Tipplers

Hello everyone. How long did you get your kit fly this year and how many birds in the kit. I need some real time and there is not shame in posting the truth. I don’t fly small kits so mine was a kit of 14 birds and they flew 2:10. The birds were young and old ranging from 4 month olds to 10 year old birds. I hope you all had a great summer.

See 9-page article on pigeon diseases. The information was published by Dr. J. M. Tufts Senior Pathologist, Veterinary Services Department of the Ralston Purina Company. An article was added to the Health section.

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I have a good copy of the book Breeding Better Pigeons. It's a must have for anyone who is into breeding quality pigeons. This book is not easily found but I have an extra copy that I can share for only the cost of $20.00 plus shipping. Let me know if you are interested.

I let a kit of 4 out on Thursday it was lovely clear blue sky they were going for about 50 minutes I looked up there's one pigeon left flying so I assumed maybe a hawk had chased them and they went down to hide away . So I got the one remaining bird down
Sat waiting for there other 3 but they didn't show up . Thought there safe some where and will return next morning . Came home from work no sign and I haven't seen them since so unless a plane hit them I am really lost for answer's .

I was looking through my old pigeon box the other day and found a copy of Pigeon Review May 1980 It is a Tippler Issue,Tons of great articles ,Lots of useful info on tipplers .I can make copy's if anyone wants one.

I have been noticing online and utube people having tipplers that have caps or shell crests on their heads,I dont recall the tipplers I ever seen having any type of crests at all,does anyone have more info on this ?Please inform me where that came from and has it been around for a while and I just never noticed ????

Mom was going through the closets this weekend and came across a box of items that was gifted me from the late Joe Kelley. A lot of Joe's items were more of a fetish on tipplers throughout Great Britain. He had a stack of maps that were survey maps of Macclesfield, Manchester, Sheffield, etc. He used to think that in studying the weather of these areas that he was going to learn something profound from the guys that flew in these areas. A lot of the papers were correspondence between him and librarians or others that had access to weather maps and terrain maps.

I dont want to tempt fate but things a looking up my birds have been attacked by hawks so many times it seems there use to it , ive not lost a bird for two months now , when the hawk shows up they all split up go different ways and the hawk dont know which one two chase with 4 all going I different directions he gives up , ive been letting the birds out a bit later about 4pm , it seems the hawk has allready eaten so its been pretty quite I'll keep my fingers crossed but with dark nights coming in the birds will go out at lunch time when I get home from work ,