I only know his birds for the chocolates that were associated with the name.
I thought he only bred for colour so never entertained them. But looking at his lofts, I didnt see any chocs in there at all.


Hi Dave....i visited the lofts in 1986 not a chocolate to be seen...red checks and reds a ...

Tom Shaw ...from stoke on trent area...regularly flew against 10.000 birds in the fed

Jack whylie....his bird blue blitz ist Scottish national one year then 2nd the next beaten by a decimel

Jack Addams...use to like his storys

Old Hand ....of the gazete

Just lately im in home bargains shopping and noticed bags of peanut's 12.6k for £20...now they look a good bargain and clean very tempted to try a bag...here's the question

1...from what we know with regards to quality....how do you tell

2...what's the thoughts on peanuts carrying fungus

3 ...

Sorry for delay Neil....i cant for the life of me remember the scribes pen name but the story goes something like this....every now and then the author discovered certain birds became super pigeons (or well above the average)and when looking back through his notes he had starred certain young in the ...

Hi Neil....re moon pairing there was a Scottish scribe that wrote in one of the weeklies possibly the homing world....many moons ago (pardon the pun).....wrote about the time he discovered the plummys....

Thanks for sharing the articles Mike...good read and sparked so many memories from the back of my mind of things tucked away....can only remember your family name from performance's and being secretary of MNFC... as in the past the name lycett was a regular when reading through the weeklies and ...

I need to tap into the collective wisdom if I may. Droppings have all of a sudden gotten wet. Not been out since September so not mixed with anything, not paired yet. Only thing that’s changed is I took a delivery of depurative a couple of days ago and so I took them off moulting mix to the ...

some of the old fanciers use to burn the tip with a fag end....ha

Happy new year to everyone....