Ferals And Racing

kev01293 · November 9, 2011

yeh i know what your all thinking but after reading rolands reply on the hawkers/ferals post it makes you think? i remember reading in the rp or bhw a couple of years ago about a fancier who was given a baby streeter by the local kids and he managed to get a ring on it and race it and unless im mistaken it got to a respectable distance b4 getting lost? bearing in mind that theyve had a bad start to life with a crap diet and diseases it makes you wonder how they get back from 10 miles let alone 65 miles and who knows how far that streeter would have gone on to if it hadnt been moved on? anyone got any stories to share? kev

andy Burgess · November 9, 2011

i am unsure who it was , but maybe some one will remember , a fancier used to catch all the black or very dark pigeons from the railway arches and bred and formed a family from them ? have read about this a few times . :emoticon-0138-thinking: .

November 9, 2011

A POUTER FRIEND OF MINE IN THE NEXT STREET WAS BEING BOTHERED BY A STREET PIGEON WHICH KEPT COMING INTO HIS DOO-COTE FOR A FEED, NO MATTER WHAT HE DID HE COULDNT GET RID, SO AFTER WEEKS OF HANGING ABOUT HIS PLACE HE ASKED 1 OF THE DRIVERS WHERE HE WORKS WHO WAS DELIVERING MATERIAL,S TO A SITE THE OTHER SIDE OF PERTH IF HE WOULD RELEASE IT UP THERE, WHICH HE DID, AND LOW AND BEHOLD IT WAS ON HIS DOO- COTE THE NEXT MORN, AND ITS A WEE SKINY POOR LOOKING SOUL, BUT DOESNT HAVE THE HEART TO DISPATCH, SO ITS HERE TO STAY I THINK

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November 9, 2011

we should go about the towns wiping them out, and then the council, will not need hawks brought into the towns

Roland · November 10, 2011

we should go about the towns wiping them out, and then the council, will not need hawks brought into the towns

Good post. I have stated this at Fed level, and at two clubs. We even have the proper cages available.... Response is... wheer nahhhh.... If your daft enough to ....;

Pees me off. A little concerted effort and . .. Have a few other fanciers retired too that could. Or any one can place up on a roof over night...

They won't do it Bigda, They'd rather whinge and moan after shooting themselves in the foot.

Had a Fed Member - who has days free as he has retired - offered to drop the cages off to me FULL STOP!

I would, if they wasn't taking the pee, one or two days a week I'd do... if omeone else takes on other days. Once a month for most would soon clear up the streets etc.

Roland · November 10, 2011

i am unsure who it was , but maybe some one will remember , a fancier used to catch all the black or very dark pigeons from the railway arches and bred and formed a family from them ? have read about this a few times . .

A fellow named Wills did this on the gas silo's and derelict buildings. His mate Dick Oakley - who raced pigeons at the time - went to several building with him ETC. and removed all the Blacks. He devasted at club and excelled in the FED. Solf off to a 'Feather Merchant' when he packed up 5 years later.

Dick didn't get offered any lol.

They said in my club that they never seemed to circle, just out, whooooosh and gone.