Off to donny tomorrow

Yes we are going to the show tomorrow and looking forward to it. Not the early start though haha

have a great time ray, remember NO BUYING PIGEONS !!!

Hope to see you and Barry their ray should be in the show around 11ish

Just arrived, staying over. The hotel is full of fanciers,. really busy, big turn out tomorrow. Best get in early or there will be no pigeons or potions left.......

Hope you enjoy it lads, hope you also have a boat, been a flood problem for a few weeks, feel sorry for those involved, perhaps a few ducks and other water birds will add to the visit.


Regards.

have a great time lads

Have a great show everyone

Great day, place was busiest I ever seen it, something for everyone I suppose. Got some ideas for perches and nest boxes, some nice lofts on display . Only down side was the high prices for food and drinks, rip off but you know you're captive once you get in there.

glad you enjoyed the day colin, when will the first inmate be going in the new loft ......?

The show at Doncaster today was a good one as usual plenty of stalls their not that many birds as last year if I remember right but guess who I Bumped it to carrying a box ?

David wrote:

glad you enjoyed the day colin, when will the first inmate be going in the new loft ......?

Late April early may at a guess David, has to be lighter evenings for me to get pigeons settlef

markevans wrote:

The show at Doncaster today was a good one as usual plenty of stalls their not that many birds as last year if I remember right but guess who I dumped it to carrying a box ?

didnt call him raymond did they ........

barnie wrote:

David wrote:

glad you enjoyed the day colin, when will the first inmate be going in the new loft ......?

Late April early may at a guess David, has to be lighter evenings for me to get pigeons settlef

ah right colin, so are you buying young birds in to race...?

Beg steal or borrow David, spent enough on shed
Calling in a few favours, some friends have offered ybs to be honest so I'll be fine,

how did the Jason bateman sale go ,conducted by les green ?

barnie wrote:

Beg steal or borrow David, spent enough on shed
Calling in a few favours, some friends have offered ybs to be honest so I'll be fine,

if i get the loft up and sorted in time for breeding, i dont mind helping you out colin, if you need them / get stuck ....

Cheers David,genuine lad, top bloke as usual.

no problem colin, been taking the loft down today, got most of it in the garden .......floor ply was rotten because its been up 2 years with no roof on, but joists were tanalised so thats still ok, everything is wet but will be ok once the lofts up and the roof on .

so will buy new ply for the floor, and then its a matter of nestboxes and perches........sounds easy but a lot of work when i think about it, never fitted roof tiles, so a good time to learn i suppose .

We got one from that Bateman sale. He done the auction well to be honest, he didn't mess about which was much better. Samuels auction takes to long and you get bored

peel bros wrote:

We got one from that Bateman sale. He done the auction well to be honest,  he didn't mess about which was much better. Samuels auction takes to long and you get bored

he got broken into and some birds were stolen ...what and how many only he would know ...then the sale, cracking results racing but was told he trains twice daily on widowhood whether that's gospel i don't know but he worked hard with his pigeons ,but I did hear he was moving to Thailand atb with the bird lads

oldstrain wrote:

peel bros wrote:

We got one from that Bateman sale. He done the auction well to be honest,  he didn't mess about which was much better. Samuels auction takes to long and you get bored

he got broken into and some birds were stolen ...what and how many only he would know ...then the sale, cracking results racing but was told he trains twice daily on widowhood whether that's gospel i don't know but he worked hard with his pigeons ,but I did hear he was moving to Thailand atb with the bird lads

Interesting with what you say as how he trains etc O/S as I found down here, few consider it when purchasing birds at an auction or a private sale as such. Get all caught up in all spin & bling when a bird comes up for auction/sale I'm & then find they have birds that just don't quite fit the way they do things in their own way at home. End of the day on average     few winners in the end abound I've found over all, except maybe for the one selling & the auctioneer on the day type of thing   .

A little bit discrepancy in the one we got on the pedigree. It says it's a Belgium yb but it was bred in this country as he had the parents because the mother to it got stolen from his loft . Also it said it come to win 4 times but on the last race it had it didn't register and he said it was his 2nd bird. So if so it didn't come to win . Sometimes they trip themselves up. But it's just a bit worrying when buying birds if not being 100 % truthful. Then again how many are ?

pedigrees and results are sometimes only as good as the man who wrote them .........on the whole, who goes and checks results, and how can you check the results most of the time ...?

There has always been fanciers willing to overestimate the pigeons they wanted to sell.

Not only race wise but also parentage, the latter has been resolved by genetics the latter will always be dependant on the honesty of the fancier.

No fancier will sell what he/she feels worth keeping.

Exchange and gift are the best methods with young birds.

Alternatively a stud of repute, also young birds.


Regards.

I saw a lot of pigeons for sale at Doncaster with long pedigrees containing their prizes racing but never saw one prize card on the pens.

Someone also pointed out 2 identical pedigrees with same prizes won from same racepoints on the same day by 2 different pigeons