Hi Rose
Why do we fall for it all the time this breed that breed, think they must see us comming.
We had a bird reported last year in france, the fancier who had the bird rang to let us know he would like to keep it and asked what breed is it, told him it's a van-reet and if he had got it flying out to give it a go ,
He said that he would not let the bird out and would put it in his stock loft, we told him not to worry if he lost it we would breed him a few yb's.
The reason he gave for putting it in the stock loft was, you English like to keep your birds pure, and over here we mix our breeds together to get better racers.
Hope this make's some sort of sence,
Jane