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  1. cheers all
  2. cheers swilcox if you could get his number i could give him a bell
  3. cheers lads
  4. hi all any one know who has got any good van hee strain of birds.
  5. exeter 187mins for 157mls
  6. hi all how long does it take for anew secondry flight to grow back fully once it has been pulled out
  7. update in cheshire slightly clouding over but sunny brisk north west wind
  8. macclesfield cheshire clearblue skies
  9. stockport high cloud suntrying to break through good visability west wind
  10. they can catch disease off droppings and urine also the birds cant rest at night if there are mice running all around the nest boxes
  11. any one got any early times in the nwcc race on sat
  12. same thing happened here spelbin
  13. hi hyacinth our club has its own web site its www.macclesfieldflyingclub.moonfruit.com if you go on the web site there is a link to the fed site and on there is a link to the border amal site
  14. hi hyacinth you will know george appleton sam whitworth etc gerry clements another one
  15. hi jnr j we are with the staffs/moorland fed
  16. hi hyacinth we dont exactly live in manchester we live in a little village called bollington which is about 16 miles south from manchester
  17. Hi all anyone gort any idea what the weather will be like on Saturday we are racing from Poole. I have looked at the weather websites and it shows sunshine all the way from Poole to Manchester on Saturday but on the telly it gives cloud rain and strong winds who is right
  18. staffs/moorlands fed no news till 10 30 still waiting for weather to clear race point is frome
  19. staffs/moorlands fed no news till 10 30 still waiting for weather to clear race point is frome
  20. have used ply crates now for over 10 years they are almost the same as the fed crates so they get use to coming out of the end i think the good point about wicker baskets is the hessian on the floor it helps them grip better when traveling
  21. if possible and you dont want another round we move them at 17 days along with the hen this way the cock is not constantly chasing the hen and she can feed the youngsters watch the difference
  22. the incident that pompey mick as encountered is serious to say the least the case of mealy bar is not because so long as the out side number on the tally and the rubber are the same then it would not matter if all the inside tally numbers and inside rubber numbers were for instance 333 or 222 etc example outside numbers 123 inside numbers 111 outside numbers 124 inside numbers 111 outside numbers 222 inside numbers 111 etc
  23. i had a simlar incedent on thursday i let my first round out then when they were ready to drop i let my second round out they are just starting to get to the loft roof after about five mins as i was sitting with them i acctually saw the hawk coming as it struck i could only wave my arms in panic they all flew in total panic all over the place the hawk chased one but did not get it they were all over the place some behind the dustbins some behind the lofts some under the bath that was leaned up about six flew into ours and next doors windows and a few in the gardens of our neighbours all crouching down in total fright i picked most of them up as they would not move some first and some second rounders the ones that got airbourne took about an hour to land an eventually after about 2 hours they were all back in the loft with only a couple injured that i think had hit the wires i have not had them out since and even on saturday some were hesitant to come off their perch to eat
  24. we have a club website and a fed website the club site is www.macclesfieldflyingclub.moonfruit.com http://pigeonsglossop.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/
  25. well said mike all this treating for this and that is getting out of control
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