Back garden fancier

Young birds throw up for lots of reasons, if you feed too much, they eat lots then when the water in their crop swells the corn they throw up to relieve the pressure. Also canker can do it.

Why do all photo's of Belgian birds looks the same shape? Do they cut them out using stencil or something?

Ex wife once did that to me!!!!!!

Don't despair mate, it will come good in the end. Don't worry about racing until you get set up properly. Get a good core of birds and breed from them. You will soon find that even though you are a novice, birds bred in your loft will generally be better than birds bought in. Train what you have, and what you need is a good breeding season next year. Then you can have a good YB season and start to slowly build up from there. We all love to race, but when you are starting, you will keep putting youself back if you don't start slowly. Forget old birds for this year, breed from what you have and train them well then you will have enough pairs to breed all you need next year. Good luck

Good old tested method work, 2 cocks 1 hen, wrong birds in boxes, basket cocks and let hens loose to walk all over basket. + loads more.

How do other members start yearlings off? If you train and race early in the east winds, they go down like flies, but if you wait until the weather is better the race points are getting over 150 - 200 miles. So do you risk them early or jump them in? Or just train them and really get them cracking as 2 year olds?

Yes and a sink and wardrobe?

Will be ironic if birds can go to France but we can't!

Bricon has worked fine at our club, but Unikon has wiped some members pocket clocks clean.

Thats Shepherd!

Vandenabeele

Yes, are they yours or the neighbours?

Unless you've lost your job, then nothing much has changed? Mortgages down, food and fuel up! I've just got 5 birds from a fancier i've never met before, for £60. Two are direct of fed winners. So they are out there if you look.

Are they all the same? Are all pigeon fanciers the same ? What about politicians ?

Still waiting for my young birds to hatch !

My mate did a similar thing with empty crisp boxes from a pub, the ones with the hole in the front. He then burns them when they've been used once.

I think Gem Thepax is based on yeast, I used it last season but stopped because my birds had a yeast infection! Stick to cider vinegar, it keeps the digestive system slightly on the acid side which means the good bugs flourish.

A very successful mate of mine tosses his widowhood cocks no more than 1 mile, but does it at least ten times a day!

Depends how you look at it, are you two hens short or do you have two spare cocks! Don't be in a rush to have as many birds as possible.

What amazes me is the amount of money charities have in Icesave. Cats protection league has over 11 million! All these "poor" charities that people do fund raising events for and they have millions stashed away. Wonder if the RSPB has any money in there?

I use TCP, it knocks any lice off and keeps the throat clear. Just a tablespoon in a couple of gallon is fine.

If you'd seen the "shop" you'd know why, it's absolute chaos! customers stand on the street to get served because there's no room in the shop. I would think it's just lack of organisation that's the problem.

It's Dutch or Belg for white flight. Hence you see pigeons called "Blau witpen" which simply means blue white flight! It always amuses me when I see English fanciers calling their birds witpen or De goode blau, which means "the good blue!" Why do we think everything Dutch or Belg is better than ours?

They don't all get lost, just been to club for first race and first six members put 30 birds each in !

502 miles to me