You start training when they're about 13 weeks, releasing them a short distance away from the loft, perhaps five miles, so that they get used to returning. Poor visibility and rain slow them down. Wishing you a safe, healthy and prosperous New Year. Among the fanciers were the former Tottenham and England footballer, Gerry Francis, broadcaster Gloria Hunniford and comedian Tom O'Connor. Today, he is totally devoted to extreme long distance flying and breeding the finest racing pigeons on earth. I attended the auction with Jos and afterwards he and his wife went to Houston and spent a few days with Jennifer and George. To say that the loft of George and Jennifer is rather unique would be a little bit of an understatement. Jennifer forecasts there is a substantial business opportunity for North American racing pigeon breeders in the rapidly growing 21st century Chinese racing pigeon market place which she is preparing to enter.One last piece of trivia. Or if you would like Elimar staff to upload them, we will charge 22% of the sale price; there is a minimum 10 charge per pigeon sold. Jennifer believes (as does PIPA) that China poses an incredible opportunity for those dedicated to the production of quality racing pigeons from proven performance bloodlines.Recent successes by APC Loft are due largely to the special care given to breeders and babies by Jennifer who has added Chinese Herbal materials to the breeders food which stimulate the babies digestion and immune systems. I ran on teams which won NCAA and AU Cross Country Championships in 1960 for the University of Houston and was a member of a 4 by one mile relay team which set a , long since eclipsed , Canadian record in Toronto in 1958.Andrew Fleming was a lifelong pigeon flier who was also my Falkirk High School science teacher and from his science class I learned that varying a small amount of baking soda mixed with pottery clay changed the stiffness of the clay. By Sterry Butcher January 2020 2 On the list of. The Marketing strategy for putting APC Loft on the map and accelerating potential sales of Thone pigeons in North America was taken over by Jennifer who had just earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and unknown to George until Christmas morning 2008 Jennifer and Jos bought Kleine Figo to enhance the APC /Jos Thone connection. My Mom was adamant that she did not want me to become a gambler or pool hall shark!In time my fascination with pigeons turned into my occupation as I eventually became a publisher of niche market specialty books including books on pigeons, waterfowl, peafowl, poultry, parrots and other small animals. 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Price is a steal at $55 plus shipping, Top quality bird according to my notes wityh what I look for in this family of Gordons. Who knows what I might have ended up as, if I had developed a real fascination for pool?With this personal story in mind I often ask fanciers of whom I write if they have similar experiences and typically they do as is the case also with George Rankin. Rarely, if ever, will one find the likes of birds such as Josephine (foundation hen) a seventeen (17) time winner 500 miles, or her grand-father, Morris famous #85, who bred sixteen (16) individual 600 mile day birds. by Dave Bunker Brierley, Burton & South Derbyshire Federation - 27-06-21, South West Cheshire Federation Frome OB9 Result 26-06-21, Yorkshire Middle Route Combine - 27-06-21, Yorkshire Middle Route Combine Huntingdon Result 26-06-21, Hull & District Federation Chelmsford Result - 26-06-21, Lanarkshire News - Kettering Race - 25-06-21, ON THE ROAD WITH KEITH MOTT. Campbell was well known to key European players. North West Classic Yeovil with Les J Parkinson. Beautiful Hansennes as well. A+J Grantham wrote: Makes him a crap racer, pigeons of the same lines made us 4th highest prize winner in the NEPC (120 members) last year, and the top prize winer in the Fed we flew in the two years before that. No comments: Post a Comment. As you cansee in just this one photo taken in January, 2018, this being but of some of his 125 breeders, the quality radiates in each pigeon. George sent 6 pigeons to the SCMDPR last yearHe named them after villages next to the one he grew up in Scotland MaddistonI had one sister her name was Sheena. Richards, Gordon - Jockeypedia 3 - Google Sites He bred his own pigeons from 1926 until his death in 1972. Waste is washed down through the upper floor and sluiced on the ground floor into the drainage system. George needed a photographer to take shots of over 100 birds and together we arranged for Andrew to visit George in Houston and photograph those birds. Located along Highway 290 its only 20 miles northwest of Houston. She has an orange/yellow eye. A number of years ago one of the most successful racing pigeon breeding operations in the entire USA was owned and operated by one Campbell Strange. George came up with a radically different designed pump which could cut down on oil field mud pump failures and a US patent was applied for based on my design. More sophisticated devices, similar to electronic bar code readers, are being introduced. An American strain founded and secured right here in America by the Master himself, Morris Gordon. About half the pairings are based on phenotype and pedigree and half are based on race performances of individual birds. Attention all pigeon writers: If you would like your reports/articles featuring on Elimar, please forward them to us at, New Yorkshire Middle Route Federation - St Albans Result 29-04-23, The New Yorkshire Middle Route Federation Sue Skelton, Mid Cheshire Federation R2 Cheltenham OB1 Result 22-04-23, Clarkston & Dist. You have to get them fit with lots of flying, perhaps round the shed or releasing them some way from home. Bred and raced by Chris Gordon of Old Snydale, Pontefract, Yorkshire. Quality racing pigeons for sale from the very best bloodlines in both the UK and Europe. Morris Gordon Pigeons Chris Aker, Photographer Here is a brief look at some Morris Gordons and the lofts where they stay. I had given away all but one bird before leaving for North America but there was one bird I had become attached to that I could not part with until the night before leaving which I took to Mr Flemings house hoping he would like to have Dr. Andersons Bricoux. You will be impressed with our service and quality! Chris Gordon | Elimar Pigeon Services Limited Price is $55 plus shipping SOLD MC, Top quality bird according to my notes wityh what I look for in this family of Gordons. Currently the main goal and focus at APC is an ongoing refinement of high quality families of racing pigeons. Welcome to the Web