Jim, welcome to the site...........

welcome to the site jim, look forward to your posts.................

yes welcome jim enjoy

thank you i will

do you race jim if so where

hi jim, looking forward to reading your posts and hearing about your birds.............maybe you might be interested in entering our online shows starting 6th november, makes things a bit more interesting for members over the winter....

welcome to the forum jim, im sure you`ll enjoy it here.

Welcome to the site hope you enjoy

welcome jim hope you do well

Welcome Jim, enjoy

hi"
i have had pigeons since i was 10 years old i am now almst 65 at christmas
just retired from work in may through early retierment, hope to catch up on a few things now
i fly the vanloons with quite some good perfomences .
im in cumbria on the outskirts of the lake district we are constantly hit by haw attacks we cannot train very well as the hawks scatter them i hadto give up training ybs as i was waiting all day for the team to return
some didnt and never had the flock home in one batch.
so you see its a bit off putting to see ood birds come with feathers and flesh missing but we have to carry on
some times they will not trap the perrigrins even wait for them o0n race dy when they are finishing as we live in a village with hills all round us you see them chasing them.

regards

jim

WELCOME JIM

welcome to the site mate hope you enjoy it mate its a great site

lovely place to live jim, cumbria.............do you race widowhgood/roundabout or natural, also have you used the darkness system ?

yes i race widowhood with cocks ybs on darkness but we have lot trouble with hawks

yes its very nice place to live on edge of the lake district nationalpark.

regards
jim

hi jim, yes ive had trouble with hawks over the last year or so, altho touch wood this season wasnt that bad..............ive just returned to pigeons and will be racing my old bird team (2010 birds) on widowhood as i think roundabout will be too much for me to do, i will also be putting my 2011 ybs on dark after experimenting with it this season.

good luck
jim

Now your retired Jim hope things can get better for you

jim, are the vanloons short/middle distance birds...? if so do you not bother with channel racing ?

I HAVE WON CHOLET 513 MILES WITH THEM AND THEY DO 480 MILES NO BOTHER WIN FROM 60MLS TO
480 NO BOTHER '

BUT I DONT BOTHER A LOT NOW AS WE ARE OUT ON A LIMB HERE WEST CUMBRIA

KEVIN LAWSON HAS FLOWN WELL WITH MY VANLOONS CROSSED AND PURE

JIM

ah right, thanks jim....so they are an all round pigeon then? do you line or inbreed them tyhen or do bring in the ocasional cross/new blood ?

hi jim are you coming into our youngbird exchange for next year

ian wrote:

hi jim are you coming into our youngbird exchange for next year

nice one ian

I, DONT KNOW WHAT IT ENTAILS YET I WILL LOOK INTO IT

JIM

I, DONT KNOW WHAT IT ENTAILS YET I WILL LOOK INTO IT

JIM

hi jim, if you have a look down the homepage where it says 2010 yb exchange it will tell you all what has been done re this years exchange...........you are welcome to join for 2011 if you want or if you dont thats ok, no problem......we had about 12 members join it this year but it isnt to everyones taste i suppose..