big blue bar

i fly in angus fed and our birds were liberated on sunday by the sounds of all the posts on here . maybe just as well cause we only droped one out of 17 best returnes we have had this season , maybe there is alot of clashing going on ? don t know if there were alot of birds heldover but we certainly had a good race

read all the posts about breeding of there best pairs and all that WE HAVE and still have had BIG losses . the fed tryed tosses with the transporter last year with very good returns however this year has been a disaster for alot of clubs on the east coast i have spoke to alot of fanciers on the east who trained with the transporter this year and ALL had big losses they were sent to lethem in fife whitch is about 45 to 50 miles to us we sent 39 and lost 11 big chunck out of the team before racing most of the guys on the east side were all the same but the clubs inland had a differnt story they all had good returns is it that the birds now what is goiung to happen when flying the coast there is perigines working 7 miles from us and i don t now how many other pairs there is along the coast but it seems to me that the birds end up flying inland to aviod bops only to be draged up into aberdeen or futher the birds i got back from fife. well you would think that they would not get lost. first race was yesterday sent 19 missing 9 to date

he said he was 78

its the only way .we all think this one is a good one, that one is good a one. and every year at the start of a season your full of excitment thinking this year they are going to fly better and don t . thing have to change. kill of the one that have nt produced year after year even though they have the best of ped or do you try a diffrent mate for another year to find out that the birds are the same YOU HAVE TO BE RUTHLESS

he is still the MANN when it comes to channel races

after picking up PMV last year in my y/bird team and having to stop racing did nt expect to much BUT what a season we have had we only fly in a small club with 5 members . starting with 14 widowhood cocks we have had 3 firsts, 7 ,2nds only three races out of the 12 that we did nt have 4 birds in first 6 we have had a brill season . This is the first time we have tryed across the water since starting up again and timed in both birds we sent we won the old bird ave,s for the first time and points cup . losses we have 8 cocks left out of 14 so plenty room for yearlings to come in if we have any left . we have kept birds since the 80 s with not alot of success my father gave up racing 8 years ago and when he retired 2years ago i decided to race what he had 3 years ago , got rid of all the sh*t and really started again and that is us reeping the rewards 3 years on with our 2 year olds and yearlings my father now cana wait for the weekends .its a pitty this season has to end . lets hope the y/birds do as well as the old girds

1 E MANN 865.47 2 D&D HAY 851.74 3 E MANN 846.26 4 E MANN 839.61` 5 D&D HAY 785.27 6 E MANN 760.99 7 E MANN 756.80 8 B CRAIG 689.06 E MANN WINS SARTILY CUP E MANN WINS THREE LONGEST RACES AVE'S 987.20 RUNNER UP D&D HAY 977.48 D&D HAY SILVER CUP FOR 2 PLACE FROM CLERMONT D&D HAY WIN OLD BIRD AV D&D HAY OLD BIRD POINTS CUP

2 out of 2 first time been across the water for years only started racing again three years ago. one at 8 am and other at 9 43 am sunday well chuffed . eddie mann flys in our club he had 5 out of 6 in clock before 10am on sunday

this bird has a injury to its neck

1 J&J LEVEN 1439.60 2 D &D HAY 1424.66 3 D&D HAY 1368.92 4 B CRAIG 1353.44 5 D &D HAY 1347.19 6 D&D HAY 1336.69 7 J&J LEVEN 1246.90 8 J&J LEVEN 1207.48

died of its injures the next day

a none fancier handed this bird into me tonight

2 out of 3 late though 6 43 and 7 52 still happy to see them

leicester 1 D&D HAY 1242.45 2 B CRAIG 1224.12 3 J&J LEVEN 1206.95 4 D&D HAY 1182.50 5 D&D HAY 1173.85 6 B CRAIG 1150.91 7 E MANN 1145.18 8 J&J LEVEN 1129.42

i m not saying that the crow did nt do this to your bird but we have crows nesting in a tree at the back of our loft and had no probs . i m glad they are there because last week a peregine attacked my young bird team at my loft and the crow chased it away might of lost some birds if it was nt there .

leicester 30/5/2010 1 B CRAIG 955.76 2 E MANN 955.12 3 D&D HAY 916.93 4 J &J LEVEN 910.57 5 D&D HAY 902.45 6 D& D HAY 882.24 7 J&J LEVEN 878.95 9 D&D HAY 865.73

we have been lib at liecster 7 am this morning into a varable wind its raining here at moment just wondered how the weather is where every body is

had my y/ bird team out the day when they were attacked by a perigine luckily it did nt get any and we are very fortunate to have some crows neating near by because they chased it off , hopfully it won t be back

WAKEFIELD 1 J&J LEVEN 1333.06 2 D&D HAY 1301.07 3 B CRAIG 1299.81 4 D&D HAY 1297.18 5 E MANN 1266.41 6 D&D HAY 1260.27 7 E MANN 1243.85 8 D&D HAY 1241.81 9 E MANN 1204.68

angus fed at wakefield 221 to us

last yearling hen turned up this morning 100% returns for us . chuffed to bits

we have only have a small team but have 5 left out of 9 but only 2 of them completed the y/bird program. one of them that had two 1st as y/bird was first club for us from ripon this last week

13out of 14 i was at the loft at 4pm today when one of my yearling hen came in.it was her first race. we were at ripon 189mls i think overall up here good returns

last year we got stopped racing prematurly because our young bird team picked up pmv we did get to the last 4 races in the y bird season picking up 2 firsts and a 2nd out of that races so i had been looking forward to this year. well there is life after pmv if anybody does happen to get this horrable disease in there loft. last year we got stopped at wakefield with a team of yearlings flying well . this year they have excelled beyond my expectation so far we have had to date 14 top six positions so far 2 of them being firsts three of these birds are yearlings that had pmv one of them was first for us this week the other two have had second places each out of this 4 races so far. i m over the moon i just hope this lasts . so if anybody s birds pick up pmv there is life after it

i cana see past widowhood cocks 10 cocks been before the hens every week. mind you the hens i m flying are the ones that we ve lost there cocks we started with 16 cocks most of ours cocks are bussharts one staff van reet and 2 jannsens only 2 of them have nt been in the clock out of 4 races