Wiley

just to add i believe your father was a good friend of Reg Smiths who is getting on in years now but is still fighting fit! And as im lead to believe your father was a very good secretary for our federation.

East London Federation is still in exsistance i am a member of it

alot of ppl use jealousy and celibacy

thats a very good tip, but you must also know your cocks, i've found that cocks who are most aggressive on the nest during breeding times are the ones who take to this method best, however i use a slightly bigger yb about one size of your fist, placed in nest bowl with another nest bowl on top so the cock can just peek at it, if it looks as if he will take to it i let him in with the yb and the bowl ontop of the youing bird is removed, you will notice he will sit and feed the young bird

the look crackers

happened to me 2-3 years back was racing really well decided to put all 18 into the race and was left with 1 bird lol and that was only mid way through the old bird season! But the 'Lone Ranger' put up one or 2 good performances afterwards though! but couldnt compete week in week out with just the one bird

welcome mate

your right sorry only just found this post!

like davey said give them a good ornithose treament, products that contain tylan are very good try get your hands on either normal tylan or a product called Doxy-T

nobody was questioning that mate?

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please dont insult me, i was stating my preference, yes you are right good stock pigeons will breed winners for many years, the father of my loft has bred me winners near enough every year and his 9 yr old now. But i always pair old pigeons to young pigeon, cos like you say since you mention my grandad would prefere a young lady, and would have more chance of knocking out a few good babies look at Des o Connor.

sorry timbarra, i think your doing what so many people seem to do with pigeons, and that is comparing them to the human race, were two different species, with different digestive systems and many different differences!

For an animal to use food as fuel, it must digest the food - break it down small enough to be absorbed into the bloodstream - and get rid of the waste products. A bird's gut looks much like your own, but there are some differences. Many seed and grain-eating birds have a crop connected to the esophagus. The expandable crop allows birds to quickly gather and store a large amount of food, then retreat to safety to digest it. bird has two stomachs (we have one) to digest its food in record time. In four hours, a Spur-winged Goose can digest the same meal that it takes a rabbit 24 hours to digest. In the upper stomach, the proventriculus, food is broken down with digestive enzymes.The lower stomach, the ventriculus, or gizzard, is a tough, muscular organ which crushes and grinds up the food, just like our teeth do for us. Remember a bird has no teeth, so it swallows food whole. Birds that eat plants and seeds have more powerful gizzards than meat and fish eaters. Many birds swallow grit or gravel to help the gizzard break down food.

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young stock, your stock shed shouldnt be a old age pensioners home

I look for all 3 that you have listed, in the pedigree i look for winners in every generation, particular the parents, "The apple never falls to far from the tree", They have 3 years to breed winners, if not there out.

get better soon rose

lmao new boxes are going in widowhood shed end of season there donkeys years old!

White lightning bred by Archie aka thefifer

theres also a method, with a specialised box that only requires one hen! If you have the small is beautiful series take a look at henry gonsalves method!

if it was a sprint yes!

No you can do it vice versa, hens are very good on the jealousy/widowhood system, some say even better then the cocks! But it all comes down to how much room and time that you have on your hands to do it!

sorry of your sad loss but id be wondering why it had died?

lol jealousy system is basically all about territory and jealousy towards another cock, if you can find a way to do this you will unlock a very valuable key! But be warned the widowhood system now days is turning much more into a jealousy system!