is it worth our while

[micko and jack]

CHAIRDE   FRIENDS

after reading a right few threads about young bird loses strong winds heavy rains percy attacks for whatever reason your birds go missing so heres the question

if like ourselves you use

phone number, address rings or maybe you use a wing stamp

has any of these been of use in getting YOUR pigeons back to your loft  

[THE FIFER]

more non fanciers report birds now than fanciers,

[hoodedclaw]

no all my pigeons had yellow telephone numbers on only got 2 reported

[Guest anto]

mick fifers right a lot of fanciers wont bother trying to get birds home to there oweners ive used both in the 2 years iam back

raceing and ive got one phone call none reported its a joke something has to change between birds going missing and the

birds of pray you have to bread a big team

[Guest]

more non fanciers report birds now than fanciers,

agree with this ,but Micko its a union rule and the only hope you have to get some back.                   andy.

 

[dwh]

we had a real bad race out of huntingdon lost 8  never got 1 reported or bak not just us the yb losses this year have been massive any you lad and ladies had the same trouble

[Guest bakes]

i do agree on post by fifer ive lost a good few from hawk attacks with birds getting up scared and not been seen since every single one.

 

1.wing stamped

2 life ring registered to my self

3 telephone clip ring on leg

 

not had one reporting had a good few strays in no wing stamped no telephone ring and i tryed my best to get the birds back to there owners iver putting them on courier or taking up road for a lib to to get the bird back to the owner god nose were mine went proberly gone in somewere and someone broke them or pob had them.

 

[REDCHEQHEN]

we had a real bad race out of huntingdon lost 8  never got 1 reported or bak not just us the yb losses this year have been massive any you lad and ladies had the same trouble

 

I lost 7 OLD birds from Huntingdon 1

 

Didn't lose many youngsters

 

1 from the NEHU Futurity race and 2 from Maidstone young birds (UNC)

[dwh]

are you finding when they r reported it tends to b non fanciers ?

[Guest strapper]

mine have yellow phone rings plus stamped twice on each wing .

i had 4 reported from 1 race...dropped 6 .yb

[REDCHEQHEN]

are you finding when they r reported it tends to b non fanciers ?

 

all my birds - young and old have telephone number rings - the last 2 years the only birds that I have had reported have been from non-fanciers - except one alive, have had 2 dead old birds reported by fanciers

[Guest]

 

all my birds - young and old have telephone number rings - the last 2 years the only birds that I have had reported have been from non-fanciers - except one alive, have had 2 dead old birds reported by fanciers

after winning good fed tickets this time ,probably less chance of getting them reported now?                   andy.

 

[Albear]

I have had several dead birds reported locally with heads missing using telephone ring, haven't had any live ones reported

[REDCHEQHEN]

I haven't had any youngsters reported this year

[Guest stb-]

I haven't had any youngsters reported this year

 

at the price for return lucky you

 

 

[Guest frank dooman]

CHAIRDE   FRIENDS

after reading a right few threads about young bird loses strong winds heavy rains percy attacks for whatever reason your birds go missing so heres the question

if like ourselves you use

phone number, address rings or maybe you use a wing stamp

has any of these been of use in getting YOUR pigeons back to your loft  

 

ive had a good no of birds reported with the phone rings over the last couple of years not as many as expected but some

[dwh]

r u finding the majority of  ybs r coming out the back 5yrs ago they wre comng onto the allotmens in 15and 20's now its 1&2's and this is birdage o 600-800

[REDCHEQHEN]

r u finding the majority of  ybs r coming out the back 5yrs ago they wre comng onto the allotmens in 15and 20's now its 1&2's and this is birdage o 600-800

 

They nearly all come from 'out the back' - our club sends 600 youngsters a week up until the the combine race

 

 

 

at the price for return lucky you

 

 

I either collect or have them collected, I'm not a skin flint - I  put telephone number rings on ALL my birds because they're my responsibilty and I want them back

[Guest]

started this year training and raceing 38 y/bs have 12 left after 8 fed races and y/b national

1 of which came back through the stray centre had 0 reported

all wingstamped :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

also lost 30 oldbirds 0 reported

[gangster]

well i for 1 have repatriated  a lot this year some with no cost 2 the owners ,most were a pleasure to deal with but like always 1 p*ss taker has now left a bitter taste so, unless its a friends bird , ill not be botherd and deffo no way ill deliver any.......JUST 2 SHOW STRAYS AINT ALL CRAP...I PICKED 1 UP CLOSE TO OLD YELLOWS GOT HIM HOME TO DURHAM AND 2 MONTHS LATER HE WAS 4TH OPEN FOR MR CAINE/SON... NOW THATS REWARD ENOUGH FOR ME...

[dwh]

tottally agree gangster we 've ad same probs yet among all the hastle you get men like hall and horner from sheffield we got a yrrling bak to them that pleased he generously gave us two ybs and i have to say what a PAIR absolute crackers the hen has gone straight into the stok loft and the cock looks like its heading the same way if they're on the forum thank you very much

[micci]

got a few reported via their phone rings, most of them within 20 mile radius, got caught up in a race, all on the line of flight , so got a training toss in when i collected them so cost me little to get them back. i got a few repatriated via the transporter this year, up into Scotland

[mick..1978]

only started with 36 and at the end of season i had only lost 1 so cant be bad and i never got the 1 i lost reported

[Guest bakes]

had my first reported bird today from non fancier she got in contact to me via telephone clip ring on the bird

[deb]

CHAIRDE   FRIENDS

after reading a right few threads about young bird loses strong winds heavy rains percy attacks for whatever reason your birds go missing so heres the question

if like ourselves you use

phone number, address rings or maybe you use a wing stamp

has any of these been of use in getting YOUR pigeons back to your loft  

I reported four strays last year,all of which were wing stamped.I contacted the owners,none of which seemed interested in getting there birds back.One suggested,keep it or kill it then put the phone down.No wonder birds don't always  get reported. Deborah.