First ybs over

my eyes don't see that far even with glasses

Nor do mine now

its hard to ring a yb sometimes if its a day or two late, i usually manage it with washing up liquid ....but what ive found even harder is i once put a ring on a young bird upside down, and could leave it like that, it would have bugged me....so i decided to take it back off again to put it the right way round, what a job it was taking the ring back off.

i have 3 to do next few days

It’s a struggle to do dave to reverse the ring but it would bug me as well little things like that do my head in

why not just double ring and cut one off later

markevans wrote:

It’s a struggle to do dave to reverse the ring but it would bug me as well little things like that do my head in

my oldest pigeon who is 18 years old is rung on his left leg mark, that bugged me for quite a while..........i actually bought him as a yearling so it wasnt quite as bad as if i had rung him my self .

George & Morgan wrote:

why not just double ring and cut one off later

i wanted the ring on the right leg george .......

Never thought of that

12 young birds just put into auction on elimar, will have 8 more to go on next week ....

good luck David let's see some photos

We have 46 over now

i have 2   must remember to ring 3 to-day

Just rung the last one, wanted 12, ended up with a baker's dozen.

good luck Colin get some photos on

barnie wrote:

Just rung the last one, wanted 12, ended up with a baker's dozen.

Crossed over have we Colin bakers dozen etc another Mr Peel        in the making here, maybe    .

Knackered wrote:

barnie wrote:

Just rung the last one, wanted 12, ended up with a baker's dozen.

Crossed over have we Colin bakers dozen etc another Mr Peel        in the making here, maybe    .

need an extra perch knocked up now pal

cracking ybs Colin do you just single rear

George & Morgan wrote:

cracking ybs Colin do you just single rear

Some eggs got smashed George when they went fighting mad, so ended up floating about 5 so they all brought up a YB. So at the moment 7 being single reared and 3 in pairs = 13 YB's total this year. Might buy a pair at breeder buyer or similar.

i just checked eggs under the hen with swollen vent looks like one is full which would be great news

Got to decide what to do with the cracking young ones George, no good sat in the loft and
you will run out of loft space.


Regards

i was thinking i have a few old bird which will need replacing they are 12 years old

i started keeping 2 ybs each season george, off different pairs........the originals i bought are not getting any younger so i need to keep the lines going by holding back the bloodlines .