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Rooster J. Cogburn

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  1. Fantastic team of pigeons,probably the best I've seen Heres a picture of their 1996 INFC Kings Cup winner
  2. Good night the sausage rolls were crackin
  3. Very well done Owen
  4. I'm assuming to have a cock worthy of being a bull,he must have a terrific breeding eye?
  5. I trust 100% that you are not a fan of the eyesign theory All I was getting at is that we shouldn't believe everything we read or hear
  6. Its a shame to hear Joe's Sporting Challenge has run its course.I certainly enjoyed the reading and as many have stated it highlighted a lot of the top birds we have in the country. This is just a thought-does anyone think it would be worthwhile trying to organise a SNFC single bird challenge? Basically borrow the format used in Ireland Open it up to all lofts flying into Scotland. Nominate one bird by the middle of March Highest placed nominated pigeon in the SNFC Gold Cup race is the winner. The Irish one has really gained momentum.The first time 20 lofts were selected as a trial run,it worked out that the 1st and 2nd Kings Cup that year were actually nominated in the challenge. Since then it has grown year on year and this season nearly 500 lofts nominated a pigeon
  7. Of course you can achieve success without ever looking into a birds eye. From a personal point of view every good bird I've ever had may have had fantastic eyesign.I like most however would not know.This is the trouble,many who decry eyesign aren't actually decrying eyesign they are covering up for the fact they know nothing about it.Let people who like it and find it useful get on with it without rubbishing it. Another thing is I wouldnt neccessarily believe all these top fanciers from the videos etc. when they tell you its nonsense.Many of these guys tell you what you want to hear,its not because they are bad people this is part of the pigeon racing comradery.Very few if any top fanciers regardless of how well you think you know them,will tell you everything. Many will even try and throw people off the scent.I won't name names,but I have visited a fancier in the past who on the results front has no equals.After reading loft reports(the kind of thing novices would read)and hearing stories I was under the impression this man used no medication whatsover,all the success was down to his expert management and exceptional pigeons. The more I got talking to him I realised this could not be further from the truth.He is actually so far ahead of everyone else when it comes to supplementing and dosing pigeons that of course he'll want people to think he uses clean water and good food.
  8. There are a number of fanciers past and present who have believed in eyesign and been terribly successful,of course eyesign is not the sole reason for this success. But because yourself,Geoff Cooper,Mark Gilbert or whoever say its a lot of rubbish doesn't make it the case. Not a man alive knows all there is to know about pigeons.
  9. I don't think having them locked in all winter is the way to do it. Our doos come and go as they please near enough all day everyday outwith the racing season and over the course of the year we lose fewer than other local fanciers who keep them in from the last race of the year until Febuary/March the next.In fact two season ago a fancier a couple of miles u the road from me lost more in the first week of letting his birds out again than we did over the whole of the winter all depends on the scale of the problem mind you,from what I read on here and in the papers etc. we certainly don't have it as bad as others.
  10. Jimmy Nail is a class act
  11. I used to love Gladiators when I was wee.Especially Jet and Lightning
  12. Tam sells Millar's Superchol as well which I believe is the same as the stuff Frazers stock. I used it in the build up to the big races,as a liver tonic,when using a lot of oils on the feed and peanuts.
  13. Best of luck with the new introductions JAM. Its sounds like you've done your homework on them anyway and I'm sure they'll reward you
  14. I took a few latebreds this season and got 2 or 3 from friends,upon realising how much they eat I'm not so sure it was my best idea
  15. I'll bear it in mind JAM Got more than enough to be getting on with at the minute though
  16. Was just curious at the time More doos is the last thing I need JAM
  17. Enjoyed this season with the highlight timing in two birds a minute and a half apart from 543miles. Biggest dissapointment came from losing '48'.He was a bird that had never been out the first 5 to the loft and was our first bird or with the first birds in around half the races he entered.Once to the well too often
  18. think Supermac's 'Speckle' hen was a grandaughter of the Newton Pair.She is in the breeding of over 300 x 1st prize winners. Interestingly enough 'Speckle' and the hen of the Dream Pair were the runts of the litter
