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Dun vs Spread Ash Red

What Is a Dun/Dunn, Really? I’m Done Tou Yang In every walk of life, in every segment of society, and in every part of the country, language, lexicon, and jargon is used differently and may mean different things to different people and that is absolutely fine. And then there are certain terms that have been […]

Eye Color

Al Luna shared these two pictures with the tag line: Color balancing, gravel eye to orange. Explaining the eye colors, Brian McCormick wrote: There are only two eye colors – pearl and orange. Orange is dominant to pearl. Orange can produce pearl but pearl to pearl cannot produce orange. Bull eye is simply incomplete meiosis […]

Thoughts on Feeding Westfall Jaconettes

Thoughts on Feeding Westfall Jaconettes By Mark Fields January 2020 As I am dispersing my flock for health reasons, I wanted to get down these notes before I forget. Bob Westfall and I were friends and while we talked many times, he was always hesitant to give me an exact formula on feeding his family […]

John Wanless – My Life with Birmingham Rollers

Used by permission from the Utah State Roller Club John Wanless My Life With Birmingham Rollers Roller Performance Standard For several decades the breeding and flying of the Birmingham Roller has had no real written breed or performance standard beyond personal opinions described in various pigeon journals, letters between fanciers, communications on internet sites, and […]

Gordon Branch

from The Robesonian Rowland man finds relief from retirement stress in raising Roller pigeons August 12, 2019 Robesonian By: Tomeka Sinclair – Features editor Branch Gordon Branch extends a marked wing on one of his nearly 200 Roller pigeons. He said he marks the wings to keep up with the pigeon and its flight patterns. […]

Housing

Housing Housing your Rollers will be your first priority if you have decided on this breed. You will need to build several compartments, or cages, for each part of your program. You can divide raising Rollers into an assembly line of sorts: you’ll need separation pens, a breeding pen, and kit boxes. With all housing […]

To Cull or Not to Cull

To Cull Or Not To Cull; That Is The Question   You have to be able to “read” pigeons. Kit watching, from liberation through flying and down and it is mandatory. So are the many hours of in coop watching. You can learn more from just being alone with your birds than you can by […]