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A recent google search turned up the story of Percy, a racing pigeon that took 11 years to complete a race in Melbourne, Australia.

Read the article on: http://www.pigeonbasics.com/news/news373.html to find a link to a poem about 'Percy the Prodigal Pigeon'.

Has anybody got a similar story or know of any weird and wacky races in the pigeon world?

must have been bred by me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Gangster

Look at the pedigree it was bred up here

part of the fun is having the odd character in the loft. when i started i bought a pigeon 'to do 250/300 miles a week' with a 'pedigree' to prove it.i called him 'parcelforce' as he was always 'next day'. in fairness he did do 300 miles a week the only trouble was the racepoint was only 60 .

Quoted from spin cycle

part of the fun is having the odd character in the loft. when i started i bought a pigeon 'to do 250/300 miles a week' with a 'pedigree' to prove it.i called him 'parcelforce' as he was always 'next day'. in fairness he did do 300 miles a week the only trouble was the racepoint was only 60 .

Quoted from gangster

must have been bred by me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aye it must have  

Quoted from TAMMY_1

aye it must have  

IVE GOT 2 SAY CHRISSY ISHAVING A GOOD INFLUENCE ON YOU LATLEY TAM????

Quoted from gangster

IVE GOT 2 SAY CHRISSY ISHAVING A GOOD INFLUENCE ON YOU LATLEY TAM????

Stop shouting , I am not deaf .  

Quoted from TAMMY_1

Stop shouting , I am not deaf .  

WHAT DID YOU SAY???

i had a hen come back from a race of 90 mls 18 months later

Quoted from gangster

must have been bred by me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

None of you blokes   are within the ball park,   one could say ?????? compared to me. (Very Very Very ???? close to home) Must have been bred of some of those pommy imports here, to be that slow   4 years is my best effort in a race etc & 18 months for a bird I once tossed from 26 miles   (Didn't quite make the stock loft) But he wasn't to know that,    when he decided to come home at his own leasure.
Enjoy

a number of years ago,, i had a bird come home from cheltenham 6 years later  
as it said in the paper ,,,"didnt say much for its racing ability , but boy, what a memory "   true  

Yes--we all have had " a " slow pigeon. Had one that took a day to fly from a mile toss--29 days for the 500mile--but It had over 4,000 " offical/clocked"miles racing before I could not take him anymore.

A fellow in NZ had one come home after 9 yrs and he was going to breed from it

we had a cheq hen come home after 4 years and believe she had escaped from someones loft.. she was in imaculate condition so we bred from her and she bred a winner last year.. we only bred 2 from her and they were still left in the race team at the end and they had every young bird race.. watch out for them this year,, "55" and "56".. a lot of these slow birds go into other lofts and they keep them to breed off.. but some escape and remember after all them years..

ant

Quoted from ALF

WHAT DID YOU SAY???

Well you will not miss much with the size of your ears .

I am still waiting for mine to arrive sent him in his first race in 1988, he'll be here soon.

Quoted from Michael J Burden

I am still waiting for mine to arrive sent him in his first race in 1988, he'll be here soon.

I like to see a man who has plenty of optimism here   & you appear to me ????? to fit into this category. I think!!!!!!! Real well   .
Enjoy.

Quoted from mealybar

A recent google search turned up the story of Percy, a racing pigeon that took 11 years to complete a race in Melbourne, Australia.

Read the article on: http://www.pigeonbasics.com/news/news373.html to find a link to a poem about 'Percy the Prodigal Pigeon'.

Has anybody got a similar story or know of any weird and wacky races in the pigeon world?

Still hope for some of mine that have gone missing then