Earlstown Auction

Here are the lots up for sale for the fund raising for Earlstown Flying Club
A Big THANKYOU to those who have donated youngbirds the lads and myself are very gratefull for ur support, and a big thankyou to the buyers i hope you all get a bargain and a few winners with them, can you please put ur bids on this thread only please. Once again thankyou to u all and to David for letting us do it The auction will close 6pm on Saturday 20th of Feb
Ken

Lot 1
Donated by W & P Brown (SmillinAssassin & Vader)
2 x youngsters Gaby vandenabeele

Sire - Dark 63 son of Birthday Girl (foundation Hen)
Dark 63, winner of 5 x 1st prizes now retired to stock 3rd fed, 5th fed, 6th fed etc, Sire of winners with different hens. Full brother to “5006” winner of 5th section NFC Fougeres, 7th section Alencon NFC, 11th section Saintes NFC in 2009 season winning over £1500. Also “5005”. ghost who won 7th section Saintes NFC in 2008 and bred 2 x two counties combine winning nestmate yb in 2009 season.

Dam - Blue 54, raced and prized as yb & yearling and retired to stock as both yb bred from her as a yearling won 1st prizes and she is quickly becoming a top stock hen

Lot 2 Donated by Fred Holbard
Here are some of my performances

1st open London North Road combine Berwick 10,000 birds
1st open " " " " Berwick 6,500 birds
1st open " " " " Morpeth 6,500 birds
2nd open L.N.R.Combine Berwick Yearling 1500 birds
2nd open L.N.R.Combine Stonehaven 7,500 birds

I have bred 1st open North Thames Combine Lerwick "Foxy Lady" for Roy Fox
and 1st open London & South Coast Combine Guernsey

I gave a pair of youngsters to Roy Yellowley from Scunthorpe off another site and the cock has now won 5 races and been well up in the fed on all occasions.

These are a few of my main performances Ken, I hope the sale goes well for you, and to start them off I will bid £50 for the pair,
The pair of youngsters for your sale will be from my cooremans, these are very fast pigeons, they wont get the distance though, they are from a pair of pigeons direct off of Louis Cooreman, the pair bred a second fed winner last year

Lot 3 Doanated by Charlie Ingham
This pair will be off his camile Gordens the sire as 2x 1st plus many other positions at club and Fed Level

Lot 4 Donated by M/M M&C Brown (PGW Lofts)
The two youngsters we will be donating to this worthy cause will be out of 2 x 1st Section Winners in 2009.

Sire, Blue Pd - Gaby Vandenabeele "38"
who won 3rd Section CSCFC Truro as a youngster in 2007, numerous club positions as yearling and as a 2yr old he won 1st Section 21st OPEN Saintes (397miles) racing with the National Flying Club.

Dam, Cheq - Timmer Janssen "5000"
She has been an outstanding racer scoring numerous positions as a youngster in 2007, 1st prizewinner in 2008 as a yearling, winner again in 2009 and also won 1st Section, 3rd OPEN BICC (186mile) Fougeres

Lot 5 Donated by Ian Young
here are the details of breeds which i will donate 2 youngsters off
cheq and white soonjen cock 04ss 2945

1st club old bird national folkestone 2
3rd fed
8th section,
57th up north combine out of 17,234 birds
4th club
melton mowbray 4th fed,many other positions in top ten of club ,
blue vandenbosche hen,07ss3244, put into stock as yearling as i dont race hens other than as youngbirds,

1st youngbird national in club
1st fed
2nd section beat by 1/2 a yard
38th up north combine out of 17,762 birds

Lot 6 Donated by Keith Parkinson
Keith in 1994 brought 6 x walter and Broadhurst wildermirch and 4 x Dean pallets staf van reets keith blended these to form his own family in 2008 sending only 8 hens he won the old bird midcheshire fed averages this being the longest flyer in the fed, in 2009 he had 4 x 1st many minor positions and the young bird averages
These will be 2 x Wildermirch x Staf van reets

Lot 7 donated by Steve 1952
Steve as just come back into the sport and as spent money on his stock birds
The sire is a2009 mardon Van Reet Having already won 1 x 1st
the Dam is a 2006 brasspenning hen this hen as been breeding prize winners and his also a winner for herself

Lot 8 Donated by David Lucas (Admin )
david again as just come back into the sport after a 20 year break where he flew a very good pigeon winning many 1st in his club when flying with his brother, he now flys on his own, in 2009 david bred me to blues both cocks 82 and 83 both these birds won prize cards from the off 82 only beaten by loft mate when he took 2nd club David as brought some new Jansens in to compliment is lebre Dhanes

Lot 9 Donated by Martyn (Rudderfett) 1 Y/b
These will be Jansens of his very good family of birds

Lot 10 Donated by Ken Owen
These will be Meldert x Soonjen
Sire is the old meldert cock Belg 02 who is a son of Champion witton who is sire / g sire of over 40 x 1st . the old Meldert cock is sire to 17 x 1st when paired to Young Thunder 02 who is a daughter to the Thunder hen who is dam /gdam of over 35 x 1st
The Dam Young Thunder Girl is a daughter of the above who has won 2 x 1st and many minor positions retired to stock this year so these will be the first 2 young birds out of this pairing

Hope you like what you see Thanks Ken

lot 3 £50

Lot 2 £50 by Fred Holbard
Ken

Lot 2 £60
Ken

Lot 8 £20

lot 4 60 pound ray peel bros

some nice birds there but got plenty good luck with the sale folks

just spoke to Mum & Dad (LOT 1), will be ready in approx 3 weeks

and i should be ringing ours tomorrow/monday

Ill bid £40 for lot 1

£40 lot 6 for Rene A
Ken

what a fantastic start, welldone all

Gents, any dates when these donations will be ready

(only reason is that my next round i want to put NFC rings on them and house them seperately from my first round and put them on the dark, obviously if i was successful with bids for any of these i would want to send our NFC rings to the breeder if that would be ok and include them in this team to fly france twice 1 x late august and 1 x mid september, this round will/are basically laying up now and over the next week or so??)

Mine will be ready aprox 3 wks, Keiths i know have just gone down on eggs
Ken

P,S I would just like to add to Marks Comments the responce as been fantastic and as a club we thank you all
Ken

mine as well, three weeks approx

lot 7 2nd egg due tomorrow sunday

mine will be ready in 3-4 weeks happy bid

due to hatch in two three days

lot 10 £50

lot 10 £60........

lot 5 £20

lot 9 £20

AUCTION UPDATE

LOY 1 £40 RUDDERFETT
LOT 2 £60 FRIENDSLOFT
LOT 3 £50 STEVE1952
LOT 4 £60 PEEL BROS
LOT 5 £20 STEVE1952
LOT 6 £40 RENE A
LOT 7 £10 STEVE1952
LOT 8 £20 FRIENDSLOFT
LOT 9 £20 STEVE1952
LOT 10 £60 DAVID

this just has to be copied & pasted now to update & alter new bids

has some of these bids being edited as i can remember some bids being higher

the bid i did on lot 5 i altered my bid to give others a chance ian, ive still bid same split it on others to start all lots off

lot 7 £20
Ken