new combi rings

Been passed at council meeting today in coventry if you so wish you may FILE LUGS OFF Also old type rings will be used next year and will be posted out on the 29th December!

well thats a step forward steve

a member in our club bought 80 ets to fit on combi, yesterday i bought his last 18 old type for a tenner

steve1952 wrote:

Been passed at council meeting today in coventry if you so wish you may FILE LUGS OFF Also old type rings will be used next year and will be posted out on the 29th December!

it that passed by thr rpra mate ?

yes today in coventry read it on another site

good out comes the file tomorrow

thats what i would do as well

Same here Ray

steve1952 wrote:

Been passed at council meeting today in coventry if you so wish you may FILE LUGS OFF Also old type rings will be used next year and will be posted out on the 29th December!

also heard this, but some dont seem to know much about it yet so im going to ring club sec tommorrow morning to see if he knows anything about this.......hopefully it will be right and we can get rid of those horrible lugs, mind you will be awkward to remove now they are on the birds i would emagine....

electric grinder should do the trick david

bleeding hell......youll take the leg off with it or your finger......... maybe thinking of trying to break them off and sand the rough bit off, then again i might just leave them as they will most likely be more trouble than they are worth trying to remove them...

i think so david was only kidding best left alone if on the bird

ian wrote:

i think so david was only kidding best left alone if on the bird

didnt think you were serious really ian..... but i do think they are better left alone unless someone comes up with a good way to do it, they are on now so best thing for me is to forget about the lugs.........

pete phoned rpra 3 weeks ago asking if he could remove them and was told no as the rings will be classed as tampering and void to race? but perhaps theyve had so many complain that they may have decided to allow this???
me personally i like them as they seem to be just the same size as having an ets ring with the chip in them the reason i like them i put colour clip rings on mine and pete has a different colour so last year our birds had 3 rings on, this year we only need 2 (less weight)
but can see the point of those that dont have ets

i think for those who use ets they will be great, as like you say the chip will make it so the empty lugs are not stuck out.........and also as it is combined it means only one ring instead of the life ring and a ets ring, for me who will be using manual clocking i personally dont like them as they are very sharp on the corners and i think they could possibly crack/damage eggs when the bird is older and sitting eggs. plus i find them harder to put on the ybs for some reason .....and the numbers are smaller too.

I think if you get a hand tool file then that shoulddo the trick

Our club has over ordered on rings this year, not sure why? Im sure we could sell them on to fanciers if they wanted conventional rings..all wHU...I could buy them off the club not to break any rules and give them to members just pay postage, you just transfer them as if you bought a youngster from me?

I think theres a bout 100 spare.

wish i had known earlier martyn, would have prefered to use the none lug type.........just dont like them at all. good offer tho martyn, maybe someone might take you up on it.......

rings came in bags of 20 this year, i ordered 50 had to have 60

if you wanted 50 you should only get 50 not 60 ,i cannot understand these people why do they do this ...too pxxs us off or what

profit thats why changes are made, never mind fanciers pocket

large nails clippers cut lugs off rings easy and quick

steve was going to sugest to try nail clipper beat me too it

Sounds a good idear nail clippers