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“Breed Better Rollers” Next Year
“Breed Better Rollers” Next Year
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rollerpigeon
Site Moderator
427 posts
Dec 21, 2005
6:37 AM
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Hello All, here we are at the beginning of a new year (again!). It's time again to take stock and evaluate the past year and think of the next.
Will you make decisions and choices that move your program forward, or perhaps you already have the perfect rollers or maybe you will spin your wheels getting the same results again!?
Why not make this coming year a better one than last? Here is a tried and true start in a plan for breeding better rollers in 2006:
1. Select your best 3 cocks
2. Select your best 3 hens
3. Pair these birds together and breed 2 kits from this
group and fly out the youngsters
4. Visit Roller-Pigeon.Com more often and HAVE FUN asking
questions and responding to the discussion threads!
What advice would you offer to someone wanting to breed better rollers in 2006 and not sure of what to do? What guiding principles or comments would you have? What would you avoid doing next year that you did this year?
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FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
Last Edited by rollerpigeon on Dec 21, 2005 6:38 AM
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Shaun
232 posts
Dec 21, 2005
10:54 AM
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Well, Tony, I'm going to come at this from the 'schoolboy errors' angle - things I can look back on this, my first year, and ask how I could have done, or not done, this or that. Here goes:
1. How was I conned into the writings of some that state pigeons are monogamous (mating for life, if so allowed), so an open loft would be no problem? In fact, they're horny slappers; I wouldn't trust any of them.
2. How could I overlook the door at the bottom of the shed which no longer shut properly? (expansion due to wet weather). That half inch gap I failed to rectify, was eventually gnawed at by a rat until it got in, removed a pigeon's head and left a big hole in its back. Nice greeting on a Monday morning.
3. How could I forget to allow birds which I was trying to settle, the luxury of a cage on their loft top for a few days. I stupidly assumed that because they'd been looking out of their loft for a few months, they knew the 'view'. So, all I had to do was keep them hungry. Er...no: they need to see what's up above them.
4. How could I not quite shut the loft door properly, so that when it slowly opened with me too far away to get back in time, a locked down bird sensed its opportunity and in a heartbeat, was out, up and away?
5. How, could I breed from a 'roller' which is the size of a small chicken and never rolls?
6. How did I allow myself to build a 'roller village' at the bottom of my garden, when the house itself is screaming for attention?
Merry Christmas to all.
Shaun
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upcd
108 posts
Dec 21, 2005
12:55 PM
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Pray for me Tony. I need more focus. I breed for the roll, then color and other breeds. Wow, You have great plan. I just feel nake with only 6 birds. 50-100 makes me feel at home.
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Velo99
184 posts
Dec 21, 2005
6:18 PM
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As I approach my sophomore season, I realize more of what I don`t know than what I do. I think I know what do do but do I really have the DISCIPLINE to do it. I have acquired quality breeders and have a decent kit to start the season with. Here is where the rubber meets the road. Am I a rollerman or just a wanna be. I1ll et ya know this time next year. LOL
YITS and good luck
V99
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RO
5 posts
Dec 23, 2005
9:27 AM
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This is my first year of "real" breeding so im gonna concentrate take lots of note's and ask more question's,lol I will fill atleast 2 kit boxes and fly them hard.
YIS
RO
Last Edited by RO on Dec 23, 2005 9:30 AM
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