Greyman 25,125 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 The same thing happens with racing pigeons leaving the country, much easier to smuggle a box of eggs and hope a few hatch than trying to fill your coat with live birds 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jiggy 3,207 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hope they are better with incubator than me. 10 thousand eggs over a 2 year period and I got 50 chicks. 35 of them were stinking guinea hens that I forgot about and never checked water level or temperature because I didn't really want them. 35 hatched out of 38 eggs. Fifty cent for pheasant eggs at the time when you could buy day olds for 70 cent.. I won't be hatching falcons for the foreseeable future at that price. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
low plains drifter 9,457 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 8 hours ago, mackem said: Just saw this in a local paper,I am sure we all collected eggs as kids but this guy is next level,I wonder some of his adventures,wasn't that bright though wearing a bulky coat coming from SA in last summer's heat. Midnight Express part 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,662 Posted January 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 He is dedicated,and prolific. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South hams hunter 8,814 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Greyman said: The same thing happens with racing pigeons leaving the country, much easier to smuggle a box of eggs and hope a few hatch than trying to fill your coat with live birds I don't think there's any need to smuggle pigeons. They leave lorry full at a time most weekends 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wildman 374 Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 15 hours ago, stumfelter said: Perhaps he wanted the money to buy one of them hot tubs for his Mrs...... Or maybe he wanted some coin to join the Ashford dance club ,where l,ve heard mackem can be seen jitterbugging every Tue,s n Thursday night 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
micky 3,325 Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 When I was a kid Birds Egging was considered part of growing up and no one frowned upon it and me and my mate were real keen at the job I loved climbing trees and the tall smokestacks in the brickworks then one day at Sunday School the teacher was talking to me about my hobby and told me that they had a collection at the Hall and I could have them , when he brought them to our house there was eight glass cases with every bird in the British isles [I think ] a day later I lost all interest in Egging and Eggs I just seemed pointless my mate Mark carried on and it never left him he went all around the World collecting and he did not stop when he got serious prison time over here , he had never bought , sold , or swopped one he just collected them and when he died his Mrs burnt the lot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mud 2,044 Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 20 hours ago, mackem said: He is dedicated,and prolific. He has took it to a whole new levle he would of been getting good money for those,specially hiring a chopper to help him out anyone know his contacts 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,662 Posted January 31, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 8 minutes ago, mud said: He has took it to a whole new levle he would of been getting good money for those,specially hiring a chopper to help him out We leased a helicopter last year cost two of us 4k'ish this guys like a bird-nesting james bond,i did a bit of reading on him,his markets the middle-east he was caught several times,once said he got the eggs from a supermarket 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waz 4,200 Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 He should of plugged them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waz 4,200 Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 Had a load of OEG brought over to me from Kent, they had to brake sharpish to avoid going up the back of someone, the eggs went base over apex, loads broken. None hatched. Same chap bought over some stags and poults - no fatalities. This is via ferry as the x-ray machines at airports arent good for eggs apparently. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,125 Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 20 hours ago, South hams hunter said: I don't think there's any need to smuggle pigeons. They leave lorry full at a time most weekends An old mate of mine has been selling pigeon eggs to Indians for years, don’t know why or what the law is I just no he does and for strong money they have to be from the right birds of course with strong racing pedigrees maybe someone more enlightened than me can tell you why Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South hams hunter 8,814 Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 16 hours ago, Greyman said: An old mate of mine has been selling pigeon eggs to Indians for years, don’t know why or what the law is I just no he does and for strong money they have to be from the right birds of course with strong racing pedigrees maybe someone more enlightened than me can tell you why My old man has imported 50/60k of birds in the last 2 years. All through a courier bought off an auction site and can remember him selling birds to kuwait so don't know why anyone would do it cloak and dagger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rabid 1,936 Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 I ship eggs to Kenya every year no problem, I think domestic birds ain’t a problem, but what he is doing classed as wildlife crime. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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