Wiley

Jimmy one conversation i bring up for major losses is that most people train there young birds too late. Nowdays most people breed in December-January, but they dont train till 3 weeks before the first young bird race. Now a pigeon i do not know its ageing but they grow at an unbelieveable rate, if they say a dog is 8 years to a year i believe a pigeon would be double or even triple that. Now those later bred youngster bred in April, these ybs are pushed up in the air, and are forced to go through the paces, so by end of July they can get into the first young bird races at around 12 -14 weeks old, while those bred in decemeber are now 6 months old before they are being trained, when in fact they should have been trained around march time, but because everyone concentrates on there ob racing the early bred young birds are given the backseat, untill the old bird racing comes to a close. just my personal opinion and have personally found that through the years ive kept onto my later rounds then the 1st round, its just like a 40 yr old man with no education, being chucked into school, the saying old dog dnt learn new tricks is a fallicy, but old dogs find it harder to learn new tricks is absolutely TRUE!

i made my own of these boxes, 2 cocks to 1 hen the cocks raced well on the system

may sound silly but have you checked the area near her *expletive removed*, if there is any dropping stuck ect, ive had this in past and treated with baycox and it cleared up, as i believed it to be cocci

GB00E 99287, Dark Chequer Cock for Sale, 100% fertile. He is a Grandson of Champion Parky a winner of 1st club,1st federation, 1st combine weymouth 4,903 birds. Also 19th and 27th combine ect. Also a grandson of champion tommy tucker, winner of 18x1st from 190-308mls, topper of the ulster fed for 2 consecutive weeks. Great Grandam is Lazareen, dam and g.dam of winners of 1st combine, Magic blue is also the gr gransire on both sides of the pedigree known as the best sprinter in europe he is a winner of 30x1st. This cock has bred many a gd bird to score in club and federation level, a daughter of this cock last season was 2nd club, beaten by a decimal, I would like £40 or nearest offer. Serious enquiries only please via PM,

the best way to administrate garlic i feel is to chop it into pea size pieces and straight down the throat, do this in the racing season and watch the down fall

gotta been dead since late 80's roughly

the old wally pope everyone knew in east london, lived in east ham and ran a corn shop! passed many years ago

anyone live in this area could they send me a pm!

to me with stock to be test they have to go with 3 different hens in 3 season and at least 6 with each, if none are winners or scored well in my eyes are no good,

you'll be surprised the main breeding season for many now is early december

to be honest the best respiratory treatment you can get is linco spectin

How did Bernie Do with them?

guessing your using the german type roll over fronts?

Be interesting to gather everyones opinions on what they do and how they get the feathers falling and the feeding as such! Personally mine are all fed on a sort of 50/50 basic mixture half widowhood and half barley or depurative. My darkness young birds would be split into there new sections and the darkness young birds would not be let out for a whole month. On the corn twice a week they will get some fine oils a mixture of 5 different oils and multivitamins, they are also fed lots of oily seeds during this time of year. They also recieve nettle tea for the first 14 days of this period, then once every week from there. No treatment is given during this period, only tea, and garlic in the drinker. However i notice the more proportion of barley in the feed, seems to chuck out the feathers more quickly just an observation from experiements ive conducted over the last few years, and seems to keep them in brillant health through these winter months. I also where i work nights let them out after this month locked up out every single day, no forced flying they can do as they wish, have a bath, lounge about ect. Has anyone used the 24hrs no water method which im believed they use in chicken farming to bring on the moult?

im hoping to be up there this year but touch and go atm

Myself im a big fan of the crossings,

aye lol and that hen i bought at blackpool you didnt rate very much 2 yrs ago speck, has bred 4 individual winners and a 26th combine winner lol Lets just say i rate the tasker birds very very highly and they are proving there worth at my lofts, that is just one of the pigeons at stock at this strain thtas produced me some very good birds, and these are the birds im hoping to build a team around in the future.

look a crackin pair of birds

id very much doubt that

trapping is a fine art, and you need to fine tune it to your birds every year, as young birds and as old birds, it takes a matter of 3 days, ive wrote about it before on the website somewhere and of sometime ago its a procedure i have done for the last 2-3 seasons and hardly if ever get a bad trap, its starts on the first training toss, if those birds dont trap straight from the sky, the ones that do will be given half a mixture the ones that don't trap recieve nothing, the 2nd toss and 2nd day the ones that didnt trap from the air the previous day some will today, however if they dont can guareentee they will the third day, but the idea is to give them a treat after they have trapped well, like a peanut or such, as then they associate trapping with a treat, its like any animal to teach them tricks it must be with food, and once they have gained this trick, they can be fed as normal, however they must perform how you want them to(i.e trapping) if they dont no treat if you catch my drift

just a bloody shame there cocks stuart, as im looking to introduce a fast sprint hen

its a mosaic

the 'Oliepot' many great strains came from this pigeons introduction

Surely Magic Blue would also have to be considered, and how about Frank Tasker's Champion Filmstar

vic give me a pm?