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Cold, wet and miserable (street lights are still on at 10:25) here in Gateshead.

Great stuff, Walter. Always like reading your snippets of advice. Thank you.

Pleased to hear of your good news, Walter. Hope the good news continues throughout the rest of the year and you have a tremendous 2014.

Calm and dry at the moment but hail and thunder forecast for later on in the day here at the Sage Theater on the south bank of the River Tyne.

A wee bit breezy, dry, bright and the prospect of a bit sun later on here at the Metro Center, Gateshead.

Walter Boswell and Owen in equal measure.

Mild, dry and a light breeze at the moment but heavy rain forecast for later this morning here at "The Angel of the North".

Been awake since 2am due to driving rain and howling wind here in the NE of England.

Just received this from my bank: There is a scam email currently being sent to some people claiming to be from Royal Mail. The email states that Royal Mail is holding an item for the customer. The subject header is Mail Lost or Missing Package and reads, Royal Mail have detained your package for some reason for example, lack of a proper invoice, bill of sale, or other documentation, a possible trademark violation or if the package requires formal entry. The RM International Mail Branch holding it will notify you of the reason for detention this is done in writing and how you can get it released. The email then asks the recipient to open an attachment and complete a document. It is believed that the attachment contains a zip file with a malicious virus. We would strongly recommend you do not open this type of email or respond, simply delete the email and run your virus protection regularly on your computer.

Gateshead, Tyne & Wear cold and miserable here.

Happy birthday to all :emoticon-0167-beer:

Well done Walter on a cracking season. Hope 2014 is as good...if not better.

I like them all! Very nice, Jimmy.

Happy Birthday to you all. :emoticon-0123-party:

Excellent reading. Thank you.

Assuming that you have 3 good cocks and 3 good hens, the beauty of Walter’s system is that you can pair up your stock birds on or about 1st December and you would be ringing your first six youngsters on, or around, 5th/6th January. Your 11th and 12th youngsters would be weaned off, on or around, 21st April. Therefore, you would be able to get, at the least, 2 months’ worth of darkening for your 3rd round of youngsters. From these 6 stock birds, you could produce 36 youngsters of good or reasonable quality. The advantages/disadvantages if you employed the bull system (compared to Walter’s system) are that you would have to have 9 pairs to reach the same goal. Your best cock would father 20 young birds (2 each from the 9 hens and a further 2 from his own hen). Your 2nd and 3rd best cocks would father 2 youngsters each and the other 6 cocks would father 12 youngsters, making a total of 36 birds, and having the 2nd round weaned off on, or around, 27th February. Of course you could start again with the bull system after the 2nd round and your best cock fathering a further 18 youngsters and still have enough time to carry out the dark system. This way you would have 54 youngsters but get to test out more of your youngsters and stock cocks and hens. Six-and-two-threes I think Walter, I may be looking at both systems the wrong way but what do other people think?

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