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im just back from sharm el sheikh 11th january roasting hot and thats the coldest month of year i saw one small cloud all week fantastic place been twice now and going back next year

I thought the thread is about hours of darkness ,so hears my bit ,i,m on west coast. in summer it starts to get light here before 4am and daylight at around 4:30,but all depends on weather conditions and starts to get dark at around 10:30 really dark at 10:45 so that to me seams to between 5 3/4 hrs and 6 hrs which to me seems a fair reflection of hours of darkness. As for early libs the weather these last 3 or 4 years does not let us have true races up early home on night but if we didn,t have the midday libs we wouldn,t have had races at all.Frank dooman i think your wrong as 10:45 and 4:45 is the same time if thats what the closing and opening times are not a minutes difference ,also race controllers have to phone line of flight so that takes time ,drink for birds etc that why they couldn,t lib at 4:30 remember they have to phone peoples houses at these times in morning ,i know i wouldn,t like a phone call before 5:00 am in summer then do the birds then go to work have a thought boys for all who do jobs behind the scene.

albert called him top gun cracking cock he flew most of his life on widowhood ,and yes he won 2 from france in club but were quite fast races 12 hrs in wing i think his breeding was j.charmicheal ecclefechan witha bit of tom .mcewan elphinstone the next snfc president ?

I think you will find the snrpc has a race for yearlings has had for 2 years mate it was my proposal to do this , my thinking was for that reason to get never mind just yearlings ,2 year olds, late breds, some of the inland boys to maybe have a go and get them hooked into channel racing.sorry for mentioning snrpc on snfc thread

the best birds you will get is from friends then you know they will have a proper pedigree. you can only take a seller at face value.

A pedigree for selling .A basket for racing

if it is delboy and the date is the 17th then you should hae them by today by the time monday comes thats down to 12 days ,im sorry but you might be right time for a change.

liege mix is that the one with lots of different peas in it/marimans brill feeding i use this as well

come on del+ gareth your just a few of the guys iv,e been talking about in earlier post miles ahead of me in the 500 mile stakes

is it not supposed to be at least 7 clear days notice delboy?

gareth i was talking about leslie davidson ,alec said he had won a national

im pretty sure he never won a national alec in fact im positive he didn,t top man though no doubt

This has been a great thread to get involved in ,just wish more long distance minded fanciers came in and share their expertese come on guys

no i dont think so frank it was captain leslie ,not leslie davidson

dkj i was asked if i was first to win in port glasgow and through this way meens port glasgow , oh before i forget a guy from gourock won it 1912 or something ,matt whites bird was in 1980 i think his fathers was in 40,s or 50,s maybe wrong

quite right alf i remember a few years ago a friend of mine thought something wrong ,went to local vet ,i had told him that i thought they looked great and didn,t think anything wrong maybe a little worms ask vet ,anyway the vet checked droppings and when he said is it worms my mate thought it might be ,she said its cocci its that high that worms wouldn,t survive,when he told me i laughed i said pi@h if they that bad the would be lying about dying not clapping off loft etc.So make sure IT,S somebody that knows what their talking about.I always send off test 3 weeks before big race. and treat if needed

sorry mate albert never won a national or any where near it , it was 2 first feds the bird won i know he was my club mate cracking doo man though and his two brothers the late billy and joe who comes in on a saturday to me to see the birds home as he doesn,t keep them any more what pigeon was it that you handled ? By the way joe had said to me a couple of times why,s that pied hen not away ,i,d just wink and say patience joe the time is coming soon.

roland i,d rather feed tic beens than MAPLE pea,s any day

is this karl kelly from kirkintilloch your talking about? or greengrass as he,s called

you dont have to be crazy but it helps .lol

alec i never said west central scotland i said central thats east to west read the post again mate

yes im the first but hopefully not the last through this way a lot of unbelievers through here mate if only they would try

im up for trying new things all the time ,thinking about chillies instead of mustard lol ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

brilliant performance mate hope you keep it up ,i think it was derek hay (delboy) who said its about getting them to peak thats spot on thats the hard thing that nobody can tell you how to doits all about trial and error but its differant for every bird ,by the way mate im not the best doo man around and dont come anywhere near some of the fantastic fliers who come on here but im allways trying to get there hopefully i will with another couple of top performances

IB all iv,e been saying is say theres 2000 birds at say alecon say 550 miles to central scotland liberated say 5.30 in morning with little or no wind how many would you expect to see home at close of clocks 10.45 pm i would say maybe between 5% + 10% what do you think