Wiley

Just to state these are the last delivery birds in the world according to most sources. http://www.shoprma.com/pigeon-express.htm http://www.shoprma.com/pigeon_story.htm they are also on facebook

you are correct!

Frank & Ann Tasker took up the challenge, it was on the BBC however they have now taken the video down, but there is some linked to it on youtube. Ray Knight had some heavy involvement.

there is a pigeon post, if it can be considered that somewhere in america, where a photographer takes photos of white water rafters, he then places the film on pigeons back and releases it, so it gets back to the gift shop, where by the time the people have finished the trip all photos have been recieved and printed and waiting for the punters to buy.

Paul Haelterman once said something along the lines of " The More Snow You Have in Your Loft In The Winter, the more first prizes in the summer". The more i think of this makes me understand why hundreds of fanciers put birds but mainly there hens in an avairy over winter. Personally im someone who reads between the lines and have gathered my own understanding of the quote, and its along the lines of health. But my question for the ones that do it for there hens only, why and not your cocks aswell?

where these the same strain of bird he had before he moved up to scotland the Gevearts Van Schoorisse, as i know a few people who went to him direct and are destroying the competition they race against

COTTONHEAT I did make an offer to you on the sale, to come down to your place and pick out a pair of the pigeons you had for sale on elimar,after you said that you had changed your mind and now keeping the lot as they had bred you many winners, any reason for the change of plans?

if it was purchased from belg it would have come from the province of oost vlaanderen(east flanders), if thats any help

yes LNRC from witton castle

only with the 019 line

the throat is the only theory I believe in. You will very rarely ever find a hen with a throat score of 10. However in an ideal world you would pair a 10 with a 10, the higher the score to 20 the better.

Basketing for the LNRC today

Used to happen this way, however i belive it was found many people would cheat by creating multiple accounts and casting votes for there own entrants

only brought in one pair last year, and they bred me a fed winner, and a brother to score, twice in the fed! So cannot grumble

all ways thought protein and fats, as they had thermogenic properties?

u'll find very little peregrine trouble in the big smoke mate

Myself personally ive always thought that to be a theory, ive only ever had one good pigeon occupy the top box in my lofts, maybe that also has got something to do with the family of birds housed,

Was reading the Bhw this week when i cam across an article that interested me, and thought would make a great discussion on the reasons why. Let me explain, the scribe wrote about having a young bird go astray into a top young bird fanciers loft, with the top young bird fanciers wife letting the scribe in, he caught glimpse of this fanciers young bird loft, where he only had one perch. the scribe asked him why and the fancier said "the pigeon that takes that perch is very special" and thats all that was said. He also stated another top young bird fancier had no perches but a couple of empty paint tins in his shed where his young birds would perch. Was wondering what peoples opinions on this was, and why they believe the above fanciers were on top of there game. Myself personally believe it has to be about terriory where pigeons would always be competeing against the birds trying to overtake his place in the loft, and would feel it would be a great motivation, however just dont feel it would be fair on the birds with all the others sitting around the floor. What are your thoughts?

LMAO

http://www.gamesinaflash.com/play.php?id=25

shame im going away Sunday sapper would have invited you round to the lofts, i would have invited you round saturday, but we are racing and visits on a saturday are a big no no here. Where abouts in London are you going? I have a few choices here to look after my birds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10856523

The way it was sectioned moons ago was ideal

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Douglas Adams: Forty-two. Mohammed Aldouri (Iraqi ambassador): The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We don't even have a chicken. Aristotle: To actualize its potential. Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature. George W. Bush: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here. Bill Clinton: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define chicken, please? Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence. Salvador Dali: The Fish. Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically dispositioned to cross roads. Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned,because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD! Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. Emerson: The chicken didn't cross the road; it transcended it. Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death. Epicurus: For fun. Louis Farrakhan: The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken "crossed" the black man in order to trample him and keep him down. Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it. Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road, and that was good enough for us. Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast. Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas. David Hume: Out of custom and habit. Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being. Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. Captain Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take. John Lennon: Imagine all the chickens crossing roads in peace. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Moses: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the Chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing. Agent Mulder: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross the road before you believe it? Ralph Nader: The chicken's habitat on the original side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrialist greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV. Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you. Richard M. Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road. Plato: For the greater good. Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road? Ronald Reagan: I forget. Colonel Sanders: I missed one? Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road. Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway? Where do they get these chickens?" Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told! B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will. The Sphinx: You tell me. Oliver Stone: The question is not, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Rather, it is, "Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?" Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too! Thoreau: To live deliberatelyand suck all the marrow out of life. Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out. Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. Voltaire: I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I will defend to the death its right to do it. Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence. Molly Yard: It was a hen! Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.