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would vaseline rubbed on the pigeons legs not keep mites away,once removed a tick from me dog many years ago with it the smell chokes them .

i used to like the miler pigeons ,but sadly seem to have gone forever

mid week clubs seem to be declining like miler clubs seem to have died out .

that idea would never work its too sensible .

you can please some people some of the time,but you cannot please everyone all the time

last time i sent a pigeon by train , if i remember rightly was 1989 back to ecclefecam mr graham if memorie serves me,cracking pigeon dark hen buschaert though i could be wrong on strain.great service collected on time also from station.

its like a log book for the bird to prove it was born in captivity ,and not removed from the wild .

the darkness system another forign import ,why do you need young birds on the darkness system to race 250 miles ,spending months locked in the dark mostly with poor ventilation causing all kinds of problems ,myself ive never bought into the darkness system but ive seen plenty that as and seen plenty of problems suffered with it .on the continent there big on the darkness system but there flying more longer races then us with young birds ,ok if your flying 300 400 miles and need the birds in tip top condition for that distance every other week or so .

i dont think any system matters natural or darkness ,theres simply too many birds lost week after week as many darkness birds as naturals .yes all unions shopuld be looking at ways of improving ways of trying to cut heavy losses everyweek .things need to change like posted earlier by someone why have a national race of 250 miles when most birds are dropping to bits ,its same as my federation have the longest young bird race as a federation race ,hardly anyones any birds to send they have all been wiped out ,why not change the federation races to earlier in the season at say 100 miles when theres plenty of birds to race against ,ive argued for years about this at the club ,we have federation races at 300 400 500 300 400 old birds no one sends to the longer races everyone sends to the shorter races same day ,this is just not my club its across the federation ,will they change the federation races no chance ,weve always done it this way ,yes when plenty of fanciers sent in excess of 5000 birds to federation races thirty years ago now there sending a couple of hundred .in my federation they should change the programme altogether ,maybe look at having young bird races earlier in the season most young birds are nearly eight months old before it starts then there falling to bits after a couple of races ,thats if your lucky enough to get them home . the whole racing system needs dragging out the dark ages ,forget the fancier lets think about the birds first for once .

do you not think that everyone now is brainwashed into thinking everything say the belgiums or dutch do we have to do also ,thinking regards fancy foods ,everyone i knew thirty years ago fed beans peas bit of wheat barley maze ,now like mr yorkie says its all versel larger this or some other food company selling van der someones feeding methods everyone swears by .how many times are we told you can buy the mans pigeons but not his methods ,now food companies sell his feeding methods sell van der winners corn he swears by.do you not think the food been fed does not give the pigeon enough energy to make its way back after going off line or over shooting the loft ,they just cannot make back home now the day after ,many years ago if a stray entered the loft been miles of course 9-10 still had good bodies on them ,now there all like razor blades and in some cases never recover , since the introduction of the proffesional fanciers promoting feed this seed feed lighter feeds to your pigeons ,everyone seems to have bought into the idea ,yes they show great results themselfs ,but what they dont tell you is they got loft mangers ,keep more birds normally then the ordinary fancier send more birds then the ordinary fancier got the best drop in there federation .go to belgium holland germany all the top fanciers through time have been chemists ,friends with top chemists,most keep hundreds of birds sending hundreds of birds and become wealthier through us all been brainwashed into buying there pigeons which normally turn out to be utter rubbish for the many fanciers who buy them ,you could name the janssens buschaerts maybe van reets that have stood the test of time but theres been hundreds of new found fangled breeds from so called super star pigeons from abroad here today gone tomorrow simply because the birds are not good enough to fly in our island . i also believe many fanciers now dont basket train them to eat and drink ,many fanciers now say if the pigeons want water they find it ,they dont find it on the transporters or is this due to darkness hoodies battling all the time stopping many from drinking ,resulting in many becoming dehydrated ,too many sick birds been sent ,many birds been sent simply with no training ,then theres human error releasing birds without checking the line of flight ,resulting in too much clashing ,not enough time between liberations ,there seems no end to thousands of birds been lost everyweek and sadly the unions do nothing about it ,resulting in many fanciers becoming fed up of been wiped out ,decide to leave the sport .

hi all looks like a ferruginious hawk to me ,