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He is referring to the NEHU some members fly under RPRA rules as well as NEHU rules Anyone can buy the Futurity rings - and put birds in the breeder/buyer sales - but the birds have to be flown by NEHU members

you're gettting warm ;D you've got one third of the name right (but I do recall giving you that ) the name does have something to do with the beak (and thats clue number 2)

It is a pigeon and feeds on the seeds of particular trees in a particular country (I'm not giving it away ;D) it has 3 words to its name - and the last one is pigeon

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D NO :P

This will be my last attempt - I can't get it to post for some reason

Bare-eyed Pigeon

They fall off without doing anything to them - have never had any grow back

put it on the corn - twice a week - about 10 ml to 1kg corn

I usually use 2 x 300 ml bottles a year and they are over £2 a bottle Holland and Barrett - on line only - currently have cod liver oil on offer, I have just had this delivered today the use by date is Sept 2009 on 250 ml bottles (66p each) and November 2009 for 500 ml bottles (£1.17 each) use within 3 months of opening bottle Delivery is £1.99 - order enough for 2 years racing and store in a cool dark place or start taking it yourself ;D http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=505

If in doubt - leave it out cos I know the times we haven't - we have not seen the bird again

somebody else posted this last month - its fake

thread from last year http://www.pigeonbasics.com/forum/blah/m-1179467185/s-0/

But on the other hand they might not live long enough to benefit from it naturally - the choice is yours - but I vaccinate all birds. stock, non-racers, fan tails, racers - the lot I feel its better to be safe than sorry - prevention is better than cure By the way you should have vaccination form on you showing that your birds have been vaccianted when you take birds training - its a DEFRA rule

no need to apologise the calculator is quite educational - and an eye opener

its a download to calculate the nutritional value of your own mixes o for those of you who didn't know the site has a nutritional calculator - it is available in downloads http://www.pigeonbasics.com/links/category-downloads.html

I'll start again - we have 2 old bird sections - one with 16 boxes - where we're racing roundabout the other section with 8 boxes where we're racing natural channel races are 317 miles, 391 miles, 545 miles, 450 miles and back to 317 miles would you race the 3 year olds? You answer implies that their lack of experience wouldn't matter - is that correct?

I only paid £7.99 for maples and £5.50 for tic beans at a farm shop the other week - maple peas were £11.99 at the corn store :-/ but Beyers corn was only £7.99 at the corn store (this month) and was not old stock. Verse Laga was very expensive - nearly £12 a bag for super widowhood

I should have also said - we will also be racing 6 hens natural and 8 cocks (with 2 settled but non racing hens also in that section) and yes I agree - about them being wasted, not racing them but theres lots of potential in the yearling hens

Advice required on the following In the past we have always been seriously short of hens and they have never been raced much - one or two races each year - except as young birds one 3 year old has had about 6 races all told, 3 as a youngster, 1 as a yearling - 2 as a 2 year old - and been 1st or 2nd bird back each time with club and fed cards - but has never raced further than 130 miles another 3 year old raced the full progamme as a youngster - was injured as a yearling and never been raced since also have a few 2 year olds that had 3 races as yearlings - to 130 miles and a few more that didn't race at all none of the hens have been to an old bird national race. For the first time we have a glut of hens this year - 10 spare ones We intend giving roundabout a go - but wondered about racing the older hens, my gut feeling is just to race those with the recent experience - ie the 2007 bred hens What do YOU think? The hens have always been trained each year - just odd ones raced

Boddy and Ridewood have got it - but its at a price (£38+ ) http://www.everythingforpets.com/the_new_fit_to_win_book_.pet/use.id.5.item_id.3823.dept.74/

there aren't any in Bawtry theres clubs in Belton, Askern, Balby, Armthorpe, Rossington, Skellow, Stainforth, and a few other places - download the RPRA Ring list from thr RPRA site - its on Adobe reader - and you can search for 'Doncaster', in the list, theres about 20 clubs !!

Whereabouts in Doncaster - can you narrow it down - name some towns, villages etc near where you live - cos theres loads of clubs in Doncaster in the ring list

Isn't this why Britains fields became full of rapeseed - thats what they were suppposed to basing bio-fuel on

I thought drinking excessively was associated with coccidiosis? Agree mice spread salmonella through contaminated feed and PMV also possible and birds DO die from salmonella I would see a vet if poss even though your other birds may look OK at the moment - they probably won't be

I think that was before it went on e-bay - or was the starting price on e-bay from racer