Wiley

the best white pigeon in my mind was alf bakers 'OMO'

i consentrate on sprint, the birds get young bird racing and yearlings if not done anything then they dont progress in my race team, the aim is they have to score every season in the top 10 of the federation to stay here,

Jack barkel would be a top man to answer this query

same here never seen it, and i make my garlic water very very strong, u havent perhaps used the garlic oil you can buy and put that in the water have you?

but is his widowhood hen boxed ;D ;D lol only joking

doesnt surpirse me that the feathering was loose, due to pigeons not having sweat glands, so quiet possibly the feathering was bred specifically as a system to allow air flow to be much better in aid maybe a cooling system.

have to agree love the stuff

nope im lead to believe near enough all pigeons have exactly the same feather count, remember hearing it in a quiz once, however his on about the texture of feather, such as silky feathering where birds seem like they could slip out of your hand, it makes alot of sense, thinking about it why fanciers in britain try to obtain or feed to achieve this, as britain in comparrison would be very damp ect. be interesting to find views of fanciers from other countries where the weather is much much wormer to say what there feather constitution consists of?

phil, exactly what i will be doing with my racers this season

Many roads lead to rome, and everyone has different methods on how they pair how do you pair? Myself i do, 2 tests, if they look good together on paper, they go to the second stage which i like to call the blind stage, which is taking each possible pigeon in the hand, with eyes absolutely closed, and just go on what i can feel, while handling the bird, balence, feathering, bone structure, muscle, one tail flight ect. How do you pair?

well i can only go on in the times where everyone near enough races widowhood and it is yes only the cocks, however the cocks themselves, children of the silver hens, seem to produce the occassional silver hens, and i have known for these silver hens to be 4-5 times a winner,

thing is glassfeather this theory hasnt just happened over the one strain, i know 3 different fanciers at the moment who swear by this and each and everyone of them have different strains and lines of pigeons, but it isnt the silvers that are performing it is there offspring

be hard as the camera i have is on a mobile so wouldnt do the bird any justice and wouldnt get entirely close enough, thanks for all the information guys appreciate it!

yep bit of a travel, ive never entered a show as never been interested in showing birds however have a bird i reckon can score init so i want to try my chances

if anyone knows any london or essex pigeons shows going on would someone send me a pm, with the dates for the eyesign?

i remember the old timers telling me about Old Man Billy Lynch(SNR), racing in custom house a pigeon with a stump on one leg, and what a racer it was.

was very interesting jimmy topic, but to add another thing to the twist, the fanciers who used to stock silver hens, the silver hens very rarely bred silvers, however the normal coloured offspring such as normal blue or a cheq used to be brillant birds out of the great silver hens.

sorry have to disagree had a few carry old flights, and as yearlings came out as good birds, even a yearling who went to stonehaven and scored in the top 20 of the lnrc, its a load of gobaldegook that if they dnt complete moult out the wing they wont turn out to be good racers. One hen in question took 12 cards in one season and she was carrying two flights from as a darkness youngster.

im sure ive seen these in blackpool i have been very interested in this breed for about six years but have never aquired the name is there any breeder list?

going off topic but is the name of the fancy bird, titled brown?

looks like a mealy to me?

do you know the reason why, its quiet intriguing

i think you must be on about North West homing Union rings

i have to agree, with the dry widowhood always found it better with the birds that had been 2 -3 yrs old who had youngsters as yearlings

one tweak widowhood cocks boxed