big blue bar

and another from Roye three year old half his wing missing but starting to come in, he had been reported three weeks ago the guy had tossed him in good condition so must off been hit on his way home , glad to see him

This bird belongs to me 01561361526 David

We have had two more return from Roye this week taking us up to 3/6 both have been injured ,anybody else having birds return late and injured ?

Gourdon & Dist first y/bird race 3 members sent 56 birds to Arniston , fingers crossed they get a good race. 75mls to us

I always hear about line of flight thrown in for training correctly ,Well let me tell you where we are on the east coast at Gourdon (look it up on google map ) our line of flight is all across water from Berick .How the *uck am I going to get my birds to come across a gulf off water as big as the channel , dina get me wrong we do get good results but our birds are at a BIG disadvantage ( example Roye - Forfar 534mls ,Gourdon 534 mls ) I know good birds win anywhere and we have topped the fed before ,only with y/birds never with old birds ,so somebody explain to me how to train to win where we are

5/5 for us

I'm gutted we got 6/14 never in all my racing life have we had so bad a returns, maybe some weren't up to the task but think what abody is saying about the weather it must off played a part . We had a 5 year old hen reported at Nottingham it came in to the guy on Saturday he fed and watered her and she turned up on tue afternoon ,she had only flown 150 mls on Saturday before going in to him

good point Derick i'm going to suggest this to our members for this season

Stick with it Philg50 the birds that you have left must have a brain if they've came back from a scatter , just think you would of probably lost the ones that are missing anyway

I've took ours off early this year to see if it helps them get through the moult before Dec

he would off being doing a mile a minute if he came in !!

good race too 1700 vel

our first two birds home from wakefield 221 miles this one off them dripping with blood few feathers out ,but hopfully he will make a good recovery ,finished for this season

4 MEMBERS SENT 36 BIRDS INTO STRONG NORTH WEST WIND 1 D D HAY 843 2 D D HAY 843 3 D D HAY 799 4 D D HAY 791 5 D D HAY 746 6 E MANN 744 7 E MANN 730 8 D D HAY 706 9 M CRAIG 646 10 B CRAIG 545

Def not a sand martin they are more of a browny colour and seen a swallow yesterday

Seen the first house martins of the year today lot earlier than previous years normally about 16-24 April before we see them up here in the north east of Scotland, maybe a sign of a good summer

SU 15 AF 657 couple of races as a youngster , high hopes for this one his half sister and brother both scored well as yearlings

Update on floating eggs 5 out off the 6 are going to hatch but they take 21-22 days to come out

That the first off our youngsters hatching out , how is everybody else getting on or are we one off the early ones to have youngsters

Very true tiger

Did'nt expect them to lay so quick and the widows have not layed yet ,was wanting to get the eggs under some of the pairs that we aren't taking youngsters off

That's our first eggs from our stock bird eggs laid yesterday and was thinking of storing them till our widows lay next week ,anybody tried storing eggs and how successful was it

put 5 pair stock together today / widows next week and leaving 4 pair off latebreds to get on with it

we havn't had YBS for a couple of seasons now , noticed some of the first symptoms mentioned , them not interested in coming in after flying out another to look out for is green slimy droppings , we must deal with it at the earliest stage possible .if they get as far as the throwing up stage they need to be removed that is if you can see which bird is doing the throwing up . not wanting to say I have the miracle cure ( to stong a statement ) but worked for us and its not a pigeon product that you pay an arm and a leg for , not going to post it on an open post , and for the record we fly our young birds , winning all ybird trophys points ave and all the local 2bird races this past year not as good the returns as we would of liked but there was other problems in the skys this year more than previous years

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