Search Engines Girls World Site Youth Club Site 'Big Fella'Pages Many Miles with Mott HomingWorld. I love this writing game, I should have taken it up sooner, it allows me to meet or converse with so many wonderful people who might only have been numbers in a book or shadows upon the wall otherwise. Congratulations , dig deep, keep, it coming and many thanks for the recent piece of documentation that you sent to me regarding Salmonella in feed control. No doubt when you re read that document, it also made you think again concerning bone meal additives. This is of such great concern to naturalists that a national frog watch has been commenced to check populations and the spread of this ailment that started in the South of England and is spreading outwards.
Naturalists are totally baffled as to the cause but view it as an eccological disaster.
Still greater is the food industry, on part of that being trout farming in this country, pike, perch, carp and trout on the continent. This subject appears to be the hot topic of conversation with fanciers from several areas and they feel it to be a major contributory factor towards young bird losses and have asked for an opinion. It is a difficult subject, because transportation problems have existed since pigeon racing began and although I feel it has improved, it is still far from perfect. Many years ago when pigeons were shipped by rail and crossed the channel by steam packet ferry, there were good races and problem races. I can remember pigeons arriving home with salt water stains upon their feathering and often the race panniers would be returned containing seaweed.