jimmy white

i have ankylosing spondulitis [the same desease that chris small the edinburgh snooker player has ranked no 16 in the world, now had to give up] there are afew folk on the forum with this desease, according to the edin evening news,its a rare spinal condition in which sufferers can finish up in a wheel chair,, i joined the national ankylosing spondulitis ass.....n.a.s.s.,,,this society prodiuce a glossy mag 4 times a year which is sent to all members and doctors surgeries etc , this mag. contains all interesting articles, covering a wide range of topics, mostly advice on the desease and the various physio for sufferers to do , when i went to hosp, they had a list of all hobbies etc that would enable sufferers to keep neck movement etc fishing , darts, even kite flying when i mentioned keeping pigeons they were astounded at never thinking of that, as your looking up most of the time, even when their flying round, so they have now added this to their list of physical hobbies, all over,,,,now for the hard bit ;D ;D ;D pocket ;D if we,[ the forum] could manage a small donation , whether it be a pound coin or a cheque for a fiver, or indeed anything , i will be donating anyway, should anyone on the forum, wish to send a donation , i would only give names to the webmaster, put all donations in a "hopefully ,big bottle"put a pic of the bottle on the forum , the person who guessed the nearest amount , get a pair of ybs from a top flier. i have taken the liberty in getting in touch with the directer, and he would consider putting an article on pigeons with pics from" pigeon basics.co" maybe a young lad holding a white pigeon, and handing over the bottle,,,,,remember this mag can be bought privately but is usually sent to doctors surgeries if requested, it would be nice to see pigeon basics pic. on the front page of this mag ,and distributed to all places it could be seen,,,,,,this could only be good for all,,,,,,,,,,members thoughts :)

ihave quite a few fanciers visit me , all are great decent good living lads , and would help anybody, one of my freinds who has an empty loft all equipment , often ready to start, takes one look at all the arguments then refuses to start ,, is that what you all want,,,, my own opinion, for what its worth , is look forward ,not backwards , there are many ways in which each individual fancier can help the sport survive , one is by helping one another,not running down one another, supporting one another, the political arguments in the sport are ruining it, new starters will just not be bothered when they see all that. all organizations should attract , not chase away.,,,,,need a new soap box now ;D ;D ;D

i woulld agree to a certain degree,, mite are deadly,,,, lice ar not so bad and feed as sammy says, but a pigeon with an ailment which cannot produce proper oil from oil gland on its back or is , for some reason ,not preening itself as it should would have more lice on it than usual,, but the odd lice on a pigeon would not do a lot of harm, in a healthy pigeon would make it prune itself more , keeping itself cleaner and feathers in better condition, ive judged showbirds b4 ,penned the day b4 and found the odd lice on many of them,its the mite that makes them stamp and dance ,or it mite anyway ;D

unfortunately they can suspend you without being at meeting ,, even if you have a doctors line,,,crazy,,,, but looking through the posts i would say if you have wittnesses that you paid ,,,,,,that should be enough,,, but have to say rick ,, smell a rat

good distance pigeons treated as so can score up till 8, 9 years old, but the norm is about 7 years ,, sprint birds are usually done a long time b4 this i.e.4 y,o

a lot would depend on the distances you would be going for , but in general , with shifts like you have would advise hopper feeding with beans, but giving them some carboheydrates to get them in and give them a treat , but again depending on distance :)

i would usualy mix a little wheat germ oil in their mix,,[for fertility], a little hemp will heat the blood up and give the a little more sexual desire , but maybe only for stock birds , as it may bring false early condition for the racers , i personally think theres too much empathise on yb raceing nowadays, when ,in scot anyway, there are only about 7yb races ,, but as old birds maybe 50, so its everyone to there own choosing :) ie sprint , distance or both,

brilliant pic ,, carl,,, whatever i use , usually tobacco stalks , but like to make them work for it , scattter it further and further away from loft , this can make them very keen when they have to fly with it.

wheelie bin[ spare one] filled with droppings, leaves, nettles. weeds, paper, shavings ,lime ,, all ready for next years compost ,,,,,,,now it goes in to black bags tied up , and away to land fill.

brilliant wiley , thanks mate [had visions of it being pink ;D ;D ;D] great stuff

i used to use the chicken eggs shells under the toaster for about a minute , crunch it up and there you are allmost pure calcium but as far as red grit and white grit , i think one is a sort of ground up sand stone, the,other being oystershell,,, i dont think the birds are that daft and eat what they want or what they need,, the black minerals contain , bleach , beleive it or not, and off course salt , and the pink pinerals contain a touch of aniseed , the amount is not going to effect the birds in any way , just that it smells nice,.watched them mixing the red band , in about a ton in the mixer , theres a very small bottle of aniseed liquid , only added for smell, so theres no differance to conditioner with or without aniseed , but off course redband sells better,, strange how they dont like any grit or minerals if its wet??

bet poor pompey mick will never be the same ;D ;D ;D ;D [ill cope it from speck now ;D ;D ;D]

yes n. w. nov. you certainly asked for that one ;D ;D ;D ;D good to see you taking it as a joke , but really thats quite common ;D ;D i mean lets face it humans do that as well ;D ;D ;D ;D,,,,,sometimes?? ;D ;D ;D ;D

any perigrines over the north sea?

i think youhave to be carefull if you use lights in the cold winter nights , maybe use a dimmer just to make sure their all sitting b4 switching off

craig pinched it from me ;D ;D ;D fifers doesnt know it yet , but hes getting a pair of ybs off this cock [a son of sir colin and lewis mitchels hen] when paired to a daughter off a nat winner,,,,,,craig gets the golden egg ;D ;D ;D

i think you did the best thing sue, but at least you tried , who knows you could have a good thing going there in the summer, weddings , funerals , birthdays etc plus some charities word would soon get around :) good luck anyway :)

we allways here of scottish fanciers on about east ,,west north ,,south etc , whos got the best chance , whose got the worst chance etc,,i may be mistaken but looking very roughly at a map ,, theres a point in sweden direct east of edinburgh, where pigeons would have to fly over approx 400 miles of water, could this be possible? the distance from aberdeen would be the same distance as eyemouth, glasgow would get direct overfly [being direct west of edin]from edin, but pigeons dont like flying over water , probably a mad thought , but just wondered what scottish fanciers would think :) ps anyone remember hearing of captain hopas and his north sea dordins

distrust breeds hate,,hate breeds trouble,, and trouble is not the way forward ,,,which ever way you look at it

yes , def agree, when i raced them ,no matter how many i sent , it was great to go to kip on a sat night knowing their all home,, ;D [theres allways another race]

it would be great to see pics of your libs, but i notice a lot of distrusting fanciers,regarding race controllers , ass race controllers , convoyers,,, they are voted in because the majority trust them, most of these are dedicated hard workers doing , sometimes a thankless job,yes it would be nice to see pics , but a little more trust of the fanciers voted in, to do these jobs, would not go amiss .

hope you get something sorted out wings ,, seems odd you cant get in a club that near you , youd think they would all be glad to get members,, its pretty sad when you look at things now , my old club used to have 42 members at one time i think its down to about a dozen now , pity there wasnt some way to revamp the pigeon sport and attract members, i allways said if each single fancier could get another interested in racing pigeons , it would double right away , but off course thats easier said than done, anyway best of luck wings , youve allways got the national :)you did it last year

i may be wrong but im sure i heard old jack adams talking about pinkies ,, but really no way of telling in the nest

better with a red card than a red cheq,,,,,,,,or just the cheque ;D ;D ;D

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