Pigeon photos..........

yes steve he still races, altho not every week.......hes elderly so doesnt fly the full program any more, cant remember what breed they were but i remember him telling me some of them were bought at blackpool many years ago..........i know this years yb team were bred from them then he got rid of the parents.

hope he doesnt take a dislike to his wife, or she might end up as ferret food too.....

DAVID wrote:

hi steve, yes the man raced his birds but decided these stock birds were too old as some of them were 9 - 10 years old...........he killed them and they fed the ferrets for the week, he did ask me if i wanted them but i said no....not realising what was going to happen to them or i would have took them to rehome if i had known.

you missed out on some good birds David

steve1952 wrote:

DAVID wrote:

hi steve, yes the man raced his birds but decided these stock birds were too old as some of them were 9 - 10 years old...........he killed them and they fed the ferrets for the week, he did ask me if i wanted them but i said no....not realising what was going to happen to them or i would have took them to rehome if i had known.

you missed out on some good birds David

good lookers steve, if they were any good they would still be sat in his stockloft.......

You know what they say david your best pigeons are always the ones which are free

thing that interests me don is that when i read/hear of pigeons said to be no good either racing or breeding, sometimes this may be the case.......but also sometimes its the fancier whos no good, good birds in the wrong hands are sometimes killed because they havnt had the best brought out of them............

Mate that is word perfect

You know what they say you can buy the pigeon/pigeons but you can't my the fancier

one of malcolms favourite sayings too don.............

Never realised that was one of Malcolm's sayings, when racing and fanciers exchaged birds and they never did well with them this was always the saying that was used

Also for fun if certon fanciers won then they would bring a sack of spuds in the club house to say this is what is best for your pigeons all good harmless fun and i must say i miss them days now, the fun, the hyp, and the feeling from the time they enter the race basket to the time they return home

sometimes i wonder if all the good corn we give them and all the exercise and training they gat is really of any benefit to them, i sent a stray 35 miles with my own so it would be in the area from where its from and the first time it took two days to get back to me......the second time it was a miute behind my own, and the third it was among the first 6........beating over half my own birds.
this is especially strange wheen you consider this hen is living in my corn shed on its own, and not getting the pampering my own birds get...........

I totaly agree with whats said, you can have a loft ful of champions, but if you cant breed like a true fancier in 3 years you will have a loft full of rubbish.

I also heared a saying a long time ago, from an excellent fancier in our area, he once told me "sonny if you think your pigeons will win with potions and bottles then you have never owned good pigeons, the champions fly and win with no help" I have always remembered this, and Im still looking for that pigeon...

have heard about fanciers buying top birds in and winning straight away with them, then each year after they do worse and worse till eventually they never win a race.......this must be because the fancier has either no idae of what to pair to what, or that he isnt testing them fully and not breeding from the best. anyone have any other suggestions as to why this would happen....?

better medication not knowing what to treat with and notbeing in that click

also think most fanciers keep far too many birds which are no good, or birds which are desended from winners too far back in their breeding............

someone told me the secret to success is pigeon pie............

Yes will agree with you on the click situation Ian

If you can obtain a stud book 1988 David there is a article on Dave Allen and the first photo is him standing next to a dust bin and holding the lid

Need i say more