Rooster J. Cogburn

Thanks again

Cheers all

Thanks very much all. Fair pleased with the wee hen I'm indebted to the Woodroffe Brothers for breeding me the pigeon. If I could do the doos a tenth as well as these guys I'd be some flier. Top fanciers and top birds.

Really enjoyable thread Walter. Top stuff

When in Rome Davie :lol:

Opiate/Wine cocktails, now yer thread makes sense Peter

Great night from start to finish. Bill Wortley's speech,the meal,the drink,the people,Elvis etc. Absolutely fantastic. Looking forward to next year's already.

Plenty. None more so than Tommy Blair. Phenomenal.

17hours 25minutes on a separate occasion from Avranches as well. That can't have been a pigeon, the thing must've been a machine lol

Black Rocket and Violet Eyes

Ignore the first 6 unless you have a good magnifying glass lol. These ones are readable. . .

Seen his name mentioned on another thread. This is a good read .

The Janssen and Van Loon based pigeons turned the scene upside down on their arrival in many areas. have to say the vandenabeeles made the biggest impact since these and the Busschaerts. Heremans-Ceusters getting into the same category. All depends on who brings them in and in what quantity I suppose. Good old strain for the North lads in particular-the Rene Boizards. Think looking at size of team and impact on long distance performers containing his bloodlines you'd be hard pushed to find a better Scottish breeder than Dennis Dall. Interestingly I'm lead to believe he didn't believe in strains or strain making and called his breed the Dally Mixtures

Top flying amongst some very good fanciers. Well done Stevie and Graham. As good doo men as is aboot

My dad and I used to do it too Peter,we called them the radio 2 doos lol. Had a good blue cock here we called Pop Master. I say good, he wasn't much of a racer but he was s hit hot at the Ken Bruce quiz

"To be perfectly honest George I dont know what respiratory is !!, I thought it had to do with birds gasping with open beaks and sought advice from Garry the Herbalist from Penrith when employed by C.J. but no problems were identified so I tried this trick. The birds were forced to fly an extra 5 minutes every day with me on the loft roof with a double barrel shotgun. After a week they were flying round the loft for maybe 45 minutes and all the gasping dissapeared." -Peter Pandy I thought it was the above tonic that solved that problem Peter

WILL BE BUYING??? These Olympians are 40 years behind the fancy

I'm beginning to wonder if you have lateral thought Peter .Throw that auld book away, regardless of how many groats it cost you, and look up the current Oxford Dictionary definition on your electronic apparatus for making calculations

Seen ye on the live feed Tommy,good spotting ye seem to have seen the second doo coming before every other bugger

I've a young hen here I got from a friend,bred from a pair of yearling nestmates that chose to pair together. She won the first young bird race in the club this year. She flew the full programme never being far away from my first ones each race and managed a couple of fed turns. She's not a big pigeon and is a very fast moulter, but I don't see much wrong with her-she doesnae have two heeds or owt Think with any mating in pigeons ye need a bit of luck?

John Ellis didn't miss many yb nat results and never darkened. Could be talking out of turn,but think those able to get natural youngsters out these types of races have the doos on open bowl a lot and the youngsters have a different type of fitness on them. I'm with yeboah though. If your darkness birds are getting beat of your naturals you're doing it wrong lol

You'd a cracking team performance yourself Davie, a nice end to the season-takes a bit of doing to be there or thereabout from all the SNFC races over the course of the year

A big well done to John McNeill 1st,2nd and 3rd Section. Had a wee look there for my own interest and from the last 10 YB nationals into SectionD the Broxburn Bullet has won: 4 x 1st 5 x 2nd 5 x 3rd 3 x 4th Top class A special mention to my club mate Sam Graham, 4th and 5th Section after 2nd and 3rd WSCC Mullingar last week. A class act. You'll be missed up the club next season. All the best with your move shen.

Well Done Billy Bilsland, Great stuff

No need to worry about that Peter, I've plenty of them prisoner in the warm loft :lol: