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So, what made you start?
So, what made you start?
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brudahpete
4 posts
Oct 26, 2008
12:19 AM
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When did the pigeon bug bite you and have you always done just rollers?
I was three when my brother started to capture feral pigeons for the saw mills and pig farms in our area. So my first birds were captured ones which homed pretty well. My brother bought a pair of rollers when I was five and I was hooked! I've been keeping rollers off and on since. I've never competed but love to raise them and watch them do their stuff!
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Rule #1: Don't build your loft anywhere near your wife's clothesline....
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tomas'commerce,ca.
34 posts
Oct 26, 2008
1:01 AM
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well i started liking rollers as a teen my friend had a loft with all kinds of pigeons but i only liked the rollers nothing else,trumpeters and jacobins and king pigeons he had all mixed into one cage it was a huge cage to,anyways he asked if i was interested in having some,i said only the rollers after that i was hooked for about 6yrs.till i got married and had to give them up.i just recently got back into this hobby after 18 yrs of being away and what a difference the web makes,it was not invented then.luckily my nephew has rollers and i got back into it.i now have about 50 birds all rollers and 12 pairs im breeding off,almost time to end the breeding season for me.
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gotspin7
1994 posts
Oct 26, 2008
5:29 AM
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Brudahpete, to keep a long story short. I fell on my bottom and looked up and saw a kit of about 100 birds flying and they were just waterfalling 20-100 feet rolls and I was hooked!..lol.. I was 12 then.
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Sal Ortiz
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Armand
23 posts
Oct 26, 2008
6:49 AM
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my dad had rollers since b4 i was borne. he was a backyard flyer and so am i.
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brudahpete
5 posts
Oct 26, 2008
11:20 AM
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Cool! My boys are now to the point where they are interested in forming really good kits as well as attention to breeding and genetics. It's funny how the longer you have these birds, the more attention to details you become.
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Rule #1: Don't build your loft anywhere near your wife's clothesline....
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kopetsa
1986 posts
Oct 26, 2008
11:32 AM
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Well my older brother and my dad had pigeons (fantails/rollers/nuns...) way before.. I always wanted them since I was about 4/5 (when I knew what they were) but just got geese or quail or ducks.. Then a few years later my dad was driving by a Wendy's :) and walking were two squeakers (wild pigeons) that had fallen out of a nest somewhere, so he picked them up and brought them to me at school and I came out of class and saw them, and was very happy.. And about 6 months later I went and released them, actually on Christmas Day, by a grain elevator where there were a tonne of pigeons and food there for them. I let them go, because they were that tame, but anyways they wouldn't leave for a couple minuted and then just boom, they were gone. But then when I got home, my dad told me to go downstairs and take something down to the freezer, and I went down there, low and behold, there was a box of rollers sitting there for me.. :D Probably the greatest day of my LIFE! lol :D
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Andrew C.
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KiddenAround
183 posts
Oct 26, 2008
3:28 PM
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I confess that my reason is not as pure as all of you guys . . .
I had a crush on a guy who didn't know I was alive . . . tried everything -- nothing worked, not cooking, not singing, not dancing, not bible questions, not flirting, not even mini skirts (lol) . . . one day asked for a few of his Roller pigeons to be able to raise my own and fly them. IT WORKED! Been flying birds with my honey for around 6 months now, (I wonder how powerful a 'bird connection' is? . . . lol)
I used to follow chickens around when I was a kid and wait for the eggs to pop out, literally! Always nursing a baby mockingbird or blue jay that had fallen out of its nest, shot a bluejay with a bb gun one day and felt horrible about it because I love birds.
I love having chickens around, but gave them all away 3 or 4 years ago because I travel so much with my job. Two years ago, spent 2 months in a bed/wheelchair fighting appendix cancer (boyfriend decided that I might not make it, so he deserted me while I was sick) and I pulled through, stronger and more energetic than before.
So now I don't say "maybe tomorrow" -- I say "DO IT NOW!!and decided that even though I travel a lot and I'm really crazy busy, I want to have it all -- chickens, pigeons, parrot, calves, dogs, Harley, John Deere tractor, even a new boyfriend! lol (I just won't have a retirement, with my feed bill!)
Live like there's no tomorrow!
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-- Laura
Professional Thrill Seeker
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SSLOFTS
146 posts
Oct 26, 2008
3:58 PM
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Well throw on the mini skirt,bake a couple pies,jump on the harley and come on over and We'll fly some birds!!!!!! you can bring the parrot too!!! LOL!!!!
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sundance
849 posts
Oct 26, 2008
4:14 PM
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Laura, you sound great. If things dont work out with SSlofts, come on over... LOL
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Butch @
Sundance Roller Lofts
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sundance
850 posts
Oct 26, 2008
4:20 PM
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Growing up, everyone around me had Pigeons of all kinds. We swapped and bought and sold. Then we all grew up, moved away, had Families.
