| By Brad (198.208.6.35 - 198.208.6.35) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 07:39 am: Edit |
Dave Booth and Bill Butterfield......just wondering if you gentleman got the e-mail I sent you regarding CU bands?
| By Marvin (206.154.186.232 - 206.154.186.232) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 09:45 am: Edit |
BillyT, how have these done in your pre-breeder tests?
| By Mikev (142.141.103.170 - 142.141.103.170) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 10:18 am: Edit |
Rob King, Bill Butterfield & Dave Booth
Speaking of bands, the CU will be ordering the 2004 bands next month. Now is the time to decide if the CU telephone number is going to be included on the bands. I have seen phone numbers on the official bands of National Organizations, so it is definately possible. What do you three think?
| By Mealy (138.253.119.100 - 138.253.119.100) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 10:25 am: Edit |
Roly over to Le ferte bernard this week but only have 12/16 left, my own fault not the birds.
youngsters flying for 1 1/2 hours and ranging well they managed to lose four yesterday. Birds went in one batch and all came back in singles, some 4 1/2 hours later.
| By Davebooth (66.185.84.201 - 66.185.84.201) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 11:22 am: Edit |
Hi Mike ,I think if we can do something like that it would be a great benifit to our organization.As you know earlier this year a motion was passed to only allow 15 charaters on the bands.But after talking too a few people I can see that if the manufactuers of the bands will allow more than that to be on the band then as a progressive idea would be to include the C.U. Office # number .Also their are some people who put their # number on their bands and some put on their internet site. This would also show the public that we really care for our feathered friends and are willing to get them back to the owner as quick as possible.This is what the directors need (input from the members)in order to make new rules or rectify any that may need to be adjusted for the betterment of the sport.
| By Davidtichbourne (64.230.31.15 - 64.230.31.15) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 12:08 pm: Edit |
I would really like to see if my website could be put on a band....plus the CU year and band number.
my site would be pigeonplanet.com, thats 16 characters....
You don't need the www. part of a website name, if the site name is configured properly on the domain name server, and web server. Also the ".com" is now enough to clue the public in that it is a name that probably has a website.
I forget the character limit for .com domain names, I think it used to be 23, but I could be mistaken now....
crpu.com would fit today too, might lessen the phone calls the CU gets on those bad young bird races.
It would be good to understand why the 15 character limit was picked, perhaps it was a technology limit too on width of columns in printed material such as yearbook or just readability on bands.
Great idea to see what todays limit on how many characters are CU bands.
Dave.
| By Brad (12.47.224.12 - 12.47.224.12) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 02:37 pm: Edit |
David....You website would fit no problem. For this year we used the www on ours and it was 17 characters (including the dots) There is still room for a 3 digit full size number, probably 4 digits if you wanted to push it. The website address is easily readable.
| By Davidtichbourne (64.230.31.15 - 64.230.31.15) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 03:42 pm: Edit |
Thanks Brad, maybe I will buy some personalized bands for '04. ...I could easily use 100 the way I go nuts with the breeding. My kids can have the rest..
One more dumb question... will the 0s get printed in front if I ask for that? (I want a pigeon that is banded "007", I will call him, Bond. James Bond.)
dave.
| By Bill (65.48.81.41 - 65.48.81.41) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 04:38 pm: Edit |
Hi Brad & MikeV...First Brad no i didn't get your email have been having a few problem's of late, MikeV yes i like the phone # on the band show's a lot of interest,Billy T.. What a kiss arse but sue said she love's ya anyway ha ha. bill butterfield
| By Billytaylor (64.221.13.52 - 64.221.13.52) on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 07:06 pm: Edit |
You know I had my mind made up before asking. Just wanted to see if the slackers had an idea. Thanks Yahoos, into breeding for the pair, not bred together. 2 yr olds off both doing fine. Lets race. Bye BillyT
| By Mikev (142.141.103.170 - 142.141.103.170) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 10:47 am: Edit |
Hi Dave Booth. I got your message yesterday, but do not have your new phone number.
| By Roly (62.253.32.5 - 62.253.32.5) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 06:02 pm: Edit |
HOW TRUE IS THIS!!!!
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't have survived, Why?Because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent clackers' on our wheels. ..if afforded. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - funny tasted the same.
We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.
We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing
again. We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue - we earned to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever. We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion
of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're
one of them. Congratulations!
Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
If you aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us. And that is just the starters....
| By Roly (62.253.32.5 - 62.253.32.5) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 06:20 pm: Edit |
AND Now ladies and gentlemen. IT SEEMS there was not, and isn't any machinary of mass destruction in Irag. nor was there. They also - suprise suprise - had no chemical warfare. Well I never! Nor did they! But old Rumbles says now 'Well no ... but does it really matter'?! #### **??!!! I suppose not. We will have their' oil and the land will rot and the people will nigh starve. But that is as they say... Now there is to be a white wash and a cover up over 'How the CIA got it so wrong!! Joke Joke...
BLAIR SAID with ole Bushes asurances that they were being produced flat out and could be put into opperation within 45 minutes........ Forgot to mention all the years before the minutes needed. Like Blair said at the beginning of the war- for want of a better word 'Saddam daren't use them, because HE KNOW it would be against the Geneva convention' !!! ? *88@'''
And the Beetroots get redder and bigger.
