JohnQuinn

No looking good for her mate, mind no let your heart rule your head, you don't want her suffering

Perfect mornin where though

Have you gave her a white Sesqui tablet?? Always known that to sort out weight loss. If it disnae maybe she would be better away

No use dominating sprints with them as young birds then only getting them to 200/250mls as old birds. The prizes and pool money available in yb racing is far short of the OB's, In my opinion if you only have sprinters you will lose too many birds if they get a tough race as they will run out of stamina pretty rapid. jmo's

You must have the ages mixed up between Mav an d ALF, he's at least 50 All the best to you's lads, hope you's rack up the same number of years ahead of you's as you have behind you's.

I have every confidence in the race controller, my own gthinking is it will be a midday lib for us, JMO though.

Aye there are plenty old gits up here, take your pick

Jim Hannah will do exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, i'm certain of that

Definitely the Buzzard, don't do a bit of harm to doos. Carrion eaters.

Things are looking brighter here in Lanarkshire than it was at 6.30am, hoping we will get up later this morning from Consett, anyone near this race point who can say what its like down there??

Very sorry your off Roland, maybe you can hang on to a dozen or so as pets, just to keep your quality time at home too. Hope you get back into racing in the future though

Well you's have certainly ruined the good in this thread!! Enjoy your trailer mate and pay no attention to the weight or ventilation, its obvious there is enough ventilation in it, and who gives a toss about pigeon trailers' weight??

All home too, canny make ma mind up about stopping 4 of them, so it will either be 40 or 36 i send to Consett

No matter how hard you try ye canny hide Money Welcome home Frank

Mind George its what's IN the dookit that counts no the size of it

I'll have around 40 at Consett this week, 104mls.

Had a hen locked in an aviary the whole week then sent it 250mls on the Saturday. She was 2nd pigeon to the loft from23 sent so i reckon you have nothing to worry about that everyone else won't be worrying about too.

You's don't half breed some sh**e

The likelihood of settling them first time you let them out is minimal, so you will have to see the man you are getting them from to ensure that when they do return home they are not welcomed by feeding or being allowed back into nest boxes or the like. I break 99% of the birds i receive by letting them out late in the day in dirty weather and hungry. Ordinarily i will feed in the afternoon on the day prior to letting them out, so when they get out the next evening they are really hungry. My own are treated exactly the same as it is them the newcomers learn from. I let my own out first to have their fly then open the trap to allow them to make their own way out amongst mine. Feed them a little seed on the landing board and i encourage my doos to come onto the ground so the new ones will follow, i try to get them to fly up and down from loft to garden as often as possible to get them used to landing on the loft. If you can do this you are most of the way there. Tell the present owner not to feed any birds that return to him and to put them into a basket as soon as possible after their arrival. As soon as you get them back home feed them, if you do this they will settle quickly. Though probably NOT first time they take off into the air! How long you keep them in before this depends on whether you think they are used to you and the new surroundings, usually when they answer my call/whistle with the rest of the birds at feeding time, then i try them out. You could pair them up to some of your pigeons and get them down to nest before they settle properly. I NEVER pair 2 strangers together when they aren't broke to the loft, always pair them to my own birds to help them out. All of this is jmo, but it does work for me so it should for any one who tries it.

I've got fold up landing boards ( 4ft by 2ft ) on both O/B and Y/B lofts, mostly to keep cats etc off at night and to darken the yb loft down, the yb's go through bob wires and the old ones walk in through a hole without the wires, works for me

Cheers Andy, just getting this, been busy all day.

Far too young to go, terrible news. RIP.

This doo came in tonight, any one know where/who ot belongs to??

No i never got one, didn't know they were coming so i never thought to ask about it when i picked the magazine up

I notice in your web site that you used to race Cattrysse pigeons. Do you still keep any of these and what line are/were they?