Price of pigeons

Gaby Vandenabeele is having a clearance sale lot 1 is doing 166000 euros and that's just over 1 day of bidding, whats the members thought on an average price for a pigeon?

chuda wrote:

Gaby Vandenabeele is having a clearance sale lot 1 is doing 166000 euros and that's just over 1 day of bidding, whats the members thought on an average price for a pigeon?

Not 166000 euros Chuda that's for sure etc. That's CRAZY, CRAZY stuff from my perspective . All that being said & by my standards down here, I wouldn't pay more than 2/300 dollars for a pigeon even with a fancy type pedigree. True story, pigeon I clocked last weekend in an absoluter stinker of a race at 500 miles etc "very few clocks" was bred off a frèe bee as such from a mate here & the last 8 pigeons which have come into my stock loft have all arrived the same way also.  

Well done knackered
Its the best way to get them..free
Is it from an old aussie line?

fieldwalker wrote:

Well done knackered
Its the best way to get them..free
Is it from an old aussie line?

Yes especially when your a mean a**e type with spending silly money on pigeons. Also don't have much time etc FW for those super, super type imports in my back yard. Could name quite a few local stud "import" types here that went missing in the last race we had recently, along with other feds that raced on the same week end etc. Super, super quick with a wind up there backside they are, but get a real header & they go missing on average "Big time" compared to the old Aussie lines of old I've found.

ive got a load of pigeons free, anyone want them.........?

best ones are free

£50 for a yb to race would be the most I would pay...as for a older stock bird it would depend what the bird had bred or how far away in the breeding it was from the original racers/winners the further away in the pedigree the less I would pay but the price quoted for the gabby vandenabeele is ridiculous

David wrote:

ive got a load of pigeons free, anyone want them.........?

best ones are free

Free I will take the lot etc as long as you deliver them to my door David & cover all transport costs .  

The 1st Gaby pigeon is now up to 170,000 euros, so far I recon must be well over a million euros worth of pigeons , and plenty of time yet, over 800 birds, crazy numbers

Cannot understand the mentality regarding the prices and the number of pigeons involved.
Does not matter who the fancier is, 90% of his/her pigeons will be average, 5% above average and 5% worth a bit more than the others.

A large percentage will have been bred for sale and others duffers that were useless at racing and breeding.

But a fool and his money?????.


Regards.

Often the best pigeon you get are Freebies from a good mate. We all know of fanciers who race 100's in a season. One , and many know, has sent 7 /800 birds in a week- end. Another sends over 200 odd to a national. Can't believe for a minute that they are back garden fanciers.
Don't take a overly clever man to realise they must have 100'S of losers / culls. Yet many flock to them!
Many have aviaries full of birds to sale. Many bred down from many generations that have never even seen a race basket, let alone trained or raced.

Had a fancier in out club, a good one that did his share of winning. whom would say to me If going training pick mine up … Then expected me to call back to or three times, and then often said 'Sorry shalln't bother'! He had 8 pairs in the loft to race, and an y/b loft ready for the youngsters when ready.

Meant his mate was going to take them to another lib site.
He also impressed upon that he never mated up till the 1st or 2nd week in April... which was true.
I knew the crack, and it was confirmed one day. Was the 1st week in April and he open the lofty to show me the birds just being put together.

In a another breathe said 'I've sent 42 to Scotland this week, and over 60 to Lincoln and Sheffield etc. etc.
I was friendly with a very / well still am good national winner both North and South.
He said once 'I bought 20 youngsters off ************* once when hoping to get some good crosses. '! I said 'They didn't do you any good I bet'! N
'No' was the reply ' Absolute rubbish'!

His mates were two brothers, ex flyers who had massive stables etc. in their garden, just around the corner from me. Never mind what it was, stray, cull tc. they bred anything

MISTY wrote:

Cannot understand the mentality regarding  the prices and the number of pigeons involved.
Does not matter who the fancier is, 90% of his/her pigeons will be average, 5% above average and 5% worth a bit more than the others.

A large percentage will have been bred for sale and others duffers that were useless at racing and breeding.

But a fool and his money?????.


Regards.

I can all just hoping to find the next champion type of thing etc Dream time is what I call it here Misty. Imports have been coming down here for the last 25 odd years from the best of the best type of thing on average & with the import restrictions in place here one could maybe say about 7000 odd birds give or take a few have found a new home. 5/10% maybe worth some value from my perspective the rest just a drain on the pockets of those hoping to live the dream the way I see things . Final note     the first great thing     that was going to change the face of racing here I first saw, were the Jan Ardan types. Beautiful to look at     & handle, but a total basket case when it come to the racing side on average.