Cage & Aviary Birds

Northumbrian Notes With Austin Middlemiss

WELL, I'm back in the birds!

I'll explain. You might recall me mentioning my brother Michael and his bantam new colour creation project. To an extent, it got out of hand and he found himself keeping more and more. He was originally a keen racing pigeon fan and the bantams were in the pigeon loft. He needed to repair the roof, so the bantams were cut back drastically. Then, instead of building the bantam stock again, he went back into racing pigeons. At first, he had bantams in one part and pigeons in the other, but then he got “hooked” again and the last of the bantams went.

Michael has built up the stock and tried to increase the quality. Easier said than done, as some of these pigeons don't exactly

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