Old pairs

[Guest bakes]

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all the best

k.baker

[Guest bakes]

hows this for you ferry1

 

all the best

k.baker

 

 

[Guest karl adams]

i have an old cock bird in my loft hes 18 years old he was kept with some tumblers last year and paired to a hen and filled the eggs this bird was an old friends of mine he as bread winners and been a winner he fled a 2 day race and was timed in late on the first day taking 1st place  the next year he fled the same race and also  made it back on the first day late on the night again but come back with 2 legs broken will try and put some pics on

[robbiedoo.]

alan the cocks bob had with him were both 19 and both filled there eggs this year both crackers.

[swilcox]

Cocks i agree can go on the sire of Little Darling (1st Open NFC Pau) a mealy cock that belonged to Miles and Dix filled until he was 19!!!! But hens dont seem to go past 11 or 12!!!!

[gulkie]

i visited willie wilson of larkhall a number of years back,

willie was  renound for having birds to a ripe old age ,my

friend asked him where the old blue pied cock was he had

seen on his last visit ,willie said he had died the week before

at the age of 19. i beleive he had a bird live till he was 21.

maybe its a certain types of families that live longer.  

[pjc]

this old fellows 13, i took pic when he was 12, filled this year and hopefully will fill in 2010 at 14.

 

[Guest Gareth Rankin]

i visited willie wilson of larkhall a number of years back,

willie was  renound for having birds to a ripe old age ,my

friend asked him where the old blue pied cock was he had

seen on his last visit ,willie said he had died the week before

at the age of 19. i beleive he had a bird live till he was 21.

maybe its a certain types of families that live longer.  

 

Believe that cock was a Pied cock and was the last son of White Tail who was a fantastic racer and mother of a large percentage of Willie's loft.

 

 

[ritchie1]

11 years old got 6 from her before she died on the third nest of youngsters

[Guest IB]

Agree longevity is a trait in some families. Robert Cormack when he gave up the birds a few years back kept all the old 'uns to live out their days with him. Can't confirm but was told 3 lofts full, birds between 12 & 19 year old. Back when I was a teenager, birds of that age were common around Lanarkshire.