| 5 May 2008 |
JAMES TURNER: THE MAN WHO PUT COLOR INTO SPIN
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| 6 Mar 2008 |
Medication For Dying Birds & Green Droppings?
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| 29 Dec 2007 |
A Modern Day Bill Pensom?
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| 13 Aug 2007 |
Rolling Styles To Look For In Rollers
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| 14 May 2007 |
"Evolution of the Birmingham Roller Fancier"
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| 2 May 2007 |
Is Competition Destroying The Roller Hobbyist?
Our human nature for fellowship and competition creates a drive to improve our management, breeding and training techniques; hopefully culminating in our participation in the annual events of the World Cup Fly and NBRC Fall Fly or at the very least the local fly clubs.
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| 20 Apr 2007 |
World Cup Feed & Water Training Regimen
14 Day Program: Goal to break the bird down by feeding wheat but still be able to fly 30 minutes and build back up a couple days before fly and rest. Want a surge of energy culminating in release on competition day.
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| 14 Apr 2007 |
My Idea For Finding The Best Overall Champion Flyer/Kit
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| 11 Apr 2007 |
(Fall Fly) Time For A Change?
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| 7 Apr 2007 |
RPDC Posting Policy
Introduction: Users of the All Roller Talk discussion board agree that in order to maintain and promote a user and visitor friendly discussion page, the following community standards will serve as a guide to correct behavior when posting. When a specific issue is not addressed, tact and diplomacy is required and posts may be modified and/or deleted as necessary by the Site Owner or a moderator. This policy will be modified as needed to uphold the spirit of the policy.
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| 7 Apr 2007 |
EUTHANASIA OF POULTRY (Pigeons)
In any poultry production system, it is inevitable that some birds will become ill, debilitated, or injured. If the bird is unlikely to respond favorably to treatment, or if treatment is not feasible because of economic or public health considerations, euthanasia may be the best option to prevent the bird from suffering. In addition, healthy spent hens may be killed on-farm for subsequent rendering because their low market value makes it impractical to send them to a processing facility. This pamphlet is designed to aid producers, transporters, and veterinarians in making appropriate decisions regarding euthanasia and on-farm killing of poultry.
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| 28 Mar 2007 |
Great Threat To Our Hobby
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| 3 Nov 2006 |
November 06 Newsletter Question
I would keep breeding from this pair with the intention of implementing a
line-breeding program with the initial objective of finding the best hen
to put back to the Sire cock.
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| 3 Nov 2006 |
Stable Rollers Are Quality Rollers
The roller fancier who unwittingly breeds from unstable rollers will find
his time full of disappointment and frustration and if a solution is not
found, will probably end up quitting the hobby out of frustration.
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| 26 May 2006 |
STARTING OUT
“Starting out” with rollers seems to be the hardest part. Like any project in life, “starting out” seems to be the scariest. That first step into the unknown is the biggest step. Everyone wants to start out on the right foot. There are many ways to skin a cat and I am going to just give you one that I feel worked for me. Of course there are many opinions on many subjects in the roller world. From feeding, selecting breeders, flying, color, judging and the list goes on and on.
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| 6 Feb 2006 |
My Friend Les Manz: How I Turned His Karp & Bygraves Families into Mottles & Whitesides
I am currently 85 years old and started in the pigeon hobby when my aunt, Rose Hurley, brought me two common youngsters that fell from the eves of her house in 1927. Shortly after that time, a local Ophthalmologist helped me to get a solid start in the hobby by giving me ten young Tipplers from his loft.
