tail shoots up

there is one thing i cannot stand when you handle a bird and the tail shoots up it has to go has any one had a brd do well when this happens

George & Morgan wrote:

there is one thing i cannot stand  when you handle a bird and the tail shoots up it has to go  has any one had a brd do well when this happens

One of my pet hates here also etc George that being said thou if all else is reasonable I'm quite happy & content for the basket here to be the final judge etc.

Me too , don’t like birds like that....although I breed YBS to sell I also keep a couple back each year for future breeders, and the type I like to hold on to are fairly short cast with broad shoulders, I don’t like big long birds

agree maybe we need a topic what we look for when handling a bird

Think the only type of pigeon that has not won a race is a dead one.

Just look at the different types that have both won and bred winners.

Like eyesign etc; just fads, many champions would have been culled if based on eye sign etc;.

Regards.

i still won't have a bird that tail shoots up maybe if raced them might be different have you bred any good birds which a tail like this

George & Morgan wrote:

i still won't have a bird that tail shoots up maybe if raced them might be different have you bred any good birds which a tail like this

I personally have never bred one.

I have a feeling for the type of pigeon I like and know immeditely if it i so.

Have had all the success at both racing and showing I could wish for.

Have over the years bred god bad and indifferent pigeons but so has every fancier.

But have seen chammpions I would not give loft room to based on what I call a good pigeon.

Funny old game.

Regards.

were you in any of the show racing society i was in 2 in 80s midlands and wales traveling was a problem

ive seen some pigeons that have won major races, yet they look like streeters .......then ive seen some which look beautiful, yet couldnt fly around the loft

David wrote:

ive seen some pigeons that have won major races, yet they look like streeters .......then ive seen some which look beautiful, yet couldnt fly around the loft  

Thats true David unfortunately, with your last issue. Seen thousands of them here over the years etc      finish up in a certain One Loft race as such .  

MISTY wrote:

George & Morgan wrote:

i still won't have a bird that tail shoots up maybe if raced them might be different have you bred any good birds which a tail like this

I personally have never bred one.

I have a feeling for the type of pigeon I like and know immeditely if it i so.

Have had all the success at both racing and showing I could wish for.

Have over the years bred god bad and indifferent pigeons but so has every fancier.

But have seen chammpions I would not give loft room to based on what I call a good pigeon.

Funny old game.

Regards.  

I have here, actually like as one maybe sees a rare blue moon somehow type moment Misty  .

i think a lot of fanciers base a pigeons worth on how it looks, if it looks nice its a "good un" ......

agree David however if a judge give a 1st to a pigeon in a show that tail shoots up there would be some shaking of the head