Perpignan 2023 was stacked against the UK pigeons with a north west wind and a lot of rain, we managed to break the deadlock with The ’48’ at 9:35 on day two with the first UK arrival which placed 2nd National.

Our 5 year old widowhood cock, The 48” is the fifth generation to achieve a top performance into the UK through his fathers side and his mother “168” is an outstanding breeder. His father “Wiggins Son” was also 1st UK arrival and placed 2nd National Perpignan in 2016. He is line bred to our “Wiggins” and a gr.grandson of “Jack Jones”

The “48” has possibly the best constitution at our loft, you can handle him any time of year and he will feel ready to race, good colour and clean underneath. His breeding is fairly tight, we would say linebred but some might say inbred: “Wiggins Son” x “Wiggins Half Sister”. To be so tightly bred, handle so well and race as well as he does is a real credit to the good qualities in the bloodline.

Our second pigeon in the clock is a 3 year old widowhood cock GB20D10542 bred from two great performers in the race team. His breeding is 75% Bernd Morsnowski and 25% Jack Jones line.

And the third arrival is a 6 year old latebred who’s performances keep getting better. He was our first bird from Barcelona and one of our best performers last year also. He’s also bred from one of our good race hens “15.911” and he’s a grandson to “Jack Jones”

Our first three pigeons all came well from Barcelona and are all bred out of performance pigeons.

We managed to get 13 in the clock from the tough Perpignan of 2023.

With the weather completely against the UK on the final International of the year it was a tough way to close the season…

National Prizes: 2,7,8,10,15,16,18,19,23,31,33,36,37/225 Pigeons