Article By Rassie Erasmus
Article Published 02 September 2007

Hi All (Out of Ron)
Thought I write a letter to keep you warm tonight, or just maybe to keep you busy for a few minutes.

I hate it when a 16-year-old makes me feel dumb. I mean, he doesn't mean to make me feel dumb. He doesn't know he's making me feel dumb. But he is really smart, and he knows a lot about a lot! Like the solar system, for example. He's got the planets down cold along with all kinds of facts about the universe. Things I either have forgotten or maybe never knew. Man, can he count! He's working on thousands, millions, billions, and his favorite quantity, a google! When it comes to our universe, he's never going to be able to count that high!

What I want to tell you today is about "Stars You Can't Count and Things You Can't Fix."

With the discoveries of new high-tech explorers like the Hubbell Telescope, we are learning some absolutely staggering new things about the universe we live in. There are at least 100 billion galaxies we know about so far. When we look up in the sky at night, it's estimated that we can see maybe 3,000 stars. But it's estimated that the average number of
stars in a single galaxy is 200 billion stars! Let's see: 200 billion stars times 100 billion galaxies...that's it - mental meltdown. If you think the vastness of the universe is amazing, fasten your seatbelt for something much more amazing.

The Truth about Pigeon racing.

No matter what you say or do, no matter what you know or how many experience you have, no matter what you are or who you are, none of us will never ever know everything about Pigeon racing.

"One cannot give what one has not" and that is just as true for the racing pigeon. In our sport one can and shall only reap what one first has previously generously sown..... that's what makes pigeon racing so interesting and so honest.

If you can do the following, or practice the simple secrets of how to read the minds of your competitors, it will give you at the end the edge above all the members in your club. All you have to do is to use your senses and be open-minded. Later it will become second nature to know what they are doing. For example they prepare to win the Classic next
week. You prepare to win the race this week and of course you are going to win the race after the classic. But you still have a change to win the classic. They will send their best birds on the classic, you are going to send your best this week and the week after the classic.

Senses:

Smell: U will learn to smell of what they use to spray the loft, to smell of what is in the drinker and to smell of what they have stored away. The smell of Troyvite B is a good example.

Look: Look at the loft, the birds, the environment, the trap. Look at everything you can, and with his permission in the drinker. Look at the colour of the water en try to smell. Remember the smell/Colour. Look at the back of the loft, just may by he has got something hide there, LIKE I DO for instance.

Feel: With his permission feel the birds, feel the feathers, the softness, the body weight, the feet and feel the temperature of the loft inside. Don't forget to keep on looking, maybe you will see something inside the loft. Look at the behavior of his birds.

Listen: Listen to what he say when you ask a question and look at his body languish. Research shows that body Languish is 75% and the voice tone 25%. You will know when he lies. Ask him what he think of a good product " The best " like for instance Troyvite B and Avisol or Terramycin mixed with Tylan. If he said it is rubbish, then you know he use it.

Let me put it this way. I am not afraid to tell the whole world I use products mention above. This in not a secret, BUT how to mix it and when to give it, that's another story.

Everyone on this list knows something that the other don't know, trust me on this one. "Stars You Can't Count and Things You Can't Fix." on your own. As I said before: I am clever enough to know that I do not
know everything and that is what give me the edge.

Hope my 5 cents worth will help some of you to get closer to the Hidden Inch.

Regards

Rassie Erasmus