Tony C

Very little once the youngbirds start to perch up, I rake mine over once a week.

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A much to sensible a suggestion Vic for the RPRA to comprehend. I would say the sport lose more fanciers to the seemingly endless bombardment of modern day illnesses our pigeons are encountering than to anything else. Much easier for the RPRA to bury its head in the sand BUT this one aint gonna go away!

LNRC at Witton Castle, no news yet.

Not a cloud in the sky, no wind, moon still visible. I don’t like it captain..... its too quiet!

Am I right in thinking that by vaccinating your actually introducing a small enough dose of Paratyphoid into the pigeon to stimulates the body into producing antibodies to fight it off should it come into contact with it at a later date. A carrier pigeon will already have these antibodies so once the course of Baytril has done its work and rid the body of Paratyphoid I cant see whats to be gained by vaccinating. The antibodies are already in place.

The bit I cant get my head around is a carrier must have built up antibodies not to succumb to the full blown effects of Paratyphoid, by giving it a course of Baytril the Paratyphoid will be eliminated from the pigeon but surly the antibodies will remain. So my question is why vaccinate as the antibodies to fight this are already in place. :-/

It was the black nestfelts, no doubt about it.

Its very easy to let darkness youngsters to go lazy on you early doors, get them up and flying as quick as you can.

I pair all my w/h team & stock the week after Blackpool, float the eggs from stock under the w/h team and let them go down again. Both lots of y/birds are put on the darkness. If its the best time I dont know but it works for me.

I let mine out once or twice a week throughout winter when the weathers fine, a little bit of sun does them good.

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My youngbirds are fed the following mix whatever that works out to maize 33% wheat 15% dari/milo 12% peas 9% toasted soya 7% safflowerseed 6% barley 4% vetches 3% maple peas 2% buckwheat 2% kadjang idjoe 2% millet 1.5% sunflowerseed 1.5% linseed 1% canary seed 1%

Avian salmonellosis is caused by a group of bacteria of the genus salmonella. Approximately 2,300 different strains of salmonellae have been identified, and these are placed into groupings called “serovars” on the basis of their antigens or substances that induce immune response by the host, such as the production of specific antibody to the antigen. Current taxonomic nomenclature considers the 2,300 different serovars to be variants of two species, http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/field_manual/chapter_9.pdf

Still one more race to go yet, I'll then sit in me rocking chair, light my pipe and reflect on how it went

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You wont find one Steve. There's a club just up the road from me that races in the C.O.E Fed so if your after something specific I’ll see what I can do.

Perhaps the natural young birds chucked the game in quicker?

It depends a lot on the time of year and how fit the birds are. Winter months and when they're moulting things take a little longer. With a pair that click straight away during the summer you will see the cock start to drive the hen hard from the 5th day of pairing and you should expect to see eggs from the 8th day onwards.

This hasn’t happened to me personally but I’ve heard of a few occasions where fanciers have had teams of darkness young birds unwilling to fly. Come the time to train these teams they haven’t gone running/ranging subsequently big losses from these initial tosses are encountered. I don’t know if its a health issue or a management issue why some teams refuse to fly but on all occasions losses have been big and results have been poor. Now on saying that I fly my young birds on the darkness and since I have my losses are on par if not less than teams flown on the natural method.

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West Essex Fed at Newark, no news yet.

Blue skies, no wind, little in the way of mist