just ask me

basaily Roland janssens

very true mate the hens are the most underestimated part of widowhood have to keep as good as condition as the cocks

colin surtess probally be the man to ask not sure of his number

average with no wind from 100 mile i would imagine for me would be 50mph or more

as we are all bird lovers and like to see the majestic falcon soaring where are the nesting sites that u know of so others can look and see them

what the aim or goal where this leading too

feeding now

well an avery would allow u to keep more im sure a search of the net u will find more pics than u will ever want

8x4 garden shed with 10 to 12 birds would do the trick

as once it was said mate as its a important point

about 2 posts up mate kinda coverd it

u can say that again also its not the one it kills have seen young birds been hit around my area and been reported more than 100 miles away sometimes a whole team of young ones get such a fright they just fly anywhere that includes trees and even walls the one it kills is a loss but it the damage it does in there heads that the real damage or getting them back and have to put 10 20 stitches in them at the moment i started off with 24 widowhood cocks lost 2 but have 4 that cant race due to bits of tails missing wings and probally 2 will never race again

where ever u go mate u get people that just have no common sense at all and only around to cause trouble but im sure u will get honest answers to your questions here maybe not the right ones all the time but they will be honest u will always get trouble makers in all walks of life

if we all had 1 acre of ground there would be no problem also u dont want slow breeds flying with yours it stops them from exerciseing

we are training animals to race why would we want to put slow pigeons or slow breeds in amongst them as i said in earlier post i lost 9 in two weeks that was hard to take it tore my whole season apart if they lock on to a particular area a fancier can be in some trouble

like i said in an earlier post i had 9 taken in two weeks it depends if they target an area u are in trouble

or the cock could be paired to this cock plus another hen that laid in the nest :-/

so true pity really

i think what the problem is we al know they kill racing pigeons the falcon that has a varied diet well that no problem at all as he will take racing pigeons but will take other species of bird too its when they get a taste for racing birds in a area that a fancier is in some trouble 3 years ago now i had 16 cocks for racing and just flying around my loft as i keep them in all winter so no birds will be taken anyway two weeks before the start of the racing season last year i lost 9 cocks in the space of two weeks i tried everything as in discs flashing lights all the usual plastic eagle owls the lot noting worked this is the problem when the birds are racing well there not a lot anyone can do but when u see them being taken as they are just out to exercise this drives us mental that whole racing season was ruined for me a whole years work well more really as they made it though as young birds and some were 3 year old birds one cock was after winning me well over 2000 pounds and its not even the money u dont breed to many birds like that about the amount of falcons well its crap there are even more than anyone thinks i live in a town and within a 20 mile radius of me at one time that i know of there were 8 nesting pairs and im not sure about this but aint they suppose to be more falcons just flying around than just nesting dont take that as fact on the amounts well look at it this way we the fancier are putting a false amount of food in the sky at the right times of the year for the falcon as where if there was no racing fanicers if a hen had 4 chicks im sure they all wouldn't live if there was no racing pigeons its called natural selection as we are putting a false amount of food in sky the full nest is living on deterrents they don't work they might work for a few days but that it on eagle owls if u do your research on them they wont fix the problem very few of them kill birds of prey or very little u might get a few that will kill falcons but that really is not very common

if they are healthy they go everything that what they are there for well the way i see it anyway

;D ;D ;D ;D was just thining the same thing and it dont count the number of pll logged in just hits also does it count if u move from one cam to the other

i used to think that too but then a race controller told me he has to worry abouts costs too pay for driver in everything maybe even rent of lorry then membership goes up next year

what the point of giving someone a job if u are going to overrule him or her makes no sence who ever over rules may as well do the job

u mean over rule the race controller

another race controller gone and it seemed he was doing a good job a man doing this job can only have so much info like the rest of us i think its a bit easy to say have the birds at the race pint ready to go remember pll have to be paid ie costs of driver and so on maybe even renting of truck petrol and the rest then this race has to replaced nest year and if this was carried out for every race costs would go up in the sky and then extra costs to the members next year a race controller is one of hardest jobs in pigeon racing have even seen it myself the last few weeks were weather reports on axe weather and on other sites have got it wrong remember u wont miss anything or anyone till its gone