walterboswell59

sorry pete i thought you were much closer to tony pal with you telling me you had been down to see him my mistake no your to far away to help the man m8 needs to be someone much closer surely a club m8 could help the man out i know you would if you could pete

i would have been to andy only i was up all night peeing lol ps your pm box is full andy

well guys thats it been and gone for another year and a great night was had by all met some real nice people including lots of guys from the basic site half of whom i cant remember but here is some i do jake and derick wee man two nice guys we had a good blether with also met jumbo and george and the north section guys and we were sat next to stewart brian and andy millar for the meal and all these guys offered my pal jim youngbirds next season well done guys and thankyou enjoyed your company was also great to meet mike currie to also got the chance to have a wee chat with the great jeff cooper who was a very down to earth bloke and who gave a great speech praising the the scottish national flying club and distance racing thanks to all the guys that came over to speak to jim and i and thankyou to our snfc president and comitee and all involved for great well run night well done and hope everyone got home safe and sound

we should get on fine then i can get lost going to the loo lol looking forward to meeting you guys

lol happy birthday george and thanks m8 ill find you im sure

i agree with you there bill but also seems to be more virus and other stuff around we did not have before and when it starts harming birds and animals and they stop eating certain grains maybe they are telling us something im afraid i just dont trust goverment or big companies who stand to make millions its scary stuff imo and id rather just not feed it if possible

some sick people in the world

ive got to agree with you there tony unfair to youngbirds and unfair to others in the transporter but many do it hope you fined away to keep them going m8 maybe big pete could give your yb a few tosses to help you out he is a good guy but know you may not like to depend on others same myself tony but if it means keeping them on id swallow my pride helped plenty of guys in your position in my time hope someone will return the favor someday id take them on the bus before id rap them m8

think the post explained what the worries are bill

do you know which one they would not garantee m8 as i use there stuff during racing so would be nice to know

can you flag them morning and night tony many others win this way m8

going for the moon two birds going for silver next year dell but always a hard ask for any bird m8 as you know more than most but you have to dream

gibb of galston says they ask for non gm grain for there mix but weather they get it or not is a different story ian

lol nice to know she reads my stuff ian and logs into pigeon basics

got two loafs put by dell lol been before when old pal john feenie won the section in rennes then again to get his gold award with strathclyde lass but got to be better picking up a prize yourself derick m8

on gm grain something i have become very aware of over the past 10 years or so and see the guy has quoted some of the posts i had put on basics a while back but where do you get none gm grain from now its so hard to get as its in everything we feed our birds and indeed eat ourselves without knowing needs much more looking into imo

also looking forward to helping my novice neighbour jim with whom ive become good friends and hope i can help him get his first ticket in the club with next years youngbirds he has a dozen latebreds that we have been training up to give him a wee taste of old bird racing to learn the ins and out before he has a go with a youngbird team but he is as keen as mustard and wants to learn and has the makings of a good doo man we are both looking forward to snfc presention night on sat which will be a good insight for him and motivation to suceed at the top level and meet lots of basic members to

i try not to store them any longer than 3 weeks if pos but 6 weeks has been the longest so far but the longer you store them the less hatch up to 4 weeks you should get 98 percent hatching and id say it drops about 5 percent every week after that and i found storing them in the fridge less than 50 percent hatched

keep them going tony you would not know what to do with yourself at weekends m8

of course vince there just the same eggs from the same pairs m8 would be no point in keeping them if they were inferior in anyway have bred plenty of winners and breeders of winners with stored eggs try it

i try to plan my season out every year if things dont go to to plan i change as i go along but mostly its train my latebreds hard and race them out to 150 160 miles then the yearlings take over to the coast with all birds 2 year old and over going to the channel races along with any yearling thats sticking out all paired at different times to do different jobs with all the short races in our fed program next season im hopeing my latebreds will keep me in the hunt till the real races start meanwhile ive already paired my best breeding and racing birds up on paper but may change one or two around as breeding time gets nearer latebreds will all be in same section apart from two or three i need to match up a cock or hen for the older pairs yearlings will be paired mid feb to catch the 3rd round off the stock birds and any eggs i have stored the old birds will be paired last week in march weather permitting or around the 17th if the weather is better they will rear two rounds and go to there chosen race on the third set of eggs which will be switched off the best pairs under feeders and i try to send each bird the way i know they like to be sitting as they are all different and have there own likes and dislikes then i just need a big slice of luck to go with all the planning lol

wellcome guys

well done guys

wellcome to basics dougie

i have also seen a few that are live vaccines and wondered if they were legal here anyone know for sure