Tumley Lofts Stud

Hi All, Just for interest, for those of you who have never visited us and for those who haven't seen our hard work over the last few months replacing rotten lofts! I have finally got around to making a short video tour of our lofts. If you are interested then go to my site www.tumleylofts.co.uk and go to the Guided Tour page. I will hopefully put up videos over the coming months of breeding/training/racing/etc. Hopefully interesting and helpful for new fanciers and old alike! Comments welcome! Only nice ones ;D Cheers, James.

They were definately not Malibu Lofts but you could have bought yellow kirkpatricks from them they have a lot of pretty colours there! They are Bristolian but that's all I know. Sorry I can't be of more help

It was D & T Lofts, they were to the right of us. Finally got there!

Andy Wilson featured in BHW many times just recently had 11 of 22 home (in club I think!) plus has done well in many national races. Just by chance, he has our Aardens! :-)

Good point but the one is was making was between sprinters and distance 100m/marathon! You are always going to get cross overs between sprint and middle distance as well as middle and long distance, much easier to achieve. Systems do have a major part to play but it is only a part!

P.S. Some of the above names in those posts were winning with other strains bud then the pigeons happened to change strain!!!

Hi All. Another one in to the pot! Leen Boers! Renowned out and out sprinters for years. One cock 14 x 1sts flew no further than 184 miles and all in 3 years of racing. I don't agree that any pigeon can sprint as suggested above. See any Aardens winning at 60 miles! We have one that has but only once when the weather was realy bad. You want pigeons that do it all the time. Did you see Linford Christy (100m UK sprinter from yester year) winning a marathon or Paula Radcliff winning 100m sprints! I don't think so. Same with every animal in every sport. Consistent winners bred for thier prefered distance. Cheers, James :-)

I've seen a few questions about Widowhood system so what I have done is made our Widowhood system freely available! It has been used for many years by many fanciers and produced great results. It's quite simple as we don't do complicated! Hope this helps. You are more than welcome to share the link with anyone. Goto www.tumleylofts.co.uk/widowhood.htm

Hi Ben, We have some going out next week. They could go with our's. We have always used John M Cheers, James

Yep try and change the time you let them out by 30 min as they will hang around and wait. Be as erratic as possible. Good luck

Presumably if no one buys your birds they are either too expensive or not good enough so you would have to lower your price or get better birds I guess. Fanciers/all of us who buy things have no direct control over price but if no one bought milk for say Tesco because it was 2p more expensive than Asda then Tesco would either stop selling milk or drop it's price! I'm no market analyist but that's how it seems to me!!!!

Prices of pigeons are not always set on profit margin! The cost of corn has risen quite rapidly until recently! But what has been said above, a pigeon (or anything to come to think of it) is only worth what you'll pay for it, is true!

I try and get some pics before we put the chq and pied Janssens and Aardens to spoil the look

I was messing around Alan I wish I could have some for the race team that early, they're nearly all booked up! I get left with the ones we don't think good enough to send out to customers! But I can't complain when they do as well as they have done in Sun City, can I!

I tell you what the Leen Boers sections are looking fantastic, they all went down in 2 days and all you can see is boxes of beautiful blues. I can't wait to see them on a nice carpet of shavings all blues

I'm going for hen! Do we win a prize? ;D ;D

No worries shadow, we know each other from a number of years ago, good old friends!

No, the whole 2nd rounds for us ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

We have approx. 50 that will come away this weekend and another 50 over next week!!! Food bills getting expensive :'(

waiting for the cold snap to pass before I pair her, there's no hurry. Sorry you couldn't come down was the best idea to head back. 7 car got stuck around here yesterday needing towing by tractor (have plenty of those here!) Hope to see you again

maybe not to france! Should have clarified that bit but am I bothered 1st NIPA against 27,000 birds can't be sniffed at!

we've got a 1995 hen here. Laid no probs last year and I'm 99.9% sure she will again this year. She's handling extremely well. fingers crossed

No problem we've had pigeons winning the NIPA 27,000+ birds for many years now! We're actually coming over to Ireland with some of the first round of young birds and delivering them personally.

the "Eyesign Cock" 18 years old and died after hatching his last eggs!!! A sad day

Well shoortie, all I can say is our 15 pairs of Jan Aardens have bred pigeones to win up to 1st National! We've had them nearly 20 years now and we still believe they are fantastic distance birds. But I do agree with previous comments, what birds win for one person may not win for another! Some people can pick up street birds and win with there offspring, many can't!!! I can gaurantee that you will get brothers and sister to winners because nearly every Aarden we have has produed winner (apart from the 08 bred birds of course!!!!). So it's up to you to get the best out of them. We have many flyers in Scotland racing these over the channel and I think this must be one of the hardest places to fly into in this country, don't you? Look at our web site for more information and results. P.S. we don't breed 5,000 birds a year!