clubs only have to accept it if there is a member willing to opporate the club system, if nobody is willing to set it up etc then they can not be forced to use it.
i can't understand why when using systems for the first time they don't rubber aswell or have a club trainer race the week before first fed race to iron out these problems!
can't put it down to clashing if others had good returns, maybe down to inexperienced birds have not been raced as youngbirds.
Hope you see some more home this morning Bob!
you'd be better of using a nest felt then the straw, a lot will either kick the straw out or just not bother building much of a nest so with a felt the young will keep warm and can't slip around on the empty clay bowl.
any liberations where birds are likely to cross airfields must notify the authority's but on a numbers of occasions members have been warned for letting birds go by Standstead!
They may have been ferals