GENERAL LICENCE FOR BIRD GATHERING ISSUED BY DEFRA A GATHERING IS CLASSED AS A 1. FAIR/MARKET/SHOW/SALE OR EXIBITION 2. ON OR IN A VEHICLE USED FOR PIGEON RACING ARTICLE 12 OF THE LICENCE RACING PIGEONS STATES AN ORGANISER OF A SHOW OR RACE WHICH TAKES PLACE WHOLLY OR PARTLY IN ENGLAND SHALL ENSURE ALL RACING PIGEONS ENTERED FOR THE RACE/SHOW HAVE BEEN VACCINATED AGAINST PARAMYXOVIRUS 1 IN RACING PIGEONS. SALES OF PIGEONS ARE COVERED BY ARTICLE 12 SO ALL YOUNG BIRDS MUST BE VACCINATED & A VACCINATION CERTIFICATE MUST BE SUBITTED TO THE SALE ORGANISER JUST BE AWARE A DEFRA INSPECTOR CAN VISIT ANY SALE TO MAKE SURE GENERAL LICENCE REGULATIONS ARE ADHERED TO & THE ORGANISER COULD END UP IN COURT.
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I,VE HAD SPARROWHAWK PROBLEMS FOR YEARS AND FIND THAT THEY VISIT THE SAME TIME EVERY DAY USUALLY EARLY MORNING / 11.30 AND 5.00 P.M THEN THEY RETURN APPROX 20 MINS LATER
NFC RACE PROGRAM 21ST MAY FOURGERES 4TH JUNE CHOLET OR SAUMER 18TH JUNE MESSAC 1ST JULY TARBES 23RD JULY SAINTES 3RD SEPT FOURGERES OLD HENS & YOUNG BIRDS
THE INLAND PROGRAM FOR THE WEST DURHAM AMAL NOT SET YET THE 1ST RACE IS WAKEFIELD 3RD APRIL CHANNEL PROGRAMME IS 21ST MAY ARRAS ,4TH JUNE CANNAPAVILLE QUEENSCUP, 17TH JUNE BOURGES, 2ND JULY CANNAPAVILLE ,16TH JULY ARRAS
SEEN ON THE NFC WEBSITE THAT THE PROGRAM FOR 2011 IS 21ST MAY FOUGERES 454 MILES TO CONSETT 4TH JUNE CHOLET OR SAUMER ( NOT GOT DISTANCES) 18TH JUNE MESSAC 490 MILES 1ST JULY TARBES 812 MILES 23RD JULY SAINTES 634 MILES 3RD SEPT FOUGERES YOUNG BIRDS & OLD HENS
ARRAS IS 370 MILES TO CONSETT NOT GOT DISTANCES FOR CANNAPAVILLE YET BUT THEY RECKON ITS ON PAR WITH CLERMONT 425 MILES. WE HAVE HAD TERRIBLE RACES FROM CLERMONT CLEANING OUT EVERYONES CHANNEL TEAMS. I LOST 15 AT CLERMONT LAST SEASON. MEMBERS REFUSED TO GO BACK TO CLERMONT
ALOT OF FANCIERS ON THIS FORUM DONATED BIRDS ETC EARLIER THIS YEAR TO HELP YONG SEAMUS . I HAVE RECIEVED AN EMAIL FROM MICK WOODYARD WHICH I WOULD LIKE TO RELAY TO YOU SEAMUS IS STILL RECIEVING TREATMENT (USUALLY TWICE A WEEK) TO LIMERICKGENERAL HOSPITAL AND ONCE A WEEK TO DUBLINS SPECIALIST HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS RECIEVING SOME SORT OF RADIUM TREATMENT WHICH IS VERY PAINFUL AS IT IS INJECTED INTO HIS BONE MARROW .HE ALSO HAS TO TAKE SEVERAL TYPES OF MEDCATIONEVERYDAY.HE HAS LOST HIS HAIR AND SEEMS SMALL FOR HIS AGE WICH IS UNDERSTANDABLE IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES HE IS BEARING UP REMARKABLY WELL AND LOVES TO PLAY OUTSIDE WHENEVER HE CAN (THOUGH HE CAN NOT MIX WITH MANY PEOPLE IN CASE HE CATCHES COLD ETC) I TOOK HIM FOR A RIDE IN MY MY DIGGER A FEW DAYS AGO WHICH HE ABSOLUTLEY LOVES I WILL BE TALKING TO EDEI (HIS MUM ) TO SE IF I CAN GET A PHOTO OF HIM PLUS A FEW WORDS TO PUT IN THE BHW TO LET ALL THE FANCIERS WHO HAVE HELPED HIM HOW HE IS GETTING ON REGARDS MICK I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE FANCIERS WHO HAVE HELPED AND WISH SEAMUS AND HIS FAMILY ALL THE BEST TOMMY