Some Reds and Mealys

Some of this years young birds they are all Van Reets.

some nice birds there Jamie hope they do well for you nxt yr m8  

Cheers Ste they are belting pigeons they are all Mardon pigeons.

nice looking birds vanreet.
just for interest do you loss much of your reds.
was told years ago that the reds was the first to go with the hawks.
we bred 7 reds this year and we are left with 2.
john.

nice pigeons mate we fly 90% van reets but they all blues

very nice looking birds m8, ive 2 van reets my self, but they are checker pieds.

nice birds mate ...i like reds and mealys but try to stay clear now because i always seem to get um back hawked or lose um ....lovely pigeons though mate look very well to atb with um  

hi everybody mine was a blue pied cock unrung used to take him to the pigeon markett at hexham sell him to the pigeon dealer he allways came back sold him a few times.made a couple of shillings that was 40 odd years ago lol .....

stormqueen wrote:

nice looking birds vanreet.
just for interest do you loss much of your reds.
was told years ago that the reds was the first to go with the hawks.
we bred 7 reds this year and we are left with 2.
john.

hi john. I started with 9 red ybs this year , I still have 7. realy don't think bop cares what color he eats.   plus I have fields at the front off my house, and I get lot off street walkers going there each day, and theres a lot off reds and mealys. atb stan

Very nice, If I let them out at 8 in the morning by 8.30 they would all be gone.
Im painting my pigeons black and white next year and gluing a magpie long feather to the middle of the tail and see if they can survive a season.

I was just interested in what other members thought of reds.
it was the same last year with us . breed a good few reds and only one left from that year. we like the reds but never seem to last with us.
take this year we lost one young bird off the loft. and it was a red.
still nice looking birds vanreet.

i have quite a few reds and mealys, i also have grizzles blues chequers black pieds and 1 or 2 funny colour birds,all have to do the gauntlet from france,shortest channel race for me is 303 miles to my loft, i have had 3 hawk attacks this year, that i no of all birds made home with a few feathers missing, all were differant colours, personaly i dont think it makes any differance, if the b.o.p. want 1 he or she will get 1. 

fletch wrote:

nice pigeons mate we fly 90% van reets but they all blues

They certainly are nice looking birds etc as you say Fletch. Thou !!!!!!!! if one is not careful at times, one can/could finish up with a loft of nice looking pigeons. But they don't have the brain power/smarts in them to race for what I have found.  
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nice looking birds i licke the black splashed reds and mealys you got any of them.. cheers terryp...

Thanks for all the comments:D  

Some nice birds Jamie

Knackered wrote:

fletch wrote:

nice pigeons mate we fly 90% van reets but they all blues

They certainly are nice looking birds etc as you say Fletch. Thou !!!!!!!! if one is not careful at times, one can/could finish up with a loft of nice looking pigeons. But they don't have the brain power/smarts in them to race for what I have found.  
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good point mate that why a cross every few years add something new in

fletch wrote:

Knackered wrote:

fletch wrote:

nice pigeons mate we fly 90% van reets but they all blues

They certainly are nice looking birds etc as you say Fletch. Thou !!!!!!!! if one is not careful at times, one can/could finish up with a loft of nice looking pigeons. But they don't have the brain power/smarts in them to race for what I have found.  
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good point mate that why a cross every few years add something new in

Spot on as always Lee