It also amazes me o the UN forecasts that within the first week through the power cuts, hospitals etc. over a million babies and children would die. Seems that is true now. but again a small price to pay for oil. And millions more are to starve etc. Jokes, just sick jokes.
| By Mreyesign (198.81.26.71 - 198.81.26.71) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 06:29 pm: Edit |
Roly. I recently received an e-mail from Iraq??? from a "pigeon flyer" over there????? made me wonder a little about some things?
| By Ring (66.185.85.73 - 66.185.85.73) on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - 09:58 pm: Edit |
Okay boys and girls I'm back. Even though I don't like to say too much on here it is nice to be back. Mr BT I have one of your birds in my loft for the Oshawa Convention. Even though it is not a K-Mart special from Texas it feels good to be able to get even with you one feather at a time.
| By Marvin (206.154.186.232 - 206.154.186.232) on Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 08:10 am: Edit |
Roly, I don't buy your last post about Iraq. But you knew I would not. But I don't want to get into it again, so this is all I want to say.
| By Roly (62.253.32.5 - 62.253.32.5) on Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 09:11 am: Edit |
Your Right Marvin . hence the red get redder lol..
And further more there will be at least another 4 million young etc. die as a direct result of the bombing and the slaughter, yes one sided distruction of Iraq. If they had had the weapons of mass distruction THEY WOULD - as they HAD every right to... to use them!
Just ask the Iraqi's who the real devil is... Saddam or the west? If fact 80% of the world.
We mke Saddam look a Saint in real terms. But then again he did kill an estimated 100,000 people... So the 5 million to perish is a small price to pay for their so - called freedom. And we will get the oil! But then again wasn't it santions over the last few years that made Iraq a poverty nation ... sitting on a gold mine? !! Off course it was.
| By Billytaylor (64.221.8.75 - 64.221.8.75) on Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 04:00 pm: Edit |
Ring suggest you save on the feed bill and eat the cull. Wont make it to the races anyway. The bird is Oscars. I am banned from shipping to Canada seems Texas is eat up with ENDs or some such.
Roly hear Saddam killed 750,000 Iraqies in 10 years. Life expectancy surely must be up in spite of a few we starve over the crude.
But we are not good at catching people. Where is Saddam. Osama and Omar or for that matter Cretain?
Bob how you doing. Health back up enough to get off the gruell intraveniously. If not suggest augment it with a pint. Lets race. Bye BillyT
| By Billytaylor (64.221.8.75 - 64.221.8.75) on Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 04:06 pm: Edit |
Got 65 YBs kitting and routing. Have five more still in the nest to wean mid next week. Will wait until they catch up before road training. Dont like to pamper late hatches by separate training. Getting too old. The ones in the air are adapting to 90+ heat without panting. Hear that Mike V. It can be done. Lets race. Bye BillyT
| By Roly (62.253.32.5 - 62.253.32.5) on Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 04:07 pm: Edit |
Well come on now Billy. you know better than that.
They aren't supposed to get kil, - let alone caught - we all know that, OR SHOULD!
Just 750, 000 in 10 years, all arabs too. crickey we did lads beter in a couple of weeks....
| By Ring (66.185.85.73 - 66.185.85.73) on Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 08:47 pm: Edit |
Sorry BT, I was only joking about the bird.Actually your birds came from Ocar's father-in-law. Bird is doing fine.Jim Grant
| By Mikev (142.141.103.170 - 142.141.103.170) on Friday, May 30, 2003 - 10:06 am: Edit |
Hi Billy T. Can't remember what I said to you about loft flying in the heat, but whatever it was, I stick by it. Keep them flying. I just finished building a new young bird loft for all the new BelgiumX champions I bought this year for huge dollars. 39 in total. First time out on the roof today. My competition should have no chance come young birds.
| By Roly (62.253.32.5 - 62.253.32.5) on Friday, May 30, 2003 - 12:18 pm: Edit |
Well have 22 y/b's .. five in nest, but these will have to go as I've changed the feeding for Racing and of course the rearing of young would be very poor.
Intend - as of now - to actually fly both ways with them .. only actually had one race with y/b's in last five years.
Now that of course many supposedly goo birds will be lost. Which bring forths the question of if or when does one hold back from sending.
Well a newcomer I always tell to stop when down to 13 y/b's. OTHERS to fly, regardless of losses, right the way through to last and longest races.
Me well if I start them off they will go every week to the bitter end regardless .unless out of sorts of course.
Well feel a touch confident this week. have sent both ways.
We will see.....
| By Roly (62.253.32.5 - 62.253.32.5) on Friday, May 30, 2003 - 12:19 pm: Edit |
should have been more clear . plus 5 more in nest not big enough to ring.... So they won't get rung.
| By Billytaylor (64.221.8.109 - 64.221.8.109) on Friday, May 30, 2003 - 06:27 pm: Edit |
Good Mike V, backs up my sound decision to pool one of your Super Heros at the Cu if you allow. You are home free since you dont have to fly against my KMart culls this year. Lets race. Bye BillyT