What is the best way to acquire new stock?

If you want to become a champion, Acquire Champion Blood!!

. There is no other way 

Edited BY Paul 7-25-10 Today with the World Wide Web, it is easy to find a Champion loft from coast to coast. We are able to view this Champion loft’s racing performance and look at his birds online.  I recommend that this is the best way to acquire new stock, from a Champion Loft, “from the web”.  Buy the best you can afford. It is also advisable to look at high dollar one loft races and study the winning birds, make sure they are consistent birds in this one loft series of races.  You are not interested in winners of a single race at this one loft race, but only birds clocked on top of the sheet in the whole series of races.  Before the web, we would go and see the best loft in the neighboring combine.  A loft that was doing all the winning and always in the top diplomas is what I looked for. This loft, you would not have to compete against with there birds when you bred and raced the birds. With out the worry of you  challenging against his  loft with his blood lines made for an easy exchange of birds.  It is now a good chance a champion fancier will more than likely; sell you brothers or sisters to his winning birds. In some cases even the winners them self’s! Some times for the right price you will be able to buy the breeders of these winners. From this super loft you may get lucky and get much needed and valuable advice on how to care for and train your birds.  How to care & train birds information, can benefit you for a life time.  It is wise to secure Pigeons from lofts like this, a Champion loft, a real racing loft, not just lofts that market pigeons for sale, and have an endless supply of birds to sell. Most fanciers start off with gift pigeons from some of there new club mates. Lets face it, are the new club mates giving you the best from there loft? Are you willing to buy a bird for x amount of dollars and give it to some one you just met or received a call from looking for some free birds? Some times people do give the best in this kind of situation, they are folks indeed who show this kind of kindheartedness, but I feel that most of the time fanciers give you just birds and that bird is a So-So bird. Once the bird breeds or they race the bird, and if it breeds well or races on top of the sheet then, these gift givers are as excited as you. In reality it is because they did not know in the first place, the bird would of done so good, or it would still be at there loft breeding and racing. Remember there is always an exception to every thing in life, and you might be in the right place, at the right time, and the great pigeon master will shower you with champion birds. Good Luck! Today there are lots of pigeon dealers selling birds.  From these merchants of pigeons you will see most of there for sale birds, are out of, and there so called good ones. The birds bred out of a bird whose grand sire was a champ in most cases. What they do not tell you is they send loads of birds out to the futurity races, friends loft etc. when one scores from the merchants loft in a race they flood the advertising channels with there story of this winning bird. You never hear about the many birds they sent out all over the USA that did not score or even make it to the race. We also see the fellow who only started racing two or three years ago and won a race or two. He now believes he earned the right to market and sells his stock, one or two races do not make a champion. A lot of these web auctions rarely auction off the winners themselves, but back in the pedigree there was a great champion years ago. I personally think the pigeon internet auction clearing houses is not the way to go, to start with birds to enter into this world of pigeon racing. These auction sites are filled with pigeons from wantabe champions. Most birds at auction are birds bought by fanciers, some times for high dollars, and now that they have bred them once or twice, now they want to resell them to get a portion of there investment back, with no regard how well the young birds flew.  some times these fanciers  bred these auction birds and fly the youngsters,  if the young birds do well then the birds are kept for stock , if they do not breed well then back on the auction block for you or some one else to try and repeat the process. I have heard people say they are going to clean out the loft and put the birds up for auction; they do not want the birds so why should you? Do not bring in birds, like this. A lot of these auctions rarely auction off the race winners, but back in the pedigree there was a pigeon with great market ability, Name brand birds, birds whose names are pasted over and over in the magazine with many people selling birds bred out of these old champions. I want to say again the champion may be well back in the pedigree and the blood line is very thin, but the champion birds name become, house hold names in the sport. These types of pigeon were marketed and sold like Christmas toys to kids and every one wants one or has one of them. I also know you should consider your self lucky if you get a bird after paying for it from some of these people who sell there birds at auction, I personally have heard of many cases where some one would pay for the bird or birds at auction, and the bird or birds would not ever get shipped, the seller does not return your calls, but he cashes your check. Or he takes your money back from your pay pal account. When this happens you lose, because these snakes who call them self breeders wait the specific time period of 30 or 60 days and pay pal will not issue your money back to you, your check is cashed and cleared and this crook or ass does not respond to any of your contact tries. .  Be Careful!!! You think you are going to save a few bucks by going the cheaper route, but it will cost you more in the end, these snakes can not advise you how to win because they can not win themselves. Remember the pedigree is only as good as the guy who makes it out...  A person has to make his own decisions and get what is pleasing to him, and then have trust in his breeder.  I like a performance pedigree with lots of winners in the pedigree or birds that breed winners. I believe there is no room in the breeding loft for beginners. I guess I am proof that if a fellow goes to the top flyers and pays attention to his advice arid gets some of his good ones he will get to the top of the race sheet.

You should start off with pigeons that can and will put you on top of the race sheet, and at Walsh loft we have them! So can you!