REDCHEQHEN

its near Birmingham 140 miles North of Bournemouth http://local.live.com/?v=2&rtp=pos.sfm1njgv8xxb_Bournemouth%2c%20England%2c%20United%20Kingdom~pos.sr82ssgtmx93_stourbridge even got you directions!!!

I actually have a hydrangea in the back garden, which has not done very well there, thankfully the birds have never bothered with it ( its more like twigs with a few leaves and hasn't flowered since it was put in the garden 2 years ago ) Guess it will now go in a pot out the front

I'm not even going to reply to that Bruno, cos you don't half p*** me off at times

For future reference http://www.takingthelead.co.uk/2/Health/poisonplants.htm http://www.countryfolk.co.uk/poisonousplants/index.htm http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pro_apcc_nontoxicplants there is plenty of information on toxic and non toxic plants on the internet

http://www.pigeonbasics.com/forum/blah/m-1146230006/s-all/ have a look at thread - part way down

Thanks for the reply - would they still be able to get up to boxes? Or do they need bottom boxes?

I would like advice on two things please, one pair of young birds - nestmates, have been casting flights two together at once, one of them early in the season - so wasn't sent to many races, and the nest mate cast the two end flights together, is this likely to happen as older birds? The second, is we would prefer not to have prisoners but we do, and we have been cutting the flights down and letting them out. One hen managed to get up and away with 4 cut down flights on each wing. It was suggested that only one wing should be cut down, what affect would this have on the bird?

You can purchase photos - its the first time I have used the site as the camera wasn't mine, I took the photos and the camera owner pit the photos on a disc for me, I am not very computer literate. I had heard of the site and just stuck them on there, LOL !! There are another 20 or so decent photographs and I will get round to putting the rest on, it does take a while. I'm quite chuffed with your comments, thank you :K) :K)

Is it this one http://www.phoenixsheds.com/pigeonlofts.htm

It was a very good night Greengrass, I think everybody enjoyed themselves,

We had our presentation evening on Saturday November 11th It was a very good night, I took the photos, so am not on any of them ;D ;D :P http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=1163785171.pbw http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout023.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout043.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout045.jpg The one below is my 'other half' http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout041.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout002.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout037.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout029.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout025.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout038.jpg http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r134/S_hampson/?action=view&current=Redcarcentalpayout017.jpg

some reading for you Bruno http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/livestock/pigeon_fly.htm

Anthony - its spelt canker in the UK ;D

I would have thought so, I think this idea is reserved for non-racing stock

Old 'Fit to win' reckons rarely seen in Europe, (page 46)'pseudo' means something that mimics, ie the symptoms are the same as malaria and so is the treatment, Has global warming hit the Shetlands Islands? again old 'Fit to win', photograph of feathers on page 147, but its very poor (thats my excuse, wouldn't know how to put photo on anyway) but the holes run up the length of the feather and not the width and are almost a centimetre apart

Welsh Homing Pigeon Union Unit 6 Atlantic Trading Estate Hayes Road Barry Vale of Glamorgan CF63 3RF tEL: 01446 739555 However I have e-mailed them before but can't find e-mail address its something like: gail@whpu.co.uk

I have little experience - only can go by our winner from Clermont ( 391 miles) a yearling cock who was feeding a 10 day youngster, it was the first time we had sent to one of the longer races. We did have a 3rd from Lille from a 2 year old cock on chipping eggs (approx 318 miles) - this is the first year for us racing cocks over the channel though.

I am a great believer in using probiotics, and used Progem Plus (Gem supplements) for most of the last racing season. Recently I bought Entero-plus - a medpet probiotic, and I am rather disappointed in it. It says on the side that 1kg contains 10 to the power 7 lactobilus ( I can't do it on computer, LOL !) thats only 100,000,000 and you use 5g to 1kg of corn. That only works out at 500,000 bacteria, you buy a human probiotic from Holland and Barrett and EACH little capsule contains 3 billion of the blighters (3,000,000,000 ) Thats 30 x more in one capsule than there is in 1kg of the other product. I have used the medpet product for 3 weeks and I am very unimpressed. Does anybody else use probiotics and which one? Has anyone used Vydex or Osmonds? Avian probiotics please, not human ones, no offence ...........

Ring registered to Ormesby Invitation club

Hope the contact details enable you to get a closer club to where you live ;D

SO89 HORSHAM R P C Mr K Smith, 54 Cants Lane, Burgess Hill, West Sussex RH15 8HF. Tel: 01444 230834 SO162 SOUTH COAST FED Mr Michael Vaughan, 34 Clayton Road, Brighton, Sussex BN2 9ZP. Tel: 01273 684027 ;D ;D ;D

My favourite bird and our first 1st was a red cheq hen ;D

I said ACRES not ACORNS ;D ;D ;D ;D

If I tell you what I got for my birthday - promise not to laugh - it was a lop-eared bunny rabbit - brush, to wipe your boots on at the back door................................. :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

It would be about as welcome as a set of pans................... Just so you are under no illusions NO