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[Tony C]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-19343027

[sapper756]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...otland-19343027

 

Very interesting readhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/emoticon-0138-thinking.gif

[Guest lambrechts31]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-19343027

This is a scary story for any new guys thinking of starting up, What your oppinion is the cause of all these pigeons going missing, i,d be interested in your theory ?

[greenlands]

Good reading Tony,thanks for the link.

 

Lindsay

[OLDYELLOW]

nice to see pigeons in the open

[Guest IB]

This is a scary story for any new guys thinking of starting up, What your oppinion is the cause of all these pigeons going missing, i,d be interested in your theory ?

 

No offence intended, but my opinion is that there are just too many theories on what is going wrong, and not enough known facts. IMO nothing has been done to establish exactly what is happening out there because most fanciers now seem to accept that large losses are a normal part of racing. This is the first public acknowledgement that it is not normal, and apparently unacceptable too. I noted the SHU President said he didn't believe BoP could be responsible for all of these losses.

 

We'd a discussion on here a good while back about maybes following convoys home and filming the journey, using a light aircraft. I know you can use satellite trackers on pigeons but while it may show the convoy veering off course or splitting up, I think we also need an explanation why that happened, and for that I think we need to actually see it happening.

[maverick]

I was wondering if any of the guys in the scottish borders noticed any R.A.F JETS in the area at the weekend as a few years ago i seen at first hand what affect these can have on a batch of birds i was training birds from stow had around 400 birds just let birds go and 2 jets went by these were old birds and well trained and raced everyone who trained that day had very patchy returns birds normaly took around 1 hour were taking 4-5 hours and a lot missing

[tyson]

according to reports a few english feds suffered heavy losses as well at weekend seemed to be all over I know the k index did rise slightly on saturday between 11.00am and 15.00pm whether that had an affect or not is debatable or could be some other factor that we dont know about and may never know but something is definatly causeing a big problem with the homimg instinct of our pigeons

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

This is a scary story for any new guys thinking of starting up, What your oppinion is the cause of all these pigeons going missing, i,d be interested in your theory ?

It's a combination of different problems, from BOP, Weather, clashing, K Index, Government/ MOD interference and also that of the health of the pigeons.

 

Combine any of the two above and there will most likely be heavy losses. Jmo

[Guest paulrstokes]

I agree with Gareth a combination of things

 

I do think that the magnetic fields are to cock.

 

Twenty years ago when we would get youngsters in kits of 5 and 6 together from 120 miles 1 man in 20 carried a mobile phone.

 

Nowdays everyone and their partners and kids carry one.

 

It is the same all over the country, here is a snapshot of our club

 

Bred

[Guest paulrstokes]

Sorry posted before I finished

Bred 70 10 left

Bred 22 5 left

Bred 30 3 left

Bred 58 14 left

Bred 15 3 left

Bred 44 26 left, he is the lucky one

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

Sorry posted before I finished

Bred 70 10 left

Bred 22 5 left

Bred 30 3 left

Bred 58 14 left

Bred 15 3 left

Bred 44 26 left, he is the lucky one

 

Shocking, feel that this year there was be a hell of a lot of fanciers leaving this sport, who can blame them.

[andy Burgess]

report on T.V. shortly ,as highlighted on site earlier today .

[Guest geordiejen]

im not a racing man but i seen this tonight too.whats going on?

[Guest stb-]

what was it about ,,

 

seen sommit in paper that 300 birds were lost from roxburgh near selkirk on sat heading to thirsk , never seen any feds were at roxburgh ?? that just north of our lib at otterburn

[andy Burgess]

Tony C put a link up earlier today , my post was to high-light that it was on at the time. Borders mainly stating huge losses.

[Guest Geo]

someone on the sun site said

 

I found an injured one at Weekend in Glasgow... Tag number is SU12 M4183 if anyone knows who it belongs too..

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/pigeons-go-missing-1274602

[Guest IB]

2 Threads merged.

 

Missed programme but will catch up on BBC Iplayer.

[JADE]

what was it about ,,

 

seen sommit in paper that 300 birds were lost from roxburgh near selkirk on sat heading to thirsk , never seen any feds were at roxburgh ?? that just north of our lib at otterburn

The birds were racing from Thirsk to the Selkirk area

[greenlands]

There was an article on Border news tonight.

 

http://www.itv.com/news/border/2012-08-23/mystery-as-hundreds-of-racing-pigeons-disappear/

 

Click on video.

 

Lindsay

[WulDon]

It's a combination of different problems, from BOP, Weather, clashing, K Index, Government/ MOD interference and also that of the health of the pigeons.

 

Combine any of the two above and there will most likely be heavy losses. Jmo

 

 

you missed out CONTROLLERS!!!

[Guest stb-]

Shocking, feel that this year there was be a hell of a lot of fanciers leaving this sport, who can blame them.

Gareth from a team 0f 90 a about 10 days ago which were well trained and had races under there belt some 5 races i have 37 left left of which 16 have been hit with percy, in a week of percy strikes 30 missing from tuesdays strike and 29 missing from 3 strikes the week before , the yb were just flying of after strike and less and less were returning each time ,

 

i have one red hen was hit on friday and she has been hit on tuesday again booth wings and tail out now which returned this evening , i dont blame anyone for paking in the games over

 

i have shut shop now as there will be none left by the time these murdering bassas have finnished ,

 

this happen 3 or 4 times last year in aug with the yb and i thought it was fly aways

Edited August 23, 2012 by stb-

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

you missed out CONTROLLERS!!!

suppose they come under clashing and weather.

 

Gareth from a team 0f 90 a about 10 days ago which were well trained and had races under there belt some 5 races i have 37 left left of which 16 have been hit with percy, in a week of percy strikes 30 missing from tuesdays strike and 29 missing from 3 strikes the week before , the yb were just flying of after strike and less and less were returning each time ,

 

i have one red hen was hit on friday and she has been hit on tuesday again booth wings and tail out now which returned this evening , i dont blame anyone for paking in the games over

 

i have shut shop now as there will be none left by the time these murdering bassas have finnished ,

 

this happen 3 or 4 times last year in aug with the yb and i thought it was fly aways

 

Terrible Rab, it almost sounds like a fly away, but to have this happen to such an experience team is very strange, to loose 60 from the loft in a couple of days would be every fanciers nightmare.

 

Bloody BOP

[geordie1234]

was going to buy an ets but to be honest im not gonna bother as stb said the game is dead just far too much for the doos to contend with.

[OLDYELLOW]

Now on Calendar

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2012-08-24/someone-call-the-pigeon-detectives-hundreds-of-birds-go-missing-in-thirsk/