Thanks for your reply Tony. Flying over is certainly something I hope the widowhood may help prevent. The trouble is the race program of our combine is crap to say the least. The first 3 races are only 34 miles for me. 7 of the 12 old bird races are from this race point. The longest old bird race i...

Thanks for your reply Tony. Flying over is certainly something I hope the widowhood may help prevent. The trouble is the race program of our combine is crap to say the least. The first 3 races are only 34 miles for me. 7 of the 12 old bird races are from this race point. The longest old bird race is...

Thanks for putting it on Buster. A very good account by Ian Evans. I read all that was said on pigeonchat on this topic and can only say that I totally agree with what Ian had to say on the subject. The higher ache needs a complete revamp. The halls report should have been implemented and should sti...

Sounds quite a good way of doing it Tony. It would be quite difficult to do that in our combine. Yes the odd bird can and does get in the combine result more than once through the season but the combine radius is around 72 miles South to North and 30 miles East to West so the results are very much d...

I am going to start getting harder again with mine. When I was doing well and had a good team of raced pigeons I only kept the cocks that had won at least a 3rd club, we had a strong club back in those days. I raced widowhood back then. The criteria with the hens was that they had to have bred the b...

As I don’t buy pigeons I don’t pay much attention to pedigrees as all I’m interested in is what they do for me. The only real pigeons I’m interested in on a pedigree is the parents, but that’s just my way.

Hopefully in time he will be back.

This was emailed to me by Devo for Buster. About the George Harrison birds. Australian Racing Pigeon Family's & There History The Black Diamond Strain of South Aust- Black Diamond was so named because indeed he was a rare Gem as a producing Sire. He was bred by A.Rawson of South Australia for C....

Clear blue skies this morning. Quite a heavy frost. Light winds.