birds with 3rd bar

birds with 3rd bar do you think its a good thing or bad ?.

I think so but I know nothing

edgie after what you told me about a pigeon with a long tail think you should do the same with a blue with 3 bars BIN IT lol

rainbow wrote:

edgie after what you told me about a pigeon with a  long tail think you  should  do the same with a blue with 3 bars  BIN  IT  lol

did you bin the long tailed one ?.

O-BOY
In my 31 years of racing Pigeons-
The --color--number of BARs--number of toes --ETC
had no affect on/about their Racing ability.
The bird could either Race or not race.
It was the Brain-Genes-Health that made the difference.
One of the bEST birds I ever had was a Bro/sis [nest mates] mating.
I kept the [ COCK ] bird 21 years.

well I gt a y/ling hen here with prodomanent 3rd bar this yr bred from her at 7 months old 1 yb from 1st round that won round 2 lost 1 and other won so that was 2 winners from her out ov the 3 so maybe they are gd pigeons or was it luck you decide boys and girls I know wat I think lol there wont be many leavin here from her nxt yr lol that's wat I think about her lol   

edgie wrote:

rainbow wrote:

edgie after what you told me about a pigeon with a  long tail think you  should  do the same with a blue with 3 bars  BIN  IT  lol

did you bin the long tailed one ?.

only use the tail as a rudder anyway haha

i like the 3 bars in the winter gardens   

birdy2011 wrote:

i like the  3 bars in the winter gardens   

you like a 3 rd bar anyware g lmao

Im thinking the same as TEX, for me it makes no difference and why should it? its simply a mutation of the colour and hasn't anything to do with the pigeon.
But I really like to see it and a lot of my V.D.B janssens have it, if they have it as squeakers they usualy moult as a pencil.
I did read that the M/D evans partnership prefer blues with thick bars and believe they are better breeders, and I must say I don't like blues with very thin bars, I do like the thicker ones.

Family trait, like the Driebander (3 banded) of Hofkens. 6 or 7 generations on I still got ybs this year with a nearly full third bar. Like Ruud. these moulted into pencils and always hens apart from one light cheq with a slight 3rd bar ended up a cock. Thats a hen in my avatar, although not a full third bar you can see the family trait.

I agree with martyn and colin, its a family trait, and some are good, and some are not.   ...just like any other pigeons, some good, some not good.   

David wrote:

I agree with martyn and colin, its a family trait, and some are good, and some are not.    ...just like any other pigeons, some good, some not good.    

perfect answer

fletch wrote:

David wrote:

I agree with martyn and colin, its a family trait, and some are good, and some are not.    ...just like any other pigeons, some good, some not good.    

perfect answer

Very true !!!!!!!!    (Perfect answer) One could waffle on here    , regards such a thing etc or bash your head against a brick wall type of thing & achieve about the same end result.

we used to have a family of willy van berondonk pigeons they bred a lot of 3rd bar birds, some won some were crap some bred winners some didn't they looked good, we don't have them know so the 3rd bar proved to be not good enough.

loftylofty wrote:

we used to have a family of willy van berondonk pigeons they bred a lot of 3rd bar birds, some won some were crap some bred winners some didn't they looked good, we don't have them know so the 3rd bar proved to be not good enough.

got a berondonk hen here she has 3 bars and breeds likewise

I am very interested in these willy van berendonk pigeons lads, Mainly because he bought a lot of the best pigeons at 2 of karel meulemans pigeon sales back in the day.
He had some fantastic pigeons have you got any more info on them please, I was saying in this post that I had 3rd bar pigeons which were from my V.D.B meulemans seem others have the same experience with this family trait.

birdy2011 wrote:

i like the  3 bars in the winter gardens   

I bet yer do     sean

edgie wrote:

rainbow wrote:

edgie after what you told me about a pigeon with a  long tail think you  should  do the same with a blue with 3 bars  BIN  IT  lol

did you bin the long tailed one ?.

keep what you like and flys well for you lads
did you you bin it rainbow
after all you pay for the corn at the end of the day lads

edgie wrote:

rainbow wrote:

edgie after what you told me about a pigeon with a  long tail think you  should  do the same with a blue with 3 bars  BIN  IT  lol

did you bin the long tailed one ?.

keep what you like and flys well for you lads
did you you bin it rainbow
after all you pay for the corn at the end of the day lads

after reading the subject on long tails which says the greatest pigeons had long tails I now know who not to listen to pmsl George

whats with the long tail syndrome   ....surely their are decent birds with long tails
they come in all shapes and sizes

edgie and sj told me to bin it

some pigeons are long cast so surely that would portray a longish tail ...be good to get some feedback from other members here especialy the long distance boys as to whether they have had success with long tailed pigeons   

I have never heared of any one talk about long or short tails before, so I cant comment on them really. However I like a tail covered with feathers so far down that only a thumbs thickness of tail is showing and it looks like 1 tail feather as they are all covered.
The only thing I do believe is true is that pigeons with strong backs will race better than weak backs or tails which cock up instead of down, and the only reason for this has nothing to do with flying ability just the fact that weak backed pigeons will be lost to the falcon they cant change direction as smooth or quickly as a strong backed pigeon and are caught more easily.