is wing stamping a waste of time

[Guest karl adams]

i ask this as i have lost 13 young birds that have all been wing stamped with my phone no  and not had 1 phone call

[Roland]

Only good thing is - as far as I am concerned - is for the public's benefit. Novelty value mostly as they seldom open a wing, or even know it has been stamped ...

I reckon the SHU NHU etc could do tye same with Rings ... outside of racing purposes they take no notice of the rings even, let alone 'Wing Stamps'   ;D ;D ;D

[Guest karl adams]

well no wonder the towns are full of strays i may as well do as every one else dose and just thro them out then

[Guest Vic]

Only good thing is - as far as I am concerned - is for the public's benefit. Novelty value mostly as they seldom open a wing, or even know it has been stamped ...

I reckon the SHU NHU etc could do tye same with Rings ... outside of racing purposes they take no notice of the rings even, let alone 'Wing Stamps'   ;D ;D ;D

 

Roland, NHU? Going backa bit aint yer? ;D

[Guest Vic]

Only good thing is - as far as I am concerned - is for the public's benefit. Novelty value mostly as they seldom open a wing, or even know it has been stamped ...

I reckon the SHU NHU etc could do tye same with Rings ... outside of racing purposes they take no notice of the rings even, let alone 'Wing Stamps'   ;D ;D ;D

 

Do You indeed? ;D

[carlsberg]

i use adress rings but still dont have many reported i guess people cant be bothered with the hassle

[Castleview]

Doesn't necessarily mean that anyone has caught them or they've dropped on someones loft. For all Karl knows they could be in Bilston or Wolverhampton town centre.

 

Karl, you should invest in some name and address rings. I know they can be removed by any so and so, but not all people know to check the wing. My fiance didn't until I told her.

[Roland]

Vic, was the NURP once too lol.... before wing stamping of course.

Meant in relation to reporting the birds ... Soon be a time, I suppose, when it will just have a plastic ring like for racing ... same as ET ring but for Non ET members  lol ;D ;D : : I think : (Well sometimes lol)

[Guest chrisss]

my two pences worth is that wingstamping is a waste of time most non fanciers do not know where to look and most fanciers dont call up with your bird because at £30.00 a pop who wants an errant yb back [you are always told by the owner that it is off "one of my best birds mate/its of a fed winner mate"] wrong or right there are two forms of stray "oh xxxx another one" or "thats looks nice i will try a couple of that"[and lets be adult about this it can happen]name and address rings are a good idea as everyone can see it

[Guest casbri]

i agree whole heartedly what chrisss has said every word of it

[Guest spin cycle]

  

my two pences worth is that wingstamping is a waste of time most non fanciers do not know where to look and most fanciers dont call up with your bird because at £30.00 a pop who wants an errant yb back [you are always told by the owner that it is off "one of my best birds mate/its of a fed winner mate"] wrong or right there are two forms of stray "oh xxxx another one" or "thats looks nice i will try a couple of that"[and lets be adult about this it can happen]name and address rings are a good idea as everyone can see it

 

spot on.i hate reporting strays because not only don't they want them back they want you to transfer them at you're own expense. i've one from last year and the owner doesn't even want to fill out a form . he asked me to forge his signature... it's been going on for monthes. i've now sent him the form he can transfer it or amtrak. mind you i'm not fond of the phone ringing with the voice'i've got yer pijin'

[Guest karl adams]

so may be a lot of people dont give a monkys when they lose ther young birds so what dose that say for the old birds they were reared them off

[jimmy white]

i have lost a few  birds with my phone no taped on to its ring ,,,,one i got back ,,,seems folks are just not interested nowadays

[Guest spin cycle]

so may be a lot of people dont give a monkys when they lose ther young birds so what dose that say for the old birds they were reared them off

 

probably not much.trouble is the more  they loose the more they breed and so on. the owner of my stray told me of clubmate who reared 200 lost 97 and so bred 20 latebreds (i am gullible though )  but if he had a lot to repatriate he wouldn't be so keen, but thats just it, it  doesn't seem to happen.so where do they go? i'm sorry for your loss and i hope i'm wrong but i don't think your ybs are in a loft. its the wrong time of year ,fanciers won't hold on to a nice stray at the moment because they are breeding their own. later in the season when they've had a bash maybe,i had one come home 11 monthes later( with a hen).try telephone rings :'(

