This website aims to provide practical information, solutions and answers to your questions to ensure you have everything you need to race pigeons from the EU.
Can I tell you when the Brexit reset will have a positive benefit for Cross Channel racing? No.
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APHA Interactive Avian Influenza Map
2027 Racing Season
Loft visits have begun. Please keep in touch with your local organiser. Over the next week proposed dates will be fixed.
IMPORTANT – Please note that your veterinary loft visit must be in person. Virtual visits are not permitted. If you have had a virtual visit. You will not able to race from the EU.
Arrange with the veterinary surgeon to visit your loft.
Proposed Loft visit dates
Loft visits will not be undertaken on an individual basis unless under very exceptional circumstances. Please make sure you are part of a local group.
Newcastle disease
Newcastle disease is in Europe and moving towards us. The virus is similar to Pigeon Paramyxovirus. To give your pigeons the best protection you can. Make sure you vaccinate all the pigeons in your loft at least once annually with Colombavac PMV or Nobilis Paramyxo P201.
David G Parsons MRCVS
October 2026