WulDon

totally agree BOP a huge problem now, i stood and watched in sheer disgust this year when Mr.Percy took one of my youngsters out the air when excersing around the loft! but, when a hawk or peregrine strike a convoy of racers a very small percentage actually realise what has happened so in all honesty i reckon predators only account for a small percentage of our losses on saturdays! our later lib yesterday ensured all young birds had plenty of time to get to the drinkers, liberating at 7am at this time of year is guaranteeing most young birds are not drinking especially in transporters like ours with no form of artificial lighting... i exercise my young birds as early as i can in the mornings and lately it has not been possible to let them out until about 6.45am, so how can young birds expect to be fully hydrated upon liberation! dehydration causes confusion, disorientation, and heavy losses! jmo lads but we all know that this is the way it is!

our best race this year!

obvious reason staring you in the face lads, stop making it complicated... controllers not doing there homework, when you got libs going north and south in same areas liberating at same times, huge recipe for disaster, our feds had heavy losses at witton castle & ripon with early libs of 7.00am, nothing working back coz they are too far south... yesterday we were at wakefield with a later lib of 11.00am and most lofts have 100% returns, proof in pudding, but nothing being done! will happen again next year, then the next until we have no fanciers left???

pmsl

No probs 'CO CO'... wouldn't lift a finger in future for our fed now, run by a real bunch o clowns!!

bring back the Central & East of Scotland Amalgamation... best racing we ever had, minimal losses... joint controlling and not a one man decision?

Wakefield... 204 miles Grampian Combine race also, good luck.

hard neck calling it a national!

we all went together when it was the amalgamation and got better racing... probably coz they stood more of a chance clashing with north roaders going at the same time!!!

aye 7am... nae time for a drink as usual! saturday past was conclusive proof of returns between early and later libs! early... crap! later... good!

a conclusion we are all reaching that went early this morning! very poor controlling in my opinion...

Hull NR Fed and Yorks NR Fed both at Berwick this morning... libs 7.00 and 7.15am!

aberdeen fed went at alnwick 10am... doing 60mph!

returns in our Fed also crap m8, up to early!!!

sale list?

SU10AB 2046 SU10NE 1812 ... this morning

will lib in aberdeen mon/tues

Hi Joe, young van loon cock we had from you is developing nicely... bit of bad luck breeding so we didnt get any youngsters for racing, still a bit young n daft.. he will be more settled for next year, be in touch... Willie

Jim, you lads had a cracking race! we got hammered as usual!!!

Different doos for different areas, we cannot fault the van loons and the andre clemen pigeons, our first year with the frans zwols, bit early to judge?

ye, u alot of bonny looking YB's there George... i reckon you should stop at least half of them!!!

Probable winner from info i've recieved this morning is GEORGE BRIGGS from our Alnwick race yesterday! WELL DONE CLOCKY!

well done george two on the trot, i'll have to settle for 2nd & 3rd again this week! next time get yir own yb seed, lol...

hopefully there only liberated out one side of the lorry? what lib site?

Some Dundee Fed birds didnt clear, but beleive there getting a 'cuddy back' from Aberdeen birds? Although different on the lib line???