Wiley

Behave!!

Tonys one of the best around Pete, top bloke, top fancier and a top friend.

U can also use food colouring for same affect to see if air ways are clear

Have to admit I like the bamfords range, and the conditioner is something I always have in my arsenal

Soupie, The way the pigeon flies just over a mile, and He was broke over as a 2yr old, but my uncle only raced him as a baby so he wasn't raced as a yearling at all.

dal the positions under my name A. Gadsdon & Son, are the position this bird won when i broke the bird out at my lofts, the positions under my uncles name R. Hales & Son are the position this bird won at his lofts, if that makes sense....

Just a photo ive done for my Uncle Ronnie Hales, of one of his cocks that I transferred and broke out when he had to leave the sport through ill health, his asked since ive started to do photographs to take some photos for him to keep his interest and to see his old pigeons, as he cant get about like he once could.

Did she have the baby at queens. Congratulations

Lol Wiley's Merchant Bankers

If I think they have what it takes to go the distance, they go 500 miles on widowhood

Vandenabeeles, I wouldn't look past Tony C on here

Both great birds Andy, but when observing the birds the 11 yr old chequer cock oozed intelligence.

Send em down del I'll try em

just another to show the quality of this loft

Yesterday I had pleasure to visit if not the best, one of the best lofts in London. It was a brilliant experience and I will be following it up in the pigeon press with an article. Below is one of their main cocks in the loft, 11 years old, still handles, fills and acts just like a yearling. A terrific pigeon. I was glad to be given the opportunity to photograph, not just this champion but many at the lofts, and its a great pleasure to be asked back in the summer.

Mine always stay in bags as I keep many different types in them

They generally had very small lofts also chad, so it came hand to hand. The racing pigeon is a direct descendent of the rock dove, and they're natural behaviours is similar. It is commonly found in rock dove colonies, that when nesting sites or roosting sites become scarce, birds in the colony leave or to put it in terms fly away, due to to much competition for roosting and nesting sites and then settle on a site where their is plenty of room.

Currently have 17 bags of grain stored in my flat in my bedroom, waiting for the racing season to start my quota for the whole racing season. Grain used everyday is stored in 2 wheelie bins which I can fit 5 20kg bags at a time.

TBH, dal, I do not feel I need to expand on it. IF the fly aways aren't caused by predatation, as I said IMO it down to over crowding, it is seen in nature from the rock doves on the rocky cliffs, and many years ago I introduced a new strain, and I wanted to breed as many young from this family as possible as a result I suffered with fly aways consequetively for 2 years. The 3rd year I reduced the numbers drastically that I bred, and touch wood I've never had a fly away again.

IMO fly always are linked to over crowding.

Mine have been going out for the last two weeks. However in those two weeks, I've had two cocks bashed up, and a 3 yr old hen not return.

Red Alert Bred and raced by Tony Webster

This is a photo done this morning while doing a loft report, on Tony Webster of Erith, Kent, this is one of his best birds

Get well soon mucker

I'm producing an article on a fancier over the weekend Andy so should have a few to work on. Been quiet tough at work ATM with single days off but I'll hopefully have a few examples up soon. This cock himself is a winner of 5x1st club, 4x2nd club and a 5th club including 1x1st fed and 2x2nd fed. I believe a basics member Sheba bought his parents as I did him at an entire clearance, he a Gevaert van Schoorise cross Andre Diereck. And has already bred good birds for me.