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| 6 Feb 2006 |
The Heritage of my NAHF Rollers
The true North American High flying Roller first appeared in the loft of George Stevens of Toronto, Canada in 1869. Stevens was known to breed for high quality, fine color, vivid markings, and most importantly their ability to fly high, fly long, and to roll deep.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Avoiding the Ills of Inbreeding Rollers
Inbreeding creates a restricted pool of genetic material when both partners in each pairing have some genetic kinship and similarity. This combination strengthens the qualities that exist, but it can also quickly reveal many faults that could stay hidden in an outbreeding system.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Apple Cider Vinegar (AVC)
Ancient cultures used vinegar for its medical benefits and it was used for healing bruises, disinfecting wounds, snake and insect bites. Vinegar is antiseptic which kills germs on contact and also antibiotic.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Outbreeding Rollers Made Simple
Most breeders begin in the roller hobby by outcross breeding utilizing the selection of unrelated stock possessing many of the desired features as far as visual form is concerned for because of the lack of knowledge of the family history of their rollers other than what were told by the seller.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Inbreeding Rollers Made Simple
Breeders wishing to build a strain of rollers possessing family type uniformity can only achieve this by using an inbreeding system of one form or another. The heritable makeup of each adult bird is unalterable but by skillfully matching, the breeder can only hope that the mating will nick and advance the quality of his strain. The breeder skill in this will be evident in the quality of the young he rear.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Line Breeding Rollers Made Simple
Line breeding is a form of inbreeding, in which the breeder uses distantly related stud of rollers to achieve the objective to preserve the genetic line of descent, thereby retaining with a family group of rollers the genetic influence that produces stock of rollers akin to the Ideal.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Outcrossing Rollers Made Simple
There comes a time for all strains when it becomes necessary to introduce an outcross. How long can a breeder continue without an introduction of new blood will depend on variety of things? Many of strains have been bred for more than thirty years without an outcross being brought in. Much will depend upon the inherent character of the foundation stock, and upon the breeder vigilance in selection and culling birds possessing any weaknesses.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Inbreeding Ten Commandments
Bare in mind, always, it is just as possible to breed genetic dominance for defect into your strain as it is a quality.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Outbreeding Ten Commandments
10 useful tips to remember when bringing in a an outcross to an already established family of rollers.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Sky Predators…An Ecological Benefit
All hawks and owls are federally protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 USC, 703-711). These laws strictly prohibit the capture, killing, or possession of hawks or owls without special permits.
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| 5 Feb 2006 |
Table of Wieghts and Measures
A conversion table useful for administering proper medicinal dosages and feed amounts for pigeons.
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| 6 Dec 2005 |
Rollers and the Moult
It is necessary for us to understand something of nature’s process by which the normal bird is supplied with its feathers. Nature has provided that a bird shall grow one coat of feathers each year. In the wild state, this takes place in our latitude and in the northern hemisphere in the latter part of July, in August, and the first part of September.
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| 6 Dec 2005 |
Can We Breed Champion Spinners?
As we all hear that sometimes a mating is stumbled upon a pair of rollers that produce a high percentage of champions. You often read of a single roller that consistently breeds champion spinners, irrespective of the mate chosen for it. Such rollers often carry a name such as the producer hen or the Goldmine cock.
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| 6 Dec 2005 |
Devils Ear Rollers
The most impressive factors of any rolling action are described in these photos attached. I refer to what I have termed” devils ears” displayed in the photos.
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| 6 Dec 2005 |
The Power of Diatomaceous Earth
To use it in food storage, you should mix thoroughly one cup of DE to every (40) forty pounds of grains such as barley, buckwheat, corn, wheat, oats, rise, and a mixture of these grains. This works out to approximately one cup of DE to every (5) five gallon bucket full of grains. You need to make certain that every kernel is coated so it is better to do the mixing in small batches where you can insure more even coating.
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| 5 Dec 2005 |
Coffee & Roller Please
I can truly say that one of the things I enjoy most in life is watching a kit of my Ruby Rollers fly on a clear crispy cold morning along with a steaming hot cup of coffee in hand flavored with hazelnut creamer.
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| 11 Nov 2005 |
My German Shepherd & Roller Pigeons
Working with my German Shepherd dog around the pigeons and getting good results is satisfying and very useful (chasing young birds off the ground). I encourage anyone with a problem dog that you have to “lock up” when working with your birds to go through the process of training so it can become your “assistant” and be fun to hang around with you and your pigeons.
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| 7 Nov 2005 |
Nutrition and the Rollers
Most roller fanciers and owners believe that a well prepared seed mixture is a diet sufficient to keep their beloved rollers strong and healthy. Unfortunately, this statement couldn’t be farther from the truth.
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| 28 Jan 2005 |
FREQUENT & SELDOM PERFORMING BIRMINGHAM ROLLERS & BREEDER SELECTION
As I review my birds and contemplate future breeding of pairs, I always consider the more frequent bird to be of higher value than the less frequent one. This frequency in performance is something I like to see passed on or maintained within my Ruby Roller family of Birmingham Rollers.
