age first started, keeping pigeons

[jimmy white]

at what age did you first start keeping pigeons   :)

[Guest Silverwings]

when i was about  six years old a putman red grizzle cock HW55BLO585 followed me into the house, one of my dads from a marrenes smash ,first one in the club after five days ( still have his descendents today ! andwill still have them  on the day i throw a 7

[Silverdale Lofts]

I was brought up with pigeons my grandfather and 3 uncles raced pigeons i won my first race at the age of 13 from berwick

[jimmy white]

much the same as you s,w, funny how you remember your first birds, great to see you racing descendants of that bird to this day, great stuff

[Guest]

My father had pigeons from about 1955, but I didn't have much to do with them until he went to work abroad in 1963.

[PIGEON_MAN]

MY GRANDFATHER RACED PIGEONS AND I BELIEVE HIS GRANDFATHER BEFORE HIM USED TO KEEP FANCY PIGEONS SO I HAVE BEEN AROUND PIGEONS ALL MY LIFE,WE FORMED A PARTNERSHIP ABOUT 1967 AND I HAVE BEEN RACING EVER SINCE.

[Guest WINGS 04]

i was 28 and my da was 53 and my wee brother 26 we did not keep pigeons before but we did keep greyhounds so all we did was put what we did with them in to looking after the birds and it has paid of for us we started in 2000  that is keep them healthy  fit and feed them well

[westy]

just not long started keeping them i started in june

[jimmy white]

and have done remarkably well in that short time westy  

[carl]

i was 27 when i started and started with a loft full of birds.(in at the deep end).

me and my younger brother are the only ones in my whole family that has pigeons,none of my parents or granparents kept pigeons.Hopefully i can pass my hobby down to my children and my grandchildren.My son is three years old and looks good with a scraper in his hand.

[westy]

jimmy and with advice of you has made me do very well, because to me your the expert

martin

[Guest]

I had them all my life from my dad's

[jimmy white]

:) :)according to the poll, its obvious that if youve kept pigons as a boy or girl , theres more chance of you keeping them later in life. but on reflection, , i think we must attract all ages, even the" golden oldies" my motto has allways been, if each fancier, spent time in getting one of their freinds interested ,membership would double   [easier said than done, but would say ive managed it on a few occasions]

only thing is , theve never forgiven me for it, :) :)

[Guest]

My auntie keeps fantails, she lives in Aberdeen and when I was 14 I went to visit her. That was enough to get me hooked on them. When I got home from Aberdeen I convinced my Dad to help me build a shed to put some a few birds in, it was only 5ft x 4ft and housed a couple fantails that I got locally. They were a lot of fun then, but reading books on them got me thinking about racing, so I went to the local club, where there was an empty loft that I was allowed to put a few birds in. A few weeks later there was a lad packing in and I purchased his loft. It was 40ft x 10ft, with an established team of birds. It was a lot of hard work then and took a lot of delivering papers to pay for there feed and racing etc. I scored well in a few races and in my first channel race from bourges I ended up second with an old (he was 8 year old) blue cock, he was the best handling pigeon Ive ever handled. I kept them in that loft until I was 17, when I discovered alcolhol and the other type of bird, LOL. I packed in and forgot about the birds very quickly. I then met my current girl-friend when I was 19, and we are still together now, that was 8 years ago. But the night I met her she told me her name, and I recognised the surname straight away, and she told me her uncle was a pigeon fancier. Within a year I was back down the allotments watching the races. A lad down the garden asked me if I would look after the birds for 2 weeks while he was on holiday, and up until last year I was still there with him racing as a silent partner. The moral of my story is once you hooked, you will be back in the sport at some time in your life. Pigeons are like magnets to me, where ever I am, I am drawn towards them, be it in the town, on holiday etc etc.

[jimmy white]

i allways remember pigeons in our back garden ,but i ,and my brother first raced them in 1955 along with my father. my brother was 3 years older than me, and i was made to wear his hand me down clothes,,,,,the trousers were that big for me, i had to open the fly to blow my nose,, ;D ;D ;D

p.s. my mother used to get all our clothes out the army an navy stores,,,, we looked rediculous going to school like two wee japanese admirals  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest]

I posted some pictures when i was a kid on my topic Speight.    

[Guest speckled]

Never had pigeons till 6 yrs ago,but me partner has been aroung then all his life,he race in the garden 2 yrs buy himself  ;D , till i showed some intrest,  :X   in 1998,

:'(  then he was on his.way to sucsess, as a partnership.lol    ;D  Speckled.

[Guest shadow]

I kept a few as a teenager then packed in . Restarted again in 1992 after leaving the RAF  

[westy]

i got my cousin into pigeons i told him i had some (never saw him in a long time) he said he always wanted to keep them and now he keeps fantails and tumblers.

[Guest]

I WAS GOING TO TELL YOU WHEN I FIRST STARTED PIGEON, BUT I AM NOT GOING TO LET YOU KIDS OUT THERE CALL ME A GRUMPY OLD MAN

[Pompey Mick]

I started pigeon racing as a 16 yr old in 1963. My Dad raced in the late 40's, early 50's and I think he got the bug again and got me interested with a pair of fantails in 1962, within months I had 8 pair of racing pigeons to breed from and I joined the Hilsea Inv RPC as a Young bird flyer in 1963. With my Dad's help I won the first ever race I entered, a 60ml race from Dorchester. After my Dad's untimely death in 1984 I moved the loft to my house and have continued racing to this day with my Wife's invaluable help. I now enjoy my racing with the Milton HS , Portsmouth where I am the Sercretary. I am sending a photo of the Prize presentation  1963 Hilsea Inv.Club

[Webmaster]

Photo mentioned above ^^

[Guest]

i was 7 years old

[Guest]

i was 7 years old

[snowy]

around 10 yrs old. you can see a photo of me & my first pigeon (snowy) on my website