This is what I'm up against

Now I know why my younguns are being taken off everyday.
I let them out this morning, no sooner had they attained a great height they were enveloped by these, about 50 mins later I watched them drop from this huge team.
At least they are getting a good education and not dropping on someone elses loft.

good execise

I'm just a little worried about team 2.

understandable, got 2 other books writen by a Dr Barker?

Distance pigeons, I think another one was a practicable guide.
I used to be a big fan of barker pigeons.
They are a very headstrong pigeon, but racing in weather like we have now been having of late, these birds will score everytime.
I crossed them with janssens and won with them. I once entered a midweek race at a two bird club at Hereford, it was an extremely hard race, a strong northwest wind and heavy rain this end. I took first and second, my second bird was thirteen minutes clear.

Gaz b wrote:

Now I know why my younguns are being taken off everyday.
I let them out this morning, no sooner had they attained a great height they were enveloped by these, about 50 mins later I watched them drop from this huge team.
At least they are getting a good education and not dropping on someone elses loft.

SORRY GAZ ILL KEEP UM IN TILL YOURS HAVE FINISHED

The trouble is they keep coming down and eating my birds corn Fffs.
I'll catch um yet

ive got loads of barkers

EssexSteve wrote:

ive got loads of barkers

which ones mate cos theres a few around ?

im ntot sure i got them from a mate,, i will ask him who he got the originals from

yeh if you could mate be interesting to know

no worries im upto my jacksy in Barkers,

looks about the same amount of ybs there as in my first team..lol
Maybe a few less.

I had a about a dozen go awol today five hours they were gone, that Ch w/f of yours was one of them. They came back absolutely flown out.
I think maybe now I will keep em in a few days to get some meat back on them.

All may have been revealed, the large batch of birds were not belonging to anyone in Southport. Apparently a few so them and said it looked like a lib from Leyland.
I now have a theory, but not going to say owt until I find out for definite.

What a dickhead I am, it was a Scottish lib from Leyland, that took my birds off.
At least they got some education.

this lot will pass over my loft tomos gaz ya reckon i should take advantage of some free training lol


the West Durham Amalgamation are racing from Leicester tomorrow (planning a 14:00 lib), the Up North Combine and the Durham Combine are both at Melton Mowbray - no news on planned lib times.

Be careful of your young birds if you live en route.

hi gaz what time did these ( trainers) come through your area

I think team one will be ready for anything I throw at em now.

I thought it was just after 11, but someone on another site said they libbed at Leyland at 12.

ok mate , i know what your theory is and could be true i saw 2 batches going over me at 1.30ish in lancaster one batch of about 40 and another right behind them of about 20 and nothing else, they were going hell for leather , i havent commented on that post on other site as dont want to be dragged into it , i must say though im bang on line of flight so its common to see birds all day but not usually on a sunday unless theres been holdovers on saturday , also these were racing and looked like they hadnt come far

ps sorry just seen the post regarding the lib at leyland these could have been the tail end of them sorry for that

No need to apologise mate.

had 2 scotish pigeons dropped in this mornin both banged up wat a shame both are in fantastic con 3 yr old and a 2 yr old give them a wk to get rite and ill lib them of lol

Ive just had a young un drop in this morning, I think it's from Staffordshire judging by the ring number. Ive called the number on the wingstamp, but it was an answerphone, just waiting for a call back.