paper pigeons

are you one of those fanciers that want a pedigree with every pigeon you buy , or are you quite happy to just have the pigeon ? as a paper pedigree is only as god as the person that wrote it ?

yes I agree edgie, pedigrees are only as genuine as the man who wrote it......with big sums of money involved in selling birds these days, fanciers could put anything on a pedigree just to push the price up...I bought 30 staff van reets off our member ste whitney (RIP) and because of un forseen circumstances I never got the pedigrees for them, I know they were from mark Caudwell and it doesn't bother me really that I didn't get them....the only thing I do feel is a slight problem is that I don't know if im pairing brother to sister etc.

that would not bother me

it hasn't really bothere me edgie, I put them in their sections and just left them to it, they paired to whoever they wanted and I just let them get on with it.

Pedigree doesn't bother me the ones we have are just in a drawer the best is the first over the pad on a race day.

VanReet Man123 wrote:

Pedigree doesn't bother me the ones we have are just in a drawer the best is the first over the pad on a race day.

Spot on Van Reet Man

David wrote:

yes I agree edgie, pedigrees are only as genuine as the man who wrote it......with big sums of money involved in selling birds these days, fanciers could put anything on a pedigree just to push the price up...I bought 30 staff van reets off our member ste whitney (RIP) and because of un forseen circumstances I never got the pedigrees for them, I know they were from mark Caudwell and it doesn't bother me really that I didn't get them....the only thing I do feel is a slight problem is that I don't know if im pairing brother to sister etc.

David have a look at the ring numbers the lets say you have number 30 I would not pair it to either 29 or 31