tam pepper

sqeaker , if you got the right stock , birds will fly to any loft , scraped or deep litter ,to make the statement that fancier,s on the deep litter are lazy is nonsense , you are assuming your method is the best , ive scraped as often as the rest of you guys , but would never return to that , you are distubing breeding birds , cleaning out boxes every day and they dont like it , the main thing is to have a loft that is bone dry , and facing south or southeast , and have the ventiation right . you would be a brave man to make that statement in the letters to the editor columms in THE BRITTISH HOMING WORLD TAM PEPPER

,,,,,,,,, every year usually , i have weldmesh on the floor , dropping fall into hydrated lime nest boxes are cleaned out after every round of young birds i also have double doors at the front of the loft which are open every day of the year , i treat for no diseases exept for paramyxo virus , i have never had any of the diseases that i read about , never even seen young dbird sickness i only keep ten pairs in a 12 x 6 loft tam pepper

not a good idea tammy unless its a springer at a dead bird , better to shoot them of the top of the bird it strikes , sparrowhawks will come down throw a batch of birds , the birds are to quick for them, i never seen them get lucky yet , another way to get them is to watch the male carrying to the nest , what you do about that is up to you tam pepper

does quickly and efficienltlymean birds lying for a week ,because they could not be retrieved from the water as there was no boat , this happened on loch leven, and up north , i distinctly remember a gamekeeper on the tv , about the lengh of time a swan lay dead in a loch , jack mc connel is trying to make the lib. lab coalition look good , and we all now they a load of crap ,if they got this this crisis right it will be a first , more hot air i suspect . tam pepper

Jas ,you got my sympathy, you are going to have to get tooled up , its 3 years since i lost a bird to a sparrowhawk, it was a young bird first time out was taken over a hayfield, i did all the correct things, unfortunately a buzzard took the bird before the sparrowhak came back, i have a cat box set all the time , my airgun has a pellet up the spout, and two springertraps in the shed , i also have another backup , but cant say what it is for obvious reasons . i hope you get the culprit jas. tam pepper

i was talking to my m8 yesterday at my front gate , we heard a fluttering commotion in a large fir tree in a back garden a few yards away . two birds fell out the tree and landed a few yards away, the larger firmly attached to the smaller , the larger was dispatched to birdie heaven , while the smaller a collared dove was in a sad state and in shock, to our amazement it flew up to a house roof with great determination . the collared dove sat for hours then was gone bye eveningi hope the poor little bird survives , tam pepper

tammy if it took vietnam3and a haff years to get rid of the virus , how long will it take ross finney and his traveling circus . they excuse for not getting the swan from loch leven was they didnt have a boat , theres at least forty boats on the loch fitted with outboards for fishing . were paying goverment officialsfirst world wages and pensions , and getting third world service , they havnt a clue , they are running around like headless chickens with avian flu . tam pepper

hi barry , why not tet your dog and your birds out when you are at home this would solve your problem

pompey micks question on the best time to train his birds from work has been on my mind a lot , thinking back over the years of all the strikes by peregrines and sparrowhawks, it occurred to me that i never got a single strike when it was raining, i wonder if any body has noticed this , or is it peculuar to me .. rain doesnt put me of for training , if the birds can fly around the loft for an hour and a half in rain they can train in it tam pepper

hi slatey sounds like a right *expletive removed* enist to me

hi bruno i saw the programe , about 150 rock doves , a years supply for the 2 peregrines , wonder what will be on the menue when the rock doves dry up , . choughs and corncrakes no doubt , the birds they are trying to encourage tam pepper

hijon jon why do you have to hand feed the young birds tam pepper

ha ha ha shelbin i,m sure they are tam pepper

SATURATION POINT IS THERE A SATURATION POINT , WHEN IT IS REACHED WHAT IS THE GAME PLAN , THE PLAIN FACT IS THERE IS NO GAME PLAN , THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY THE R.SP.B.. RAPTORS WILL BE CONTROLLED BE THE AVAILABILITY OF THEIR PREY , IN OTHER WORDS THE WILD BIRD POPULATIONS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE DECIMATED AND OUR BIRDS ARE GOING TO HARRASED EVEN MORE WHEN FLYING OUT, RACING, AND TRAINING, I AM TOTALY CONVINCED THAT RACES ARE BEING DISRUPTED BY PEREGRINES ,IT WOULD BE FOOLISH OF US TO THINK OTHERWISE,I PERSONALY HAVE HAVE BIRDS HOME WITH DAMAGE FROM A PEREGRINE STRIKE , IF THEY ATTACK OUR BIRDS IN TRAINING YOU CAN SAFELY ASSUMETHE SAME IS HAPPENING IN RACES . THEE WEEKS AGO I WAS GIVING MY JULY BIRDSA RUN FROM 20MILES ,THE BIRDS WERE LET OUT AND IMMEDIATLE STARTED THE QUICK ZIG ZAG MOTION THAT THEY DO WHEN A PEREGRINE IS THREATENING THEM , I NEVER SAW THE PEREGRINEAS IT WAS A BRIGHT SUNNY MORNING , THE BIRDS WERE ARRIVING ALL DAY AND THE NEXT MORNING ONE OF THEM A HEN HAD PRIMARY AND SECONDARYFLIGHTS MISSING NO OTHER DAMAGE , A NEAR MISS I THINK , THERES STILL 2 TO COME HOME THAT WAS THEIE FIFTH TRAININGRUN THE 3RD FROM THAT POINT . THE MAJORITY OF THE RINGS I FIND AT THENEST SITE NEAREST TO ME ARE N.W. FEDERATION BIRDS , THEY FLY THROUGH THIS AREA WHEN THERE THERE IS WEST IN THE WIND NORTH OF THE FORTH IN FIFE THERE ARE A PAIR ON LONGANNET POWER STATION CHIMMEY A SINGLE BIRD ON THE FORTH RAIL BRIDGE A PAIR AT INVERKEITHING QUARRY , A PAIR AT THE GOAT QUARRY NR CROSSGATES A PAIR AT ORROCK QUARRYNR THE PETRO CHEMICAL PLANT , A PAIR IN THE PETRO CHEMICAL PLANT, A PAIR IN REDCRAIGS TOLL QUARRY , A PAIR IN THE HILLS AT LOCH GLOW A PAIR IN NIVINSTONE CRAGS NR CLEISH ALL WITHIN TEN MILES OF OF MY LOFT , AND THE IRONIC PART IS THE RSPB ARE SAYING THEY ARE STILL RARE , WHEN THE ARE NOT WHO IS TRYING TO TAKE THE MICKEY AND HOODWINK THE PUBLIC . TAM PEPPER

the damage to that bird was not done in a few minutes ,more like half an hour a springer trap would have got the culprit , your going to be targeted again shortly , thats for sure , you have to be like bruno and be watching your birds all the time , tam pepper