transportation of birds

[Guest]

exactly rose but you have to lock them up to make them drink what you want or they will go else where to drink but thats the way to deal with it not put anything in the transporters its hard enough getting them to drink clean water from them

[ch pied]

iodine , transporter, water bowsers just need to be flushed out with iodine , 1ml-a-gal , let it stand over night then flush ,

[ChrisMaidment08]

trouble is birds notice change and reject it the same sometimes when you change food they leave the seed they dont know

[mac]

do you believe ALL fanciers train their birds to drink in the basket

[ChrisMaidment08]

of coase they do silly

[mac]

sad as it may seem i dont think ALL fanciers do

[ChrisMaidment08]

no they dont then play hell when birds go down

[mac]

do you not think to many fanciers only look for some one else to blame,  good idea to blame your own management first and if all is well then cast your net wider

[ChrisMaidment08]

second nature to some instead of loooking mind you not all convoyers do the full job

[just ask me]

well there if goes if one of if not the biggest organstion uses this system there is no reason why it can be done fair play to the nipa who are useally leaders when it comes to thing like this and fanicers feedback is good aswell it will happen that some fanicers will have to double up sure but aint it better than haveing maybe 10 or 15 members birds in the one hamper

[just ask me]

do you believe ALL fanciers train their birds to drink in the basket

 

mac would u belive  had a argument with a fancier here who said it was pointless to train birds to drink in the hamper cause they don't use them  and to make it worse i think hes  pigeons a long time i asked him to try something too prove it basket all your birds race day now they will only be after being out of the loft a hour between get tin to the club and marking and then put drinkers on hampers id bet they will drink straight away as we do it and we couldn't belive our eyes with the water they drunk

[Mr Yorkie]

For the short races the best idea is for fanciers to put themselves out just a little bit and get up early on the day of the race and basket that morning.  The birds then only have a couple of hours in the crate so if they don't get a drink it isn't the end of the world and this should hopefully elimate pigeons 'feeling hungry' and eating spewed up corn.  Sadly in our Fed the fanciers just won't drag themselves out of bed in a morning and would prefer to basket the previous night so the YB do get stressed in the crate and the chance of illness becomes more likely.

 

As for fanciers surely not sending birds which are ill...  This season alone I've refused to rubber a bird with a broken leg and one with half its wing missing.  Both times the fancier couldn't understand how they had missed it!

[ch pied]

well there if goes if one of if not the biggest organstion uses this system there is no reason why it can be done fair play to the nipa who are useally leaders when it comes to thing like this and fanicers feedback is good aswell it will happen that some fanicers will have to double up sure but aint it better than haveing maybe 10 or 15 members birds in the one hamper

this only applies to y/bird's , o/bird's mixed as normal

 

 

[just ask me]

this only applies to y/bird's , o/bird's mixed as normal

 

 

can i sak why the reason for for not mixing old

[PIGEON_MAN]

Allthough it may be a good Idea,I have been to many liberations where some baskets(crates,hampers)dont allways open with the rest,if a member as got all his entries in that one basket  by the time the convoyer as released them by hand that would probably be your race finished.

[Tony C]

Allthough it may be a good Idea,I have been to many liberations where some baskets(crates,hampers)dont allways open with the rest,if a member as got all his entries in that one basket  by the time the convoyer as released them by hand that would probably be your race finished.

 

Tony if these measures did indeed stop my y/birds picking something up in the basket It'll be a chance I’m willing to take. There would always be next week, with ill y/birds there’d be no next week.

[mac]

i dont agree with all my birds in the one basket  but would never claim that my views are a must for others.  regards trianing our birds to drink in the basket , our young bird loft has been adapted so we have an opening to outside where we fit a basket and that is where the drinkers are it works for us but may not suit every one

[ch pied]

 

can i sak why the reason for for not mixing old

old bird's are well mixed , also resintaince in old bird's is stronger , we wouldent want 18w/hood bird's from one loft in the same crate , they all know each other and would settle down and sleep , that would be some advantage , same goes for any system that a fancier might play with , birds that know each other settle v/quick , can be a bad job if the lid stick's

 

[gangster]

old bird's are well mixed , also resintaince in old bird's is stronger , we wouldent want 18w/hood bird's in the same crate , they all know each other and would settle down and sleep , that would be some advantage , same goes for any system that a fancier might play with , birds that know each other settle v/quick , can be a bad job if the lid stick's

 

 

BUT A DAMN GOOD IDEA IF IT KEEPS EM CHILLED OUT NOT FIGHTING ALL NIGHT...AND FRESH FOR THE RACE.... ;) ;) ;),,,

[ch pied]

 

BUT A DAMN GOOD IDEA IF IT KEEPS EM CHILLED OUT NOT FIGHTING ALL NIGHT...AND FRESH FOR THE RACE.... ;) ;) ;),,,

smilies not working lol

 

 

[gangster]

NAW NOT IN THE MOOD TONIGHT.....LOL

[ch pied]

NAW NOT IN THE MOOD TONIGHT.....LOL

should have said mine not working , lol

 

 

[gangster]

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[gangster]

the nipa and the east down combine are progressive orginisations who look after there birds well in transit..

[just ask me]

fair play to these organisations for there forward thinking not only are some of the best fanicers in the world there but they seem to lead the way too i really cant see why this cant be the norm seems to make sence to cut down on possible cross infection and  ch pied is there any calls for the oldbirds to be done this way as well as ganster said birds woud settle better i would love to see this happen but some pll dont like change dosent matter what it is we have to move with the times