eye for martyn and don

good martyn

Just a thought to finish off this topic, for all the fanciers who mate best to best hoping for the best, here is a true story.

The most famous pigeon fanciers of all time my heros the Janssens, had an even more famous pigeon the 019, now being that the Janssens helped found hundreds of famous lofts over many decades and were infamous for breeding qualities here is where it shows best doesn't always begat best.

The 019 was an amazing pigeon and several of his brothers were equally brilliant racers, the 019 won 18 firsts and many many other prizes he was put to stock by the Janssens and failed, all his brothers including 1 which didn't race well bred many many winners but the 019 none. I would liked to have looked at his eye but I bet it was a racing eye only.

martyn not sure what you and don think of this eye but I do like it

looks decent in my unqualified opinion George, this paired to the 9 year old cock might be good......???????

it's a cock david was told it's a hen when bought it now feeding 2 ybs

rainbow wrote:

this is the eye off the latebred

George that eye wil improve as the pigeon gets older but only time will tell but it's developing nicely

must take a look at it's sister who is a 2013 latebred

Rudderfett wrote:

Now your talking Martyn that eye is top draw mate loads of dust and plenty of depth

Rudderfett wrote:

Just a thought to finish off this topic, for all the fanciers who mate best to best hoping for the best, here is a true story.

The most famous pigeon fanciers of all time my heros the Janssens, had an even more famous pigeon the 019, now being that the Janssens helped found hundreds of famous lofts over many decades and were infamous for breeding qualities here is where it shows best doesn't always begat best.

The 019 was an amazing pigeon and several of his brothers were equally brilliant racers, the 019 won 18 firsts and many many other prizes he was put to stock by the Janssens and failed, all his brothers including 1 which didn't race well bred many many winners but the 019 none. I would liked to have looked at his eye but I bet it was a racing eye only.

Martyn I have an an article by John Davies done on the 019 was done in 1988 will bring it the Blackpool if I can find it out

rainbow wrote:

martyn not sure what you and don  think of this eye but I do like it

George that's a nice eye with a shade of chestnut put it with the nine year old see what happens ???? Mate

Nice 1 don...see u sunday mate

David wrote:

yes it is George, and a topic started by you.......

nice for members to share their views and some pictures of their own birds eyes.

I will second that

Rudderfett wrote:

Just a thought to finish off this topic, for all the fanciers who mate best to best hoping for the best, here is a true story.

The most famous pigeon fanciers of all time my heros the Janssens, had an even more famous pigeon the 019, now being that the Janssens helped found hundreds of famous lofts over many decades and were infamous for breeding qualities here is where it shows best doesn't always begat best.

The 019 was an amazing pigeon and several of his brothers were equally brilliant racers, the 019 won 18 firsts and many many other prizes he was put to stock by the Janssens and failed, all his brothers including 1 which didn't race well bred many many winners but the 019 none. I would liked to have looked at his eye but I bet it was a racing eye only.

A great little story Rudd "Thank's" I now know ??? where I went wrong Planet Brothers 019 rubbish etc. When finished here I'm off to fill a bin up.

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rainbow wrote:

of course it is graham so is the wing, ,throat  and tail what I want to know is the pairing of the eyes and what is a no no

now I do like to see a pigeon with a nice set of curtains (throat)

Here is just a small test for everyone here seeing as you mentioned the curtain O/S etc. Which would you choose as the deciding factor "Only one" at 500 miles into a headwind type of thing, to get you on the winners circle. The curtain or a nice eye with eye sign .

a good throat everytime

Appears ??? we have lost the war here O/S 2/992.
OH well !! must battle on .

Hi Halcanada

Is this pigeon a youngster /yearling ????

If yes needs time to develop as the eye looks abit dishy but there is a shade of green in the iris which can be good for breeding JMO

I Know Nothing

I was about to say the same don looks a young eye.....Bit blurry but practise will get them sharper or the camera is not quite up to it. difficult to see much from the pic sorry.

I thought it was quite a decent picture, im hoping to take a couple of my own birds so im a bit confused now about getting a decent picture...........

david think you should take some photos and put them up even photos off your birds

yes George, my daughters camera has the macro setting on it so im just waiting for it to charge up, then hopefully I can take a few recent pictures of some of my birds, plus hopefully a couple of eye pictures......

I would also like to see a eyesign class in the winter shows just for ybs maybe ask Don to judge as I don't think he has any birds now

yes good point George, but only ybs, why not old birds ...?

maybe we could have a yb and an old bird eyesign, and see if martyn and don would judge one each........

I may not have any not already seen pmsl

rainbow wrote:

I may not have any not already seen  pmsl

true.......