good questions!
prob with 2 day shows or penning/judgeing night before is in many cases you are forceing fanciers to have to pay for accomodation.
Judgeing in the penning night would also mean the show having to pay accomodation for the judges.
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put the drinkers away from air vents and in a box with only 1 open side for access. Best to empty at night if you can but if you are unable to then try the above.
without having seen and handled both birds it is impossible to tell where you are going wrong!
Maybe your feeding or maybe your birds just arn't up to showing.
with an arch shaped hole as above the birds will want to go through the middle and not the sides, if racing with ets you want them all going through asap and not in single file.
looks good although i'd just have a square hole with a couple of bob wires and before you let the birds out shut them up in the flight and get them coming in through it before you try and use it for real!
when we last judged at the Comrades we were put up in a hotel a couple of miles out of Donny, think it was a best western, very nice place and a good bar.