If you explain this to the RPRA, I'm sure they'll issue a transfer under the circumstances but thats assuming you would want to keep this bird or maybe the previous owner might be still in the position to transfer it to you himself animatedpigeons:
Never had much effect on Blackpool last time around apart from tighter regulations with transporting pigeons so hopefully not and as already stated hopefully it'll be all sorted before March/April when the training of the birds start.
In previous years the members wore Pigeonbasics badges with their names on for identification, I'm sure a few will still have them. I still have mine but unfortunately not able to go this time.
Surely the guy that owns the chicken farm would know if he hired out a company to shoot the birds, looks like some kind of poisoning to me :emoticon-0138-thinking: