The official verdict on this rare phenomenom has been identified as atmospheric activity. Most of us have always poo-pood the effects of solar activity but here it is affecting millions of ppl, wiping out communications, destroying the electrical network and stopping trains and generally causing hav...

Another question on feeding, hope you dont mind:- Most of you know that I have no interest in sprinting but I really need some guidance from the sprint men to answer this question but with a bit of distance in mind...... When a bird comes back from a sprint race, people feed depurative or barley or ...

Can you change the feed abruptly ie go from a racing mix to say barley from one feed to the next or should it be done gradually over 2 or 3 feeds please.

Not like watching the footie then Devo - did you get a ticket?
Well done the reds.

Hi Mike, when you say "you didnt ask them to sprint in between" does that mean you didnt send em to keep em fit or they went but you didnt expect them to win anything?

Ha- ha, I'm the other way!
When I can't get to sleep, I dont count sheep - I pair pigeons in my head.
It truly works.

Yep. Much the same, Midshires are at Yeovil and we have received notice of a possible change to Sunday.

Unfortunately, its the only time she does anything with the birds. The rest of the time she dont get involved at all. Tbh. She'd have them gone tomorrow if she could.
But the women at the pre-school and the mums think its marvellous.

My missus use to work in the local pre-school and once a year used to take a basket of birds in for the kids to see and touch and liberate. She retired last year and just the other day the manager came and asked if she would go back and do it again this year. We only live 5 mins away so I said to he...

Midshires fed was at Blandford too. Libbed at 9.00am Glen and Gary Corkett cleaned up again winning the fed on 1395. I sent 10 cocks but didnt set a clock. Only got 9, one yearling missing. Seems returns werent too bad. The wind was given as a light NE. But if those guys were doing 1800 in the West,...