4th club carentan

No good this weekend 4th club carentan still 7 missing 3 cocks and 4 hens

well done mark, 4th club is still good............I hope the others come back .

Well done Mark to get in the prizes in a difficult race

well done scoring mark

hope you get some back, I was 3 out from channel think they went over and it was tough wind on day for them to work back, had 2 yesterday so fingers crossed mate

There is nothing wrong with 4th place in the club Mark - better than 14th!

Any more of your missing birds back?

Phil

Nothing back this morning still 7 away

Yeah tuff weekend Mark I'm still 6 away from 13

quite a lot of birds still away by what ive heard and read.......terrible weather here, hailstones the size of marbles

It's not always sunny in frogland either.

We let our young birds out yesterday (Sunday) morning for their normal a.m. exercise, and about 35 minutes afterwards the heavens absolutely opened, thunder, lightning, rain coming down like stair rods, for a good half an hour or even more.

We never saw one of our 28 young birds until way after lunch time. They came back very slowly in dribs and drabs until about 7.30 at night. Then nothing. We had one reported this morning by telephone, which we went to pick up, about 15 miles away. And nothing else has returned at all today. So we still have 5 away.

Having birds away is always a pain in the bum, but we have our first young bird race this weekend and we were hoping to send a full complement.

The day is dull and overcast but the visibility is OK and I really expected some more home.

But hey, that's pigeons for you!

Phil

Hope they work back in Phil its very disappointing when you Loo's young birds like that when they haven't even had a Chance to prove them selves

Boosey wrote:

Yeah tuff weekend Mark I'm still 6 away from 13

6/7 away . Forget the types that say they never loose a bird etc racing Boosey . Real life scenario for many of us sadly at times, paints a differant picture I suspect .
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markevans wrote:

Hope they work back in Phil its very disappointing when you Loo's young birds like that when they haven't even had a Chance to prove them selves

Thanks Mark - but it has been 3 days now, and not one of the 4 missing birds have turned up, so I don't think it is likely now.

But you never know!

Cheers
Phil

sorry to hear phil not nice to lose the babies off or around the loft

oldstrain wrote:

sorry to hear phil not nice to lose the babies off or around the loft

On that question - last night I noticed that just one of the birds that came back after the big storm, was looking a bit ill.

On opening its beak, I noticed 3 or 4 little yellow dots down its throat - which I take to be Canker.

Firstly, am I right in thinking it is canker, and if so, should I take it way from the rest and treat it with Belgaroni - and for how long. The tub says treat for 3 days.

Advice please.

Phil

yes could be canker or herpes virus but without seeing it myself cant be sure, if the dots are in the roof of the mouth its a sign of a old infection. if its herpes they get small sores in the back of the throat or on the side of it and its not removable being a sore...canker will be moveable with a cotton bud if its herpes then let the virus run its course and give immune boosters and plenty vits and minerals and rest,herpes virus is a real problem with ybs and hard to spot outwardly I actually vaccinated for it last year but never this year as could not get the vaccine atb

ps for what its worth I would hedge a bet its a old infection