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Don't feed maggots deadly for hard bills you have a high risk of botulism I know it's late now but mealworm for first week is good just bash there heads to kill them as they can eat the chicks insides then you can use hand raisingfood or mix eggfood to a paste
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Plenty of lads going to stafford from Ireland I am sending greenies over
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As fireman says pluck and colour feed you only need a small patch out only sure way of seeing if you wait till the breeding season then realise you have two cocks hens will be hard to find. You can use the red eggfood to do the job instead of buying carophly
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If it was blacks pot (atoxoplasmosis) you have no choice to treat with medication the parents will be carriers seems to be a lot of this around this year especially in the bullfinch
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Yes it's a huge grey area one bird with no ring shouldn't be a problem but get a few and it's dodgy ground a year ago I was involved in a court case concerning twite. I got a pair for a friend off a friend in Belgium he bred dome and didn't ring 1 he also had 2 unrung mealy redpolls these were big show quality and if anyone has bred these they will no they are tricky to ring as they have big feet and have to be rung around 3 days, he could prove the parentage as he had them but he still got took to court his solicitor fees, we're in excess of 10,000 I was due to give evidence the second da
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Looking good [BANNED TEXT] well done
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Warmth very important I would give a mix of baycox and baytril
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There are many causes to this I would try at least a month of soludox with tylan
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Nice one
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It's a satinette siberian race yes they are harder to keep and if you can buy them for 150 I will take the lot 2012/13 prices in Belgium hens 250euro cocks 350 + my friend paid 450 when we were over
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Eumo comes in one colour only but agate comes in light and dark then you have the agate split satinette which is sold by many Belgium as eumo Most if not all the goldfinch sold here as eumo are really light agate or agate split satinette the true eumo is recessive and mainly found in Italy and yes they come in Whitehead and also yellow eumo and yelloweumowhitehead
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What are light eumo i know eumo but not light eumo
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Yes just about i have bullfinch in brown,pastel,brownpastel,normal and a pied cock another friend has whites and pieds also yellow bullfinch. I have goldfinch in yellow,whitehead,agate,eumo,brown, i have just sold pea throats ,yellowbrown,pastel,satinette,isabelpastel, i have many friends with many colours most are available here but are not cheap
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Thanks folks
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Hi is 15 message big enough to make long nets and would you use leaded line or standard line
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Cracking bird even marked very nice indeed
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Looking nice
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prices vary depending on were they are from i source my birds or new blood from world champion stock only because i believe you are better with one pair of good birds than 2 pair of crap,normal birds like the goldfinchs are a little expensive now for the same reason most are breeding mutation. a guideline normals £150 cinnamon £200 pastel £200 brownpastel £250 whites £1000 yellow £1200 topaz £250 all above are pairs and only a guide this year i have sold my pastels at £225 this was for normal male split brownpastel x pastel females bezza were do you keep them over winter as ju
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Yes you done well I called at 15 farms over the bank holiday and was knocked back from all
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Don't know what happened above Yes as said already 30 years ago his dogs were the nuts I don't believe he sent his best bred stock abroad for good money because of his name dogs will sell its like Hancock lurchurs they all knock them no one wants them but he had 4 litters 2 weeks ago I rang him last weekend and all are sold at 250 each so there is the demand still, trouble is people coming into the sport now read the books nuttall this nuttall that and straight away they want a nuttall go and buy one and expect because it has a name with a money back guarantee it will GRAFT
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the ability of the bull x as a alrounder
moss replied to milliken's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
They make excellent all rounders I have one here he is very intelligent sits when told stock broke and listens if he missed on the lamp straight back the eye have memory like elephants he is 5 years old and just showed him ferrets for the first time and does not bother them he best not even bother there hutch he's a first cross so heavy but a loyal dog -
Some very nice birds there pal one in particular I would love to see in a number 2 and on the bench
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Thanks he's is sired some excellent pups now looking for one out of him might breed him to my pals greyhound bitch
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Thanks the white belong my friend in Belgium I had one white/pied male yes brown is the correct term for cinnamon I have pastels also but photo bucket was playing up last nite the revised also Yellow yellow brown pastel Topaz
