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charcoal tablet or use charcoal in any form burn some bread in toster and scrap of or use charcoal barbeque kind. The old Irish way of curing was to mix some charcoal dust or soot with a bit of butter make into a small pea size and pop it into the bird.

Cut the top of the last 5 flights let them dry out for a week them pull them. Once they grow back they hold them the rest of the year. So they body molt then drop flight 1 2 3 4 5 and stop. This is what they are doing in USA now.

Take them of the dark 5 weeks before you want them to come into form

What part you from Ulsterlofts

They are all gran children of the famous hartog the 388

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some young hartogs

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some of my young hartogs that will be comming of the dark june 21st

when they come out of the bath dry

Some felt pens will kill the eggs. use nail varnish or just keep a note of who is fostering who's eggs. Box 1 is fostered by box 3, box 3 fostering for box 1.

If it is a private run race why do they need the licence

Bleach in the water will kill good and bad bacteria Vinegar will only kill the bad bacteria so it is Vinegar for me.

Dip in CHLOROCARB then spray what is left round loft to kill red mite

Great stuff.

I also like warm feet

Race marking is faster, timing is faster, getting the result is faster, It will continue recording the birds that have came home when I have left for the club, It can send a text message to my mobile phone letting me know what time the birds got home from training toss or race. Why should I use an old clocking system when there is a new faster better one. How many of you reading this go to work on a horse and cart? If you do not like change why are you sitting at a computer and paying to surf the Internet. A lot of people do not want to pay for ETS and the same people do not want someone else to have the advantage of ETS so what do they do? Try and stop other people using it. If every member was getting ETS for free there would be very few members against it.

I agree with you 100% If I pay my dues to the rpra then I want to be able to race under the same rules as any other member. You cannot have a rule for one member and another rule for another member. If my club takes a vote and decides not to use ETS that will not stop me using it. Clubs can make what is called domestic rules but them rules can overturn an rpra rule. If this was allowed then a club could make rules letting members race mark their own birds and set their own clocks. People are clutching at straws hoping that their club will stop members using ETS now that it is passed by the rpra. For a club to make the decision not to let its members use ETS would create a situation where a club could ignore rpra rules and just fly under their own rules. How could you have an open result if all the clubs were playing under different rules? ETS is here face it and move on.

I have them and they are not great as they are hard to clean and the roll bar on top does not do a good job of keeping them off. There is as much droppings in them as there is on the floor. I'm going to make some from a bit of spouting then just hang them on wall when feeding is over just like in the Dave Allen video. The best ones I have are wooden with flat lid on top.

I agree with what you say 100%

The fact of the matter is the race is decided by the fastest bird timed into the clock, not who had the first drop on the board, not whether it was 1 or 21 pigeons: The finishing post is inside the clock. I agree at this time it is the fastest bird into the clock but that is what is unfair about racing with manual clocks. The sport is called pigeon racing not rubber clocking your bird should be timed when it stops flying at the loft. The race is from A to B the result is worked out in yards per minute from A to B not A to B then catch take rubber off and clock. A is the release point B is the loft that is all you are measured for. Two men one 20 year old one 80 year old. The 80 year old mans bird enters the loft 30 sec's before the 20 year olds bird. It takes the 80 year old 1 min to catch and clock his bird. The 20 year old man does it in 10 sec's beating the 80 year old by 20 sec's to the clock. Now you tell me who had the fastest bird, tell me who won the race then try tell me that manual clocks are fair.

The data in the chip ring can be changed. So you can use the chips from the old bird onto the young birds.