dmitch
6 posts
Oct 29, 2004
12:01 PM
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Which bird would be the better performer pearl,orange,yellow or half bull eye birds?
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
308 posts
Oct 29, 2004
12:17 PM
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The bird with two of them, of any color of your choice. Color of the eye does not effect the performance of the bird, but in some families certain characteristics can be patterned which leans in favor of a particluar color while in another family that color may be stone cold stiffs. Just because a bird has an orange eye or a pearl eye or any other doesn't automatically mean it has the possibility to become a great roller. All depends on the family and the bird itself.
Brian.
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K.Naylor
39 posts
Oct 29, 2004
1:56 PM
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Brian, I agree with you 100%. Eye color is just a personal prefrence.
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Mother lode lofts
273 posts
Oct 29, 2004
3:46 PM
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You just follw the Roll and where you end up is where you end up. I have some pairs that throw good orange and some throw good pearl. It doesnt matter.
just my opinion
Scott
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nicksiders
89 posts
Oct 29, 2004
11:05 PM
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Two eyes works for me.................but, pretty soon someone will tell us that one color or another gives more rolldowns. On one side of thier face they say color of eyes doesn't mean anything and on the other side they will say a certain color gives then more rolldowns.....strange behaviors.
I believe their is no eye sign in rollers (I don't even believe there are eye signs in racers.) When I say that it is like cursing thier wives and I am spat upon by both.
It is like magic and vudo. They have all kinds of things written about it, but I can never see what they see even as they try to talk me thru it as we both study the same bird closely at the same time.......I feel so damn stupid when they do that to me. I keep saying over and over "I don't see it" and they finally tire of my stupidity and excuss me from thier loft. This has been going on for forty years.....I am just one big dumb ass.
When I get home I just stare outwardly at my loft and my wife puts her arms around my shoulders and she exclaims on my behalf: There ain't no such thing as EYE SIGN. This make me feel better, but I can hear her say under her breath as I begin my walk to the loft "dumb ass". So that has been my life the past 40 years; feeling real bad that I don't understand EYE SIGN.....Oh, well.
This has also prevented me from feeling comfortable around those breeders who are so wise that they know the EYE SIGNS and I don't join clubs do to my embarrasment for being such a DUMB ASS. My wife knows me well enough to know that I am not retarded; I am just slow as she puts it. I have no friends because I don't understand EYE SIGN and I even feed my rollers popcorn sometimes; what a dastardly thing to do.
Not understanding EYE SIGN has kept me off of Earl's List and because of not being on THE LIST I know nothing about pigeons especially EYE SIGN.
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Mother lode lofts
274 posts
Oct 29, 2004
11:33 PM
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You kinda lost me on that one Nick LOL, I think that in certain families or at least particular pairs that certain eye's will run in line with what a youngster most probably will do or not do,not in all but some. here I don't see it in my loft as far as eye color due to 95 0/0 of the birds I breed are pearl eye, I will see it in particular colors though out of particular pairs. An example is one pair that I have that is a click pair, the cock is a rec red mottle to hen a Blue check, and blue or dark checks out of that pair I might as well cull out of the nest as they never pan out. As for the eye, yea I think that is a lot that can be learned from it of which I know very little about, but one thing that is consistant about it is the stability or lack of stability that can easily be seen in the eye, some are extream to the point that you know it will never live to see maturaty on to just hot and can go either way, or just plain stable. I allways fly them out no matter what and to go through and cull birds due to the eye would be stupidity, but no doubt there is something to it to a large degree and it's interesting to see the out come of such birds that are to the extream as far as lack of stability. Now would I put any stock into anyone just grabbing birds and looking in the eye and making certain calls on the birds worth, Hell no. What I comment on here only has value to me in my own loft with "my" birds. But the next time you have a rolldown compare the eye with a couple of birds that you know for a fact are stable.
Scott
Last Edited by Mother lode lofts on Oct 30, 2004 12:00 AM
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