all right morning still morning technically hope you enjoyed the last video that was
pretty exciting i think as far as pigeon racing goes yeah i think he came sixth or seventh
in the whole race which could have been a lot better but that's pigeon racing I've just let
the birds out you can see them up there so i've got some flying they're the first out always and
uh i'm trying to find a break in the weather to let them out every time i've let them out so far
this week it's starting to rain so um they're not flying for very long i've got these others that
aren't wanting to go up and join them just yet but within another five minutes
they'll all be out and um i've just come home for my lunch so hopefully there we go
hopefully these guys will stretch their wings and get a good bit of flying time
where have they gone now there they are look
what tends to happen is these first ones go nice and high and start flying but then as
the younger birds start to come out it pulls them in a little bit and they start going a bit slower
the hen that didn't land or didn't clock in for charlie on saturday um we actually had one of
the birds off of that one and the ring number was 1984 and i remember it because it's the
birth year of my uh my wife so i was quite excited oh great because charlie said you've got
one of the offspring off of that hen which is good because obviously it's a super fast
bird and there's a chance that the birds it produces will be super fast the downside is
it's the one that the hawk got so we no longer have it a little bit of a shame there but
oh making me dizzy geez this is definitely the best bit about keeping birds
sit in the garden and watch them fly
so the problem we've got now is
that's impressive is um normally most clubs and federations will send to france for their big
races towards the end of the year and this year that's not happened last year it didn't happen
and i don't think it happened the year before because of covid and also because of brexit
and now that we're outside of europe all the animals have to have european health cards issued
and so there's lots of vets that need to get involved to do that and obviously that all
adds cost and so there are a lot of people that don't want to do that
um especially because you've got to register with defra now and that's never been the case
before and so you have to keep meticulous records uh if you if you sign up to defra because you can
be inspected at any time and it's usually farmers and small holdings that would keep livestock would
be registered with defra because you cannot race south into france if you don't register with defra
and what it sounds like is a lot of people just don't want to get involved with deaf or at all
and so they don't want to race i don't want to sign up with deaf friend don't want to register
and therefore they're going to be excluded from sending their births to friends the problem is
if there's enough of them that don't want to do that and don't want to sign up to defra the
transporters are going to be half empty or they'll have to amalgamate join together um because the
cost will go up and then if the cost goes up that will stop other people wanting to send which then
it's just a self-fulfilling prophecy basically um the few peop every time some another hurdle is
placed in front of sending birds to france more and more people are going to drop out
which in itself creates another financial burden on the ones that still want to race
south um for me it's not so much of a big deal because i've got young birds
and i haven't trained them north or south yet but you know my club is south so ideally
i'll be racing south but i don't really want to register with defra and i think as far as
as far as far south as we can go is guernsey the other option is to turn north but i'm not a member
of a north club and um you know everybody that's helped me so far they're all south road flyers so
i kind of feel obliged to to stay with them anyway because they're a good bunch of guys and they've
helped me with everything so far so um i'll i'll probably end up doing whatever my club does really
um but i know there's a few members that are talking about they don't want to register
with deferred either so does that mean we all do sprint races have sprint birds or
which is a kind of i'm not really sure but from the little bit of coming in now
the small amount of involvement i've had in pigeon racing so far is that it's the distance racing's
races that are more exciting like the one that at the weekend from guernsey was really exciting i
i i really like that one and so i'd like to do more of that kind of stuff um and yeah
so i'm not really sure what's going to happen oh sandwiches thank you
lunchtime oh i think they've been flying for about 40 minutes now which is good
they've barely landed a few landed and sent them back up again but still those two there
when they come in i'll give them a bit of
feed ready for them
that's more like it isn't it that's what we want to see speedy trapping
so i've just given them half of what they have for the day because it's still quite early
i might get a second fly out of them later so
i've started just feeding them in here now because it's just easier for me um
right i was going to sort them out with some water and then that'll be it i'll be back to work and
maybe get them out again later this pigeon here that doesn't want to come in
and instead staying out for a bit of a shower look loves it
i've left the trap open with the bob wires
and there's our pigeon wishing he'd gone inside now isn't he
oh you've got to love england haven't you not 20 minutes ago we had hailstone be june tomorrow
looks pretty great over there
well the pigeon made its own way in anyway so it's all fine
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