DOVEScot

Hi, Tykes can I have all the transfer papers for the birds you sold me please Cheers

Is it for show quality, breeding and what type, may be able to help

If fanciers keep breeding young birds from a full loft all the time, what else do they expect but a recipe for over crowding, especially if they never lost any

Aye and I forgot Men in red coats on horses with a horn and a pack of dugs keeps foxes away ;D

Deterents like that do work, but nothing is fullproof Keeping ferrets,especially a male gives of a scent to deter rats/mice Lions droppings, when ever you could pick these up in the park ;D, is meant to deter most things Garlic for mites & vampires I hear as well Bairns for romance definately a deterent

Sorry, better picture, they are pecking the exhaust box, despite plentiful suplies of minerals etc Just shows you how pigeons find what they need in strange places

Thank you for your informative answer, nobody going to pull you on that one ;D ;D ;D

Is it true that a hen will lay eggs every month aproximately at the same time whether paired or not

This is the ones Tony still has for sale Contact him if you are interested We were very happy with ones we bought

here are the ones chickadee bought

This is our neighbours car

Agree with eagle owls, we need to collectively fund an eagle owl release problem

Out of interest. Any pics please

Interesting box set up, building new loft looking for different ideas, do you have a better picture of boxes. Like the white grizzles, let me know when you have any spare please A couple of young rolands I bought earlier this year

Fair comment but grit will atract a certain moisture in this climate no matter where it is, and dust as well The minute we all let our pigeons out, you open them to elements beyond our control The pick freely at dusty, moist, possibly contaminated elements around our lofts and cotes Pigeons seem to thrive on grit scatterd on the road both moist and dry On the bath comment our pigeons come out for a bath and sortly after re-enter the loft to feed their young, so I think moisture is present quite alot in the loft apart from drinking water Just for interest I worked with fire retardent stone dust that was important that if stayed dry, when an explosion occured it blew the stone dust "airbound" and starved the fire of air, so if had a cetain level of moisture it behaved differently, Some pigeon boys used to take home bags of red stone for their pigeons

Why no? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Thanks sorry never thought of that simple reason, as we some times allow our fantails to do this, the pair picked each other

We were checking nests today and found we have a pair of doves that have laid four eggs not exactly sure how far apart but within 7 days, as we noted when they laid their first egg on 25th May Any theories or suggestions please

I have a lot of respect for your knowledge but not on this one It would be imposible to keep grit dry anywhere is this was the case, If you feel the heat coming from a pigeons body then the high chance is that they cool down by breathing creating a lot of condensation We stay in a relatively humid country and even on the best of days you get dew point Our pigeons enjoy a bath on the coldest of days, even have to break the ice sometimes, they sit with their wings extented in the rain to bath and cooldown where do you suggest we keep the grit please

This is "still" mine, hoping to get going next week, ventilation is still good yet

well put them onto this one, if you have a translator ;D Welcome to bonnie Scotland

Told you I should be a doctor, open wide and say ahhhhhhhh! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

A mans a man for aw that, fine by me

I will go with 9x6 at the most if not an 8x6, trust me I'm an *expletive removed*, sorry I'm a nurse

If only I could get two females to pair up with my males or would swap a male for a female

Bruno Sorry,I sincerely appologise for any misunderstanding, I genuinely missed this reply and retract what I said on this matter and in any threads that followed Best regards DOVEScot