The sun is shining and what a beautiful day. The blue cock who was missing from yesterdays training toss arrived at 7.15 this morning, done slight bit of weight and has looked nakered all day god knows where he went, was kept in and rested considering also his hen laid out last night while he was away. All birds fed at 7.00 this morning a dessert spoon, which works out a quatre of an ounce. The hens went out at midday and they flew about an hour an half. Then the celibate cocks were let out at 1.30 and didnt return till 3.45, so they ranged well, and trapped even better, all were in, after a few blos of the whistle. Then the widowhood cocks were let out most apart from 3 i have paired up now so 8 in total are paired to old hens, and 3 out of the 8 hens have laid. These flew for about 30 mins, the younger cocks like the mosiac and the big blue pied are the culprits of making them drop, they didn't even range, was in sight the whole time, to top of they didnt trap very well either, so they went without food when they went in. Last night i also put them on flagyl powder in the drinkers so they will be on a 3 day course of canker that is all the young birds. The hens and celibate pigeons got fed as much as they wanted till started to leave barley after there fly, and widowhoods wasnt fed due to bad trapping. A touch of luck is that they will be lorry trained nearly every day now as i phoned round a few people and will be able to get my birds picked up tommorow morning at 9am. Im slightly on edge as its bishop stortford and the birds have only had 1 twenty one mile training toss. The days will be in rotation i will send cocks one day hens the next. Bishop Stortford is exactly 30 miles to my loft.