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Nice looking birds mate

Can't agree with that, it's down to lots of things, and some good birds get lost too. Me personally like t give all birds a fair chance, just like i would hope fellow fanciers would give mine

Like them both but the blue white flight for me

if you looser birds, you have got to exspect to have them reported, Last year i lost about 10 young birds, i bet 8 of them got reported, i had to send for one because it was miles away, The others after been polite and aranging with the finder to help me get them home, they worked there way home, i agree we should be helping each other out, But sometimes people don't help themselves.

Agree with you both, But pigeonpackman is 100% right. If you are willing to breed you should be willing to send for a pigeon if need be, I could have been a none fancier, Then what would he do? i get loads of strays at my loft and i always do my best by them, Weather it be feed them up and then release or just give them a roof for a night. The problem with the man i question is that he denied owning the bird, and he tried his best to say it wasn't his. If i was a none fancier then i would have been made to believe and i'd have been stuck with the bird. The pigeon is now sitting in a spare hut in a nest box where the strays live, I will give her a day or two and then release her, And she hopefully can be returned to the owner.

If that's the case you say that not say its not your bird when the wing stamp clearly states its your bird,

i agree with you padymac, Should have just been honest about it and it wouldn't have been a problem. I would delboy but i just wasn't in the mood to argue with him, it's a shame coz its a lovely mealy hen

tonight had the widowhood cocks out and there was trying to drop on houses (which they don't usually do) and i looked and there was a stray on there which came across and dropped into my loft. Picked it up and it was stamped so i range the man, Who then denied even owning the bird. After a bit of argument with him he said oh it's mine, Do you want it. I told him i didn't want it and he said. 'can you get someone to come this way and chuck it up' Clearly didn't give s damn about his bird.

19th April Kettering 74miles, cocks are fit healthy and ready as they can be for now, I'll start training in a few weeks. All the best guys

Thanks for the info people. I think there could have been a mess up with hens laying in the wrong boxes as I have a silver hen in the loft and a silver yb in the nest but its not under the silver hen

Fine morning here in Sheffield, wish I could spend the day at the loft

im about 85% sure they dont, they have big pink feet. atb andy

Hello every, In my stock loft i have a pair of 2009 blue vandabelles who have been paired together since day one. i have around 7 sons from this pair, And one daughter and all are blue. got two from the pair already parted and they currently have a pair of ybs in the next now ready for ringing, I checked today and it looks like they are going to be pied. What are the chances that they are either throwbacks, Or something else has treded the hen, or something has laid in the wrong box... Puzzled!!

Dry and bright, but a little bit fresh in Sheffield this morning

Absolutely freezing this morning in Sheffield

Happy birthday

Somewhere in the region of 90, Got 77 parted already

Hi all, just wondering if anyone could spare 4 this years rings? I've got my sec to order me some from the rpra but I think it will take longer to come that need be. I am happy to replace them when I get them, just in desperate need for them as its to of my old stocks cocks have filled eggs I wasn't sure they would. Any help would be really appreciated!

Rpra are £2 per sheet of 18, atb Andy

Same as every weekend, clean the lot out

A good way is to cross a pure or near white to a blue, cheq red or something and you should get a jazzy gay pied that way, atb Andy

Sheffield - absolutely freezing this morning, and its also quite foggy!

Who has started exercising old birds as the season is always here, how's it all going? Me personally have started and got my team of 36 widowhood cocks flying half hour a day

Sheffield - cold but dry

I use my phone 85% of the time as its always at hand. My phone is a Nokia lumia