Anyway a few years ago it hit me again, with a barn remodel in process I decided to make a loft for some pigeons again. Remembering how fun they were to watch and how nice the fantails look sitting on the roof. I had several breeds before I met the president of the Indiana Roller club.
He invited me to go with him to judge a fly and I`ve been hooked on rollers sinse that day.
I sold every other pigeon I had. Roll on.
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Butch @
Sundance Roller Lofts
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xueher
36 posts
Oct 26, 2008
4:26 PM
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I got tired of my wife so I found something to entertain me LOL. But i alwasy enjoy flying pigeons.
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PR_rollers
1830 posts
Oct 26, 2008
9:20 PM
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Laura I will do the cooking, I will do the singing, the dancing, ask bible questions, do the flirting, but I won't wear mini skirts .sorry . heck I will even drywash your bike..lol...and you can come now there is no coons here..lol..
----------but seriously you right live your life for today .don't wait for that special day to come everyday is a special day bring out the china today not wait for a special occasion...
Ralph
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RXR Loft
308 posts
Oct 26, 2008
10:06 PM
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Laura, if things don't work out with SS Loft & SunDance and Porto Rico is too hard to get to on Harley.
here I am..
the only thing I will have to do according to my wife is get rid of my Land Rover..
my wife is on record saying
when my Rover needs repairs...
"its probably cheaper if you had a girl friend than to fix the Rover"
lol..
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RxR Loft
Roll'em if you got'em...
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KiddenAround
190 posts
Oct 27, 2008
6:25 AM
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SSLofts, I'm on my way. Hard to carry the pies on the Harley and they'll be squashed and it's just a little to chilly right now for the mini skirt - hope you don't mind that I'll be wearing big ol' thick coveralls and army boots, but I'm on my way! lol
LOL, Butch -- hey, what did you do to your barn (in the remodel)? I am curious -- what kinds of pigeons did you have before your Rollers?
PR_rollers -- bad, bad! :)
Dang, Ralph -- if you didn't have that hangup about not wearing women's clothing, you'd be the perfect man! lol Yep, I burn the good candles, now, don't have any china (regular dishes are pretty enough!), started wearing my good perfume around the horses, even on days when I don't see any other humans, I swim in the motel swimming pools even when the water is pretty dang cool and I'm tired from driving (because I LOVE to swim at night!), I ride my Harley to the post office and the grocery store, camp with the horses even when my friends are busy and I have to go by myself (my doggies are great company!), and I have stopped telling my friends "next week" for lunch dates. Next week might not be here, so I stop what I'm doing and meet them NOW! I feel an urgent need to live quality, NOW, and not wait on anything. Couldn't afford the Harley, but don't want to wait until I'm 80 to ride it, so I just work a little harder, a little longer, and got it NOW! (Somebody slap me -- I could go on and on!) lol
Hey, RXR Loft -- my first Harley came from Puerto Rico -- it was a police escort bike with a real siren, an '88 Softtail, souped up, and man, did I have fun with that siren! I caused a convertible jeep load of girls to throw their "funny cigarettes" out when I fired it off behind them one night! I just sold that bike last year but I kept the siren.
Hey, your wife is cool! Smart, too! lol I like her sense of humor. Better hang on to that one!
You pigeon people are great -- a few grouchy ones (lol) but I think you all are kind and have big hearts, love your families and your animals. I'm lovin' this neighborhood!
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-- Laura
Professional Thrill Seeker
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KiddenAround
192 posts
Oct 27, 2008
6:31 AM
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(Oops -- I meant to type xueher -- bad, bad! Sorry, PR!)
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-- Laura
Professional Thrill Seeker
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Huey
74 posts
Oct 27, 2008
11:31 AM
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I always liked pigeons, ran into Birmingham rollers while training retrievers and liked them.
I had a parrot that kept me intertained while out training horses. The Parrot had an accident and lost her life. I wanted another bird. But didn' wish to get attached to a single bird. So I started raising Rollers. Didn't know there could be the added advantage of getting captured by a woman.
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sundance
852 posts
Oct 27, 2008
7:31 PM
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Laura, I started with just a small outbuilding. 10 x 24. I added on anouther 16 x 20 to the back, built a floor on top, then built my own gambrel rafters for the loft. Its not a big barn, but it works for me.
The pigeons I had were, Indian Fantails, Komorner Tumblers, Pigmy Pouters, Weat of England Tumblers, Thief Pouters, Frillbacks ( their feathers are the best for tying trout flies), Giant Runts, and of course the rollers. After being invited to see a kit competition I was hooked on the rollers and have since sold all the other breeds. The frillbacks were the last to go cause an old friend thought he couldn`t get along without a steady supply of their feathers to make his trout flies, and a neighbor lady liked them for her grandkids to use in 4H every year.
Now I`m down to 2 chickens, 2 goats, 2 cats, 2 dogs, 3 white doves, and 2 many roller pigeons.
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Butch @
Sundance Roller Lofts
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