Kenyon Pigeons

Can anybody give me any information as to where I can get Kenyon Pigeons, Black Pieds. I've been looking all over the internet and can't get any relevant information. Thanks

try here mate

2 GB10 Kenyon Long Distance Racing Pigeon Squeakers - Listing ...
www.pigeonsales.co.uk/detail.asp?id=5069
16 Jul 2010 – I am offering for sale 1 pair of Kenyon long distance racing pigeons, nestmates: ... The stock birds were bought by me from Alan Astin. He races ...

The auction for that is closed

Does anybody know howI could get in contact with John Crowder?

Dan will have a look at some old Squills books one may have the address mate which if i find it will forward on to you

Dan i think there was a similar posting on the 6th Feb 2011 under buschaert the dark uns

Dan90 wrote:

Can anybody give me any information as to where I can get Kenyon Pigeons, Black Pieds. I've been looking all over the internet and can't get any relevant information. Thanks

John crowder has a small stud of the kenyon blk pds they are superb if you require his address and contact number just post and i,ll post them sean

Are they Jim Kenyons from St Helens.

yes they are the same ones gary
started many moons ago by jim
john crowders are the best kenyons i have seen for a lot of years
you wont be disapointed if you buy for john

[quote="steve b"]yes they are the same ones gary
started many moons ago by jim
john crowders are the best kenyons i have seen for a lot of years
you wont be disapointed if you buy for john
[/quote
i visited John ohn 3 or4 years ago handled most of the blk pd kenyons there was some crakers amongst them
as there was amongst his bushys kirkpatricks and van reets sean]

alan astin who you mentioned in an earlier post on this thread flies in my club hes got quite afew black pieds and i did hear he bought most of john crowders stock birds which i have heard again have been bought back by john , but allan has still got quite afew and i know he is reducing his stock due to pending move

might be of intrest for someone
sommit i found a while ago on the net think it was part of a write up on 3 or 4 distance fanciers will see if i can find the full write and post it on here
Jim Keynon

The subject of this piece is a giant amongst giants of the British racing pigeon sport. Jim Kenyon was from Skelmersdale, Lancs, England, and as years go by the legend has grown for so many winners at the distance and in tough conditions are marked as of the Kenyon blood. Not counting those claimed as 50% or 25% Kenyon, etc,. Especially in Ireland , Scotland, Wales and England at 500, 600, and 700 mile race distances.

Kenyon has acknowledged that the majority of the credit for his successes must be laid at the door of another great pigeoner Chas. Thorougood. For it was the stock of Thorougood and to a lesser extent Edwin Nicholson of Billinge, near Wigan, which was the base of his strain. A closer study however reveals as one would expect the influence of Belgian greats such as Jules Janssen, Gits, Vanderhaegan, Hansenne as well as the old white throat Grooter blood.So the best of the continental mainland bloodlines permeated through generations to build and fuel a great family of racing pigeons.

Jim Kenyon was a fancier who believed in patience and the nurturing of a loving relationship with ones birds. In fact he believed that when many of his racers defied the odds and fought through bad weather conditions that the love of their owner and their home played an extremely important part.

If there is one pigeon that epitomizes the Kenyons then it was the great What's Wanted. A dark Cheq Pied Cock (NURP 30 F 63) a winner from Nantes in conditions so bad that other local fanciers were bucketing rainwater from the confines of their lofts as it arrived in a rainfall. A wonderful example of courage and determination shown by a bird weighing less than one pound in weight. In his career What's Wanted won over 600 pounds sterling in his time. Imagine what that figure would be worth today. What's Wanted won from Nantes two years in succession and left his mark as a breeder.

It would appear however that the Kenyon's showed their class in the hands of other fanciers. Of course this is not to take away from the many achievements or the greatness of their creator but the fact is that in the hands of others numerous nationals were won. Perhaps that is a fitting tribute to the Kenyon strain in that they carried their greatness into other lofts - backyard coal sheds and palatial premises- of fanciers here and abroad.

Even today the bloodlines are keenly sought after, although I would doubt the existence of a pure representative of the family. This search however is perhaps the greatest tribute that can be made to the strain and its builder.

Good bit of info Steve

A good read mate and a lot of the purer birds were bought by Belgium fanciers.

Gaz b wrote:

A good read mate and a lot of the purer birds were bought by Belgium fanciers.

gary the last 2 stock pair from jim kenyon where purchased by a friend of mine and he still has the blood in some of his birds
the crowder birds came from ireland i believe they where noel whilie before he moved to spain these came from jim kenyon sean

Ah right, lots of interesting facts there mate. I know there was a hell of a lot of fanciers in my neck of the woods who did extremely well with them.