa (9-20) as one or two youngsters still floating about the town when our high speed friend arrived from the south and proceeded to give a lesson in the art of diving at speed and pulling out at low level was as close as 50 yds a very dangerous time is twilight wish i owned a video camera naw second thoughts my reactions ain't that good

Thanks will lib as far north as poss

SU 12 L 13097 GB 12 C 31773 WILL BE LIB WHEN OK .

Still the 1 to come a lovely yearling cock that raced to lymm 140 as a youngster and had every race this year with 2 club positions fingers crossed .

Is Grahamae still standing at the fechan cross KT wants to no

Keep the faith they will come

Morning all ,got racers out at present then 2nd round youngsters that will be natural to shift into there section let darkness youngsters out for rest of day Total youngsters 116 no latebreds this year lol

No 1 Andy well done :emoticon-0137-clapping:

Blue cloudless sky's away a walk wae ma dug :emoticon-0157-sun:

WOLLASTON 191-206 MLS 1ST EWAN HIND & SON 1344-53 2ND GEORGE A & L FIRTH 1328-97 3RD EWAN HIND & SON 1324-66 4TH EWAN HIND & SON 1316-91 5TH GEORGE A & L FIRTH 1299-77 6TH KENNY THOMSON 1274-95 7TH KENNY THOMSON 1274-80 8TH KENNY THOMSON 1274-64 9TH GEORGE A & L FIRTH 1273-40 10TH MICHAEL CURRIE 1260-79 WELL DONE TO EWAN AND ALAN 2 ON THE TROT 99% TO 100% BIRDS TUMBLED IN WHAT A DIFFERENCE A BLUE SKY MAKES WELL DONE MR CONVOYER YOU PICKED IT UP WELL LOL

The following 2 birds will also be liberated BLUE SU 12 B 2162 CHEQ PIED SU 12 L 12750 All birds in good condition and will now be liberated at douglas water services approx 9am Saturday Good Luck to all .

Blue SU 10 - 3154 Blue SU 11 B 2553 Blue SU 12 M 2319 Blue Pied SU 12 L 1854 Will Try and Liberate Saturday Morning from Abington Services .

The race controller was in constant contact with me every hour on sunday as the visibility was poor the forecast said it would clear in this area from 4-30 onwards and it did phoned andy at 5pm to say it was sunshine and 100% visibility all through the hills sorry to hear of returns at home end but certainly could not have been better here ,we went at stafford 11-15 and returns were no more than average at clocktime loads of lanarkshire and other birds from feds to the north were working through the hills earlier on in poor conditions I have a midland and a ballochmyle in tonight fed and watered and will be given a helping hand home .

1ST EWAN HIND & SON 1247-67 2ND EWAN HIND & SON 1246-36 3RD GEORGE A & L FIRTH 1242-22 4TH GEORGE A & L FIRTH 1234-65 5TH GEORGE A & L FIRTH 1231-02 6TH KENNY THOMSON 1217-13 7TH KENNY THOMSON 1216-97 8TH EWAN HIND & SON 1205-97 9TH KENNY THOMSON 1173-29 10TH DAVID COCKCROFT 1133-70 Well Done Ewan and Alan

Well Done Martin Top Man :emoticon-0137-clapping:

Batches of birds working up through Moffat from before 4pm onwards groups of 20's and smaller heading in lanarkshire direction ,our on race lib 11-15 stafford returns for most very patchy at clocks 46 missing from 122 sent visibility was very poor until 4-5 ish then cleared into lovely night .

Grey skies rain ,hills poor fresh wind .