Roland

Nice one I thought

Move your loft from one side of the garden to the other... and they home there for yonks after! But Like I say, it may be of interest to Joe Public ... iN fact I'll wager that as a result some one joins a pigeon Club!

ROYAL PIGEON RACING ASSOCIATION The Reddings, Cheltenham, Glos, GL51 6RN Tel: 01452 713529 Fax: 01452 857119 REQUEST FOR TRANSFER Please re-register the following ring(s) /pigeon(s) ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. ………………………. To :- New Owner’s Name…………………………………Loft No……………… Address……………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………. ………………………………………………………………………………………. ---------------------------------------------------- From :-Vendor’s name…………………………………. Loft No………………. Address……………………………………………………………………………... ……………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………… I/We hereby agree to the transfer of the pigeons bearing the above ring(s) to the person named above and hereby abandon all title to said pigeon(s) and ring(s). Vendors signature………………………………………………………. FEE IS £1 PER TRANSFER FORM, SUBJECT TO CHANGE CHEQUES & POSTAL ORDERS ONLY – NO CASH/STAMPS © RPRA 2006

I doubt it personally sorry. Exact happened to me in that the Feds sheets wer kept and club, and club sheets went to the fed... Iwas disqualified... and that would have been our first win. Mind I never protested to our section of the RPRA, which I often wished I had, but all local Secs said I would be wasting my time. Yes darn it ACES write a protest. Don't know if there is a time limit, but the bad taste is already there so what the heckers, yes go for it!

LOL

Loverly ... will have to get some tipplers, tumblers, rollers or sommat.

http://intl-jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/4/1284 Then Acute respiratory failure developed in three patients needing ventilatory support within hours after total parenteral nutrition was started. We postulate that the high carbohydrate load provided in the parenteral solution resulted in the use of glucose as the primary energy source, with the development of substantial increases in the carbon dioxide production and the respiratory quotient. Because these patients had a relatively fixed ventilatory response, hypercapnia ensued. Excessive carbohydrate loading may precipitate respiratory acidosis in patients unable to adequately improve their alveolar ventilation when compensating for increased carbon dioxide production. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6794409&dopt=Citation http://www.springerlink.com/content/2ff4ebtmxtcye0la/ Starch and fibre can be extracted, using wet or dry processes, from a variety of grain legumes and used as ingredients for food. -Galactosides can be isolated during wet processes from the soluble extract. Starch isolates or concentrates are mostly produced from peas, whereas dietary fibre fractions from peas and soyabean are commercially available. The physico-chemical characteristics of fibre fractions very much depend on their origin, outer fibres being very cellulosic whereas inner fibres contain a majority of pectic substances. Inner fibres are often used as texturing agents whereas outer fibres find their main uses in bakery and extruded products, where they can be introduced to increase the fibre content of the food. Most investigations on impacts on health have been performed on soyabean fibres. When positive observations were made on lipaemia, glucose tolerance or faecal excretion, they were unfortunately often obtained after non-realistic daily doses of fibres. Legume starches contain a higher amount of amylose than most cereal or tuber starches. This confers these starches a lower bioavailability than that of most starches, when raw or retrograded. Their low glycaemic index can be considered as beneficial for health and especially for the prevention of diseases related to insulin resistance. When partly retrograded, these starches can provide significant amount of butyrate to the colonic epithelium and may help in colon cancer prevention. -Galactosides are usually considered as responsible for flatus but their apparent prebiotic effects may be an opportunity to valorize these oligosaccharides. as quoted here http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cabi/bjn/2002/00000088/A00300s3/art00010

the actual width is also limited. And know it is unrealistic to have one between chimney's and certain roofs. Not much hasn't been ironed out and tested til a sensible reality has ben achieved. Like what if it lands on the landing board and doesn't actually go in ... it won't be clocked. The sensors are INSIDE the loft.

I believe that most countries limit the pads ... three to two lofts. I know Canada does. They can't be moved in the season unless re located. MOSTLY now GPS and this includes any new Liberation that may have a benifit ... like when brought back etc. Not neccesarily a Lib site, any place that has Cordinates. The PAD has to be inside the trapping area... Inside the actual Loft front (Back or where they trap into) The bands also vary from one maker to another... and only certain ones will operate in the ET that one purchases.

And grit is removed Tuesday / Wednesday, just extra wieght.

Well considering what they achieved in the war years the whole program was - As far as I am concerned - very lame. When they use the 'Boomerang of homing. Night missions ... whih suprisinly Xanada was the well advanced and respected leaders... Cages used on the funnels of ships for them to home.... Lofts made and diguise via making the camaflaged by Trees, and WERE moved into forsets etc. and they found the... here 1000 years to 50 years ago and we are still learning. Only thing I see that might be o an interest is that the 'Joe Public was intrigued and may ge interested, then that will be a bonus.

Great line there beautyhomer Have the next 4 weeks taken care of lol.

Read through ... must be quarantined of course ... but sees that imports are still allow http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/notifiable/disease/ai/keptbirds/pigeons-ew.htm

ON THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW I MEAN.

