the one thats not eating off your hand will no doubt pick up the few bits that you spill knocked off by the birds eating , im sure as it gets used to you it will become more confident and start to copy the rest , if its a jittery bird handle the bird and stroke its ears either side of its head for a few minutes each day increasing the time should help tame and calm it down
ill sign a proper petion no problem one with names and adresses on , also have local mps email address via a nice letter he sent me so will be compiling a nice letter and im sure many more be canvasing in the run up to the election
contact the unions and create a paper petion and get them to send out to all clubs other can be done via a page in bhw im sure if talk to editor you'l get a full page for free was done last time 700+ signed , all the best
can always hit them with it 1,000 petions be hard about 300, 000 fanciers ( number not known just a example ) 1,000 people wouldnt be 1% of an already minority group if got the 300, 000 to sign then it would be signifigant
obviously he hadnt put the white marker ring on this bird so if you dont use marker rings and it comes back with one then its obvious someones had it in and put it on the bird , the marker ring can be either a clip or coil ring
well i have to agree with you trying to get fanciers to back a cause for the good of all is hard , however as an individual you can sort your own problems