ally mac

iam trying to reproduce the old cock not winners that makes a difference does it not?? Have any of his sons made it to the stck loft yet Frank?

I would like to build a family of birds that will fly to me from the south coast and maybe even across the water one day. The odd wee result along the way would be the icing on the cake.

Thats a start gary, is it still foggy with you, beautiful day up in Oban, make a change right enough!! Hope the rest are in soon. Al.

Thats exactly what she was like when we got her, bleeding nightmare. Took the wife about 6 month to talk me round to getting it, final nail in the coffin was when the new loft went up, couldnt really argue anymore :-/

Its a Maltese terrier, its supposed to have a long straight coat that reaches the ground but we couldnt live with it, right wee character but you wont catch me down the town with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dont think the wifes wee dog would give the rabbits much to worry about!!!

Like suggested you would probably be better getting some young birds to fly out but I would also try and maybe get a pair or 2 to breed from. You will enjoy raising your own and learn a few things along the way then when it comes to next year you will have a better understanding of what s involved breeding from your young birds. Al.

Hi Sammy, really sorry to see your birds going. I do hope everything works out for you. Al.

To be honetst i think the competition scoring system has done away with the really deep rollers as it takes them too long to get back to the kit. They are an awsome sight when roller properly!!!!!!!

Hope you are back to best soon paul.

Here it is

Look in you tube, there quite a few, a good one is Wholly rollers I think. Al.

Thought thats what is was George.

Is it a pouter Jim?

I remember years ago we were tied up down at Crinan, the GPS plotter was lying on for an hour or 2. Whoever had the job of putting the errors in that day must have been bored as the plotter showed a perfect maltese cross on the screen, even though we had been tied up.

Not any more Frank, there used to be an error put in by the mod which you could correct with some extra kit. the error has gone now though, accuracy is usually within metres.

I would think the error could be big or small depending on the position. As i said though never used decimal system so not sure. Al.

Theres 2 different ways of doing lat long, minutes and seconds which is the most common and decimal degrees I think, never used this but it could maybe account for an error if they were mixed up.

One of the boys on a pouter site posted a pic from google earth of a big doo flying down a street in Holland I think it was, incredible!

Maybe bed time right enough pal, I thought it was meaning in the bird, I've been wrong before though, many times the wife tells me!!!!!!!!!!

It does mean in the drinkers Dovey.

In using glucose,fructose, or say honey, it is important not to use them day after day. The reason is that many yeasts and moulds, as well as innocent and dangerous strains of bacteria, also use the sugars for their own life processes, including reproduction. Yeasts or moulds, if in the precence of these sugars for too many days, can multiply extensivley and begin to invade the wall of the crop and other organs where they can cause serious illness and death. For these reasons, it is best to use sugars for one or twa days at the most. I read this in "Vets tips for fanciers" by Dr. Zsolt Talabar. Al.

Good to see you back Dovey. It is when the bird digests it 2 days in a row it can lead to problems. I will look out the book and post the parargaph. Al.

I was reading a thing last night saying dont add honey to the water for more than 2 days in a row or in can help cultivate nasties, need to read again to remeber which ones. Al.

Looks like the collared doves we get round here but a blue bar.