Tony C

Many London feds are to due race out of Newark this weekend. We're concerned that due to the recent flooding the site may be unfit or even under water. If anyone that lives local to the site could give us any info it would be appreciated. cheers

More into Reed Warblers digest ;D

If its a T2/T3 try opening the clock up then push down the plunger. What box number is showing? (number at the top)

Came across this at http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/RITCHISO//birddigestion.html The avian stomach is divided into 2 parts: Proventriculus - also called the glandular stomach; receives food from the esophagus & secretes mucus, HCl, and pepsinogen. Pepsinogen is converted into pepsin (a proteolytic, or protein-digesting, enzyme) by the HCl. Ventriculus (or gizzard): the avian equivalent of teeth very muscular (but less so in birds that eat meat, insects, nectar, and other 'soft' foods) used primarily to grind & break-up food (such as seeds) may, in seed-eating birds, contain grit (small stones ingested by the birds to help grind the food) lined with a tough, abrasive keratin-like layer of koilin, known as the cutica gastrica. Grinding action may, particularly in seed-eating birds, be assisted by grit and stones deliberately ingested.

West Essex Fed away from Wethrby @ 11:15, west wind

Take it easy & get well soon

Dagenham Essex, full cloud cover........leaden sky, could be in for some snow

LNRC Stonehaven.......Holdover

West Essex Open up at Retford 7:30, light south wind

Dagenham Essex. Cloudy with a few breaks, S/W wind

London North Road Combine at Stonehaven West Essex Federation Open at Retford

I think Sherlock will deduce from the above Its a left handed cock your talking about Wiley ;D

My whistle comes out of mothballs for weddings, funerals and court appearances only and never worn in or around the pigeon loft. ;D

No expert Vic but this is what they predict http://pages.unibas.ch/geo/mcr/3d/meteo/nmm22/00RRH2M.htm

Yes well done to us & them & you & 'me' ;D

Having done the checking for the first 20 positions each week in my federation for the last 3 years I cant recall one instance where a white pigeon has made the result.

90 days (or there abouts) before the last y/bird race I intend to send to.

http://www.electricfencing.co.uk/index.asp

This is taken from Grains, Fuel and Pigeon Racing By Gordon Chalmers, DVM Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Malt sprouts, and by extension, other sprouted grains, are high in protein and some vitamins at the time of sprouting, and once they get used to them, birds relish them and will eat them avidly. Hulled oats are the same as oat groats. As long as they are cooked first, soybeans can be fed to pigeons as well as to other classes of livestock. Don't feed raw soybeans to any livestock, including pigeons, because of the anti-nutritive substances they contain. Cooking destroys these substances and renders these beans suitable for feeding. Whey powder is listed for informational purposes, because it is high in lactose, a sugar that is a source of nutrient for "friendly" bacteria that are added to drinking water or feed, in plain yogurt or commercially available probiotics. These bacteria use the lactose as a source of nutrient, a by-product of which is lactic acid. In turn, the lactic acid helps to acidify intestinal contents and to create a hostile environment for unfriendly bacteria such as paratyphoid organisms, or disease- producing stains of E.coli, among others

West Essex Fed. at Newark

West Essex Fed. at Wetherby

:o :-/ Sometimes it directs you to the main page sometimes not lol If you have a photo of a loft your on the wrong page, if thats the case on the right hand side click articles this will open up another page then click Read all of this article ... 3/1/2001 Grains, Fuel and Pigeon Racing here's the link again http://www.kjsgroup.com/rprs/aspx/docview.aspx?/rprs/itlasp/March2001/GrainsFuelandPigeonRacing.asp

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/huntleyloft/Page1.html

Maybe not what your after lplates but well worth getting your head around nonetheless http://www.kjsgroup.com/rprs/aspx/docview.aspx?/rprs/itlasp/March2001/GrainsFuelandPigeonRacing.asp

Had one of those races the sooner forgot about the better. We went up ............err........had one ........on..........err.......... sh**! what was I going to say?, seems to have gone right out of my head. Ah well! couldn't have been that important anyway........ or was it............... :-/ :)