long distance pigeons

[mackems]

who has the best team of long distance pigeons to get up to 800mls plus in uk cheers kev 8)

[Guest Hjaltland]

A serious distance in anyone's book... I look forward to reading replies to this post.

[TonyW]

There are quite a few but just to name a couple John & Spencer Nicholson ,Paul Woolliss , Brian Denny, Ken Hine

[TonyW]

OH and me of course (wishfull thinking) LOL

[wings]

What do you class as long distance/sprint/short

[Guest Hjaltland]

What do you class as long distance/sprint/short

 

Is this moving into 'Hours on the wing' ?

[OLDYELLOW]

my good cock is from a 726 mile line of winners had 3rd club 16th fed from 524 miles as a yearling going to keep him at 500 miles this year then move him on to Bergerac 650 miles with midlands national year after if still here , suppose if hes still here as a 4 year old i might get a few extra miles in the NFC  

[sapper756]

my good cock is from a 726 mile line of winners had 3rd club 16th fed from 524 miles as a yearling going to keep him at 500 miles this year then move him on to Bergerac 650 miles with midlands national year after if still here , suppose if hes still here as a 4 year old i might get a few extra miles in the NFC  

 

what breeding is he ?

[OLDYELLOW]

 

what breeding is he ?

 

hes via Ken Anbys Pau Winner , which in turn bred two cocks which were 3rd fed 420 miles from Lerwick with two different pairings different years from my good friend skip , hence i called my good cock 'skip'   these have been a cross of Ken Anbys Pau winner which was a deweerdt , then crossed with Van Braune these are all very closely inbred after , i am breeding a small family around the two sons of the two 3rd fed winners i have two sons from one and another from the other 3rd fed winner , and also a hen via the sister to my good cock when paired back to one of cocks with 3rd fed Lerwick 420 miles   tidy pigeons which one so far scored from 3 out of 4 of the distance races last year , the shortest channel race was a bit of a disaster as they were put up in mist , which i believe robbed him out of another card i have bred another two cocks when crossed with Ginger Pickerings Putman x Logan , these birds always fair well in the 500 + mile races in our fed  

[Guest cloudview]

who has the best team of long distance pigeons to get up to 800mls plus in uk cheers kev 8)

 

would have thought brian denny , chris gordon , david impett .

im getting there slowly but dont have the numbers the above have

[OLDYELLOW]

forgot to add i bought the Putman x Logan from a breeder buyer sale , i went to collect and he said well theres several ready now and a few he had just weaned off a few days prior all mainly blue chequers , i came away with a black wf which turned out to be a hen , and it's this line that has bred him lots of good birds from 500+ miles

[Roland]

From that Rome Test (so called race) in the 80's I was surised how many Bussearts showed up. Including Hursts etc. and Shipley from Northampton. 1017 miles. Yep granted a mite longer than a day.

Seems after three days from any decent distance the time homing becomes really slower. Of course when one plies a little thought as to why it again is not suprising.