Life in Bendigo.
I did put a reply up but after taking a while to write as was a big story kept saying need to sign in and eventually I lost it so gave up
Sadies Lofts home of decent birds just a useless loft manager, and now a confirmed loser but proud 
Going to have another goMurray wrote: Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:55 am Different subject,
I was emptying some dirty nest bowls into the organic waste bin, (that's the one with the GREEN lid, that is a hint
), and a baby magpie was standing on another of our bins.
It watched me brushing out the bowls, and jumped over onto the green waste bin. When I held my hand out it hopped onto it, and looked up at me. When I put my face down it poked it's beak in the corner of my eye, then felt all around my face with it's beak.
I swear I am not making this up.
When I stood up it jumped back. I went inside and grabbed a few of the supermarket cat biscuits we feed the magpies. It jumped back on my hand and was eating them, but was not impressed. Then, away it went!
10 minutes later it was back, looking for more.
I am not sure what the best description is for this. Catherine was watching, she said, "that made your day".
It did.
What a brilliant thing to happen, wished I could get up close like that they just fly away here, when was a kid my brother found a baby magpie on floor down the road and got it back home nurtured it back to health and when it was ready to fly used to let it out it's box and it was up and away always returning and coming back to roost, lady few doors away used to hate it every time she pegged her washing out it would pull pegs back out and washing would fall to floor lol lol shouldn't laugh really but was funny at time, one day when about 8 months old it went off and never came back
Sadies Lofts home of decent birds just a useless loft manager, and now a confirmed loser but proud
We have a robin started to come in garden last few days, first for many years we used to have one come in every day along with the thrushes who have also vanished about 5/6 years ago
Sadies Lofts home of decent birds just a useless loft manager, and now a confirmed loser but proud
Smith You left the best behind ,all of that other stuff are lead sinkers , feed it to your stock birds to raised your babies ,of coarse your birds won’t eat Bailey ,if you don’t feed it. Or have them over feed ,asked your self why they won’t eat it ,went the best flyers in the world ,don’t have any trouble ,
We mainly use it as a weight control thing ,with our sprint pigeons ,very rarely with our distance birds , but it as it’s use ,Murray take a look at who’s winning in your area & what they are using ,if feeding protein is the trick ,go down that path ,but all the Top Feds I know of use a more balance diet for sprinting ,with barley being part of it ,not all of it ,where I race 5 seconds means winning or 10th Fed ,if you race in a Fed where meets seperate times ,probly don’t matter what you Feed ,
Mate I know what your talking about in your area ,but we learned our trade I n Hobart conditions changed every15 min, & yes we flew Amore protein diet way back then,but to be honest we knew know better 70 years ago ,times change & we must learn or fall behind ,