best sprinters?

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

Well dwh i think this sport is all about luck it was luck how i got the cock and his nest mate in the first place there my two best stock cocks both breeding winners and ones called rocky and i bet you carnt guess what the other one is called !! lol And there children grandchildren and great children breed winners two you can ask gooner or lenwade bob as i think gooner scored with a couple this year down from them . but getting back to distance pigeons and sprinters . a couple of years ago i can remember geoff cooper winning a bicc national from falaise 230 miles to him a sprint race with a de weert cock and this pigeon also went on to score from pau and breed birds to win from pau also oviously that day some one forgot to tell the pigeon he was a distance bird and he must not win from such a short distance lol

[dwh]

not arguing with that luck to find birds of that quality but after that its down to you  some of us agree it all comes down to feeding and conditioning

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

I totally agree that it comes down to feeding hence why some novices when they first start in the sport and are prob feeding a bit to heavy they come up and win when the wind is on the nose or the distance gets a bit further .

[dwh]

we race roundabout and feed the hens with a hopper  did'nt do much with the hens till then finally got one down outof channel last year

gorge themselves at first then after couple of weeks they settle down and tend to eat small amounts they exercise there heads off and at last we feel we getting there

[wilkins]

 

agree,love the sootjen strain,the early ones anyway,and very fast if you get the right ones.

 

les

 

the original tony mardens of statesman, scholar lines before the crosses went into them

[Guest youngzimmy]

ONE OF THE FAMILYS OF PIGEONS I WOULD RECOMEND IF I DARE GO DOWN THAT ROAD IS THE SOOHJENS OF FRANK SHEADER REALY GREAT BIRDS I HAVE A NUMBER OF THEM HERE FANTASTIC PIGEONS HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS FRANK I THINK I DESERVE A FREEBIE FOT ADVERTISING JOKING ASIDE VERY GOOD HONEST PIGEONS THAT WILL FLY THERE HEART OUT FOR YOU

[dwh]

got some in a big friend of ours lent us a grandson of the 601 and a daughter of the docherty cock lovely pigeons and the hen paired to one of frank sheaders vAN LUC'S BRED US A RED hen to chalk and win £340 in abreeder buyer

[Guest KING BILLY]

ONE OF THE FAMILYS OF PIGEONS I WOULD RECOMEND IF I DARE GO DOWN THAT ROAD IS THE SOOHJENS OF FRANK SHEADER REALY GREAT BIRDS I HAVE A NUMBER OF THEM HERE FANTASTIC PIGEONS HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS FRANK I THINK I DESERVE A FREEBIE FOT ADVERTISING JOKING ASIDE VERY GOOD HONEST PIGEONS THAT WILL FLY THERE HEART OUT FOR YOU

i think the vandendebeel have the soohjens in them realy top notch croses ;)

 

 

[schouwman71]

 

the original tony mardens of statesman, scholar lines before the crosses went into them

 

totaly agree,most were very nice blues with yellow eyes,not the best eyes to look at but wow they could Sprint,i raced the j.s.lofts sootjens (mardens) years backand some races had upto 18 drop together,still got the old type here and wont let them go cos i like them.

 

les

[wilkins]

 

totaly agree,most were very nice blues with yellow eyes,not the best eyes to look at but wow they could Sprint,i raced the j.s.lofts sootjens (mardens) years backand some races had upto 18 drop together,still got the old type here and wont let them go cos i like them.

 

les

 

i bought them back in95/96 i think for £50 a piece direct from them birds i packed in when i moved to a flat ,worse thing i done letting go of them birds as you say lovely blues, went back to the fancier i sold them to in 2002 and he had crossed them with newer crossed soontjens they were not the same and infact his results showed that he had made a error by then it was to late