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where you racing from gary ? its dull and spitting on rain down here in inverbervie , visibility s good though

I ve started tossing them in single and twos . I think the perigine can spot the batch easier than when they are on there own or just two it might gives the doos the upper hand

are they hienz 55 s ?

we don t start till next week we are at arniston it 75 to us clockman

thanks for the advise guys . looks like the shutting him in the basket has done the trick he,s not been bothering the yearling today . and i was thinking the same about the motavation , our first race is next week so the yearling cock will be in old cocks box with old cocks hen .

This week we have had a widow cock fighting with another cock . the cock in question is a 3 year old he has started going into a yearlings box and made a wright mess of him . Is there any way of stopping him ? we have been putting him in a basket as soon as he trys to go in to the yearlings box . Week before racing ( ALL WE NEED EH )

think we have had our first sparrow attack yesterday . one of the widows are missing and there was a puff of feathers in the middle of the garden . hope this is nt the start of them bothering the racers . they almost killed all my white fantails begining of 2010

A fancier that i had given young birds from 2009 and 2010 decided to pack up so i asked for him to keep them and i would take them back to my place . We are about 10 miles from his loft and north . There was three birds 2 cocks 1 hen one yearling and 2 two year olds all the birds have been raced the yearling went the full y/bird program . I think i got them end off jan ,so paired them up and got them settled into the loft . They are both sitting big youngsters ,so today i decided to let out the cocks with the widows thinking that they would disapear straight away, well i was plesently surprized tonight when i got home that they were still around the yearling came in with the widows and while i was feeding the birds after they were all in the other one landed on the loft and came in too . What a RESULT

we did well last season with our widow cocks so we have joined the national this year and hopfully clock in from some of them we are the furthest flying on the east coast. I think its section e. So it will be hard to compete but we ll have a go like they say if your not in you cana win it . did nt try out the hens till the come back races last year so we are going to try out round about and hope to get some hens across the water . the ybirds did nt fly as well as we hoped they were all on the darkness so this year we are going to have two teams one with 20 on the darkness and the rest ( about 30 ) on natural to see how they go . ROLL ON THE RACEING

second and third pics are the darkness youngsters next ones are young birds from my stock birdsthis pic is my first barless mealy

not been a bad start for us we have only had 2 clear eggs to date . all hatch no probs . 23 weaned and starting to take a flutter round the loft .10 more ready to come away middle of next week . team almost full

i had a pair last year that did the same with the tobbaco stalks

what about your y/ birds ? get them out on the loft it might take them down seeing birds on the loft

cheers alf i ll give them a buzz the morn

any suggestions on a good (cheap)couirer

i call myself a novice at channel racing even though i have kept birds a long time . does it really matter when they are paired up we paired up the widow team in dec and last year sent two to clermont on there 4 th flight and got both of them in the early morning flying 552 .Do we look into this pairing up late to much or am i just lucky

20 y/birds so far in the nest 18 are rung 12 due out next week . was having a look at them today out off the 18 that are feathered 14 blues two blacks and one b ch and one mealy . alot of blues the blacks are going to look out of place

how do u know the mealy will be a cock ? does the g/parents have any say in the colors the cock was off a red cock and a bl pied hen and the hen is of two reds

was at the loft today and noticed one of the sets off y/birds were not the color i was expecting red ch hen and a dark ch cock have a blue and a mealy in the nest . how can this be ?

A member in our fed clocked 2 yearlings in from clermont last year 1st and 2nd fed he was from arbroath prob flying 530 mls

had the same problem last year with a couple of hen just after laying . The hen will be ok just feed and water her in her box for a couple of days and she should be fine .

just a select few of the birds we have

i paired up 28 dec and first eggs were laid yesterday only 5 though out of 25 pair

oh aye ant . The best season we have ever had . LETS HOPE FOR MORE OF THE SAME THIS YEAR

all ten off them . old bird points , old bird ave , first five aves ,liester cup , yearling trophy , three longest race aves , runner up clermont , first five y/birds ave , lowest winning vel y/birds and combine aves