tapp
285 posts
Aug 19, 2007
8:34 PM
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-Hi list here's a pic. of a Mee tort I like it's about 4 months old and starting to roll. The one that looks like a hawk is out of a Mee/ Henderson white/redmottle hen and a black Henderson cock what color is it?---------
Tapp 
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nicksiders
2086 posts
Aug 19, 2007
9:27 PM
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Bronze Kite.....I love saying that.
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Nick
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tapp
286 posts
Aug 20, 2007
7:21 PM
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Thanks Brian, Thats what greg S said also. Ok Nick now you can say it again! BRONZE KITE ! Ps, I have a kite out of the same pair thats been flying for a year. Every once in a while It will catch me of guard and I think a hawk is in the kit. Makes my heart skip a beat or two before it dawns on me it's that kite.
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Tapp
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sundance
156 posts
Aug 20, 2007
7:40 PM
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Tapp, I really like the tort. Keep us up on its progress.
Looks like it could be a good`un.
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Butch @
Sundance Roller Lofts
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crystalpalace
24 posts
Aug 21, 2007
9:15 PM
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The tortishell is a beatufull colored roller. There is a white colored tort with black wings called the stork mark tort. I mated a dark colored tort cock to a black and white colored grizzle hen and shelled out stork marked youngsters. The yougster on the left side is cosidered a medium colored tortishell but it will probably feather out more dark feathers after the molt. The tortishell on the right side with kite colored feathers will molt out beautifull with brilliant feathers. I have been breeding this beautifull color for around forty years and have one of the oldest family in the USA. They will be portrayed in my new web-site for everyone to observe this year. In the sport, Ray Sanchez
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crystalpalace
28 posts
Aug 23, 2007
9:01 PM
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Hi fellow competion roller breeders and flyers.I have a very interesting story to tell you about a young dark torishell cock i bred in nineteen seventy I lived in the city of Modesto,California in those days.When he was three months old flying in a young bird kit at a good higth he went into a very deep spin and pulled out one foot above the kit box. This was the first time i ever saw him spin and it was scarry to say the least. I continued flying him with the kit for several months and he would kit perfect and spin more than one hundred feet many times before he landed on the kit box.I kept him cooped up for three months and flew him with a mealy red bar that was spinning very,very deep too. Ken Billings and Billy Mattews heard about the two deep cock birds and came over to see them perform one day. They flew at a good higth and performed many deep spins of one hundred feet at the same time. I rested them for three days then flew them again and the depth was around thirty feet. I kepted them on this routine and flew them in my number one kit and they became great stock birds. Some of my birds today go back directly to those two cock birds. Another great deep bird was a dark shinny black hen called Blacky. She could spin as deep as the two cocks and none of those marvelous rollers ever hit anything. Montana Rick saw her grandson spin approximetly sixty to eighty feet along with SMRA members. I dont shell them out that deep very often but someday it could happen again. Keep em flying and enjoy your birds.
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Electric-man
524 posts
Aug 23, 2007
9:43 PM
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Cool story Ray! All your stories are interesting! Keep em coming!
Val
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
1818 posts
Jun 29, 2008
2:17 PM
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Nice birds................
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RUDY PAYEN
PANCHO VILLA LOFT
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kopetsa
1044 posts
Jun 29, 2008
7:51 PM
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I like both of them very much.. Man oh man does that first one look amazing!
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Andrew
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DeepSpinLofts
923 posts
Jun 29, 2008
7:57 PM
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Great story Ray!!
Can you post some photo's of Tortoise Shells, Grizzles, Checks, Mottles ...etc that are biogentically bred from lineage out of that 100ft bird that you stocked.
Take care....
Marcus
Deep Spin Lofts
Last Edited by on Jun 29, 2008 7:57 PM
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