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Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 5:56 pm
by Andy
Trev wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:00 pm
Murray wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:12 am
Trev wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:17 am
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.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 8:19 am
by Trev
Andy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 5:56 pm
Trev wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:00 pm
Murray wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:12 am
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.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 8:23 am
by Murray
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 8:25 am
by Trev
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:36 am
by Murray
We got some flat pack kitchen cabinets.
Flynn is helping.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:41 am
by 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.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 6:24 am
by Buster121
Flynn looking well chilled, I have same perches they go brittle and break very easily
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 6:45 am
by 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.
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:40 am
by Buster121
Murray wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 6:45 am
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
Re: Life in St Arnaud
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 11:22 am
by NeilA
Buster121 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 6:24 am
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
