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Happy Birthday

Lovely Morning here a wee bit Baltic .

Great what you can learn on here Walter :emoticon-0136-giggle:

Feeding breeding mix all winter after i have mixed all that was left over from the racing season ,the odd warm bath with some salt and malt vinegar added ,clear water but when they are on there second last or last flight i treat for e-coli salmonella with belgica parastop ,although this year i thought i would treat natural so i have just finished a 3 day course last week of chinese para herb from a plant grown in tibet it is produced in china have to say it is probably the finest product i have ever used .

Sure the lads name is mark had one of my birds fly,s into an allotment john scott etc on the same plot cant find his number at pres sorry .

That would be a wonderful choice walter, My late father had them when he was the gamekeeper wonderful faithful friends ,No rats no cats no worries.The one i have at present goes into the loft when i tend the pigeons it has a look in the nest boxes to see all is well the pigeons have become very attached and dont bother about it walking in the loft ,roxy had a staffy as a mother and a rodession ridgeback as a father i will show you its cats lookout trick next time you are down atb with your choice .

In those days Lewis we raced from lymington or similar on the coast with the fed plus eddie newcombe had his midweek specialist club races from dorchester sure 3 times each season i then had going into the winter yearlings that had flown the coast 3 or even 4 times no wonder they went on to make good channel birds nowadays if you dont go to eastbourne or maidstone with the national the fed racing finishes about 200 plus miles and if we in our fed dont race the ybn our birds get 180 mls thats to me the furthest flier along with walter the first drop only get them to 150 mls,they are then expected to race 500 plus as 2yo big jump and i think that education they used to have has a lot to do with losses jmo .

Nellie Deans

Dont see nowt wrong with the first national If the west coast minded men would get a yearling or any age race from bournemouth area would'nt waste yearlings sending them with the drag from maidstone Gold Cup would just go with the flow but deffo central marking used to travel for more years than i can remember to motherwell no probs only once a year with result well spread each time. YB national got to be a separate lib for the west young uns only have to look at the result and how far each section winners are behind the winners farsicle or waste of good doos as it stands Agree with Delboy 110% Geraldy with only 16 per basket that was our problem with the big holdovers 25 doos in a basket NO Chance of water,time we put the doos first Also agree with breaking point this should be tried out at fed level but not sure how it would be put into practice at national level . All said got our tickets through for the presentation and looking forward to congratulating the winners :emoticon-0137-clapping:

Monsoon Here At Present :emoticon-0156-rain:

Happy Birthday Rab

Very Wet and Windy

Been busy,Along with my cousin who is a woodcutter/tree surgeon removed a 8ft high hedge that ran the full length of my property tight behind the lofts the hedge has always been a problem as it was tight against the back of the dookit stopping a proper airflow,Erected a new fence thus creating an area of 6ft x 86ft at rear of the loft and filled in with cold tar chipping(knackered after barrowing that lot ) Then took down a couple of internal partitions to create much roomier sections fitted sliding polycarbonate window to front of one section creating an excellent airflow that was always lacking,now have 2x 8ft x 6ft and 1x 6ft x 6ft widowcock sections with 52 boxes,A natural hen / breeder section 9ftx 8ft and a young bird section 10ft x 10ft and a front annex trapping yb section of 11ft x 6ft ,Now going to manufacture in my workshop a complete new loft front with full length aviary and trapping system all in white upvc ,then no more well so us doo men keep telling ourselves. :lol:

A Wonderful Performance Pigeon not many of those about nowadays

Correct Mate.

Wat about Barney Dalgliesh of Annan,Small loft set-up only couple pair of stock birds,Ist open Gold Cup then 2 weeks later 2nd open Tours furthest distance race when only 8 made the result ,are there any lofts in the uk this year who can boast 1st and 2nd open from the 2 distance races ??

Been on a roof recovering it with new ceder shingles all day up among the mountains in moffat water valley in what could only be described as monsoon conditions even as i write these notes it has got even worse if that is possible sure the Maria Cellest has just went past the window :emoticon-0156-rain:

Lows ,Lying in a hospital operating theater about to get my appendix out and noing i would miss Blackpool Highs,Reading a book brought into hospital by a gold cup winner,putting what i read into action and for the first year in 4 not taking ybs

Thats good training as you also had a hand in last years winner getting the spare room ready for you now

A true gentleman of the sport I for one will applaud his win at the presentation dinner :emoticon-0137-clapping:

My clubmate George Firth north of lockerbie at 13-28 also 2 in langholm just after .

AYTON

Broken cloud here sun trying to show Light wind at present.

Lots of good Health and Luck in life Frank if you ever start up more than welcome to call by with a handful of rings .

My good Friend Gentleman George McLean wont be far away and with his Record who could argue,Good Luck to another good friend Billy Bilsland ,not going to be easy over here with wind factor fingers crossed my only entry does me proud (Well we can but Dream) Good Luck to All.