Life in St Arnaud

[Andy]

A very nice looking youngster Muzza, I do like a nice pencil blue. A nice even looking wing with a decent step in it, has she thrown two flights together mate ?? I can only count 8 flights !!
Good luck with her.

Good spotting, T. Hodges.
No, she's on her second flight, but the 9th is over the 10th.
If you look you will see that the wing is held between the thumb and finger. I lost the rest long long time ago. Holding a wing is difficult.

I imagine it must mate, but you have obviously adapted well
Thanks for clearing that up, she is very nice.

Of course Trev we had 2 very good fanciers back in the day at Worthing. Jed Jackson who was blind and Bob Short who only had one hand. Both won loads and both had great control over their birds. Also of course that was in the days of rubbers and no ETS. So both had to catch their pigeons remove the rubbers and clock them.

[Trev]

Good spotting, T. Hodges.
No, she's on her second flight, but the 9th is over the 10th.
If you look you will see that the wing is held between the thumb and finger. I lost the rest long long time ago. Holding a wing is difficult.

I imagine it must mate, but you have obviously adapted well
Thanks for clearing that up, she is very nice.

Of course Trev we had 2 very good fanciers back in the day at Worthing. Jed Jackson who was blind and Bob Short who only had one hand. Both won loads and both had great control over their birds. Also of course that was in the days of rubbers and no ETS. So both had to catch their pigeons remove the rubbers and clock them.

Yes we did Andy, and of course Jed continued with pigeons into his 90s, and Bob has been in and out of the sport over the years, but does still have pigeons well into his 80s.

[Murray]

Hang on. I'm only 69! I'm broken down, not dead!

[Trev]

Hang on. I'm only 69! I'm broken down, not dead!

I'm only 59 and broken mate

[Murray]

We got some flat pack kitchen cabinets.
Flynn is helping.

[Murray]

I Threw away a lot of the old perches when we moved. I got a heap of plastic perches on line from China for about Au$2.00 each. About a quid.
Delivery in about 5 days!
I have put them all over the loft so there are tons of perches.

[Buster121]

Flynn looking well chilled, I have same perches they go brittle and break very easily

[Murray]

Thanks for that info, Buster. They do seem pretty light. They will do the job while i get some timber and build some more box perches.

[Buster121]

Thanks for that info, Buster. They do seem pretty light. They will do the job while i get some timber and build some more box perches.

Some have broken just with birds landing on them others when scraping them

[NeilA]

Flynn looking well chilled, I have same perches they go brittle and break very easily

I tried them couldn’t get on with them mine seemed more for rollers as they are smaller than my others
I screwed wood to them to make the perch a big larger then done away with them altogether and just made stud perches for the hens