best flying fancy breeds

[lawrie]

what do you think is the best flying fancy breeds?

 

 

[Guest joshdonlan]

rollers

[Glassfeather]

It depends what you are looking for. Pouters fly well, they put on a good display, lots of wing clapping and gliding and some aerobatics, swinging on the wing and stuff, but generally, they won't home from huge distances. Swifts on the other hand, have been  trained over distance, and some have performed just as well as the homers they were trained with. Garden fantails are quite good fliers, again, possibly not over longer distances, but nice enough to have flying around. Some of the fancy breeds just aren't cut out for flying, and they are very vulnerable to predators on the ground, or in the air.  Then of course, there is this lot flying from a roof in Beijing:

 

 

 

 

[Guest Owen]

tipplers, I only have two cocks but they are fantastic flyers. They go up to a hieght that makes it very hard to see them. Just tiny dots. And they will fly for a very long time.

They do my nerves no good at all, because they are on a plate for the peregrine if he comes looking for dinner.

[Glassfeather]

Rollers are a lot of fun too:

 

[lawrie]

i have my eye on these breeds:

 

pigmy pouters

brunner pouters

ghent pouters

german beauty homers

lahores

trumpeters

[Glassfeather]

Ok. I have to say, I don't think any of those are particularly renowned for their flying ability. I'm not going to say they won't fly, because obviously they have wings, and if you give them their liberty, they will probably make use of them. The thing is, unless you source them from someone who already has them flying out, chances are, you will obtain birds that have never flown. If you then let them out, yes, they will likely take to the wing, but they will probably be disorientated and unable to endure prolonged flight, so they will probably land on the ground, in a hedge, on a washing line, on a nearby roof, windowsill, somewhere, possibly out of your reach. Then you are faced with the task of coaxing them back into the loft. This may take a few minutes, a few hours, maybe a few days, and in the meantime, they are vulnerable. So ideally, you need to start from scratch with youngsters, and train them alongside capable fliers, so that they aren't wandering around the neighbours' garden, or the roof two doors down. Still, a couple of the varieties you suggest, have heavy foot feathering, and it is cumbersome, even if they have flown from an early age, so you can really just expect these birds to fly short distances, maybe to the roof and back, and probably spend a considerable  amount of time pecking around the ground in front of the loft. That's fine if you are just looking  at some decorative birds,  but keep in  mind  that sort of foraging also exposes them to disease and parasitic infections.

[blaz]

for flying ability i would say belgium high flayers . you can put them out in morning the birds will still be flying early evening .miles high above their lofts

[THE FIFER]

is that a reversewing pouter

[LOUD AND PROUD]

ROLAND JANNSENS  ;D

[Glassfeather]

is that a reversewing pouter

 

No it's a Pomeranian Pouter.  Reversewings, or Verkhertflugels, are a slightly different shape and have different markings:

 

 

 

[catchthepigeon]

Iranian high flyers must be the best flyers these birds fly all day and night some fanciers have to put lights out on there loft roofs at night to bring them down

[Steve0]

For small number flying i'd say dewlaps very entertaining for big number flying kelebeks put on some brilliant displays of aerobatics rollers are good but a lot of hard work.

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[BLUERON]

we have kit of rollers and to see them go high up and roll as one is great but the are easy pickings for bop

[Guest bigbok]

performing rolers are hard to beat for entertainment hope the sport and breed is not ruined due to bop

[ap2010]

Rollers for me. But there are plenty of other flying breeds out there.