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Old Timers quotes and methods
Old Timers quotes and methods
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Alan Bliven
210 posts
Jul 16, 2005
4:48 PM
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RICHARD R. KRUPKE, Canton, Ohio (June l3th,1873-April 23rd,1970)
For over 80 years he bred and flew Rollers.
Krupke generally bred 150 birds a year, three kits; from the 19 pair of his best performers from the year before. Then he would sell all 19 pair. He did this each year, constantly replacing one generation with the next. He had so much faith in his birds, even the best never stayed more than one season. On breeding Krupke says, " I always bred the deep spinners to short snappy rollers that were good kit birds and like to fly. When necessary, I bred from Rolldowns. I selected the breeders from the air. When I was sure it was the one, I removed it to wait for the breeding season. When my nineteen pairs were selected, I sold the rest."
ELMER R. B. CHAPMAN, Stoneham , Massachusetts
In 1934, Chapman published a book on rollers entitled "Rollers and All About Them". Among his observations are the following:
"A kit is a family, and the best kits were found to have been bred off of one bird or family which had the properties required."
"Don't believe everything written or printed about rollers. Read, study your kit and use your own experience as a guide and you can have a kit that will fly high and long, spinners or long rollers, and birds that will always stay home."
J.V. McAREE, Toronto , Canada (?-1956)
On breeding, McAree says he "always mates one. long roller to another long roller; breeding at times from a Rolldown." McAree inbred his birds closely for many years. He goes on to say:
"some rollers will be mere tumblers or mediocre performers for two or three years or even longer, and then will begin to roll well. Some of the best Rollers I have ever seen would have been killed and left no descendants had it not been for the accident of having given them away, when they were destined for pie. - They had not developed as youngsters and I was discarding them, for it was my practice for some years to begin on the first of the year following that in which the pigeons were bred to begin killing those which had not begun at least to tumble. This was folly on my part, for undoubtedly I ignorantly destroyed many birds that would have proved valueable."
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Alan
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
79 posts
Jul 16, 2005
8:53 PM
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"Don't believe everything written or printed about rollers. Read, study your kit and use your own experience as a guide"
A concrete statement even today!
Brian.
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rollerpigeon
Site Moderator
321 posts
Jul 16, 2005
9:46 PM
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I think we should understand what rollers are meant to do and that is "roll", if we pay attention to our birds they will teach us more than anything we might read or be told.
Get out to your backyard and study them, Do they roll? Do they have proper velocity? Do they have depth and control? Do they look right on the perch? If not, why not? Are your training methods sufficient to get proper performance? Are you consistent with training?
The harder you are on the birds and yourself, the better you and the birds will do.
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FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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