Wiley

2. To be honest I was extremely lucky, my father was a successful fancier before I was even thought about.

Personally would like to mention a thank you to Andy, for approaching me to do this Q & A thread. I will try my best to make it as interesting as possible for those who fancy taking a look. 1. I was actually born into pigeons as my father had been a pigeon fancier since he was around 15 years old. Meaning I would have been in and around pigeons for the last 24 years. However, having my own section and racing my own way would be around 9-10 years ago. However I've always had some involvement around the birds, which hopefully I'll be able to explain a bit more in latter answers. My grandfather on my mothers side, wasn't a pigeon racer, but a pigeon keeper when he was a very young man in the 1930s in Derry, on the Lecky Road. His pigeons were mainly all fancy breds which he used to purchase of a disabled chap on the same road. When moving to England he never kept pigeons again, however he always had an interest and would always ask about the birds and how they was doing result wise. My fathers uncle is and was until recent years, was a very successful fancier on what East Londoners call the "Island" which is short for the Isle of Dogs. Uncle Ron was very successful in the at one time big Millwall club. He also started up my fathers interest when he was a young boy, and got him his first pair of pigeons A black cock and white hen. My nephew had an interest for a short while, however like all lads when the other birds come calling, the lads go crawling. My little boy also has a keen interest and has a habit of naming all the birds, he actually is a natural around all animals, and it is amazing to watch him and hopefully his interest continues to grow.

Liam has had quiet a few homes, even had an Essex home at one time. But now lives in Preston with Steve Foster.

Jack Adams used to use it to bring on and help the moult.

Sorry I don't, I've only ever bought eggs of a fancier I've visited with the intent of purchasing.

Whenever I have been gifted eggs or bought them, the best way I've found is, those plastic takeaway tubs, filled with barley, if they've been incubated previous you stick the container in the microwave for a short while, once taken out you put your eggs in the container.

Del was just checking this hen today, shes done exactly the same but dropped her last two flights on both wings. What's your thoughts? Would you say it's the make up of the bird?

How do you know if the winner drunk or not on the transporter?

I've tried pairing early, but what I've found the early breds cannot beat the May early June hatched youngsters when the combines come round.

Owen, The federation in question has folded leaving many of their clubs and members without anywhere to fly. So please be considerate and there are many transporters like this used up and down the country without any problems.

Very good read

David, I've deleted an email this morning from Peter. He is having an auction very soon. Sorry cannot remember the details as I deleted it without looking at it, I deleted it on the basis of subject title

Owen uses cinnamon powder I believe every day he may see this and share his reasons for using it

Anyone heard or stayed in the vidella?

Where are you staying at Blackpool?

I've read the letter, and what worried me was that Sprint pigeons had been returning with muddy feet and staggering as tho there dehydrated. IMO this shouldn't be happening from sprint events unless they are complete smashes I use these transporters 3-4 times a year for middle to long distance events where there's a minimum of two nights in the basket, and the condition the birds have returned is 5 star. The only time I've had later birds arrive with mud, and staggering is when they've returned from 400-500 miles, but they've never been my first birds back. Personally I think these transporters are state of the art and excellent.

I bought one at Blackpool just over £2, they were plastic and done the job and worked well. Others said they didn't, maybe I bought a good one out of the batch. Unfortunately I mislaid it after jabbing my young, and regretted I never bought a job lot of them of the stall holder .

Yes Homer, have you used it? What is your opinion on it?

What's people's opinions on this product?

Personally Dwh, mine prefere Daddies!!! On a serious note, it's my observation over the years with the birds when exercising, they don't exercise as well as birds on a lower protein percentage, I never mentioned how they raced on it.

Barley is a great leveller, it's pigeons least favourite grain. When barley is in a good percentage of your mix, your birds will never be to heavy if fed correctly, If fed a little at a time, and any grain left after each handful, the birds receive no more , as they have had there fill. It's the best way to learn to feed for anyone new to the pigeon sport , or those who are unaware on what a pigeon needs. Regarding protein levels, Any beans or peas are high in protein. I'm not saying to cut protein out completely by the way

Dr Dhont's and Dr Boskamp believe it has something to do with small pox. If it's down to a so called High Protein diet how can fanciers report it happening with birds on a high barley diet? Few things you could find interesting http://forum.pigeonbasics.com/topic/53606-blood-protein-lumps/ http://www.pipa.be/en/community/forum/protein-lumps-0

Quiet a high protein diet, pigeons don't exercise great with high levels of protein IMO

IB fatty lipomas are yellow when appearing on pigeons and generally they only appear on very old pigeons, and I've never heard of one bursting and bleeding as this one appears to

What is the composition of the grain? How many flights to go have the majority of birds got to drop? Feeding them after they have gone out means the birds are waiting 24 hrs before there next feed. If you would want them to exercise better, they would need a the bigger feed of the evening. When racing widowhood my pigeons exercise once a day, but because I want them to exercise well and they fly of an evening, they get a bigger quantity of grain in the morning , which makes them want to fly, but of the evening they have very little. Personally if you think there overweight, the homoform will do you no favours.