They Never Fail To Amaze

Craig Forsyth · November 25, 2014

just thought id share this with you all, last year i went over to collect some unrung young birds that Bob Mcdonald had very kindly offered me. And about a couple of months back now when my grandad was up visiting from south lanarkshire spotted one of them that he rather liked a little cheq cock so i told him he could take it back home with him because he liked it. so after keeping it in for a while he started trying it out but would continuously be phoning me up telling me that it had dissapeared for a few nights then would reappear flow well down. I never really thought much of it until going out to the loft this afternoon and spotting him sitting in the loft looking rather tired. So i phoned my grandad to ask if he was missing any birds and yes obviously he was this bird having being unrung has never been trained so has been no further than flying round the loft, was let out with my grandads birds at 3 oclock yesterday and has flew all they way up here just by early this afternoon. this bird really has amazed me :)

Roland · November 25, 2014

How far mate as a matter of interest.

Kyleakin Lofts · November 25, 2014

160 odd mile Craig is really well done. Shows the quality of Bob's pigeons. Hope the pigeon breeds you something with a ring on to do as well for you and better after some training.

paddymac · November 25, 2014

I have a few of Bob's birds in my loft, top pigeons from a top fancier. Every time he has a stall at Blackpool his birds are sold before lunchtime Saturday such is the quality that is on offer :animatedpigeons:

ally mac · November 25, 2014

I had a similar experience with a doo from Stuart, Hotrod, I collected a YB, same way bred as his Karens Girl, straight from the nest and it went straight into the loft for stock, never flew out once. I sent it back down to him after 2 years. After a few days I think it was it was let out with his other birds by mistake and it arrived back in Oban the very same day. Couldn't believe it, they are amazing!!!!!!

robbiedoo. · November 25, 2014

just thought id share this with you all, last year i went over to collect some unrung young birds that Bob Mcdonald had very kindly offered me. And about a couple of months back now when my grandad was up visiting from south lanarkshire spotted one of them that he rather liked a little cheq cock so i told him he could take it back home with him because he liked it. so after keeping it in for a while he started trying it out but would continuously be phoning me up telling me that it had dissapeared for a few nights then would reappear flow well down. I never really thought much of it until going out to the loft this afternoon and spotting him sitting in the loft looking rather tired. So i phoned my grandad to ask if he was missing any birds and yes obviously he was this bird having being unrung has never been trained so has been no further than flying round the loft, was let out with my grandads birds at 3 oclock yesterday and has flew all they way up here just by early this afternoon. this bird really has amazed me :)

I have had something along the same lines . I slipped 2 eggs of the hen the I have in our fed sale on site here under another pair but i got my dates mixed up so the feeders the eggs were under jumped them leaving me in a flap as I had nothing to slip them under so I phoned Alan Ritchie up in Whitehills which is 27 mile west of me by road to see if he had anything at the same stage which he did so I drove up tp Whitehills giving Alan the 2 eggs and 2 rings for ringing them to me as 1 of them was bought at our fed sale by George Duncan . After the eggs were hatched and the youngsters weened I said to Alan give George the pick of the 2 and you keep the other 1 as he's been good to me . Well one night in the summer Alan had a bad toss and had youngsters reported all over our fed I went in to my young bird section and noticed a stray youngster after picking it up and looking at the ring number I thought that's strange it's my rings and law and behold it was the youngster I gifted Alan as a egg and it ended back in to me . They never fail to amaze you do they.

Dooheed 5 · November 26, 2014

I have had something along the same lines . I slipped 2 eggs of the hen the I have in our fed sale on site here under another pair but i got my dates mixed up so the feeders the eggs were under jumped them leaving me in a flap as I had nothing to slip them under so I phoned Alan Ritchie up in Whitehills which is 27 mile west of me by road to see if he had anything at the same stage which he did so I drove up tp Whitehills giving Alan the 2 eggs and 2 rings for ringing them to me as 1 of them was bought at our fed sale by George Duncan . After the eggs were hatched and the youngsters weened I said to Alan give George the pick of the 2 and you keep the other 1 as he's been good to me . Well one night in the summer Alan had a bad toss and had youngsters reported all over our fed I went in to my young bird section and noticed a stray youngster after picking it up and looking at the ring number I thought that's strange it's my rings and law and behold it was the youngster I gifted Alan as a egg and it ended back in to me . They never fail to amaze you do they. WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYNE !!!!

eastcoaster · November 26, 2014

Gave the brother a young hen 2 yrs ago unraced or trained , he has raced it out to Maidstone , was going up to his loft one sat but noticed a stray on my loft,when got to his he told me he had lost a nice hen I had given him I said I had a stray at mine this morning , turned out the same hen that raced for him for 2 years then just uped sticks and came here and is still here .

robbiedoo. · November 26, 2014

ATS NAE WAYNE AT EEN DONALDSON

Delboy · November 26, 2014

I had a 5 year old mealy stock hen ( NEVER RACED OR TRAINED)that was sold to a guy in Somerset.It bred 2 ybs for him to score in the yb national and it escaped from his aviary 2 years later on a sunny summer afternoon. It landed at my loft the following morning, 340-350 miles, never even trained. Couldn't believe it, stock bird flying this????

Craig Forsyth · November 27, 2014

They truely are amazing, my friends and people at school are always questioning why I'd want to keep pigeons and it's when the do things like this it just astonishes meâ˜º

walterboswell59 · November 27, 2014

when i was not long married and had just got my own house i put my birds in baskets and took down the loft at my mothers and started to errect my loft at my new house a few miles away while we were building the loft my best hen at that time jumped up and out the lid of the basket and straight down to my mothers house just as we got the loft roof on the hen appeared after 2 hours landed on the board and dropped in could not believe it broke in 2 hours had birds in aviary for a year or more got out and never seen them again go figure some are just clever

Dooheed 5 · November 28, 2014

They truely are amazing, my friends and people at school are always questioning why I'd want to keep pigeons and it's when the do things like this it just astonishes meâ˜º

Jist tell em fuzzy heed that Dooz are Pure Super Dead Mad Mental Magic by the way ! But !