king wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:58 pm The 2 clubs local to me have a license to mark together starting racing this week. ALL members need CPH number and vaccination sheet to send.

Is the outbreak in York over?

According to the RPRA website the Protection Zone is expanding quickly

I have always thought that secretaries need a medal, I think they need a bar as well. As you say how they can determine wether or not all birds on the transporter are registered and all competitors have CPH numbers is beyond me, are they still insisting that Colombiformes can contract AI ? I suppose...

Thanks Trev, so there’s no need to try to identify individual birds ? If not surely that defeats the object?
I’ve just read what is required to commence racing and all I can say is I’m glad I’m no longer an official

Now that we have to register our birds which is relatively simple because of their life rings, can anyone tell me how commercial poultry breeders manage to record every bird in their flocks? Although I don’t subscribe to conspiracy theories I must admit that I’m with Murray on this one, I fear it’s ...

As the saying goes, when you live by the river, you have to be friendly with the crocodiles

The Figures for raw sewage outfall are to be published later and surprise surprise they will show worse figures than last year, how dare OFWAT allow the water companies to increase their charges!! They have repeatedly dumped increasing amounts into our waterways and the sea whilst maintaining or in ...

Unfortunately it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks, the authorities APHA and DEFRA have the law at their disposal, if they determine if we can race or not is at their discretion, the best we can hope for is permission to carry on is given and that any restrictions if imposed are manageable

Although not common viruses can on occasions “jump” from species to species and that is what the authorities are concerned about, Covid is allegedly said to have started in bats and Ebola and AIDS in Monkeys. I believe that proven transmission of AI to pigeons is minuscule in the extreme. However th...

Not looking good, the disease has been diagnosed in sheep.
If APHA and DEFRA run true to form it wouldn’t surprise me if we didn’t get further restrictions, now that it’s jumping species all we can do is hope for the best