cheeseman

nice one ally that made me chortle.

never heard of feeding bananas, but i have been known to put a tub of cress into the loft and used garlic(purifys the blood) and honey in the water i suppose any greens would be good for them.

years ago when i was a boy i used to have tumblers and fantails (thats how i started)and they used to do that,mind you only as ybs before they got to the piont of flying,they never seemed to take any hurt.

well said oldyeller.

had resperitry probs last year with ybs,bought some o s e. bit pricey, via regency lofts, came direct from belgium, but was well worth it within 4 days different birds altogether would recomend it.

hope its me :

cheers bart i will give him a ring

im in bonchester bridge just outside jedburgh its well flown down but should pisk up after a few days tlc

handed to me tonight at work

4/9 from 6.00 lib newark, into jedburgh,iwas 2nd doing 1469 175mls plenty missing in the club, clashing, heat, or just kept going north who knows!

scottish borders up at 6 a m newark, 170mls only got 3/9 im in at 9 30 but wont win, whats happened!

scottish borders at newark, f/cast guid,me national doos are gannin for a pipe opener,before newbury nxt week.

someone has just touched a nerve, im a member of the jedforest hunt supporters and i enjoy seeing the hounds work,im also a keen shot and gamekeeper and it just so happens i race pigeons and have for thirty years im certanly not anti bloodsport,iwent on the march to london along with falconers,fishermen,ferreters huntsmen of all persuasians(beagles.harriers,foxhounds ,minkhounds and yes even pigeon fanciers)no one can call me anti bloodsport

why not give goshawk a chance boys and girls there are some genuine people out there,i have said on previous threads what i thought about b o p has ahybody met him/her,until then i dont think you should comment on his/her integrety

before the days of emulsion/masonary paint we used to use white/lime wash inside the lofts no lops then.

i know mick but try telling the local wildlife officer or the rspb they are to busy trying catch the likes of me out,which they will never do.as i wont break the law

hi goshawk, i live within a 1 mile radius of three falconers, 1 of them was fined a couple of years ago for flying a bird of prey to a tethered pigeon, his penalty 5 pound fine,if it wasme being a gamie also it would be afine up to 1000 pound another has nehu birds brought to him to fly his falcons to, the third has a genuine intrest in pigeons and would not fly his birds to them,im not sure which catergory you come in but can you understand how we feel when this happens, i apologize for getting off thread.

i agree with superstar,the answers i gave were what i know to be the truth to the best of my knowledge,as well as being a pigeon fancier im a game keeper, and suffer badley with birds of preyon both sides but i would not jeperdise my shotgun or firearms licence for the sake of a falcon, there are uther deterents.

ive, had a goshawk take them off the loft, and sparrahawks tend to kill them close to ground,and of course mr and mrs percy take them in the air.

10/11 from wetherby,into jedburgh, bobby and raymond got it right,vel 1681 tam wilson well done son.

scottish borders at weatherby 8 35.fast race xpected.

broken cloud sun shining yin or two lumpy clouds floating aboot gentle easterly wind over carter bar (scottish borders).

ive got 36 to start traning if ive still got20 left to start and race i will be happy

hi richard, i used to live ine kibblesworth but my first club was mt pleasant, on the bankies i could come and pick this bird up any time after sunday anyyin havving birds to come to scotland i will gladley pick up by the way i live in the scottish borders jedburgh.

im the fella at the carter bar and if boby had foned as he usually do,sthis morning i would have said there is no possible chance of a liberation,due to very heavy showers up to 11.00 we had avery guid race,just short of a mile per minute all credit to bobby. cheeseman jed, scottish borders