Be nice if had an Auction up front... then 3 or 4 birds up for grabs via a telephone in Auction... JMO

Was a Time when some, incuding a very good farmer fancier that would take all the birds out and repair a mite and soak his whole loft with creasote. Then 3 weeks or more later would add new litter, and then place soe sifted litter from the stuff took out and sprikle that on top before returning the birds ... not cleaed out again for a year or so... then ame again.

Further it would appear that Grizzle is no a gene dominated by eiter sex... any or none can carry this trait.

Some find it inexcusable that too many birds with the wrong parentage are offered for sale. Two blues don't produce a blue checker. Two blues can't produce a mealy even if mealy is somewhere back in the line. However, all sons of an ash red hen are ALWAYS red - she will NEVER have a blue check or blue barred son. I know that several aspects of genetics are difficult to understand but all of us should be aware of the basics of color and pattern. If you're in there business of selling birds, there should be strict control over pairings to insure that the parentage of all offspring offered for sale is correct. I hope that the cost genetic testing of all birds sold will become a lot less expensive so that a buyer who is spending several thousand dollars is completely assured of the parentage of his purchases. This was another good site that the above poster found http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/pigeongenetics/

Kettering Wickstead Park ... No Wire and clear lib site... 40 miles South of Grantham

http://www.racing-pigeon-fancier.com/opal_factor.htm#colour Has other sections on the site REDFOXKRAUTHS

Walter Ronald Cox Don't any one know who he was?

, I understand grizzle is a modifier and not a color, come to that is it sex-linked? For example, If a blue check cock is placed with a grizzle hen and all the yb's produced are grizzle (three with mostly white, one dark grizzle), are these all male? I haven't paid much attention to color, pattern, or modifier inheritance, and I am beginning to have some interest in the subject.

This is an interesting site to see what will / can or does throw what. http://www.racing-pigeon-fancier.com/opal_factor.htm#colour A good reference for keeping an eye on what bred what or on a pedigree could even be handy.

Sorry meant the sammy one bel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR Out of hours telephone 020 7270 8960 Ref: 449/06 Date: 20 October 2006 Experts to meet to discuss salmonella in laying flocks The Health Protection Agency and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency are today hosting a conference to discuss the results of an EU-wide survey of salmonella in laying flocks. Technical experts from the HPA, VLA, Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), Food Standards Agency, European Commission and the British Egg Industry Council will attend the meeting at the Centre for Infections in north London. They will discuss the initial results of the European Food Safety Authority's survey of salmonella in layer flock holdings, published in June and the results of an analysis of information collected at the time of the survey. Measures including vaccination, good hygiene, disinfection and keeping rodent populations low will be shown to be protective against salmonella . With a high proportion of the UK laying flocks already vaccinated, the importance of rodent control will be stressed. Other presentations at the conference will provide information from research and surveillance in the layer flock sector in the UK and information on cases of Salmonella Enteritidis in humans. The European Commission and Defra will also indicate how the EU are intending to control salmonella in laying flocks across the EU and how legislation in the UK will be implemented through the National Control Plan for laying flocks. Professor John Threlfall an expert in gastrointestinal illness at the Health Protection Agency said, “This meeting will be a good opportunity for the Health Protection Agency to discuss the advances that have been made in food hygiene and the control and prevention of salmonella contamination of foodstuffs.“ The UK Zoonoses Report 2005 will also be launched at the conference today. The report summarises in one document data published in various sources over the last year and provides comparable data from previous years. It draws on information from humans, food and animals and covers the major food and water-borne zoonoses, including campylobacter, salmonella, vero-cytotoxin producing E. coli O157 (VTEC O157) and cryptosporidium, as well as the main notifiable zoonotic diseases of animals including bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, anthrax, rabies and BSE. Copies of the report are available on the Defra website at: www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/zoonoses/reports.htm. Notes to editors 1.The conference is aimed at people with an interest in the egg industry and public health. Media are welcome to attend and should contact: Abbie Sampson at Defra: 020 7238 6007 / 07799 583221 2.The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) released the initial results of its EU-wide survey of salmonella prevalence in layer flock holdings on 14 June. This can be accessed here www.efsa.europa.eu/en.html. The EFSA's final report is expected to be published in November.

Laboratory results received today have confirmed Newcastle Disease on a poultry holding in East Lothian . The results from Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge follow investigation of suspect disease at the holding in Fenton Barns, Drem. Newcastle Disease is a disease of poultry - it is not avian influenza and has no significant implications for public health. In response to this confirmation, the Scottish Executive, Defra and the State Veterinary Service are undertaking thorough epidemiological assessments to determine the source of the disease and the level of risk it may pose to other poultry. Restrictions have been put in place and poultry on the premises will be culled in line with EU requirements. A 3km protection zone and a 10km surveillance zone have been established. Within the 3km protection zone housing of poultry is required, and appropriate means of disinfection must be put in place at the entrances and exits to poultry premises. Throughout both areas the movements of poultry, captive birds, racing pigeons and hatching eggs are restricted and may only be moved under licence. Bird shows and other gatherings are banned. Keepers of poultry in the areas are being contacted with information on disease and how to maximise biosecurity protection for their flock. Further information See: Symptoms (news release) The Scottish Executive Contingency Plan for Newcastle Disease Latest