jimmy white

fanciers veiws and interpretatons of the pigeons homing ability [ after ch 5 wed]

sounds very interesting ,,must watch that ,p,h, thanks :)

ruby,s pride

a good high protein mix with a few added peanuts ,, babies milk powder in water every second day ,, plenty grit, minerals pickstones etc [boxes kept clean and no flies]

one eyed cold ...spit in the eye ,,clean saliva, from non smoker or drinker ,preferably child

another old remedy for sour crop ,,chop an apple up , and put a couple of cubes down the birds throat

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D gies yer phone number or watch yerhoose ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

;D ;D ;D ;D gee whis any toilet paper ;D ;D ;D wasnt quite ready for that ;D ;D ;D

i would agree with tony c, the breast will probably be bruised and swollen , and at that stage would be difficult to tell if the keel is broken, but looking at the worst , it will still will still "heal" allthough it has a damaged keel , and you may feel it in the future , the bird will still be ok ,, best of luck with it anyway

while i agree with the proper vet, advice, would have to say ,there are vets and there are vets , some are devoted to their job for the love of it, others tend to be on the money making side,, [as i have found out myself in the past]

a really reasuring post , both fanciers becomming freinds, and both fanciers helping each other, i think thats great, and think its the way it should be , really refreshing to read this post :)

i can also vouch for stuarts ,honesty and integrity at doing his best for all

when my birds were having to be kept in by6 loft and 8 by 6 aviary i gave the this quite often [as these birds werent getting a pick at natural things outside[ i found this beneficial for the birds , also put the fresh mole hill earth in for them to pick at ,also, i now noticed that when they were getting out , they were eating the white flowers off the allycum [spellt wrong ;D] but this didnt seem to do them any harm , theve never been treated for worms, cocci etc for about a year , but look ok , but just out of curiosity ive taken their droppings for testing , so it might be interesting [or embarrasing ;D] what the results show :)

my father used to take the top 6 inches of th stinging nettle chop it up and make nettle tea for the pigeons he used to say it was detoxifying for their system , full of iron, and was good for the blood , this was off course years ago , but just mention it now as i never here of pigeon fanciers mention this now,, does anyone ever use it or if they have have they found it beneficial :)

:) remember the three c,,,s condition control and contentment, and go to the best flier in your area to learn ,,,,take the knocks and learn by your mistakes :)

i agree it would be very easy to break them , but if they were stuck out all night or maybe two without food would stint them in the middle of their moult , very shortly itll be dark at 4pm so really i would say there was no hurry, i would tend to wait untill theve finished their moult really

would do no harm to put diarolyte in their water

;D ;D if he dyes his beard white at xmas hed be ,,,,santa laden with presents ;D ;D

the ones that inspire me are the novices who [through hard work and learning] are quick to pick things up , take all the knocks, and ups and downs that pigeons throw at you, and come out winning in the end

much the same as most , can never remember not having pigeons , dad was to blame for that ;D ;D ;D

all stunners in great nick i especialy like the pencil blue , but hard to pick one there :)

;D ;D ;D best of luck to you mate ;D ;D ;D

yes easier with the same loft ,, if you can build a make shift aviary , separate cocks and hens [ with separated aviary] and as they are yearlings and probably not going to do the longer races later in the year, would leave them like that till jan[ thats if your racing w,hood,] then pair up , and when their sitting , take the aviary away, you shouldnt have any problems ,as far as them homing hope that helps mate.

sorry to be so late with answer tony c ;D but they did fly the dark wildies , but their brother les who flies in darlington [who won the louella car] races brilliant as well ,and off course theve cutivated a strain over the years , swopping and pairing winners to winners , im sure les from darlington was 1st 2cnd in their biggest race [cant remember excactly what race ] a few years ago , but one of them was called dark velvet,,, the winner of the car was" bonnie blue"which was 1st club 1st fed 2cnd west durham amal, and 2cnd open vaux international from eastborne with 27,716 birds competing , i was the proud owner of a yb from this bird ,which topped the fed the very first race it was in approx 5 to 6000 birds, this was many years ago , but they are still racing as well today,

mainly sprint middle , they won the mnfc [i think it was]400 miles a good few years back with a pigeon called " clive 76" this bird was a phenominal racer, and responsable for many winners , down the line , many of his sons and daughters won as well, all in the fed , at that time 5000 birds approx i myself won 13 out of a possible 17 races in a club sending 5to,600 birds per week and also won the fed supreme ave, most of these birds were related to that pigeon