Wiley

Always remember no food or drink 4 hours before and 4 hours afterwards, also good to have a canker treatment in the water when treating.

A chap down here in east London, but they were trained heavy upto 100 miles on a daily basis, some said they were rocking on the perches when viewing them, the following year he destroyed club, fed and combine with these yearlings. But he was a class fancier without a doubt

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Hello and Welcome Phil, hope you enjoy your time here,

Tony has the liberation site for Peterborough changed as looking at distances we appear to be shorter then previous years. We are racing from Newark 114 miles

Mark, but are the RPRA trying to find a cheaper and reliable courier?

Evening chaps and lasses, just got of the phone to a fancier friend, who has had a bird reported some 100 miles away from his loft by a non fancier. Knowing this fancier he always tries his best to retrieve his birds, he said to the non fancier without hesitation that he will arrange for a courier but with the courier system these days the bird may be with them for around a week, the lady said she couldnt hold it for a week, so he then suggested how about holding the bird few days feeding some pearl barley ect then releasing at a local park or field in which so I've been told she refused as she felt it would be attacked by a hawk or buzzard. The fancier is in a catch 22 as he also doesn't drive. When speaking to him it then raised the question what are the RPRA doing to get a more and cheaper and reliable courier on board like the days of Interlink and then Amtrak?

Myself personally the birds get enough for the first 5 feeds on return, meaning the last time they would eat brewers yeast corn would be Monday morning By all means give it a try, give it a good shake every day as well as prior to use

Consistancy I find is best to make it up like my nan makes onion gravy, not thick but not thin either, mix it onto the grains and place ontop of your boiler or cover with cling film and leave out in the sun, the flies love the yeast. When it is dry you should be able to brake it up. I find this is the best way. Andy, using anything to change the ph in the crop will then destroy the yeast unless your heavily using multi vitamins and glucose based products throughout the week providing the sugar that the yeast feeds and thrives off. A high carb content feed can do this also, hence the reason we give our birds something in the water to change the ph, it consists of One whole lemon cut into quatres, 50ml of cider vinegar, one whole garlic bulb, to one pint of water. With this we then take 30ml of the tonic to two litres of water. This is made up in a milk bottle 3 days prior to the days we give it, and we give it 2 days racing, and anything upto 4-5 times in the off season a week. We always shake the bottle well before use and we use it in every loft here.

450 on the button for Peterborough,

As often as Possible here from 20 miles

When the LNRC was 8k plus at Berwick

Rob, I'm unsure the last time you raced, but in my opinion a young birds digestive system is very delicate compared to the birds of days gone by, and by feeding such big maize, as maize is the hardest of grains to digest at the best of times, would encourage the birds to hold grains in the crop.

Could it be mycroplasmosis or ornithoses which cannot be diagnosed by dropping or swab?

If you sent if a test kit and said they are 100% healthy, and the birds are being trained well I'd be looking that the birds just aren't good enough

No Bill, I'd say I know the family of birds very very well, and I've never came across in my loft or in Franks a feathered Leg, I once inbred back to the filmstar and had a few frills, Frank too my knowledge never had these either,

You won't go far wrong with the filmstar lines! All my best breeders are grandchildren of Filmstar.

My choice is the cheq pied, but then again the Taskers have been the pigeons I've been working with for the past 8 years. Has this particular pigeon been inbred?

All my best sprinters have been large, good luck with him

Layout and design I agree Archie, but in my opinion not content wise

Cheaper, you'll find the NWHU has many Essex and London members we even have one club in Stratford a member of the IHU

Andy the pictorial are articles that have been previously published in the RP, they are mainly Keith Motts articles, I'm in no way saying I don't like Keiths articles because I find them good. I miss the days when you'd pick up the books and find articles by Lycett, Bigwood, Yates, Gonsalves, Cooper, Allen, Staddon ect I loved reading them and articles of a similar nature. I read results up and down the country but get bored by reading through pages and pages especially when you can get most results nowadays on the Internet, if it is t results it is adverts that fill the books.

Is it just my opinion that these books are not as good as they was 10 years ago? Back in the day so to speak you had top fanciers in there area writing articles, and articles was what they was not just a list of results, I think nowadays I buy it out of habit but the reading material has gone, and the price has increased, I used to write myself and understand how hard it is to write something every week this is where I take my hat of to Bert Braspenning who's been penning quality articles for years.

Well done Lenny! Tony did Lenny send the cocks in the dagenham invitation?

Peterborough 74 miles