big al
115 posts
Sep 24, 2005
10:56 AM
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Hey everybody!
Ok I know this is not the most intellectual question ever asked on this site, but I witnessed something yesterday and I just have to know if I'm crazy or if anyone else has experienced it.
So, for the sake of not sounding as though I've experienced a cerebral departure, I'll pose a question and then tell what I saw LATER!! LOL!! :-)
What's the deepest you've ever seen a bird roll down and come out without any injury??
See you in the roll...----------
Big Al
"High Plains Spinner Loft"
Last Edited by big al on Sep 24, 2005 10:57 AM
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Planet_Rock_Lofts
9 posts
Sep 24, 2005
11:15 AM
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Hey Al,
About 750 - 1000 ft, it was a blue check hen, the father was a 500 ft roller (never rolled down), the roll was as sloppy as hell but she was not hurt (she landed in a trucking yrd behind my parents house). Of course I didn't keep her she was suicidal.
Planet Rock Lofts
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fhtfire
214 posts
Sep 24, 2005
3:12 PM
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I had a little dunn hen that would roll at least 800-900ft,,,,It looked good the first 30' then it was wing switching and everything...the bird would not really roll down...she would get so freaked out that she would just kind of bump land....but she would pull off 100ft rolls with ease....She of course is BBQ right now....not worth the feed bill or perch space.
rock and ROLL
Paul
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motherlodelofts
292 posts
Sep 24, 2005
3:28 PM
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Paul remember that Y/B over here that tail set a couple of hunderd feet to the ground LOL
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fhtfire
215 posts
Sep 24, 2005
4:17 PM
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Oh yeah...I remember...the one that landed out in the field....I think it was about 300ft or so...I just picture...3 100ft ladder trucks stacked on top of each other...LOL! I had never seen a bird tail ride all the way down...but she sure did! Rode the wave dude! LOL
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
158 posts
Sep 24, 2005
6:36 PM
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I had a lavendar badge cock that for about a year, never did much more than a flip or two now and then. Then one day the kit is up about 300 feet and near the freeway off ramp and here he comes in a full roll...and kept coming...straight down and into a bush. I shrugged him off and hoped he wouldn't come back. Then about ten minutes later I see this same bird climbing back up to the kit. In a few minutes he rejoined them and about 30 second later, here he came again, straight down and believe it or not, he hit the same damn bush he rolled down into the first time!!! Of course again, the sucker didn't die and made it back home. The next day I tossed that kit out and he went up again and again, hit a roll from about 200 feet up, only this time he hit a cinder block, consequently ending his career in the rolling down department. LOL.
Brian.
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nicksiders
214 posts
Sep 24, 2005
9:20 PM
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Had and have a hen that did a couple of hundred feet; into a pine tree; got back up to the kit and did another couple of hundred feet into some shrubbery and then just sat there seemingly content just to allow me to walk up and pick it up. I think it was glad it didn't have to go thru that again and seemed to thank me.
The hen has not done that sence and is now a 10 to 20 footer; very frequent.
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big al
118 posts
Sep 28, 2005
11:53 AM
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Ok!!
Now I don't feel so bad! You guys have got worse stories than mine! My y/b team was up about 500' and a 5 month old red badge began it's decent. Typical of it's family a very smooth straight roll for about 35'- 40', only continuing 50', 60', 80' 100' then he started switching wings and I knew he was in trouble. He switched wings three or four times before crashing in between two homes. I assumed he was done for and never even bothered to investigate, AFTER ALL 500'? The next morning I flew again and an extra bird joined the kit. I had no clue who's bird it was because I took a count before release. As the birds started to decend this bird went into a roll from about 100' and smacked right onto my concrete driveway! Feathers everywhere I walked up to the bird who was sitting upright without a scratch and a little dazed. I picked it up and guess who it was? :-) Yep! The red badge.
Unfortunately I'll have to "Arrange a meeting" for this one. Man some of these guys live through hell and high water don't they?! LOL!!
Last year Richard Apodaca (Richard A.) was at my home and we watched an ash red come down about 80' onto a neighbors windsheild and live to tell about it!!! LOL!!! He eventually culled himself on my spanish tile roof from about 70' later in the season. LOL!!
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Big Al
"High Plains Spinner Loft"
Last Edited by big al on Sep 28, 2005 11:58 AM
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upcd
40 posts
Oct 04, 2005
2:24 AM
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The bumpers are easy to tell because they will spinn in your loft if they get to excited.
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nicksiders
222 posts
Oct 04, 2005
9:56 AM
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upcd - As I think you said before in an earlier post you are a rare female in the roller hobby. Having only had daughters myself I am currious on how or what hooked you.
I have been in and out of the roller hobby several times due to career and job changes, but I always came back and this time to stay (I am near retirement) because once this roller thing gets in you it just won't come out.
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upcd
43 posts
Oct 05, 2005
12:12 AM
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It all start when I was 10 years olds. My 1 st pigeons were Indain Fantails. Which I have done well in the show ring. I would say a few years down the road I got excitted about other breeds so I started collecting and breeding. Now my loft enjoys 4 breeds: Indain Fantails, West of England Tumblers, Racing Homers and mostimportantly Brimingham Rollers. They have everything. They fly, spin and have color. Plus they are hardy and fisty.
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big al
133 posts
Oct 05, 2005
10:51 AM
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Hi upcd,
Where are you from?
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See you in the roll!
Big Al
"High Plains Spinner Loft"
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