Pumpkin Man
97 posts
Jun 10, 2009
5:40 AM
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Just curious what's the most you ever paid for a bird, and why? I'll start. I have paid between 10-30 a bird for young birds and as much as $150 a pair for proven kit birds.
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Tony Chavarria
Site Publisher
3338 posts
Jun 10, 2009
7:31 AM
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I paid $200 once for a pair of birds. I also once paid $100 for I think it was 25 birds and ended up with 1. Why? Because I wanted them in the former and in the latter, it was suggested to me by a person I respect.
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FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
Last Edited by on Jun 10, 2009 7:32 AM
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glenn
258 posts
Jun 10, 2009
8:08 AM
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I paid $125.00 For a Blue Ck Badge Hen BCRC 78 765, Bred by Cornell Norwood.......Good hen and worth the money...Glenn
Last Edited by on Jun 10, 2009 8:08 AM
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fhtfire
1941 posts
Jun 10, 2009
8:37 AM
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Lets see
The most I paid for a kit bird was 100.00
Pair of Breeders 500.00
Squeeker 49.99 (Ruby Roller)
That does not include what I have spent on shit birds when I first started...was not a lot per birds...but they ALL SUCKED!!! so that is worse...
rock and ROLL
Paul
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Scott
2223 posts
Jun 10, 2009
8:54 AM
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3K, a few years later I was useing them for fosters.
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Just my Opinion
Scott
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Tony Chavarria
Site Publisher
3339 posts
Jun 10, 2009
8:59 AM
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OUCH!!
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FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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pat66
353 posts
Jun 10, 2009
9:07 AM
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$200.00 for a cock and a hen-ended up being 2 cocks!gave them away for fosters!
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Pat
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T-town-rollers
73 posts
Jun 10, 2009
9:12 AM
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Theres a man I know who will buy all of my roll-downs you have. He pays me $25.00 each. He has been here several times when I fly my birds. And everytime I have one that rolls down he wants to buy it. I had several birds rolldown it the past and he always wants them. One day him and I were watching one of my kits. One bird rolled down and hit my neighbors concrete driveway. He said I want that bird. It was limp with it's eyes rolled back. I told him hell man lets see if it lives. I thought it was dead for sure. I put it in a cage where I could watch it for a few days and sure enought it lived and he came over in a week or so and payed me $ 25 dollars for it. I have ask him several times what he wants with all the rolldowns and he said he use'es them for breeders. I have sold him a total of 12 birds in the past few years.
Lee
T-town-rollers
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0221
313 posts
Jun 10, 2009
9:17 AM
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T-town-rollers, Have you ever been to His loft to watch His pigeons fly?
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Square
719 posts
Jun 10, 2009
10:57 AM
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WoW T-Town, ure lucky I wish I could get $25 for a cull bird..I guss "One mans trash is another man's stock".. As far as what ive payed, $30 and that was when I was a kid, The bird was a "Peg leg" Bald and she rolled good, But is was the fact that she only had one leg that made her so priceee back then..LOL
Booker.
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"Home of the Ghost Town Roller"
K.C.R.C
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Square
720 posts
Jun 10, 2009
10:57 AM
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WoW T-Town, ure lucky I wish I could get $25 for a cull bird..I guss "One mans trash is another man's stock".. As far as what ive payed, $30 and that was when I was a kid, The bird was a "Peg leg" Bald and she rolled good, But is was the fact that she only had one leg that made her so priceee back then..LOL
Booker.
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"Home of the Ghost Town Roller"
K.C.R.C
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Victor Hurtado
102 posts
Jun 10, 2009
12:35 PM
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me 50 bucks for a stock.. been worth it.. and my uncle paid 4oo for a pair..
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birdman
720 posts
Jun 10, 2009
2:51 PM
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I paid $1,000 for a racing homer cock several years ago, bred a few rounds from him and then sold him for $1,250.
