Monday the 2nd. November, at last we are off on our holidays. Our Son Richard is taking us down to Gatwick airport and we are staying the night at a hotel near the airport so we are ready for our morning flight to Orlando, Florida. Continue reading
Last week I had a letter from Paul Stephens and it got me thinking about how many fanciers race as a young Boy or Girl and then come back into the sport later in there lives. Perhaps we should have an advert in the Saga magazine. Paul Stephens has lived in Northampton for 25 years, and for the last six years, he has been racing pigeons again. He tells me that as a young lad his home was in Southend on sea and at the age of six he started racing with his late Grandfather Tom Burke who raced in the Prittlewell club most of his life. Paul raced in partnership with his Granddad for a few years as Burke & Stephens. Continue reading
My name is Pam Gladwin and I have been involved with pigeons since I was a young girl aged fifteen. That was the year I met John. We had both been to the Southend Carnival Fete, and before the night was out I was on one dodgem car with John and my friend was in another car with John’s friend Keith. Continue reading
We just paired our pigeons last week. Mostly we try to do so at the end of November and with most fanciers the breeding period starts now. Of course this early breeding asks more work and time of us fanciers. First of all the lightening is very important, although some fanciers don’t think this to be necessary. Continue reading
Hi to all of my fellow fanciers. First of all, please excuse my English, I am a French Fancier.
I would love to share with you, my methods of feeding over the year. I have quote different feeding practices for each season. Continue reading
We all know that there are a small number of young fanciers in the sport today. This, the first of a set of weekly discussions, asks you the fancier… Are we doing enough to encourage more youngsters to take up our great sport?
Please discuss using the comments below…
Hello folks and hope you and the birds are doing what they are supposed to be doing. After the first Open race in the I.S.R.F. from Waterville near Velentia, we rang the winner Billy Harris Continue reading
Every day people all over America ship birds from one loft to another. The express mailing of pigeons through our U.S. postal service is one of the best things we have going. Ninety nine percent of the time our birds arrive at their destinations in a day or at most two safely and rearing to go. But once in a while a glitch can happen. Continue reading
Pat Byrne and Family
Pat won the young bird averages and the combined averages in 2009 he was also club champion in 2006 and 2008. Continue reading
