jimmy white

bad when it comes to this,, best do it the proper way dovescot [allthough annoying it will be] but reported to council , reported to police , reported to news paper ,, and you can do your own enquiring ?????and find out???? police , really not interested too much [ unless its one of there own] but i sincerely hope ,,you,, find out who did this :( and tell them not to do it again ;) hope you catch the ,,,,,,,,,,

allways their reason is,,[its been a bad harvest ] maybe so,, but it never goes down , when its a good harvest ;D

i think it was just the driver , being freindly,, he knew about the bother i had b4 about comming to collect birds and not bringing boxes [i think it was more down to the driver , than amtrack themselves] yes sammy ;D they were empty ;D ;D ;D good job ;D ;D ;D there were about a dozen ;D ;D ;D

12 love of owner [confidence in owner]

11 eggs

no 10 ,,mate [love]

no 8 ... sex drive

one of the reasons they dont home so fast [is we pool them ;D im sure they know that ;D ;D ;D] [not counted in reasons ;D]

no 7,,, we have bred the speed into them ,by selective breeding [through the years]

no 6 instinctive place of safety

no 4 instictive feeding place

no 3 instict to breed in their own home

reason 2 its natural inbuilt homing instinct ;D [Noah told me that ;D]

it must be remembered too that droppings under the perches [nest boxes ] are damp and if left will produce ammonia , which cant be good for the birds [continual ammonia and air rising past the birds ,, no good , so worth keeping this part clean and dry,, as for humidity ,, if kept exact ,by a dehumidifier is not really natural to birds , so to my mind theres a happy sensible medium , not clinical, but a sensible middle approach to this ,as the birds have to be made adaptable , constitutional wise, and thus bring a certain amount of immunity to the birds

well ;D you never put anything in the water in open yearling race newark 06 ;D ;D that only netted you £5000, with 2 birds ;D ;D ;D [im still sending the begging letters ;D ;D ;D] use only pure scottish water , only the best will do ;D ;D ;D

think its only fair to point out,,,,,,,,,,, batusai is in the philipines where light, and seasons differ from us

to me, in the first pic,, it looks like its just thrown its first flight,,[[too much of a step , between secondary and primary ,, but hard to tell in pic,, if this was the case ,,ideal for racing ,, the second pic ,, the bird has def has just 4 flights to moult , so should be past its best ,, but with pigeons anything poss so it would depend on their condition and training etc ,[also on the body moult], but the best of luck batusai,as mr bramling said it [in the first pic] may have 3 flights to go,but would be easier to tell with the bird in the hand [look in between the gap in the first pics flights between the secondry and primary , if theres a flight pipping through , its just cast its first flight , if not,,and it has 3 flights to go,and if so, its a really big" step in the flights" bigger than usual batusai ,, im also wondering if these pics were taken recently

had a lot of bother in the past by amtrack , but last few times , no probs at all ,, the chap ,now, who does my district , was delivering a parcel to a neighbour , knocked at my door , handed in about a dozen boxes , said might come in handy jimmy ,,,so good gesture

another good idea , poly [the schools] i think if we could get enough p,b members interested and some more ideas , it would be quite feasible, it could also be quite fun as well.

yes, im sure , with the proper pro, this could be a great money spinner for say,,"cancer relief" picking 4 teams from each area , from fraserburgh to lands end, and back in say 100 mile races [stages] this could be worked out quite easy with north roaders and south roaders , you would get at least 10 main cities [or more ] sponsors per pigeon per mile , this could cover 1000 miles easy in short steps , you would get plenty media attention at the 10 cities and possibly tv coverage if done right,,,,even pigeon basics members could do this, and as this would be something completely different to all other" stunts" would surely show fanciers in the best light,, i,e get the public on our side ,, i would say definately worth thinking about ,,,,,and it would be fun

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great gesture stuart,, well done

yes had seen it b4 carl ,,, but bet the pelican was gobsmacked ,, it was quite unbeleivable :-/

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with due respect greig i didnt say he was blaming the fifer [i said,,," think" about blaming the fifer]