pigeonpete

or even worse a crewe alex fan like me!!

Hi all, does anyone know if it is to late to join the national flying club for this year, or am i too late? cheers

im afraid your barless mealy hen was 1 i got missing pete, had high hopes for her on the channel this year, have been patient with her for 2 years, aiming her at a good race! and i blew it over night, sorry mate!

cheers everyone for you support!, and cheers owen, this my fourth year now, and to be honest i wouldnt be able to do much without my wife, 4 years ago she hated them, would not come down to the lofts if they were out, thought they were going to attack her, but gradually got her interested, with the babies etc, she now goes in the lofts and picks up the babies, cleans out for me, feeds and lets them out for me. she even caught 9 old birds a couple of weeks ago, took her about an hour though bless! were getting there slowly. think clare and my son jordan are plotting to fly against me next year!! better watch my back. and yes i have learned from my mistake, there is always next week! cheers once again everyone! still feel a tool though ;-)

empty you box you clown! i cant reply to you! ;-)

dont think so, i have whites, and have rarely had a white taken, there not natural for the hawk! but they will take what ever is the easiest target! hope you sort it out mate, im plagued by the buggers aswell!

my decision making skills have gone out of the window this week brian! :-(

well folks, need someone to give me a good kick up the *expletive removed*, it wont change what i have done, but i hope someone can learn from it, this happened on tuesday and im still so mad with myself, o.k here goes, im at work from 5.30 in the morning till 6 at night, so find it really hard to get the time to get the birds as i want them, ( please dont any 1 feel sorry for me) anyway, first week of racing after alot of effort training most nights after work (weather had been okish) was 2nd club which i was chuffed to bits with flying natural, did the same the week after, weather o.k, was 1st 2nd 3rd club and 1st 10th 13th fed, over the moon first time for me on cloud nine. next week weather crap all week, hardly went out of the loft, as raining nearly every night after work. did'nt think it would make much of a difference! anyway was last in the club! did i sulk or what! so this week i thought going to make em have it this week, and the weather been crap! anyway took monday night bit windy and slight rain, training at 18 miles by the way! took 25 birds dropped 1 2 year old hen! just thought it was 1 of those things, heres the killer blow took them tuesday night was as black as the ace of spades, trees were bent double with the wind! took em to my 18 mile point, was still raining but thought that would be no problem! took 24 birds, realased at 7 p.m i got back at 7.30 and look across the pond, (was already thinking what have i done) lashing it down now and wind was very stong! 7.32 had 15 drop, got a further 3 before 9 when it was to dark for me to see and went home! next morning when my wife went down there was 1 waiting to be let in, thats 20 birds now, and by the time i got back last night, there was 3 birds there! all totally ripped apart by the wires, had to stich 1 of them up, kill 1,( which had won for me before) and the other no good for this season! im an utterley disgusted with myself, what i did was cruelty! and all for what winning a club race this weekend! i have learned alot this week. thanks for reading!

nice set up mate, the winds a pain, i have to get em out when i can at night or they would never go out! good luck!

nice set up colin, hope you dont cry to much when he beats you! have you still got any of those i gave you mate?

welcome b.o.k, please start your own thread, if you need help doing this please ask!

shocking! hope you didnt pay for the service? and put in a complaint? did he work for amtrak? :-)

welcome matt, im sure there will be 1 or 2 from that area! and im sure they will help, anything we can do?

i can get uou amoxicillin, which is prescription only in this country!

want to offload some on to me? ;-)

bloody hell, only had mine out 3 times, and a couple have flipped about a bit, lost 1, only moved the last few last weekend! better start catching up!

dont know the full story i know, but i would say not a true pigeon man, as if they were all last years bird, how on earth could he have tried them fully?

that isnt good, but you will find if you race your birds in the correct manor, you will very rarely have to dispose of, unless they get injured or become sick beyond repair, let the basket be your selector my friend, and enjoy!

very very sad, scumbags! someone must have some info? must have taken them along time to stab each of those pigeons? hope they catch the scum that did this, people should get a punishment to suit there crime! get done what they have done to others!

tough 1 to answer, you cant beat the wind week in week out, and yes some people are in an a more advantageous position than others.

work work work! :-(

count me in! ;-)

if i kept an eagle owl in an aviary would it keep the hawks away? and would the pigeons get used to it?

go pigeon! :-)

where can you buy them? and would they get on with the pigeons? dont want to breed them and release only to be plagued with eagle owls then :-)