harrison
314 posts
Mar 05, 2009
7:44 AM
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Sorry about that pete.lol.
Can I just say you have got a verry good pedigree and I hope one day I can tell people what I have won.
Keep it up mate. yours in roll harrison uk hull.
well said pete. I couldnt have found a way to put it better.
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pigeon pete
191 posts
Mar 05, 2009
7:58 AM
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P.R,
Yes I did breed a couple of rounds from the bird, but as he was quite young I bought him out again the next season, and fed him to the Perigrine :0(
I have his son in the stock loft this time, paired to an excellent hen.
He's not as good as his father but is the last bird left from that side of the family. I have found that the son of a good cock can sometimes produce rollers as good as his father, even if he is not as good himself. I have a line of good producing cocks that go back to 1984, and it wasn't until I entered all the data into a record programme that I saw the link.
I can follow the pedigree father to son, to grandson,etc.
Most in the line were excellent, but the odd cock here and there is not so good, but was used to carry the line on. The doubtfull ones produced as good or better than the best ones. One has to be careful of reading too much into this, and I will always breed from the best roller I have available at the time.
Pete.
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pigeon pete
192 posts
Mar 05, 2009
8:04 AM
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George,
How exactly does the CC work?
At what age do the birds get their first judged fly?.
Does the guy training the birds get any input or is it all decided by outside independent judges?
I presume they get graded in some way.
Are they given individual scores each time they fly or just the ones that catch the eye, and is it so many points for the best and so on down the line?
It sounds like a nightmare to judge especially if you had to assess every bird in the kit.
Regards.
Pete.
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Pumpkin Man
58 posts
Mar 05, 2009
8:28 AM
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The bird is a champion, it's parents are champion producers. What would be important to me though is can it reproduce itself and how prepotent it's parents were if I owned them. Did they produce 1 champion and 50 flippers or 80 percent high quality birds. Prepotent stock though rare should be what we are hoping to find and then reroduce. The harder we cull the closer we'll come to finding prepotency.
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