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       What are your thoughts on this?
   DIR By: raul carreiro
       Date: May 16, 2013, 4:14 pm
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       Hi all, I found this on line, What are your thoughts on this?
       STANDARD (1988) By Hugo BlaasIcan say this for the most part,
       the True Birmingham Roller can not be improved upon. The strain
       was fixed a lona. long time ago,even before Bill Pensom. The
       only thing we can do is cull and strive to maintain it..
       Period.. If the breed could have been improved upon especially
       in the last 50 to 70 years, all the birds would have been
       perfect spinners of the ultimate order, and we probably would
       have grown tired of them for lack of challenge. Today, I believe
       we may be flying birds of higher kit quality, but how can I say
       that for sure? It seems that in the 40's they had some awful
       good imports, the fore-runners of our contempory birds.Here is a
       categorical rating system some experienced fanciers formulated
       for the Bill Pensom family of pigeons. Perhaps this will
       "shed-light" on hypercelarity gene for rolling.
       #5 Type Roller- a pigeon that rolls straight over backwards; can
       be smooth or bumpy but relative to his speed. Wings out at side,
       not loose, not sloppy, nice straight smooth over backwards roll,
       that has an apparent lightness to -it.
       #4 Type Roller- Very, very fast tight spin, maybe you can see
       3'~to 4 of wing tips sticking~ out at the side when it rolls.
       Very fast spin. Hole- from side view not apparent.
       #3- Type Roller- (This is the category in which we feel "Bill
       Pensom" started classifying his birds as Champions: Absolutely
       incredible speed, wings-you can't see them anymore; the bird
       looks like a "H" from underneath (small H). Virtually a blurr,
       can't make it out as a pigeon anymore. Hole is 50~ piece size
       from the side. No wings are s.ticking out. If wings are sticking
       out, it's a #4 or slower.
       #2 Type.Spinner- Tuck is tighter-shrinks in size, wings in H
       position are invisible~ because the flights bend-because of
       forward centrifical wind resistance and arch into a ball; not a
       H anymore, very little wing butts sticking out. Looks like a
       round baseball. Hardly anything visable (in this category the
       wing tips may touch; but is insignif icant.
       #1 Type Spinner- Ridiculous speed 3"-4" diameter virtually the
       maximum limit i-n speed a pigeon can possibly achieve.
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