Around Middlewich
The season continues to amaze fanciers in the way it is going with many losses still happening week after week and there appears to be no answer. Some fanciers are not experiencing these losses and maintaining a near complete return week after week and for those who are losing them I very much doubt if it is down to bad pigeons. I was in a conversation down at the club a few years ago about losses because they are nothing new because this has been the same for a few years now. Pigeons will always be lost but going back to that conversation there was a theory put forward that a vet in Belgium said the problem was in the head of the pigeons, they need clearing out and for those who used the product advised their pigeons improved straight away, I cannot remember the name of it but it certainly worked and the losses reduced immediately.
Let's get onto the local results starting with the Middlewich FC who were at Cheltenham when 8 sent 101 to be liberated at 11.45 into a west wind. The loft of W Wilson & Son is on form but I must say they Billy likes young bird racing and has spent a lot of time preparing them and that work is what shows in the races. In this race they were 1st & 2nd with two blue cocks recording vels of 1364.7/1364.1ypm these two being 3rd & 4th fed behind two from Curtiss-Wall-Lunt who topped the Mid Cheshire fed again when 3 members sent 1,275 birds. 3rd & 4th go to Ron Woodward on 1346 with a blue hen and 1310 after clocking a chequer hen.
Ron Woodward went better in the Middlewich 5B taking the red card on 1298ypm with a blue hen when 10 members sent 118 birds. Ron's was the only one making the list in at 15th with the South West Cheshire Fed where 54 sent 864 birds to Bath a race that saw Brian Heath take the top two positions. Ken & Stan Bosson also clocked two hens for 2nd & 3rd on 1294/1285ypm while 4th goes to Alan Woodcock on 1254ypm. I had a long conversation with a fellow member this week about workers down at the club and the conclusion is that things are going to have to change because there are not enough helping out and this makes it hard work and time consuming on the few who are down there doing the lions share. The only way is follow the Winsford format and that is where fanciers do not put their fair share of work in for marking and loading then their birds are marked into a separate crate and stay there if they are not prepared to help out. There are not enough fanciers around as there used to be and the few are having to do more when others get their birds but through and go home, not the best thing for club spirit.
Had another photo from Curtis-Wall-Lunt of the "65 Cock" who has topped the Mid Cheshire fed three times this year and was also 3rd Lancs. Combine with another fed when 4 dropped together. The lads were saying that he would have had 8 x 1sts federation but has dropped with loft mates who have beaten him through the trap. This is a pigeon and a half and sure to win a lot more before he is finished.
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