swilcox

Where has Bart gone??????

Boz If you go keep your eyes wide open!!! Many of the sellers dont even race pigeons they just keep a few pairs of lookers and sell there children at the market to the German and English who dont know any better. To be honest you dont see many Belguim or Dutch people buying youngsters there which is some indication, in fact many see as a bit of a joke. A freind of mine bought a pigeon there some seasons ago and when he traced the owner he couldnt believe the man kepted 5 pairs in a garage and the other youngsters he didnt sell went to the local resturant!!!! Stuart Wilcox

Andrew Could you list the pigeons actual race results please or send them on a private message. Regards Stuart

The belguim reports are not true!!!! Stuart Wilcox

This pigeon is now sold! Thanks for all the PM Messages and emails! Stuart Wilcox

He doesnt clean out, he doesnt get up at 6.00 am he doesnt study his birds, he could be bothered to go training today and he didnt make the difference. A lazy flyer is the man who puts garlic in the water for 8 weeks on a monday when the pigeons are racing, the good flyer give them garlic 52 mondays in a year!! Get me drift!! Stu

TT im only 32 years old!!!

Once when i was 12 years old i was playing rugby on a saturday morning, it was against Frome college. The same day it was the Farrington Gurnay 2 Bird Open from Penzance which was the last race of the season! I enetered 2 pigeons a Blue Hen and a very gay red pie which was a sion bred by the late Dick Sparey! When i sarted the game we hadnt been able to find out whether the birds were up! As the half time whistle was blown i turned to face my team mates when i seen the red pie cock flying across the field! without even a good bye i ran of the field and headed for my bike next to the changing rooms, i could hear shooting behind me but i just kepted running. 10 minutes later i was home and sat on the trap was that red pied cock. That night i was 2nd behind Vic Preedy by 2 minutes and while i was gutted everybody thought it was a great result for one so young. On the monday my games teacher sat me in front of the whole team and made me give an apology to everyone, afterwards he told me that a County selector was watching and that i had blown my chance. 1 month after that i was picked for somerset and just i running out the manager stopped and said "son keep your on the field and out of the bloody Sky"" That story has stayed with me all my rugby career, even when i signed for Bath Jack Rowell called me the "Pigeon Man from Midsomer Norton" and then asked the groundsman to lock the gates when the game was on!! Stuart

I was so poor i had to sleep with four sisters who all pissed the bed! Every morning i woke up under a rainbow, i could swim when i was 3 months old!!!! And every day i had to carry my disabled mother down the stairs so she could make my Breakfast!!!! Stu

Hi Lads As it stands today we cannot fly pigeons outside of the UK but this might all change before May, i suppose its down to how the bird flu spreads!!!! Stuart Wilcox

My Dad was very poor and he used to buy all are cloths from the Army and Navy surplus stores! You cant imagine how embarrasing it was going to school dressed as a Japanesse Admiral with high hill sheos and a gas mask! Stuart ;D

The good thing about pigeons is its a combination of everything! Good pigeons flying to a good loft on a good system with good management will be the winner. The problem is you need to keep breeding the good pigeons and that what sets a true champion apart """BREEDING""". : To add i doesnt matter what the system or the pigeon there is now gain without pain and more you put in, the more you read, the more you study your opigeon and write everything down the more the reward!!! Im only a young'un but one of the first bits of advice i had from Englands best ever distance flyers (Fear Bros Clandown) was that a lazy flyer never visits the prize table at the end of the year!!! Stuart

Hello Bart I hope you dont mind me joining this discussion! I have not long restarted after selling my team at auction and i asked myself the same questions as you did! I looked at what i did right before and what didnt work for me! I beleive the most important thing to me is choice, when i established my team before i visited Bert Hession from Blackpool, he simply put me in a section of 40 ybs and said choose your own, on that 1st visit i choose 2 cocks Champion Pied Producer and Champion White Eyes. Now before that day i would often have birds arrive in a box or would pick up the odd pigeon in an auction! Some have suggested contacting local fanciers but how many of them will let you go home with what you want!! Most will give you there cast offs, its human nature. Going back to Bert Hession if he had sent me 4 down in a box it probaly wouldnt have been that 4 and there were pigeons in that section that i didnt like. So my advice would be go to a fancier or stud that will give you choice, take an experienced friend if needed but choose what you like and what you are comfortable working with because Pigeon Racing is a tough sport and as any tradesman you need to enjoy your tools that you craft. Another thing pigeon families that won yesterday will still win tomorrow, dont pay though the noise for pigeons just because they are trendy, : so long as they are from a winning line and you like them they are worth your dedication!!! Stuart Wilcox

This hen is now sold!

NL04 CHEQ C Direct from super Racer Mr Limoges, 1st Nat NPO Limoges 7514b 1998. In 1997 he was 2nd Reg 2438b, 15th Nat NPO Limoges 8840b. Sire; Mr Limoges, his sire De 900 is direct from Oude Kennes while his mother is direct from Moustafa Duifke from Verstraete. Dam; Blauwe 47, Soonjtens x Jannsen a winner of 1st GOU Peronne 7115b, 8th NPO 12006, sire from the line of Donkere Voorvuit and De Verkeerde, Dam 100% De Bruyn Jannssen from the line of the superkoppel £175 which includes a DNA Certificate!!! Stuart Wilcox 0044 7715 166066

Hello Look at the website of Raymond Moleveld www.raymondmoleveld.nl he has some of the best Jan Aarden pigeons in Europe, if you are interested i can match some pairs for you on my next visit to him! I would say the following to you, beware you dont buy pigeons that are bred from generations of pigeons that have never flown! All of the Jan Aarden lines at Raymond Moleveld are tested from 700 miles. Regards Stuart Wilcox 00447715 166066

No i live in Bath, Somerset! My Partner Raymond Moleveld is from Holland! Regards Stuart

This pigeon is now sold!

Hello Bart The pigeons are for sale on behalf of Raymond Moleveld he owns a breeding centre in Holland and owns some 40 1st National and NPO winners!!! his website is www.raymondmoleveld.nl. The pigeons are his property not mine! I simply sell them on his behalf! Kind Regards Stuart Wilcox P.S the birds can also be provided with a DNA Certificate!!!!

This is the cock for sale

Can email a picture of this hen to a private address, its too big to up-load. Swilcox

Super Young Hen For sale NL05 Blue Hen Bred By R Moleveld A super direct dtr of two champions Sire Mr Duffel 1st NPO Duffel 4,492b, 40th NPO Etampes 3825b, 51st NPO Strombbek 6205b, 51st NPO Houdeng 5870b. A g-son of A V Rhee Red Devil and Blauwe Wonder. His dam is 100% Jos De Klak from line of Jonge Merckx and Raketman. Dam De 07 1st NPO Houdeng 5870b, 1st NPO Duffel 4138b 18th NPO Chantilly 4327b, 19th Peronne 4533b, a super hen from best lines of De Klak Jannssen from P Gijbels, her grand parents De 27 x De 54 are the gg parents of Mr Duffel. A lovely hen. £150 plus carraige

Super Cock For sale NL03 Dark Cock Bred By R Moleveld Jannsen x Touriner Sire Cessie1st 17,259b Niergnies 2002 as a 2 year old, a super cock. Dam De Thea 1st NPO Chantilly 20,353b a super hen and a g-dtr of Ad Schaerlaeckens De General and William De Buijns Lady Samantha. A super cock. Supplied with DNA Certificate. £200 + Carraige