Bird Retuned From Snfc Maidstone

[Rebus]

Sitting at breakfast at 7 this morning a yearling I sent to Maidstone last year landed on the loft one I was pleased to see looks a bit rough thin and dirty but welcome, unusual to get them back after so long nowadays so their is always hope for one of the old favourite to turn up.

[TheHigg]

pleased for you jock there is a couple i wouldnt mind turning up after a long absense :emoticon-0138-thinking:

[walterboswell59]

pleased for you jock there is a couple i wouldnt mind turning up after a long absense :emoticon-0138-thinking:

great when its one you were looking for

[C WRIGHT]

walter must be somrthing in the air

came home to find yb i sent to leicster yb nat

sitting on him corner top box as soon as i got in loft he was right on ma arm for

a peanut ,hes very dirty feet and feather stained but otherwise healthy enough

couldnt believe it

he was 1st sedgefield 4th rippon and 2nd wakefield as youngster

[Delboy]

Sitting at breakfast at 7 this morning a yearling I sent to Maidstone last year landed on the loft one I was pleased to see looks a bit rough thin and dirty but welcome, unusual to get them back after so long nowadays so their is always hope for one of the old favourite to turn up.

 

No need to tell you Jock, that's a good one for next year. I wish I could buy that experience for all my pigeons, they take a bit of losing after it.

[Rebus]

No need to tell you Jock, that's a good one for next year. I wish I could buy that experience for all my pigeons, they take a bit of losing after it.

Aye they usually learn a lot from the experience but having said that It has been lucky to survive with so many predators nowadays.

[Delboy]

Aye they usually learn a lot from the experience but having said that It has been lucky to survive with so many predators nowadays.

 

Very true, they all need a wee rub of luck to survive nowadays.

[bullcock]

No need to tell you Jock, that's a good one for next year. I wish I could buy that experience for all my pigeons, they take a bit of losing after it.

Hope your right Del, hope it wasn't wintered in someone else s loft and homed after a training toss.

[billt]

Seems to happen a lot this time of year, do you think they get up with race birds and get back in the swing of homing?

[frankdooman]

Jock I've had them back like that but it can work the other way they know how to look after the self and some when the going gets tough they just stay where they are but if it's a fancied doo I hope it turns out for you and yes it gives us all a wee lift for that special to to still turn up well done

[Rebus]

Jock I've had them back like that but it can work the other way they know how to look after the self and some when the going gets tough they just stay where they are but if it's a fancied doo I hope it turns out for you and yes it gives us all a wee lift for that special to to still turn up well done

Could be right , they turn street wise and become survivors, hope so anyway.and all the best Frank nice to hear from you.

[Guest stb-]

No need to tell you Jock, that's a good one for next year. I wish I could buy that experience for all my pigeons, they take a bit of losing after it.

Del some of my best birds have lay out a year and if treated right when they are back can be great doos for the future , to many just lump them back into the race basket and hammer them again straight away , a bit of patience pays dividends

[Delboy]

Del some of my best birds have lay out a year and if treated right when they are back can be great doos for the future , to many just lump them back into the race basket and hammer them again straight away , a bit of patience pays dividends

 

Its amazing how good their next moult is after lying oot over the winter.Good moult= Good chance

[alec guinness]

Sitting at breakfast at 7 this morning a yearling I sent to Maidstone last year landed on the loft one I was pleased to see looks a bit rough thin and dirty but welcome, unusual to get them back after so long nowadays so their is always hope for one of the old favourite to turn up.

 

 

Love to see these ones turn up jock,like some of the other posts a great moult and maybe next years gold cup doo!!!

[b.massey]

We also got a yearling hen drop with our trainers yesterday, we trained cocks and a hen landed with 2 cocks! Thought just a stray but it seemed to know where it was but wanted in the yb loft, let it in and was my ring! No rubber and fairly cleaned and tip top condition! Very weird that it came with the trainers so dunno what's went on, maybe some returning due to more amount of racers in skies now but I find my one yesterday rather strange that first time in local transporter this year and I get that dropping in with them

[Mossgiel]

Got one home today from 2nd yb race last year. Not been in another loft - flights are frayed.

[Jumbo]

Got 1home tonight from the Alnwick young bird race 2012 ,still got phone number sticker on ETS , and looks like it's been roughing it somewhere

[andy Burgess]

starting to sound like a farmer has taken an old barn down ??

[Guest stb-]

bigda been cleaning oot his dookit lol

[William Reid]

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[billt]

starting to sound like a farmer has taken an old barn down ??

 

About 10yrs. ago I visited a big farm in Pembrokeshire that had converted from livestock to arable, there were huge modern buildings, seemed to be storing commercial cooking equipment, open both ends and at a guess there were 300 pigeons there, every one had a ring on, where do they go? well that's where some of them are

[andy Burgess]

About 10yrs. ago I visited a big farm in Pembrokeshire that had converted from livestock to arable, there were huge modern buildings, seemed to be storing commercial cooking equipment, open both ends and at a guess there were 300 pigeons there, every one had a ring on, where do they go? well that's where some of them are

have seen them myself Bill , when I first worked on farms in the 70,s we had a large "Atcos" building with a good few pigeons roosting there .this was less than a stones throw from the farm house and lofts where the farmer flew his own birds. non were his , and rarely did they enter his loft ? travelling up & down the country have seen them many times flocks of them

[billt]

have seen them myself Bill , when I first worked on farms in the 70,s we had a large "Atcos" building with a good few pigeons roosting there .this was less than a stones throw from the farm house and lofts where the farmer flew his own birds. non were his , and rarely did they enter his loft ? travelling up & down the country have seen them many times flocks of them

 

Every farm has some, I get a few because of my open loft mob, some have a couple of days feeding and move on others stay longer, I had a Ch. Pd. hen here for 18 months, never came in, roosted on a ledge outside the whole time until two Dk. Ch. cocks arrived, they stayed for two days and the next morning they were gone and so was the hen, If she got home she would have looked in good nick and the owner could well have believed she'd been in somewhere

[andy Burgess]

Every farm has some, I get a few because of my open loft mob, some have a couple of days feeding and move on others stay longer, I had a Ch. Pd. hen here for 18 months, never came in, roosted on a ledge outside the whole time until two Dk. Ch. cocks arrived, they stayed for two days and the next morning they were gone and so was the hen, If she got home she would have looked in good nick and the owner could well have believed she'd been in somewhere

 

if only we knew eh ?