2021- NCF Regional Results
Rollermen of the Past
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Getting Started in Rollers
GETTING STARTED In ROLLERS By Jim Petersen Welcome to the best Roller Club you could have joined. We are sure that you’ll find your membership helpful and enjoyable as you learn more about your Rollers through our bulletin and also join us in our club activities. The purpose of this paper is to answer any […]
Intensive Line-Breeding
From “The Roller Pigeon” website. Intensive Line-Breeding In Rollers by Cliff Ball;September, 2015 This information is an assimilation of a brief review of the literature; observations and recommendations based on the successes and failures of the breeding programs of roller men who have decades of experience in the breeding, training, and competitive flying of […]
Heine Tells Us How It’s Done!
Heine tells us how its done! Flying Birmingham rollers is already for many years a popular hobby in Holland. Flying these birds has been for many years the same as in our surrounding countries of Europe, and that is with three birds and from portable loft or backyard. What people were looking for was […]
Dennis Blackmore
The NBRC Championship Fly is over! Congratulation to Region 5’s Dennis Blackmore on winning both the 20 Bird Championship and 11 Bird Championship on the same day!!! Dennis scored 730.24 pts with a 1.6 quality x 1.4 depth multiplier in the 20 Bird Fly. A couple hours later he scored 408 pts in the […]
The South African Rollers
Our thanks to the South African Distance Roller Pigeon Federation for sharing this article on the history of Birmingham Rollers in South Africa. The SA Distance Roller Pigeon The SA distance roller pigeon. Why the name and where did these roller pigeons come from? In this article the story of this breed’s history unfolds, […]
A Different Spin
Story from the Hamakua Community News. Article not dated. A Different Spin Story and photos by Sarah Anderson The sun hadn’t yet cracked the eastern horizon as Eldon Cheney walked up the lawn from the guest room wearing a red baseball cap that read, “spin‘em if you got’em” under the initials “NBRC”. Cheney, who […]
The Perfect Team
from the National Birmingham Roller Association in Britain. Creating the perfect kit. By Graham Dexter My definition of a perfect team is one that performs to an excellent standard on a regular basis. It has to be reliable in its everyday performance and regularly […]
Aflatoxin Poisoning
With 2019 being an incredibly wet season there has been a spike in aflatoxin poisonings in livestock. This even hits our Roller hobby, often because we store grain for longer periods of time than most other forms of livestock feed. Horst Hackemer Lofts who bills himself as “74 years old, retired and having fun […]