and the same again for the up north
combine
who i just happen to be
grantham but i should get a quite a good
um view of them on their liberation so
that'll be coming up after uh a quick
update on the
loft situation at home
so i put the video out yesterday
of these birds flying and
a couple of you noticed that one of the
birds was trying to be sick
um
no i'm a complete novice i've never done
this before so i don't even know what a
pigeon looks like when it's trying to be
sick
um but apparently that's it so that's
good i've got that on footage i've got
some footage of it so now hopefully
that'll be useful to everyone else i'll
show you that now um this is what they
look like when they're trying to be sick
apparently so
um it's not something i'd noticed i was
too busy looking at the other one that
was panting i've just taken all the
drinkers and um feeders
and grit
um bowls out of the loft and i'm going
to give them a good clean with virk on
today
uh give them a good scrub the thing is
we know with diseases that
if one's got i don't have a separate
loft there's two sections but there's
air flow through them and uh and the
birds mix so if one of them's got it
they all end up getting ill um they all
look okay at the moment
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you know the drop-ins from as far as i
can tell are all normal
um there's feathers and droppings on
there there's none that looks
particularly runny
there are
none of the birds are in the corner
that i can see
so i'll keep an eye on it
to be honest i'm not 100 sure what i'm
looking for i know usually they say
you're looking for corn wet corn that's
been vomited back up but
there's none in the feeders and there's
none that i can see there's just lots of
um
healthy looking droppings as far as i
can tell and feathers
um there's enough room in this loft for
44 birds we've got 39 so we're not
overcrowded
um
and you know the
v purchases scrape down every few days
yeah they all look uh they'll look okay
at the moment
as far as i can tell i think they're all
i think they're a bit hungry today
because of
obviously a lot of them flew for over an
hour yesterday and uh they didn't get
much to eat because they didn't come
straight in so i'm hoping today i'll let
them out in a bit hopefully they'll trap
a little bit better how are you feeling
have you got young bird sickness
so we've got
everything cleaned now some fresh grit
cleaned this one out this is a new pot
we've got the drinker
all clean and ready to go and the
feeders they're clean
um i'll give those a deep clean and use
them at some other point obviously i'm
not going to use the feeders right now
until i feed them later on so
and
the good flies are out
they're enjoying it
and we've got the rest on the loft and
i'm not bothered about pushing them
today because they're young and there's
no sun
um
out today so if they want to hang around
on the loft today that's fine
but these are these are enjoying
themselves anyway
i'm just going to keep my eye out for
any of them trying to be sick
so we've got those that are up flying at
the moment
obviously happy and healthy
mush mush is in there
mushrooms is an older bird so
he's the oldest actually a name like
mushrooms uh jasper came up with that
five-year-old and i'm the one that has
to say it on camera which is
a little bit embarrassing
well that's annoying um i didn't press
record i clicked photo instead um i've
literally just called them all in and
they all got in within 10 seconds of
each other so uh well maybe 30 seconds
but they're all in for their feed
i'm still missing a few
i thought we got them all in but we
haven't we're missing ryan not brian
um but they're nowhere to be seen
oh there they are
up there
all right one two three four five six
seven eight nine all of them there
is that right nine
the one that was flying around that
didn't want to land has just joined up
with them yeah so that's that they've
been off for a good flight brilliant
oh relief
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well this bunch here have been flying
for 45 minutes
so far
blazing sunshine now
they did disappear they were completely
out of sight
so
exactly what we wanted other than one of
them that was still looping around the
loft
all right see how long it takes
once they see me go in hopefully they'll
go in
you guys have got to let me pass without
sneaking in
come on then
oh that's better isn't it
little bit extra
there you go
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so
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well you can't quite see it but the up
north combine a couple of fields over
that way and the show ground is locked
at the gate it doesn't open until nine
o'clock so i'm going to do some fence
hopping
morning everybody a few things have
happened for this weekend it looks like
the weather's not going to be great
today although it's beautiful now
it's forecast to be really quite cloudy
uh and wet later on uh with a lot of
bad weather at the south in the south of
the country so quite a few of the south
road clubs have decided to pull their
race points uh the liberation sites up
country not south red fed my my
federation
they were due to be racing from the
south coast today but they've changed
that
they've moved to upper hayford
so it's a shorter race and the same
again for the up north combine
who just happened to be
grantham but i haven't been to grantham
before i didn't realize that you can't
get in uh this early in the morning so
um i've had to hop over a hedge
so i'm a bit of a distance away but i
should get a quite a good
view of them on their liberation so
that should look quite good
so this is the uh
liberation site
unfortunately there's a big ditch
between me and the uh
up north combine which are just behind
that hedge there so i'm should be able
to get a pretty good
shot of them
from here
i can zoom right in
obviously you'll see this
on the
camera like there's a few empty
crates on that lorry
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wow
all right
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okay
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