UkPigeonRacing

Diamond Dave wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 11:38 am

Murray wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:51 pm With international air transport the 'latest and best' are all over the world as soon as they appear.
In our shed we have all sorts. The Billion Dollar Baby is Van Den Bulck, the grizzle is a Jos Thone', I've got a cock this this year off imported Eijerkamp pigeons and the Free Beer's mother is half Gaby half Heremans.
And of course there's the Pitbull cock from Darren May's pigeons.
Mix em all up and in a generation you've got pure nothing.
Strains are a fallacy. The legend of yesteryear, Leo Heremans, never had a pure strain. He was always hunting for something better to improve them.

Ha- ha Murray - made me smile when you mentioned "free-beer" it's a name you don't forget but I have already forgotten the other names you mentioned, kittle this and pitbull that.

king wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 12:12 pm

Devo1956 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 11:45 am I think this video, is up todate data, 2 weeks ago in the final of the Victoria falls OLR. The first 3 birds were bred through Kittle lines, so OLR all over the world data is gathered on the breeding of the winners or maybe the top 5 in each race. So this is showing data of the breeding for 2026.

I wonder how many birds in the race were Kittle lines? It looks impressive seeing the first 3 birds home were, but if a large percentage of the entry were of those lines not so. The data can be very misleading.