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They are from generations of winners and like breeds like! This guy wouldnt have them if they were no good. I have had many of the Van Reets off him myself, and they couldnt touch me round here when i was racing. I have bred a team for my son to race this year and even a 15yr old racing them to the perch hasnt been out of the cards yet in his first 2 races and the rest of the club are on the darkness and widowhood Etc, so this must tell you something of the caliber of the birds No real motivation and still in there every week!

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They are for sale as he no longer races and has bred a round off them for his grandson to race this season. Here are the pics as promised and before anyone says it I know im not david bailey lol.

Hope to have some pics of the birds sometime tomorrow pete.

A friend of mine has asked me to sell 3 pairs of his Martin D'Hondt pigeons. They were bred by him from direct stock via Ian Stafford and are sure to please as they take a bit of shaking, a rare thing thesedays it seems! He is looking in the region of £50 per pair, which is cheep as i know he paid several hundred pounds for each of the original stock pairs. the pairs are listed below, feel free to contact me for more information and i will do my best to get the questions answered for you. Pair No1 :- Dark Pied cock GB05H15118 X Grizzle hen GB05V47143. Pair No2 :- Grizzle cock GB05H15119 X Grizzle hen GB05V47156. Pair No3 :- Grizzle cock GB03V44191 X Grizzle hen GB04J79707. One spare D'Hondt hen GB05V47146 £20 or free to anyone who purchases all three pairs listed above. Also 1 pair of Staf Van Reets bred from original Ian Stafford stock which are:- Blue pied cock GB05V47135 X Cheq pied hen GB05V47153. Thanks for your time reading this, if these birds are what you are looking for then i look forward to hearing from you. All the best, Mark.

My 15 year old son John in his second ever race had 27/28 home and finished 2nd, 6th, 7th and 9th. Beaten by 4ypm. All clocked within a minute. Well done son well proud of you.

I dont think you will get much good stuff from your own doorstep, pigeon faciers arnt daft especialy the good ones! Look up consistent flyers miles away they might let you have something worth having. Good luck in your quest i hope you find what your looking for

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Time well spent it seems

Not a bad start to racing, the birds are a credit to you keep it up!

Please forgive the spelling but can anyone tell me what Hockmagandy means please??

Its a combination of man and bird. You can make a good pigeon bad, but not a bad pigeon good!

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No problem and i think you might be away before too long as the sun is making the odd appearance now. Good luck to you all

Cloud here in Hereford at the moment but is brightening up some what

hahaha dont let my Mrs hear you say that she'd beg you to tell me

Why do people keep wanting to be removed? Is there some sinister undercover action going on im not privileged to??

I hope you find out who did it. The world would be a better place without scum like that in it.

Well street lighting might affect them but im sure the birds get used to it as they grew up to that enviroment, unless you got kids hanging round under it till all hours? then that might make a difference. The birds here get disturbed by security lights going on and off all night and they dont seem bothered by it and they do get trained hard and show no signs of wilting. Seems you might have a bit of something going on health wise. Have you done all the treatments and are they up to date? It doesnt take much of a problem to stop them in their tracks and its easy to forget something. Its a shame though i admired those birds of yours months back in the pictures bit of this forum. I hope you get it sussed and sorted and some of the ones you have dropped work back home for you. If you want to pick my tiny brain on the subject feel free to send me a PM and i will do my best to help you out.

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That makes a change Ronaldo usually goes down in the box! Mind Rooney is a bit of a woman hahaha

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Well when i was racing birds mine were taken and put up in any weather, boiling hot, rain, sleet, snow even fog. My way of thinking is, if they cant find their way home from a maximun of the 24 miles that i trained from, then they were no good to me! I have bred my lad whos 15 a batch to race this year as hes been pigeon mad all his life and wanted to have a go at it himself, he has had them trained everyday barring a saturday come what may for over a fortnight now. they have seen plenty of different weather in that short time from east winds, strong west winds, mist to thunderstorms and temps up to 30 degrees here in Herefordshire and all thats succumbed so far from his batch of 36 is 1, and that, if hes lucky will never be heard of again, not cause we dont care about the birds, but its better to think its died trying rather than couldnt stick the pace and parked its self up in someones garden. Today is very hot, humid and misty here in these here hills but they will be off 20 miles again later and if they dont come back it will be cheaper to keep them and there will be no tears shed cause if they are no good then they are better off gone. Im sure there will be plenty of comments that its taking the stuffing out the birds but its never done me any harm as i really have'nt lost that many, mind perhaps tonights the night you never know and thats what makes it interesting. Good luck to you all, and you have some fine looking birds there Jason it has to be said.

Get a box or washing basket and prop one end up with a stick about 10 - 12" long on a piece of string and place some seed around the outside and a good amount under the trap towards the back, then stay a safe distance away so he pops under and when hes picking away pull the string. Works every time and im sure the bird will soon be in your hands. Good luck and thank you for taking the time to help out a lost bird its good to hear about.