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Matt D.

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Hello Everyone Ive been a member of this forum for over a year now and read It on a nearly daily basis for the last 6 months or so. Ive enjoyed reading and learning a lot of interesting things here. I live in the states but it is refreshing to hear how other fanciers do things across the ocean. Ive been flying birds most of my life, My grandpa got me into birds. Being a distance man I can only dream of flying out of France like you all get to do. You all have a really nice forum here and Ive really enjoyed reading it over the past year or so.

 

Matt  :)

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great to know im sure the racing in the states is just as hard and exciting we have a few members from the states that give great input to the forum its always great to read about techniques pigeons etc in other parts of the world  ;)

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Welcome to the forum Matt, great bunch of people here, always willing to help, and give their opinion !! Great to see more posting from yourself & our existing US members. Let's us see how things are done Stateside !!

Best wishes

P.

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Welcome Matt. Don't get jealous  of our lovely weather over here.(evil)(evil)(evil)

Guest anto

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welcome matt enjoy the site look forward to hearing how you look after your birds and loft as fanciers were

always learning and trying new things trying to get the best out of our birds and do our best to keep them

fit and healthy all the best for the new year anto :)

Matt D. In Egg! (Newbie)

Matt D.

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Thank You Everyone for your warm welcome. I hope I have a thing or two to say worth enough to type it on here. I am a nest flier that really flys for the 400-700's. Though Id be lying if I said that I didnt enjoy every race. I usually fly 7 or 8 pairs of old birds every year. Im not one to mob fly. I usually raise anywhere from 15-25 young birds a year. Its a whole lot more gratifying in my opinion to send three birds to the 600 mile race and get all three of those home, in the clock, and in the prizes. Here in the states it is hard to find another person any where that has the same ideas about racing as I do. Most people in my combine send 80-120 old birds to the first race and atleast that on the first young bird race. matt

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Matt, I have a son living at Haria, Mission Veijo, California. And I have been over there visiting several times. I have noticed pigeons flying when I've been on my travels but I have not spoken to anyone about birds when I have been there.

I would love to fly birds in your beautiful Country. The weather is really wonderful and there is so much space.

On one occasion we were driving through the Mojove Desert and there must have been a race on, because there were groups of pigeons flying through. I felt quite home sick at the time.

Nice to hear from you.

Owen

Jeams Old Bird

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Hello Everyone Ive been a member of this forum for over a year now and read It on a nearly daily basis for the last 6 months or so. Ive enjoyed reading and learning a lot of interesting things here. I live in the states but it is refreshing to hear how other fanciers do things across the ocean. Ive been flying birds most of my life, My grandpa got me into birds. Being a distance man I can only dream of flying out of France like you all get to do. You all have a really nice forum here and Ive really enjoyed reading it over the past year or so.

 

Matt  :)

I am a Chinese fancier,nice to me you.I have some knowledge about American pigeon racing and the AU.Do you know Mike Ganus?His pigeon performed well in China,many people in China raise his pigeon.And his partern in shanghai,have a mazing performance in the race

 

 

Matt D. In Egg! (Newbie)

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I am a Chinese fancier,nice to me you.I have some knowledge about American pigeon racing and the AU.Do you know Mike Ganus?His pigeon performed well in China,many people in China raise his pigeon.And his partern in shanghai,have a mazing performance in the race

 

 

I know who Mike is. Ive met him a few times. Ive handled a lot of his birds. There are a lot of people here in America that love his birds and would buy anything the man would try and sell them. Now, Let me preface my comments with this; I have met him on a few occasions and he seems like a nice enough guy. I dont have any ganus pigeons nor have I ever had birds from him or with any of his birds in their background. Mainly because He focuses on short/middle distance in old birds and fast maturing young birds for futurity races. Which just arent my thing. Another thing he does that im not crazy about is that when he goes to Europe to buy a bird he brings it back here and doesnt tell people the ring number or who bred/raced the bird. Not to mention the whole 'Golden Mattens' ordeal that went on and is still going on. There are so many other sources for great pigeons, That are a lot more open and (to put it bluntly) a lot more trustworthy. I just prefer to go to other sources for my pigeons. Like I said I dont have any personal experiences with his birds so I cant say if his birds are good or not.

 

Remember this. A pedigree is only as trustworthy as the man who wrote it.

Jeams Old Bird

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I know who Mike is. Ive met him a few times. Ive handled a lot of his birds. There are a lot of people here in America that love his birds and would buy anything the man would try and sell them. Now, Let me preface my comments with this; I have met him on a few occasions and he seems like a nice enough guy. I dont have any ganus pigeons nor have I ever had birds from him or with any of his birds in their background. Mainly because He focuses on short/middle distance in old birds and fast maturing young birds for futurity races. Which just arent my thing. Another thing he does that im not crazy about is that when he goes to Europe to buy a bird he brings it back here and doesnt tell people the ring number or who bred/raced the bird. Not to mention the whole 'Golden Mattens' ordeal that went on and is still going on. There are so many other sources for great pigeons, That are a lot more open and (to put it bluntly) a lot more trustworthy. I just prefer to go to other sources for my pigeons. Like I said I dont have any personal experiences with his birds so I cant say if his birds are good or not.

 

Remember this. A pedigree is only as trustworthy as the man who wrote it.

 

Yeah,i once read several articles about this issue--Golden Mattern.

 

Matt D. In Egg! (Newbie)

Matt D.

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Yeah,i once read several articles about this issue--Golden Mattern.

 

Just remember this. No matter who bred the bird or where you get it from, If the bird isnt good it doesnt matter what is written on a piece of paper it wont make that bird any better.

Jeams Old Bird

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Just remember this. No matter who bred the bird or where you get it from, If the bird isnt good it doesnt matter what is written on a piece of paper it wont make that bird any better.

Yeah,I can't agree more

 

 

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