Performances and news

Success in my opinion has always been down to doing your homework, without this you are just buying pigeons blind. looking through pedigrees helps but that is not the full picture. I look for performance over a period of time and then go and look at the birds. If birds don't meet my criteria then they are not for me. Luckily over the years I  have had my hands  on some good birds. The Bosma pigeons Paul Beaumont and myself introduced two years ago have been a great success . The performances up to now speak for themselves.

Club Positions.                                                                North Section                                           Federation positions

1st Cheltenham 134 birds                                               1st Mangotsfield    1,005 birds                 1st Mangotsfield    1,315 birds

1st Yeovil            120 birds                                              1st Worcester        1,792 birds                 1st Yeovil               1,333 birds

1st Mangotsfield   91 birds                                              1st Mangotsfield    1,868 birds                 1st Mangotsfield     1,005 birds

1st Yeovil             111 birds                                              1st Cheltenham     690 birds                   1st Mangotsfield        561 birds

1st Tewksbury      207 birds                                             1st Yeovil               610 birds                   1st Worcester          2,154 birds

1st Mangotsfield   248 birds                                            1st Mangotsfield    1,033 birds                1st Mangotsfield         561 birds

1st Yeovil              127 birds                                                                                                            1st Cheltenham       1,051 birds

1st Mangotsfield   105 birds                                                                                                            1st Mangotsfield      1,483 birds

1st Worcester       121 birds                                                                                                            1st Cheltenham        3  55 birds

1st Yeovil              265 birds                                                                                                            1st Yeovil                    589 birds

1st Stafford           282 birds                                                                                                            1st Cheltenham          240 birds

1st Penkridge        247 birds                                                                                                           1st Yeovil                     347  birds

1st cheltenham       52 birds

1st Yeovil              102 birds                                      South Lancs Combine                                  North West Classic Club Y/B

1st Mangotsfield   104 birds                                     1st Yeovil               1,719 birds                      1st Carentan               349 birds                 

1st Yeovil              127 birds                                     1s Mangotsfield     1,758 birds

1st Mangotsfield   132 birds                                     1st Mangotsfield      805 birds

 

From the end of 2019 we started looking again to see if we could improve on the quality of the birds we already had. After looking at the results of the top fanciers of the Netherlands we came across a super partnership of father and son Johan and Thomas Den Harthog who after getting in touch with them invited us over, we jumped at the opportunity to view the birds and see if they were of the quality we were looking for. When we arrived we were looked after by Johan and his wife. After viewing the birds we knew straight away that we would be going ahead with the purchase of birds from the best breeders. After we returned from Holland I had a discussion with Garry Wall about the performances of the Harthog family who then researched in depth and came up with some surprising results. Over the last seven years were better than we ever anticipated and were definitely the genes we were after to enhance the quality of the Bosma  birds.