Roosevelt Stafford

I've Been raising pigeons off and on for 50+ years. Got back into them in 2008 strictly Birmingham Rollers. I purchased my first Squeakers from Tony Chavarria at Roller Pigeon aka Ruby Rollers and RK Roller Ranch in 2008. I attended the NBRC Convention in Sac 2009 where I met many great roller men. I befriended many members of the AARC 9C region and joined the club in 2010 and am still a devoted member under the leadership of our President Ronald Ross. My first year in the club I would a plate on their Billy Allen Plaque for winning the annual club fly which consist of 6 club flies a year during the annual fly seasons. I again won in 2012. I've flown in the World Cup a few times as well as the NBRC Fall flies. My family of birds are of the birds I first started with and received from Tony Chavarria and RK Roller loft. I crossed a few pairs of those strains added a Hilton Cock bred by Gene Varoa and started line breeding. I mainly breed cousins, Uncles on nieces, Aunts on nephews, 1/2 brothers and sisters and sometimes Grandparents on grand children. I do not breed mothers on son, Fathers on daughters nor full brothers and sister. 5 years ago I was gifted a few birds from Sal Estrada stock from one of my club members. Since then I have been adding more of that into my family being that Tony Chavarria started his Ruby Strain of birds from a cock he received from Sal Estrada and used as his foundation cock. three years I was also gifted a Eddie Verdugo cock from Ronnie Ross which I crossed in being that Sal and Eddie bred birds together and I was told that Sal and Eddie both got many of their birds from the late great Homer Corderre. So I've been cultivating my family for 14 years selecting what I like most in my birds, Kitting, Quality spin, depth 20 to 40 ft kit sensitivity. I just started back this year 2023 competing in our AARC club flies and plan on flying the 11 bird fly and the NBRC 2023 Fall fly after a 4 year hiatis focusing more on flying my birds for myself so I could focus on my selecting and pay much more attention to what I was doing in the breeder loft and why. I think I have gotten my family to a point where as I can be competitive to the point that my birds could be admired for what they are capable of. I'm not concerned about the winning aspect more than I am the process of breeding and developing decent teams of birds that could be admired by my peers. I will end saying that I love what these birds are teaching me and their athletic abilities note that after 4 years in the hobby I was doing well enough for the founder of the AARC Mack Williams to write an article on me posted in the NBRC Bulletin September-October page 83 alone side of Master flyer Mike Wolden who was also an AARC member for many years. I hope to do well this season and would be overjoyed to qualify for the NBRC fall fly finals for our region 9C. That's my goal for this year

Sincerely
Roosevelt Stafford