  19. Good photos Danny. Are you going to the fed dance?
  20. I don't believe the fed is called the Northwest fed due to the fact it runs South East to North West either.It was due to the fact it was a breakaway from the old Central fed.The area that broke away from this fed covered the NW corner of the old boundary hence its name.I am willing to be corrected on this one though Peter
  21. Peter, I at no point in the Tommy Blair thread said I thought he was or wasn’t the greatest fancier to ever fly into the Northwest Fed One thing I’ll say now is that one of the lofts you mentioned flew, in my opinion, the greatest bird there has ever been in the NW fed, if not the country. A pigeon who as a young bird was 2nd Fed Open, as a yearling was 2nd fed open and over the course of her racing career topped the fed 7 times. Scored 4 times in the first 2 % SCC from France with her highest position being 3rd open and scored 4 times in the top 2% SNFC from France with her highest position being 9th open. She belonged to a loft that won over 300 x 1st in ten years, owned a pigeon to breed 30 youngsters to score from France as well as breeding 6 fed winners in one season and a bird which bred a further 15 pigeons to score from France. The loft was fed champion for many consecutive years and at one point timed 29 pigeons on the day of liberation from 510miles. I could list a number of pigeons, their breeding and performances for lofts in Stenhousemuir, Larbert, Denny, Camelon, Bonnybridge, Stirling, Alva, Menstrie, Avonbridge, California, Winchburgh, Croy, Gilmerton, Wellbank, Annan, Ireland etc etc. down through this same line of birds, but this is information I have picked up or been told in private conversations. Out of respect for these fanciers I won’t be airing their business on an open forum. The point I did touch on in the Tommy Blair thread is that you cannot compare Lionel Messi and Zinedine Zidane with Johan Cruyff and George Best.
  22. John Kirkpatrick The famous John Kirkpatrick of Annan made his first appearance on the SNFC results in 1924 when he was 32nd open Rennes. Before he actually won the Rennes race in 1937 with his winner Coronation Express. He went on to put together an impressive run of results in the intervening 13 years. In this spell he gained 2 x 3rd, 4th, 2 x 5th, 9th, 11th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 22nd from Rennes and from Nantes he won 7th, 21st 39th 40th and 42nd open. He had a red hen that won 5th open in 1931 and in 1933 was again 5th open Rennes. In 1952 John Kirkpatrick was slowly dying from a terminal illness first detected 3 years earlier. He was 1st and 2nd open SNFC Nantes with two red cocks ‘Galabank Prince’ and ‘Galabank Duke’. In 1953 John Kirkpatrick died and his birds were sold by auction in Manchester in December 1954 and were dispersed across the country. In subsequent years many classic winners were reported from their progeny from all corners of the United Kingdom. In 1963 the husband and wife partnership of Mr & Mrs Lou Horsburgh of Ecclefechan won 1st open Rennes with their great hen Fechan Lass who was 2nd open the following year. Jim Sanderson 2 x 1st Open Nantes Jim Sanderson of Pathhead also won the double as he had the winner in 1981 and then the following year he won 1st open Nantes again. Jim Sanderson based his team of pigeons on the best of the Kirkpatrick blood. In 1976 Jim received some eggs from his friend Bobby Carruthers of Bonnyrigg and these formed the foundation stock. Bobby Carruthers won 1st open SNFC Sartilly in 1989 and has continued to figure highly on SNFC results for more years than I care to remember. Jim Sanderson had a great cock named ‘Scalpy’ that quickly established its reputation as a wonderful stock cock. In 1979 he won 15th open Nantes and the following year was 7th open from the same race point. He timed in a 5 year old red chequer hen to win 1st open Nantes in 1981. Not content with this Jim repeated this great performance when he again won 1st open Nantes with another red hen in 1982. This was hailed as a tremendous accomplishment against the cream of Scotland’s long distance lofts.
  23. It certainly was Jimmy Hamilton .The pigeon was bought by uncle Louis,under the condition that when she stopped laying she would return to Jimmy's Kennoway lofts to see out her days. Theres a story of when Jimmy was visting LPW.Louis was walking him through the sections.Before they got to the pen Nan's Pride waqs in,she was cooing and acting up as she heard Jimmy's voice. I was put into contact with Jimmy Hamiltion when I was around 14,through Ian 'Toddler' Brown.I exchanged letters with Jimmy over a number of months.I still have them and he always wrote them in pencil.Unfortunately Jimmy passed away before I was able to meet him in person and see his birds. The closest I came to his pigeons was when handling children of his Gold Award winner at Toddler's loft.Remember at the time thinking they were about the best pigeons I had ever seen.
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