WulDon

had this one in for a couple days, now reday to go but i feel this could be somebody stock bird, yellow plastic marker ring

dont know where my original thread dissappeared to, but this pigeon came into my loft yesterday... plain SU rung

Came in today, no wing stamp or any form of marker ring... had flew a few miles!

50% barley mixed with 50% mixture, what mixture mate?

liberated this evening at inverkeillor

came in early monday morning, fed and watered then relaesed today at lunchtime. back at loft when i got home at 4pm, will have it released in forfar tomorrow.

ALWAYS SOMEBODY READY TO STIR IT UP!!!

EXACTLY!!!

had this yearling in for a week now, was pretty flown out and limping very bad (leg not broken though) he has made a great recovery and starting to walk on leg again, so its about time he was back in owners loft will liberate at the week end if i dont hear from anybody

ye it would appear you are overfeeding to heavily get them on a light mix (eg Gerry Plus) and cut them down to an ounce each after excercise once they start flying to your satisfaction then increase the food ever so slighty till you find the perfect balance, young birds need to be controlled and the easiest way is through there stomach!

liberated in edinburgh this morning

Yearling hen reported dead today by SHU... on Oil Rig Borgsten Dolphin! Where the hell is that???

Dundee Federation where racing from Otterburn on 26th April which resulted in alot of heavy losses for fanciers in this area. I'm sure we would all welcome calls from fanciers throughout Scotland and possibly North East England about our birds. So if anyone does get any of or birds in please feel free to contact myself and i will sort it out at this end... i'm also contactable on 01382 818321. Thanks in advance..

thanks everybody... hopefully we can keep up the good work!

...is it a master timer?

... we have had some cracking stock pigeons from Paul over the last two year, the absolute creme de la creme!

count us in for a pair of young birds which the purchaser can have the choice from... our long established team of Janssen Van Loon family which we have had for ten year now and have literally won everything at Inland level including 1st Open Central & East Scotland Amalgamation Maidstone (386 miles) 9144 birds competing At Inland level in the SNFC over last three years they have scored 27th, 146th, 219th, 254th, 336th... all these pigeons are related! OR... from our recently acquired family of long distance pigeons which have been purchased over the last 3 year from some of the best in country (putting a team together for nationals) including Dale Newcombe, Ritchie & Whyte, Gilmour Bros, J.& J.Keir, Jim Hannah, Jim Cullen, Lowik Bros (NL)... a small fortune has been spent to acquire the best and direct from Gold award winners, Open winner, section winners, and pigeons that have scored very highly at the extreme distance.

... have been surfing the net and found the dose of Chorionic Gonadtrophin is in the region of 50-100iu for a bird the size of a pigeon. Anybody know any different?

... THANKS

... ANY JOY??

just had a nosey on pigeon chat, is it under the health section and what would it be headed under.. thanks

... sorry it was Alf who posted first and Tammy contributed with some useful info, thanks both you anyway

very interesting Tammy thanks, i maybe should have thought about this being an amatuer competitve bodybuilder. bodybuilders who administer sources of testosterone artifically via large muscle groups run the risk of natural testorone levels dropping or shutting down, sometimes long term damage is done and the chance of having family is ruined. therefore it is advised the substance 'chorionic gonadotrophin' is used to counter act (hopefully!) does anybody know anything regarding doses, timing etc or direct me to a post or site that details this. the human form comes in 1500.. 2500.. 5000iu generally taken subcutaneously, but could be taken intramuscular

... thanks lads, at the moment using Vit.E via drinker once per week from Rohnfried and also Carrs on feed once per week. this stock section is full of more mature pigeons so i dont think i have a problem with younger pigeons ruining there chances. the point regarding an injection from vet, what would they be injected with? i have also heard that the 'female pill' or 'hormone replacement pill' could sometimes help? any thoughts??

This year a couple of our old stock cocks have missed there first round eggs... okay they may fill second time around when weather is milder etc etc. Thought i would create a thread to get fanciers ideas on this matter and anything that they may have used that has been really effective on an old stager to get him 'sparking' again.