[Guest TAMMY_1]

my two pences worth is that wingstamping is a waste of time most non fanciers do not know where to look and most fanciers dont call up with your bird because at £30.00 a pop who wants an errant yb back [you are always told by the owner that it is off "one of my best birds mate/its of a fed winner mate"] wrong or right there are two forms of stray "oh xxxx another one" or "thats looks nice i will try a couple of that"[and lets be adult about this it can happen]name and address rings are a good idea as everyone can see it

 

agree totally on that,  they always seem to  be the "best bred ones " when they ask if you want to keep them instead of  having you send for them  ;D ;D ;D

[Guest karl adams]

and i thought it was a sport were we help each other

[REDCHEQHEN]

Karl

 

one of my young birds went missing last year from a training toss - and it took a week for the guy who reported it - to get it in - as soon as he got it in he phoned

 

so don't lose hope yet

[Guest chrisss]

Karl

 

one of my young birds went missing last year from a training toss - and it took a week for the guy who reported it - to get it in - as soon as he got it in he phoned

 

so don't lose hope yet

 

god you are so right, they might work their way back and maybe just maybe some might get reported [its early enough in the year for people to take time out to do it]

[coey]

i lost 4 latebreds i was gifted from jimmy white, on 11-12-07. all had phone no rings on. had 1 reported to me 14-01-08 what had been in a loft for all that time, and only about 3 mile away. when it was returned the bloke said he had been letting it fly out with his birds,so if i let it out it might return. can't understand why it took a month to report it :-/

[Guest chrisss]

be to be honest mate he might have fancied it for himself [i once went to northampton with my father in law when he had birds, to pick up one of his ybs, the guy who reported it, had the bird up the road training with his birds boy was he pleased to see us :D :D :D]

[Guest karl adams]

adress rings no chance as pigeon flyers often have there bowls and corn pinched round here it a new trend for the lowlife

[Michael J Burden]

Karl you can have my strays if you like.

The truth is I stopped reporting years ago, got fed up paying for my phone bill and the corn they ate. Had the same stories over the time. Even one who had lost it 5 years earlier coming to my house shouting his head off to my mom when I was at work. If he had rung first I would have put it to one side for him, I don't keep strays ever. Someone had had it in and thrown it out but could I tell him, no. He just kept ranting down the phone and I was doing him a favour.

Last one never again.

[coey]

im sure i read on here a few months ago about someone reporting a bird, only to be told by the owner, if he was interested he could buy it. im also sure he wanted 80 pound.

[Guest slugmonkey]

I get 3 calls a month from various individuals and orginazations in regard to lost birds and yes a lot of guys don't want them back at which time give them a little speech about how this reflects on ALL of us, getting lost birds back is a pain in the #&* but it is the responsible thing to do I have had instances in our club where guys didn't want to go pick up birds and we make it well known this is not acceptable !

[Lennut Tar]

I get 3 calls a month from various individuals and orginazations in regard to lost birds and yes a lot of guys don't want them back at which time give them a little speech about how this reflects on ALL of us, getting lost birds back is a pain in the #&* but it is the responsible thing to do I have had instances in our club where guys didn't want to go pick up birds and we make it well known this is not acceptable !

 

Slugmonkey !!!!!! & so they damm well should (pick up strays) I travelled by car 400+miles to pick up one of mine ;D ;D ;D once. Besides !!!!!! I was ring secretary for a while of a local federation etc & your mind would boggle in amazement, at the excuses that I heard & was given, many a time, when I reported their birds to them, to be picked up etc. Pack of dimwits  ;D ;D ;D some of them. I soon fixed them all up   ;) I used all my people skills   :P at the time   :D But it was hard with some of them etc.

The real hard cases  : : : "We just fined them", when they refused to pick up their strays, & as dumb as some of them were !!!!!!. They soon learnt right from wrong. Especially where the public was concerned.

Enjoy.