and Auction Site of Elimar Pigeons Services Andrew Fleming was a spry 94 years old still pruning roses and tending his loft and pigeons and he bubbled with enthusiasm when took me into his loft to show me offspring descended from 40 years of breeding down from Dr. Andersons Bricoux..Mr Fleming had raced pigeons for 60 years and had dreamt of winning Scotlands National race from Rennes in France but had never been very close. Georges experiences in the 60,s with Dr. Kenneth Warren were most influential in shaping his current views about breeding racing pigeons. Our blog will provide updates on the racing industry, and especially the role of Pure Paul Sions and Pure Hansennes, some of the best lines of racing pigeons. It makes perfect sense to me. His breed, 'The Gordon Pigeons,' is still winning races in . I'm very happy with my purchase. When China began opening up relationships with the West in the early 80,s she visited The Bush administration on behalf of the Chinese Government to help negotiate a loan from the US Exim Bank to fund development of Chinas offshore oil and gas field.Jennifers working interest in the APC loft and birds started after they sold their manufacturing business in 2006 and purchased a country home outside Houston to operate the APC loft from.After studying the pedigrees of the Thone line birds in our loft Jennifer has interacted with Jos to realign the APC Loft breeding program to focus on breeding some famous Thone birds which have become popular in China.She also takes care of an APC web site and communicates with Jos and an Asian distributer and customers who are buying Thone bred Kleine Figo offspring.APC employs one helper to clean the loft and Jennifer supervises his activities to ensure the loft is cleaned properly to her hospital standards.The breeding sections of the loft are co managed by Jennifer and I and she now prepares food and adjusts additives given to all birds in the loft. Price is $45 plus shipping, *AU 21 ARPU 108772 Dark Check/Velvet Cock, Another straight bred Gordon, that picture doesn't do justice. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data. Often I have been asked how it was that I got into racing pigeons given that neither my Mother nor my Father really liked them. The advantage is that the winner is known there and then, first past the post. APC loft breeder selection is directed at maintaining the lines developed by Thone/Peters and Warren / Janssen. Kalapati Morris Gordon x Trenton Racing Pigeon - YouTube The APC loft was built in Houston in 2001 and 50 pairs of Jos Thone birds were imported in 2002.Magazine and Auction advertisements were made offering Thone/ Peters and Warren/ Ganus pigeons in 2002 and 2003 with disappointing results.Dr Warren died early in 2003 and his birds were brought to the APC Loft.Goals and priorities changed and Jos and I decided to begin entering one loft races in hope of placing well in those events..Learning how to play the one loft game successfully took a long time during which time Jos never wavered in his desire to have APC Loft continue to try and establish that Thone/Peters birds had what it takes to be competitive in North America.Beginning in 2004 activities associated with the sale of my business kept me from giving the APC Loft the personal care and attention to breeding and racing that is necessary to excel in the sport and it was not until the business sold in 2006 that my wife Jennifer had time to take an interest in the Loft.Jos Thone sent 40 birds to an Auction in November 2008 in New Jersey. One problem I overcame was getting the heavy hard to handle coal dust clay from the quarry to the work shed by slurrying it in the quarry then pumping it downhill to a holding pit set up next to the workshop. I need a nice sion cock to pair up with my almost white hen. While some of our birds are for sale, you can always feel free to contact us about any birds, or bird genetics . - Dave Bunker Brierley, The Derbyshire North Road Federation - 17-11-22, NIPA Ladies Night at NI Hotel of the Year 14-11-22, The New North Road Amalgamation - 14-11-22, The Yorkshire Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire SR Combine - 07-11-22, A tribute to Jim Donaldson of Peterhead - by Keith Mott. Its interesting to note that Oak Haven was located in that bigger than life state TEXAS. But all things eventually come to an end and so it was that the dominance of Oak Haven Farms also ended. It is interesting to contemplate how people come into and out of ones life. When my Mother realized that I had developed a passion for pigeons she literally forced my father to build me a small loft insisting that even though she did not like the idea of me wasting my time with pigeons at least, she insisted, I would be home, safe in my backyard and out of the pool halls! In no other strain did he find such a combination of beauty and performance. Medium built bird with a light yellow/orange eye. Ed Minvielle - Lice, Mites and Pigeon Flys Treatment. Chris Gordon Racing | Winchester - Facebook There were 4800 birds entered in the SCMDPR.Gerard Koopman had 70 plus birds in the race, one was named Sheena.Maddiston was in First place after 4 Hot Spots and Sheena was in Second place.The above happenstance is astronomically improbable. If the wind's behind in good weather, they'll go 60mph; against the wind, they'll do about 40mph. In 2017, the acclaimed Kentucky author who writes under the name "NO SWEAT" finished an 80 page story on Charles Heitzman which appearedin America's top racing pigeon magazine, THE RACING PIGEON DIGEST. They are quite capable of flying 100 or more miles. Feeding Racing Pigeons | Complete Food and Nutrition Guide with some Racing pigeons are beautiful birds, descended from rock doves, which used to live in cliffs. If you do not see what you are looking for, please contact us directly. 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Price is $45 plus shipping, Medium built with a red/yellow eye. Title. All Rights Reserved. Payment for purchases is easy - all you need to do is click on the PAY ELIMAR button and pay direct. International one Loft Racing has the Sun City Million Dollar Pigeon Race as an n outstanding example of what can be done to make the Racing Pigeon Sport more interesting and enduring.China, Taiwan and Thailand have International One loft Races which need to improve their communications capability in order to increase International participation.Western countries, in particular North America , are losing fliers faster than cultivating them and if the present decline in fliers continues the International One Loft Races may be one way the Racing Pigeon Sport in North America stays alive.