What a Bargain

[swilcox]

At an auction on saturday a good friend on mine purchased a direct son of the famous pair Boy and Queen for only £50, what a bargain!!! I was quoted 3000 euros for one of these only this year.

 

Has anyone had any similiar luck???

 

Stuart

[Guest]

Yes I did about three years ago, I managed to pick up a son of Leyton Express GB94L56011 for $100,at a one loft race auction when we'd paid $1,000 each for 2 more of his children

[Guest TAMMY_1]

 

NO AS LUCKY AS THAT

[DFisher]

not very often

[schouwman71]

stuart ,thats a bargain of a life time,that makes the cock full brother to lover boy & loverman 1st national netherlands double superstar champions.plus a g.son of commander bond of cees suijkerbuik.Great stuff

[Guest WINGS 04]

YES WE GOT A COCK BIRD AT ONE OF JIM HANNAHS SALE FOR £12 AND THAT YEAR ONE OF IT YOUNG WAS 2ND OPEN SNFC RACE OVER 600 MILES  

[Guest WINGS 04]

WE GAVE HIM IT BACK AND GOT SOME YOUNG BIRDS OF HIM A SON FROM THE OLD COCK AND SOME OTHERS TO RACE

[Guest]

dunno if this is a good bargain or not but i bought this pigeon yesterday from carl powells clearance sale,

 

his sire,s credentials are as follows....

bred 6th section 11th open pau,

7th section 16th open pau,

9th section 10th open bonn,

4th section 5th open kassel.

 

both great grandparents of the above sire..

1st club 10th national saintes

1at club 53rd national pau

 

28th open national saintes

she is a sister to 24th and 21st national pau.

 

this bird is an 05 pigeon which i paid £45 for.

[Guest TAMMY_1]

WELL I WOULD SAY YOU GOT YOUR MONEYS WORTH THERE

[PIGEON_MAN]

They all look good bargains if you go by pedigree,s and performances,but i would imagine that these birds will be used for stock perposes,so until they have actually bred winners themselves cant see how they can be bargain,s,only the one Wings mentioned.

[Guest]

They all look good bargains if you go by pedigree,s and performances,but i would imagine that these birds will be used for stock perposes,so until they have actually bred winners themselves cant see how they can be bargain,s,only the one Wings mentioned.

 

hi tony m8 :)i understand wot ur saying but i think a bargain is when u buy summut that normally would cost u a lot more then u paid for it, if its a pigeon and it breeds u winners then u got an even better bargain for the amount u paid for it.. .

i dont think theres anyone that dont buy a bird to breed him/her winners or potentially to do so,the bird i bought has already scored at club level and could have scored even more (as its only an 05 bird) but for the flyer shutting down the racing loft to organise his clearance sale.the parentage on this birds pedigree have done it in the basket not on paper. :)

 

          paul

[swilcox]

Tony

 

If its got it in him, Nigel will bring out dont worry about that.

[Guest]

Stu, I was very lucky back in 2002. I went to Micky Collins in Birmingham to see his birds, I had heard he had quality. I had £100 on me, Micky had birds very close to 'the tree', in the end he gave me a choice of 5 cocks, I must admit I didn't know much about continental strains and still don't but as you will have guessed  I put my eye glass on them and picked out a blue cock. Micky wasn't too impresed with him cause he had only been 19th section from Saintes in the NFC that year. The pigeon it turned out is a grandson of Gysylbrecht's Barcelona winner and I found out from Dr Carlo the following year that the parents had been called back from Micky to Dr Carlo's lofts and had bred Barcelona national pigeons in the first 200 after they had gone back to Dr Carlo in consecutive years and I have Dr carlo's e mail now saying that they are one of his best breeding pairs at present, and I rate my cock very highly. He is on loan at the moment to a top distance flier

[jimmy white]

some years ago i managed to get[louella all fair auction] a daughter off starview leo ,,[ nat winner , when paired to a daughter off john james [nat winner] for £50,, but unfortunately bred nowt

[swilcox]

Mick Had excellent pigeons Albear, the following two are now in my breeding loft and are to be blended with our dutch pigeons.

 

Both pigeons are proven racer/breeders and can only add to our already strong family!!!

 

Stuart

[Guest]

Stu, they lok super birds.........I see on another post you have Ludo Claesens birds. When I looked at the Mike Ganus site a few years back I saw them for the first time and I reckon they are the finest birds I have seen, (obviously by eye) they are fantastic, no wonder as your post said they fetch big money.

 

I was very impressed with Micky obviously a top top fancier

[birdman55678]

In dollars how much would "£50" be.  thanks.  Ed

[Guest]

Jus under a hundred Ed

[birdman55678]

Thanks Linda.  Ed