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| 1 Jan 2005 |
Outbreeding Rollers Made Simple
Most breeders begin in the roller hobby by outcross breeding utilizing the selection of unrelated stock possessing many of the desired features as far as visual form is concerned for because of the lack of knowledge of the family history of their rollers other than what were told by the seller.
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| 1 Jan 2005 |
Unpredictable Results
What do the unpredictable and uncontrollable effects of development and unobserved genes explain about why siblings in closely bred families exhibit such different performance abilities?
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| 3 Dec 2004 |
English Rollers
Questions About Birmingham & English Rollers
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| 30 Oct 2004 |
Early Starting Rollers
My young birds are fed a light mix from the time that they hit the kit box until they are 5-6 mos old. And they will get all they want once a day from weaning time until they hit like a pivot point in there young lives where they start trapping slow due to they just no longer need all that they can eat on a daily basis.
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| 29 Oct 2004 |
Site Announcements
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| 14 Jun 2004 |
BILL PENSOM'S ABILTY TO JUDGE ROLLERS
First of all, it is easy to condemn what you do not know or have not had the good fortune to see. Bill Pensom to me was a near myth that I was sure was surrounded by more foolish tales of false ability than any one in the history of pigeon culture.
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| 27 May 2004 |
"Best Of Luck To The Show Roller"
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| 9 Apr 2004 |
Trailing Rollers Hurt The Kit
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| 8 Mar 2004 |
When is a Cull not a Cull?
We conducted a web poll asking visitors to Roller-Pigeon.Com to vote for what they perceive to be the more challenging proposition: acquiring quality stock, competing or understanding genetics. According to the poll results, acquiring quality Rollers represented the biggest challenge of the three options.
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| 8 Mar 2004 |
Raptors & The New Flying Season
Home Page Article
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| 6 Feb 2004 |
Eye Sign: Two Required for Maximum Performance
I spoke to publisher and pigeon enthusiast Mr. Silvio Mattacchione about eyesign recently and he had much to say! He has offered this article which he has previously published to be posted here. Although the eyesign "theory" in racing homers is held in high esteem by many long time breeders, he has come up with powerful logic to expose it as bad science and a general waste of time.
I present this here for your entertainment and leave it to you to make up your own mind. If you have compelling evidence for the eyesign theory, please submit it so we may present this side as well to our site visitors.
FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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| 1 Feb 2004 |
Sorry, But There Is No Eyesign For Rollers
If it has merit, does it have merit for all breeders or just some? I don’t use it to judge my rollers. I breed for performance and try to pair best to best using the 5 Primary Traits.
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| 1 Jan 2004 |
The Birmingham Roller: A Brief Introduction
The Birmingham roller pigeon is a smallish bird compared to some of the other pigeon breeds such as racing pigeons, modenas, runts, weighing in at about 12 ounces and a little more for the bigger sizes. It is hardy and will do well with modest care.
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| 27 Dec 2003 |
Training Young Rollers
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| 21 Dec 2003 |
Culling Young Birds That Don’t Fly
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| 21 Dec 2003 |
WHAT IS A BIRMINGHAM ROLLER?
Lewis Wright says that the true Birmingham Roller "turns over backwards with inconceivable rapidity through a considerable distance like a spinning ball".
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| 23 Jul 2002 |
PANCAKE COCK
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| 1 Jan 1993 |
Chapters 1 & 2 from "The North American Roller Pigeon"
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| 1 Sep 1983 |
The Hole Is Not A Hole -Just Open Space Surrounded By A Roller
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| 1 Jan 1979 |
Aerodynamics And True Rolling Type
In the 1979 Roller Special David Kawalski wrote an article entitled "Aerodynamics and True Rolling Type". These next excerpts were taken from this article.
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| 1 Jan 1945 |
THE CHAMPION
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| 10 Sep 1930 |
"Roller Matters"
...Mr. Carter’s question as to whether tumbling and rolling is the same? My answer is: No. I can only conclude, unfortunately, that you have not yet seen a Roller.
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| 20 Sep 1929 |
Competition Flying With Rollers
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| 1 Jan 1900 |
The Small Hole
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