Russ
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macsrollers
92 posts
Jun 10, 2009
9:58 PM
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Back in the late 90's I paid $175 for a Tim Decker cock at a CPRC show auction that George Mason picked as his best bird flown when George judged a CPRC fly. Why, well I had won some money playing Poker so I had bank, I got caught up in a bidding war with someone else who wanted the bird,and also to support the CPRC as I always stay at Randy Gibson's house when I visit and he won't let me buy dinner or anything like that! The bird went to waste as about 2 months later I found it dead in the stock loft with it's band hung up on a loose piece of wire! I paid $325 for a Tim Decker pair in the World Cup auction one year. I lost the cock the next year when I kept a friends birds for him and I ended up with desease. I still have the hen and she is an excellent producer. Tim also gave my son some birds to fly when we picked up the pair. Did I pay too much? In one sense yes as I know Tim and I could get the birds from him directly at a more reasonable price, but in the other sense I didn't pay too much because it helped support the World Cup and the CPRC, a club that I gained several great friends from. I think as we all get to know the good people in the hobby we don't have to pay too much for good birds. The best bird I ever got was for free and not because it was a great spinner. Actually it threw alot of rolldowns. But it is the best bird because it had a Hugo Blaas personal band on it and I called him and that is how I found out about what rollers really were and got hooked on this hobby that has became a way of life for me. Hope you all get the same type of benefit from a free bird!
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Tony Chavarria
Site Publisher
3341 posts
Jun 11, 2009
8:13 AM
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Sounds like a poke! LOL
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FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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bman
666 posts
Jun 11, 2009
10:18 AM
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Hey Xtra, I'll take it off your hands.lol
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Ron
Borderline lofts
Last Edited by on Jun 11, 2009 10:18 AM
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donnie james
499 posts
Jun 11, 2009
12:36 PM
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if i remember right i paid around $200.00 or 250.00 for 6 of my blue almonds stock birds back in 1989 i think it was worth at the time and i brought them off of joe roe..............donny james
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Electric-man
2352 posts
Jun 11, 2009
12:53 PM
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Never paid a lot for any one bird, but I have spent a butt cheek load in all, over the last 5 or 6 years! I've chased the rainbow long enough. If I don't have what I need to start a family, its not meant to be!
Weird part is, I think my best producing birds were given to me!
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Val
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
GOLD MEMBER
2620 posts
Jun 11, 2009
4:19 PM
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This past weekend i went to texas pic-nic
I witness a gentlemen pay 375$$ for a abel ibarra bird.....
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RUDY PAYEN
PANCHO VILLA LOFT
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gotspin7
2419 posts
Jun 12, 2009
5:59 AM
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When I first got back in the roller game (after chasing ladies for a few years)I spent 2k on a family of piegons that was not worth 20 bucks, but I learned a valuable lesson. After a few years with this family my eyes were opened and so I dumped the whole family and purchased what I have today I dropped another 2k on the family I have today and they worth every penny.
Val, the best bird I own today was also given to me.
Victor, I think that Abel bird went a little low. As if you purchase directly from him I think they will run you a little more..lol
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Sal Ortiz
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Pumpkin Man
100 posts
Jun 12, 2009
6:51 AM
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Interesting responses guys. I wonder how much of the $$$ is associated with the name or marketing by the flyer and how much of the $$$ is actually the value of the bird. My opinion is I wouldn't pay more than $30 bucks for squeekers, but on the other hand If I was cherry picking a bird out of a kit I might pay 100 for that bird if I really wanted it. Is $1,000 a kit of unflown squeekers reasonable? If so, what would the world cup champion's kit be worth? Those of you selling kits for $1,000 or more I would like to know what you think the world cup kit is worth, what would you be willing to pay for it?
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rookie from ct
17 posts
Jun 12, 2009
7:03 AM
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I just paid $150.bucks for a pair and I feel sorry for the hen she lays two eggs and I take them away and she lays two more & I take them away again But he likes it.
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MANN
27 posts
Jun 12, 2009
1:32 PM
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I have had tony mail me 11 rubys and then I turn around and rent a car and drive 4 hr to his house and check in A hotel and tony I always wanted to say thank you for afforing to let A stranger stay the night in your house then I pick up 10 more ruby rollers, the shipping on the one bird I got from steve Smith cost $ 78.00 11.00 to send him the box and 67.00 to send the bird back and the cost of the bird then I bought 20 fosters at this point you cant give me a bird.
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