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homer · November 29, 2007

Originally in responce to the first post of this topic: http://www.pigeonbasics.com/forum/blah/m-1196351039/

its very honourable of you to offer birds free of charge and i commend you for it.

trouble is pigeon blokes (not sure about the gals) seem obsessed with parting with loads of cash for pigeons with fancy titles and fancier pedigrees ??

its interesting to note that your thread hasnt had a single reply yet another thread in the sales catagory (re. an auction)has had bundles of replies with guys 'bidding' £25 and up per bird?

this is what one of our members stateside had to say about pedigrees earlier today.

It has been stated a 1000 times on here " What you are looking for cannot be seen " I got 30 + pigeons that have all been 600 miles on BAD races ( 1 race didnt see 1st race bird till 3rd day with 200 + birds on race ) I have these birds in loft at old location and they live like wild pigeons I just feed and water them I band babys from these birds and fly them dont even worry about parents or peds I have given these birds to several people around the country and they have won about 20 races with these birds I can understand wanting to form your own family but I have discovered that if you treat them ALL like champions you will be amazed at how often you are right !!!

when i first joined this website i had a couple of nice cock exhibition fantails that i wanted to let someone have free of charge as i no longer needed them (i paid the going rate for them a couple of years ago)but i had trouble finding anyone serious about having them.

eventually a good lad from scotland took me up on my offer and now owns the birds but my point is if i had offered them for sale...

"2 top quality show birds for sale, out of a 5 times best in show sire and top belgium dam. . .£20 each" i think they may have moved a little quicker??

just a thought,

regards and good luck.

November 29, 2007

its very honourable of you to offer birds free of charge and i commend you for it.
         trouble is pigeon blokes (not sure about the gals) seem obsessed with parting with loads of cash for pigeons with fancy titles and fancier pedigrees ??
     its interesting to note that your thread hasnt had a single reply yet another thread in the sales catagory (re. an auction)has had bundles of replies with guys 'bidding' £25 and up per bird?
     this is what one of our members stateside had to say about pedigrees earlier today.

It has been stated a 1000 times on here " What you are looking for cannot be seen " I got 30 + pigeons that have all been 600 miles on BAD races ( 1 race didnt see 1st race bird till 3rd day with 200 + birds on race ) I have these birds in loft at old location and they live like wild pigeons I just feed and water them I band babys from these birds and fly them dont even worry about parents or peds I have given these birds to several people around the country and they have won about 20 races with these birds I can understand wanting to form your own family but I have discovered that if you treat them ALL like champions you will be amazed at how often you are right !!!

when i first joined this website i had a couple of nice cock exhibition fantails that i wanted to let someone have free of charge as i no longer needed them (i paid the going rate for them a couple of years ago)but i had trouble finding anyone serious about having them.
       eventually a good lad from scotland took me up on my offer and now owns the birds but my point is if i had offered them for sale...
      "2 top quality show birds for sale, out of a 5 times best in show sire and top belgium dam. . .£20 each"    i think they may have moved a little quicker??
just a thought,
regards and good luck.

Fully agree with your post, have just highlighted two parts because there have been a few members who have recently tried to give birds away and had no luck, but as you say put a fancy price and a pedigree on them and they are racing to get them, a lot of the time the best birds are given to you free because most times you will only be getting the best as a gift .

homer · November 29, 2007

thanx tammy.

glad my point came across ok.

November 29, 2007

thanx tammy.

glad my point came across ok.

It certainly got home with me.

homer · November 29, 2007

just to clarify my position on this subject,

when ever we have moved home over the years we have always started ,more or less from scratch , with birds from friends that have been gifts...no paperwork whatsoever just decent flyers saying "ive got some youngerns for ya " .

and we have found that we are able to hold our own with these birds.

a good racer is a good racer no matter what its out of, we have bred multiple winners from a stray hen we caught in the grounds of church !!

November 29, 2007

just to clarify my position on this subject,

when ever we have moved home over the years we have always started ,more or less from scratch , with birds from friends that have been gifts...no paperwork whatsoever just decent flyers saying "ive got some youngerns for ya " .
and we have found that we are able to hold our own with these birds.
a good racer is a good racer no matter what its out of, we have bred multiple winners from a stray hen we caught in the grounds of church !!

well that just proves the point about spending wads of cash on , what is basically an expensive bit of paper in a pedigree

November 29, 2007

Fully agree with your post, have just highlighted two parts because there have been a few members who have recently tried to give birds away and had no luck, but as you say put a fancy price and a pedigree on them and they are racing to get them, a lot of the time the best birds are given to you free because most times you will only be getting the best as a gift .

Agree totally!!,So often generous genuine fanciers give away decent birds on here out of the goodness of their hearts and people just look down their noses at them,well I can tell you they will be as good if not better than any sold with fancy pedigrees for fancy prices,sometimes when I see people being ripped off paying fancy prices I actually think they deserve it for being stupid enough to pay these prices when they can get genuine birds for free!!

Webmaster · November 29, 2007

I have split the topic as points posted are valuable, and 1) may be missed in the birds for sale topic, 2) are going to get in the way of the member selling his pigeons.