Rollers – The Colors
There are three basic colors. They are listed in order of most dominant to least. There are only 3 colors, but several factors can tweak what we see. Even though we call the wild type “blue” in fact it is an optical illusion and truly a blue bird, but that is just too hard to […]
Color Basics
Mark’s Notes on Roller Inheritance There is some really good information on pigeon genetics on the Web but it is much more than I needed. Focusing on Rollers I’ve extracted the information that I need to keep the colors and patterns going in my loft. When I gave Dwight Madsen my flock of young birds […]
Hubbs
Alan Bliven on his website has a couple of articles on the Hubbs rollers. He was a close friend of Charlies Hubbs and we thank him for sharing these articles, My friend Les Manz and how I turned his Karp and Bygraves families into Mottles and Whitesides. by Charlie Hubbs I am currently 85 years […]
Casperson
This family is an enigma. Frank Mosca, pigeon geneticist has been helping study them as this family is all Badges in Black, Red and Yellow. While in Rhode Island there were both Selfs and Badges but the last 50 years this family was bred as Badges only. The problem is the fact that there are […]
Whittinghams
In America, the oldest of the roller breeds are those received from the Whittingham family in England. The Whittingham family owned a pet shop and three generations of the family exported roller pigeons to both the US and Canada. They shipped birds from other leading breeders as well as their own flocks. The last of […]
Neibel
Before we delve into Monty’s philosophy on handling birds let’s revisit the make up of the flock. From Aaron Johnson we learn: Those birds go back too the originals brought in between 1969 too 1972. They originally went back too Pensom, Plona and Cooper. When Monty was still alive,most of this strain was still concentrated […]
Cook
Henry Cook was the NBRC Accessory Secretary for a long time and had many friends in the hobby. Additionally, he was a keen competitor and breeder of quality birds. One comment stated that Henry’s family was based on crosses of Higgins, Evans (dilute) and another guy’s birds that couldn’t be recalled. From TouHou Yang we […]
Families
Ray Perkins (left) looking over his birds with William Pensom[/caption] Obviously, not all families are covered and at this late date it is impossible to obtain a clear and accurate picture on some of their history. As times pass these older breeders are either placed on a pedestal or vilified with the truth usually somewhere […]
Training, Care, & Housing Videos
The following links will take you to YouTube videos that you may find useful in training your young birds. Banding Baby Pigeons [presto_player id=7007] ______________________________________________________________________ Nesting Material Kirkpatrick Lofts- nesting material [presto_player id=5981] ____________________________________________________________________________ Grit making grit [presto_player id=5990] Oyster shell grit [presto_player id=5991] Jovati Grit [presto_player id=5992] _____________________________________________________________________________ Weaning the squeakers PORTABLE LOFTS […]