Tony C

100% for me and most club members

Win! You cant buy self satisfaction

I've heard of fanciers giving their breeders rabbit pellets. Anyone here feed them?

Thank you

1st & 2nd, 345b worth the stewing

We dont do our clocks till 7:30pm and not wanting to know any times I just sit and stew wondering how I've done till then

I'm doing 55mph on the north rd

Dagenham Essex not a cloud in the sky, light westerly. Hope its not one of those days.

West Essex up a 8:00 out of Wetherby

Put 10 of each so called sprint/middle/long distance pigeons in your y/b team and train them together out to 50 miles, £ to a pinch of salt they’ll all drop together. How come!

22 w/hood cocks and 9 natural cocks to Wetherby 177miles

West Essex Fed at Wetherby

'How to become and stay a champion' ( think thats the title) is a good one written by Jules Gallez.

Give a very good sprint fancier any of the above strains (plus many that haven’t been mentioned) and they’ll win. Simple as!

Who told you? did they explain how they come to that conclusion?

;D ;D ;D ;D you named that tune in one ;D

Is there such a thing :-/

Treating blind perhaps, sometimes we have to work on probabilities.

Vomiting is the most obvious sign but if you don’t happen to see this and the other pigeons eat that corn you'll be none the wiser. A sign to look out for is a pigeon or two sitting out taking no notice when you call them in, they just remain stationary. Another sign is their droppings become green and sticky. You don’t actually treat for y/b/s you treat for any secondary infection that might take hold. I would day if you've had any problems in the last year (old birds) i.e. e-coli, respiratory, Candida treat for these, if they've had a clean bill of health in the last year just let them fight it without antibiotics. Feed them light and put yogurt in the drinker one day ACV the next. Any pigeon found with a full crop of undigested food I remove from the loft for 24 hours or until its either spewed or digested its food

I think I can best way I can define character in a pigeon is that they know exactly whats going on around them.

Have you been training them back to their hens this week?

Pigeons/animals lead simple life’s, well that is until you study them ;D. We the fancier control when they eat, drink, rest and procreate, the four main things they live for, withhold any of these and they let you know about it. Get them into a routine, when you exercise when you feed etc they start to tell you when the time for these things are. To me 'what makes them tick' is tapping into these things (eat, drink, rest and procreate) and trying to understand what they're trying to tell you. By studying them individually you can evaluate a pigeon better than any eye sign or by handling the pigeon or by the conformity of its body. I look for their character, I've found the more the character the better the pigeon. The characteristic I like best in a pigeon is the one where they're studying me, look for them they're there.

lol yes you read them both.

Management to me means learning what make pigeons tick.

Selection, breeding, training, feeding, loft, contentment, conditioning. I'd say 60% fancier 40% pigeon.