The topic on Grit and Minerals has diverted into something different. I started the topic and not a problem. But I just thought that we would be better starting a new one around what’s being said in that topic.

Dave is asking about long distance racing.
To be honest I have always been more ...

The topic on Grit and Minerals has diverted into something different. I started the topic and not a problem. But I just thought that we would be better starting a new one around what’s being said in that topic.

Dave is asking about long distance racing.
To be honest I have always been more ...

16th and 17th Jan 27

Dave the race is worked out by highest velocity as you know, to arrive at that, you take your miles, multiply them by 1760, to get the miles to yards, you then add your yards, and then multiply by 60, to what we call your sixtieths. You then take your actual flying time, hrs to min, and then to ...

Maybe stopped selling it, because it was effecting the sales of one of their other products.

I get a lot of enjoyment out of reading old pictorials that I have been given.
Reading one from the 80s the Belgians had suffered a great deal of y.bird losses over a couple of seasons. Another from 1990 has a fella called David Belding talking about the extensive y.bird losses. So maybe its not ...

Well said Jack, and unfortunately we have a lot of non flyers, and flyers that only fly half the programme.

Not been on for a while so thought I’d catch up on how everyone’s seasons are going. Interesting reads.

OB were a write off for me due to a schoolboy error. When I bought my first loft last year I was put onto a guy who used the Pigeon Light system. Long story short, Mr All the gear no idea here ...

Steve, you may remember a while ago I asked a similar question about a yearling hen who flew 430 miles as a y.bird.
I was gifted her by a very good friend. I broke her to the loft on eggs.
I sent her to her first inland race and she didnt come for a day or 2.
I suspected that she had gone back to ...

Maybe we need a system like the Dutch have, where I think the fancier has to claim the bird from a list of strays in the union advert, if not the reporting fancier, is sent the registration card, because the price of sending a courier is getting beyond a lot of fanciers pockets, especially ...