there not what i would like on my birds with two bits that jut out where u slot the chip in, who's to say that unikon etc, will just supply the chips to fit into them and not their ets rings thats progress !!!
chancers.. Not all of them, in 1985 i gave away a cock bird that had bred me over 20 individual 1st prize winners in three years with 2 hens, He went on to breed a lot more winners than that; and took the new owners to the position of top prize winners, why did i part with him ? I got divorced.!!!
Terry Skoulding of March in Cambridgeshire who races under the banner of F C Skoulding and son, still race the old S B Coopers of Snaith lines, and does well from all distaces with them up to 520 odd miles
Germaline, eyebrow tweezers for pulling out feathers, old clean socks with toes cut out, sellotape, needle and cotton, scalpel for cutting away dead skin, plaster of paris strips from boots, iodine, lollypop sticks,'make good splints. scissors.
I got coloured stickers in my boxes, but now going to paint boxes and loft walls a pastel green like i had years ago, seems to rest them...One of Bilcos tips in the 80s
will put a couple on tomorrow, wish i had took a few when the birds go in together, or try to, if more than 3 go in, the ets misses one, at the moment these sections are not let out due to moult and hawks about
I prefer open door, so last year built a 2ft extension to make a corridor, and put bob wires along the botton of what now is the inner doors,( over the ets) ' they go in like the devil himself his after them, 'and i can keep the outside doors open now to let more air in without them getting out.