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"They are great if ya gonna breed early,keeps everything dry and frost free." 100% correct which is why birds don't breed at that time of year! THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"PUT UP OR SHUT UP" saying that he might edit this archie my friend but i can assure you if he does it will not be as a result of a complaint from me. I was told before i went to school never to clype on anyone to the "heidie" and it was sound advice i think.

MY NAME IS ARCHIE FREW 116 BEATTY CRESCENT KIRKCAKDY FIFE PHONE 01592 571235 IF THIS IS DELETED I WONT BE BACK I HAVE A BIG MOUTH I ALSO HAVE A BIGGER PAIR OF SHIOULDRS calm down archie this is a discussion forum so if you want to debate something just do it no point in threating to leave although thats another trait i've noted amongst some other fife members on here as well. apart from the first word you used which i personally have no trouble with can't see why any webmaster worth his salt would want to delete your post. Enjoy your forum and your doos and lets others enjoy theirs as well we are a dying breed archie enjoy whilst we can. all the best to you.

"ME DONT KNOW WHO YOU ARE STAND UP BE COUNTED TELL US WHO YOU ARE" had this sort of stuff before from some of the fife members of this forum, why are you so interested? if you want to debate something i've posted fine get on with it. i have no idea who you are but i don't need to know to respect your right to have an opinion about something. Some of us are just getting a bit bored with all this, we just want to race our doos we are not interested in witch hunts. The more witch hunts we have the less likely these guys will ever rejoin us and if the doos in this country are to survive we could do with as many of us singing from the same hymn sheet as possible.

"Hi Guys, What's your views on controlled loft heaters? Vic." great for growing tomatoes vic especially if you have lot of glass at the front of your loft and i know the electricity companies are keen on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"VERY SORRY ME I NEVER SAID THAT 100% CORRECT ALL I ASKED WAS IF YOU COUKD TAKE PART IN AN ORGANIZATIONS AGM IF YOU WERE NOT A MEMBER" I have a revolutionary suggestion why not let those of us who want to be members of the SHU and race our doos race our doos and why not let those who have left us to join the RPRA race their doos as well. I can assure you I am not the only member of the SHU that is begining to find the fife members a bit embarrassing demanding their pound of flesh right reason or none. Not everyone is impressed with this "debt suspended" nonsense. CAN YOU BE A MEMBER OF THE FIFE FED IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER OF THE SHU? NO! So get over it let the guys race their doos and get on with racing yours. Just a suggestion.

"BIG TIME WRONG" well i'm sure thats cleared it up for everyone your obviously 100% correct then square peg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"CAN YOU ANSWER THIS PLEASE JOHNO IF YOU TAKE PART IN YOUR FED AGM DO YOU HAVE TO BE A MEMBER?" this is pretty meaningless if the members who left the SHU on a point of principle need to be a member of the SHU to be a member of any particular fed. That fed cannot insist they pay membership monies and then tell them they can't be members. Its called common sense I think. Some of the SHU feds are showing themselves up here, they could do with taking a leaf out of the book of one the feds who joined the RPRA. In theory the membership of one of their ex clubs who stayed with the SHU could have been debt suspended but common sense prevailed and they thought it only fair to allow these guys to race their doos.Its called class I think some have it some don't.

"Mr Waters is currently suspended for 10yrs from the SHU." - Henwyck this sounds serious what did he do murder somebody at the clock checking?

"is there a national flying club up there " try the blackpool national flying club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anybody got contact details for p king of wantage?

"After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man" what age was he when he got married 74 AND A HALF I sussed it out a lot sooner than he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Try and find a fancier who flys well and that other people also do well with thier birds" most sensible advice I've have ever read on this this site

Blackpool is a hard place I'm sure to race long distance racing pigeons to, but it could be worse a "mate" i knew kept them in Killiechronan (on Mull) and he had to stand by with his shot gun when he let them out to ward of the hawks and he could point you in the right direction if you wanted to lift a fish. Had the very best of A.R.Hills in his loft beautiful birds. Well Grizzles alwas are I suppose!

"W & G Flockhart J Proctor " 2 lofts I would an introduction from!!

"DID YOU DO THIS ? " nope but I did go to school ,although it was a long time ago

i was at a sale a while back and over heard 2 guys discussing this very point and from the way they spoke it sounded like one of the guys knew him and from what i remember the reason his articles stopped being pub;ished was the new editor of the BHW just decided he was not interested in anything John was writing anymore may have picked it up wrong but thats what it sounded like to me!!!

"He also says you should pair up on the full moon cycle is he wacko?" forty years ago a very famous fancier said the same thing and i thought the same as you wacko!! What do I do today I mate my birds to "suit" the moon cycle and the race I hope to send them to!!

"DO YOU FEED IT FRESH OR DO YOU TOAST IT ON BREAD FIRST??? " if you think of how cheese is made its not as difficult as you would first think.In fact a nursery rhyme from childhood might help as well!!!

"its full of protein and good for rearing ybs, thats true, im not being krafty " - Jimmy White yep buts its the calcuim thats help, if you can get them to eat it of course!!

"I THINK THE IDEA OF THIS THREAD IS TO TRY AND SAVE MONEY FOR FANCIERS NOT LINE THE POCKETS OF VETS" You are WRONG WRONG WRONG as well then Alf the point of this thread should be the welfare of your birds!!! Pigeons are dead simple things and they like dead simple people who love them to bits and look after them and when they do(o) it is a lot easier to get them to come home in the dark from france after flying for 15 or 16 or amazingly sometimes after 17 hours on the wing!!

"And natural remedies are sometimes far better that the crap the vets sell at sky high prices to shove down our pigeons throats" vets are the same as any other profession some are better than others why would that not be the case. "that docs useless" "that builders useless"etc etc but if my favourite bird who had been timed 6 or more times from france was not well i would take it to a vet i had learned to trust rather than anyone i have read pontificating on this site and who could blame me. the birds are important to me nothing else. Nothing else at all!

"U HAVE GOT SOMETHING RIGHT ME" i Don't take this the wrong way I honestly only have the birds interest at heart. somebody posted on this site that their birde had greasy wattles you told them to use cider vinegar WRONG WRONG WRONG. Change the PH of your birds crop if you want but if it has a bad infection caused by mycoplasma or chlamydia what good are you doing NONE!

John S please read my post on cheap natural remedies before using this product and please do not spare any expense you can afford to look after your birds cheers me

some of you guys do not have a clue soda bic is great for indigestion IF YOU GET THE DOSAG RIGHT!! IT CAN CAUSE SERIOUS RENAL AND HEPTATIC PROBLEMS IF TAKEN AT THE WRONG QUANTITIES AT THE WRONG TIME. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES USE IT AT THE SAME TIME AS THAT OTHER FAVOURITE OF A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THIS SITE CIDER VINEGAR IT WILL BURN THE INSIDES OUT OF YOUR BIRDS (CHEMICAL REACTION) PLEASE PLEASE TRUST ME ON THIS ONE I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT