Racing Pigeons

[Guest big slim]

Enjoying all the posts and glad to hear that Maverick is feeling well enough to race this year.

[clockman]

Enjoying all the posts and glad to hear that Maverick is feeling well enough to race this year.

 

Just hope they dont need the strait jacket again

[maverick]

Enjoying all the posts and glad to hear that Maverick is feeling well enough to race this year.

 

cheers m8 much better now getting a team of youngbirds together so will be racing the youngbirds

 

Just hope they dont need the strait jacket again

 

 

ha ha ha :emoticon-0140-rofl:

[ALF]

i have kept pigeons allmost 40 years and had many great wins and memories one that sticks in my mind did not even win but gave me a great deal pride was the first time i got a pigeon on the shift from france so this is the story of the red hen a pal in the club was packing in and asked me to take some of his birds he was not a very good flyer and i was not much better to be honest but i had some well bred birds any way i got five birds of the guy as i was short of hens one was a red hen small to med after breaking them i find out the red hen is stone mad i only need to go near the loft and the red hen is battering off the wire to get away from me clawed ma face a few times and had her in my hands a few times to kill her she was so wild i sent her every race at that time my drinking buddies were vince hendry john mc fall and the late great john feenie of strathclyde lass fame snfc gold award winner it was basketing night for fed channel race i was in the loft trying to dig out something to send i had not put any work into them did not have hope of timer i started to put some peanuts in the tray and noticed the red hen was not there and she loved nuts it was 3 oclock aft noon all the cocks were sitting except hers my nest boxes were very dark i looked inside and she was sitting like a blacky low down in the bowl eyes very wide open she was sitting 14 days i picked her up she was lean an mean and light as a cork i put her on the floor to get some nuts and stood back but this wild nut job of a hen flew on to me clinging to my shirt i pulled her off putting her back on floor again she flew on to me what was wrong with her she hates me then the penny drops im standing in front of her box she climbs round me and gets in ive got one this time i said to my self this is what ive read about but neaver had a 2yr old she had all most every race so i knew she was fit she was tight and corky the way i was told they should be money was tight in those days and it was tues night no money to pull her in fed but made all pools and ladys prize in club sent two dumplins with her gets to club feenies putting the birds through i hand him the red hen as if she was a piece of glass you had to be very carefull with and waited on his expert jugement but he said nothing we all went to the pub after the birds went away my m8 vince asked me what i sent ihad 3 away he had a few away i told him about the red hen how i had neaver seen a bird so keen sounds good he said whats she done he said hows she bred nothing and dont know said i but shes right i know it ill get one on the day this time or ive learned nothing well you will know on friday hop you get her feenie comes back from the bar i cant contain my self i have to know what this great flyer and friend thought of her so i ask him what did you think of my red hen john not enough body on her he says my heart sank i expected him to say great order had i got it wrong again i went home wae ma tail between ma legs race day comes vince phones doos are up six oclock at falaise northwest wind hard race no be many the night a dont think we wish each other good luck and i sit and wait its starting to rain light drizzel the sky grey and its starting to get dark now the dout starts maybe shes a sprinter a dont even know if she was raced before i got her but she was super i thought and so keen i was so sure but feenie said she didnae have enough body and hes the man phone rings five to ten its vince am in wattie he said 5 to 10 well done i said ive got nothing i said but i was pleased for him he ma pal hope ye get one says he what about feenie is he in dont know vince said he nae phone down there think im only doo in club and its gie dark are ye gone for a pint when race shuts idnt think so i said see you lateter i go back out to wait back tae the drawing board for me vince phones again wullie kaines in five past ten dont think any more will get threw its to dark mind regulate yer clock incase ye get one in the morning i go back out its 10 15 im sick as a parrot i would have put ma shirt on that wee doo and i didnae even get an efort a know f k all about doos ive no got the doos and ive learned nothing i go into the loft and start killing birds thats done nothing i nut five then here a bang i peer through the darkness and the red hens on the board i clock her at ten twentynine yed have thought id won the national i wis runnin about the garden like a nutter shoutin a got one a f in got one i was right im gone tae the pub noo i said to the wife a walked in vince and some of the lads were there did you mind and controll yer clock he said i after a timed ma red hen are ye in well done you said yed get that doo and you did john feenie arives did you get one vince asks naw seven away and not a feather i herd you and wullie kane are the only two in the club i and watties in tae with an allpooler that red hen that didnae hiv enough body aw was like a dog with two tales in on the shift on a hard day and beat the great man never forget it hope you enjoy the story lads

 

Here's a cracking old photo of some of the Railway club crew Wattie

 

[Guest stb-]

wee annie 2

a gid looking babie as good as any ive seen posted this year or better

 

credit to you :emoticon-0167-beer:

[rembrant2coo]

Ugly Johnnie

 

I,M STAPPED FOO OWE THEM BIG MUCKLE BEANS , CLOCKIE GET ME A DRINK F.F.S

[clockman]

I,M STAPPED FOO OWE THEM BIG MUCKLE BEANS , CLOCKIE GET ME A DRINK F.F.S

 

 

beans are for horses,

[walterboswell59]

Here's a cracking old photo of some of the Railway club crew Wattie

 

good one alan some of my auld mates john ford john feenie john holland and ma big pal shug folley i must have won f k all again that year lol

 

Here's a cracking old photo of some of the Railway club crew Wattie

 

good one alan some of my auld mates john ford john feenie john holland and ma big pal shug folley i must have won f k all again that year lol

[kelly tom]

Great photo Alan

[andy]

Some great stories!

[walterboswell59]

started flying since 1998 with my son who actually started up the pigeons with a few pair given to him by Norman Orr and Andrew Hamilton,after a few years he was more interested in other birds so they were all transferred to me and I raced on my own until I met Liz ,two birds stand out for me ,one being a little blue pied hen that won twice for me from Maidstone[just under 400 miles] while racing in Lanarkshire,one of the times she gained a fed ticket,still have her down here,the other bird that sticks out for me is a grizzzle hen Liz and I bred down here,the last two years she has been our first bird from Saintes [530 miles] but has been pipped in to second place in the club twice and she also gained a fed ticket in her race last year so hopefully if all goes to plan this year it might be 3rd time lucky for her if she manages to get to the longest race

a good pigeon tammy and norrie and andy still banging them in good doo men with good doos you allways need a wee bit of luck to m8

[JohnQuinn]

Hi John

Grizzals from Rab and Bonnie Alice by any chance

Cheers

Homer 49

 

I would need to go back to my Da's breeding book to find that out but i suspect this Ck would have had McLuckie blood in it somewhere. Next time i've got 5 mins to spare at the lofts i will look it up.

[Guest Owen]

I had a few pet pigeons way back in 1954 until 1957 and again in 1965 to 1968. I raced the birds I had in 1965 without much success and I was forced to pack in due to a marriage failure. I did not think much about pigeons again until 1997 when I moved to a new area which is in a hot bed of pigeon racing. Again I was not very good and I got very used to the view from the bottom of the results sheet. Eventually after a lot of work and frustration I managed to make 10th position mine. Week after week I would be 10th no matter what I did. Then one day I was talking to a friend and we came up with the idea that we should break the sport down into small chunks in an attempt to work out what we should do to improve.

At first we looked at loft design. Then it was genetics something I knew a bit about and so on until we had covered a lot of pigeon related subject. Probably the most frustrating subject was nutrition because although it was easy to feed nourishing food it was hard to strike the balance between nourishment and fittness. These days I have a fairly easy time of it because I usually fly cocks only on a celibate system and I have worked out ways to keep things as simple as possible. The funny thing is that the simpler I keep things the better the birds seem to be.