Simeon Turner

Damian, Hope you are well. I know at the time you must have been worried, but looking back now this will have set you in good stead for the future, the birds will have learned so much in there time - I would like to be you don't lose many now after that. Good luck for the YB season.

Dave, how long is the Pau / Tarbes race after the Tours race, and what is the distance from Tours to your loft? If it was me (and bear in mind the maximum I have raced is 527 miles), I would look at a race of 350 miles maximum, a couple of weeks before the 'BIG' race, then they would be just exercised around the loft upto basketting with possibly a short training spin on the week of basketting. We have found that to be successful for us upto 527 miles, but whether it would work for bigger distances I am not sure, but if I did race to big distances that is how I would do it. Hope this helps

Another 1 back last night we I went to loft - 2 missing

9 out of 9 Salibsury 157 Miles - Liberated at 12:10 light south east 20 out of 23 St Albans 120 Miles - Liberated at 12:45 east southeast Left garden at 5:45 - will check later to see if anymore back.

1st, 2nd & 3rd in one club 5th in the other

Rain, rain, rain in Chesterfield Been raining heavy all night. Think its going to be a long weekend :'( :'(

ETS ETS ETS Easy allround for the fancier, secretary, club officials alike

Both Feds we fly in are at Falaise for our first Channel Races of the season - 312 Miles to us

It's on

Ponderosa Stud in Weymouth have some crackers

We have got 46 to race, all on the darkness and will be split between 2 clubs. What is left will race to the coast 173 - 198 miles depending on which club they go in, half of whats left will go over the water to falaise 312 Miles

We got 13 out of 15 from Maidstone - 170 Mlies a 4 year old and a 2 year old missing - other birds came very well. We got 17 out of 17 from Marlborough - 133 Miles all back within 10 minutes of each other

Bargain - less than £30 each for the youngsters from top lines you can't go wrong at that price.

Thanks everyone for the number - super response

Does anyone let me know what Frank's phone number is. If you do, could you pm it me. Thanks, Simeon.

Spot on Mark, all it is is a bit of stress.

We got 15 out of 15 from St Albans - 119 Miles And 17 out of 17 from Windrush - 108 Miles

Used those as well, spot on. Also the one made by Klaus - Trimonex or something like that

We Vaccinate eveything in the loft. Old birds (racers) a couple of weeks before racing. young bird and stock a couple of weeks before you bird racing starts

Used both the tablet and powder forms Tablet for an individual that isn't too well, and the powder every few weeks for a day when they are racing. Both excellent products - we have never had a pigeon not recover when they have had the tablet! Strongly recommend them.

Hi Dave good to see you return to this wonderful sport of ours. Great to see the marvelous offers you have had for youngsters - if you need any more send me a pm and I can probably sort a couple of pair of youngsters from the stock birds later in the season (probably June) (free of course, you would just have to sort out the carriage). Ignore the people who say don't bother, they are talking out of their backsides, you get what pleasure you want out of it......

Overcast here in Chesterfield :'( We are at Kettering today after a holdover yesterday - looking at weather can see us npt getting a race Think its about time we started rascing towards the end of April ??) ??)

Its similar to that one with a few changes

I have recently had a Parkhall loft put up in my garden, really pleased with the workmanship and cost, even the neighbours think it is superb (I will take some photo's and post them on here in the nexy few days. I will definately be going back for another one in the near future :)

We 12 young birds that needed to go to Scotland. Wayne collected them last night around 7:45pm, poor thing looked shattered (been a crash on the motorway so he was on the road hours). The birds were dropped off in Scotland at 12:30pm today in super condition. He has kept me informed all the time with dates/times etc, which is superb. I would most definately be using him again and would recommend him to anyone. Keep up the good work pal :) :)