High Fliers....

[SmithFamilyLoft]

Oh my, it looks like I get to make the first thread !

Anyone here work with highfliers ? If so, what breed do you have if known, and what attracted you to this performance breed ?

[wonword]

yay, im glad to see this section up, as non-homer performing breeds are very very interesting as well. I used to raise tipplers, iranian highfliers, ukrainian skycutters/orliks. what sparked my interest is my dad's stories about raising highfliers in India, and also you get to see them perform all day, unlike racers where you let them go and meet them at the loft. I often would let my tipplers out before work in the morning because i work close to my house and I could keep an eye on them while working, and after the 6 hour shift they would still be up many of the times. tipplers are what I had the best luck with and flew over 7 hours straight. One Iranian I had flew 5 hours with my tipplers, and the ukranian skycutters would only stay up for a couple hours at most(maybe I didnt know how to train them as well). I've lost more highfliers to flacons then any other breed, I could often see perigrines diving at my birds when they were flying almost out of sight.

[george simon]

Its great that we now have a forum on other preforming birds.One thing I feel that many will leard that there many birds in this group that are champs in their own right.These HI FLYERS are champs of indurance flying for hours on end TIPPLERS are the breed that alway were of intrest to me. I hope to see many posts on the many breeds of preformers. .GEORGE

[Lady Tarheel]

Flying Pidgy (Clint) also raises the Iranian High Flyers. They are beautiful birds.


Also, many thanks to Terry and (probably) Googull for setting up this new forum. I love the performing pigeons even if the ones I have don't perform.

[wonword]

Originally Posted by george simon

Its great that we now have a forum on other preforming birds.One thing I feel that many will leard that there many birds in this group that are champs in their own right.These HI FLYERS are champs of indurance flying for hours on end TIPPLERS are the breed that alway were of intrest to me. I hope to see many posts on the many breeds of preformers. .GEORGE

yes, its even fun to gamble every once and awhile on whose bird can stay up the longest. maybe they will clean your loft if you win if you dont gamble with money

[NetRider]

Nice to see a forum for other performing breeds

Most of my birds are Pakistani high fliers. Here in Norway most fanciers keep homers, and only a few have other breeds like high fliers and tumblers. And those who keep them are usually foreigners who have somehow imported these birds in to the country. I have also had iranian high flyers, and turkish tumblers in the past. Trying to get hold of some tipplers, as I believe they are easier to fly than other high flying breeds.

As wonword said, the biggest enemy is the hawk. Through years I have never ever lost a homer or any other breed than the high flyers to the hawks. Maybe its the light color, or probably the fact that they only circle their home loft which makes them an easier catch and attracts the falcons/hawks more.

[SmithFamilyLoft]

The breed of highflier I have is somewhat "Home Made", I most often simply refer to them as my own SFL Highfliers. With my birds it started a number of years ago from some birds which were imported into the USA from Bosnia, a lady who was on my staff was from Bosnia, and one day she told me her husband had these pigeons he brought over from their previous homeland. Well a visit to their home was soon arranged, and soon he had some racers, and I had some of his birds.

They appear to look like tipplers, but some generations ago I crossed these birds with a racer in order to serve my purposes....which are still classified..
The offspring were then crossed back in and I ended up with birds which will often fly with my racers, but of course they don't want to quit after just a couple of hours or so...so when the racers come down, they will then head back up and circle around some more. This particular bloodline now has homing ability greater then a typical tippler, as they will follow the racers home on some short training tosses.

You would expect such a bloodline to fly lower and a much shorter time frame then normal tippler type breeds, but I found out the hard way, that such is not the case. Once I made the mistake of leaving them out for a short very late afternoon excersize session at about 4:30 one summer afternoon. It kept getting later and later...but they simply would not come down. Finally it got dark and so I got a flashlight, and since it was a very clear night with a full moon, I could see a glimpse of them flying high above in the star lit night. I feared they would become lost, but I would go out every other hour or so....and sure enough they were still up there doing their thing ! I arose very early, while it was still dark and watched them as the sun came up...it was a beauitiful site to see. Finally by about 7:45 AM....they came down for breakfast. Should have been a contest...I am sure that would have been some good time !!

Been working to change their looks to my own taste, as I seem to prefer the look of a healthy spunky racer type look, rather then the more typical feral type look of the average tippler. They are mostly white, with black trim, with those white tippler type eyes. I get a lot of fun and enjoyment out of flying them.

[TipplerBeni]

Is their anyone from this messagegroup that flies in Florida? I breed tippler pigeons Danish an print/grizzle tipplers. I get better time an height with my grizzle/print tipplers as they would disappear for 7-10 hours. My danes are med to high fliers but will give me 3-4 hours of enjoyment. Im looking for acouple people in Fl to start a Florida Tippler Club and maybe compete in Flying competitions like the Flying tippler society offend do.
Thanks alot
Beni
Spanish Fly Loft

[indianbird]

Does anyone have for sale pakistani high flier any info will be appreactied.
thanksin advanced

[abisai]

T.P. . Hello . . . I used to fly Tipplers in N.Y. They are truly a gentle breed that will fly as high as their fancier wants them too. They aim to please. I live in So. Florida, but fly homers and a few pouters. Let me know how you are doing with your venture into competing with the Tipplers.

Abisai

[TipplerBeni]

Abisai,

Will do my friend I will keep you posted. I have a story about tipplers for yous. I use to have a a very good bloodline of tipplers an i would fly just the young birds because the old birds to me were just to valuable to lose due to hawks an such so after there 1 year birthday they would be locked down for breeding because i always had youngsters(i breed all year long) Well it was late winter here in fl so pretty much like a northern summer day lol. it was nice a cool a little wind I had 20 youngsters that been out for at least 5-6 months knew the area an would give me 5 hours all the time. Well this day i let the birds out at around 12:30 an they would usually drop around 5 o'clock but for some reason on this day they had a feathers underneath them because they were flying higher than normal an when 5 came around they were nowhere to be found. i got my binoculars out an started looking an finally spotted a tiny dot which was 20 birds. Since I'm a hobby flier i don't use droppers or anything so i didn't know how to call them down. So me being silly/nervous about the young birds being out late i had the genius idea i would let my breeders out since they were use to flying the area an are stiff so they really wouldn't fly to good. well i was wrong... all 50 breeders did the same thing the young birds did. when night came i could see no stars cloud cover came. i put spot lights out went inside an hoped the birds would be there in the morning. I came out at daybreak to find 3 birds sitting in the loft. i lost 67 birds never to be seen again. i regret letting out the breeders to this day an this happened 5 years ago. The worse part is the 3 birds that came down where hens

Beni
Spanish Fly Loft

[abisai]

Warren . . . I knew some folks who would do just that . . . cross Tipplers with homers. You get some good looking, strong high flying birds.

[abisai]

T.P. . . Where in Florida are you located?

[TipplerBeni]

Lakeland fl. Right between orlando an tampa. I dont like flying in Florida as much as i did in ny the catch an brag game was pretty entertaining. I use to race homers for a while but didnt have as much enjoyment out of the homers as i do the tipplers.

[abisai]

Catch and brag . . .he he he, nice phrase . . .yeah we would sell them back for a quarter. Memories . . .sigh