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The Big News here at Turned Luck !!!

 

07/14/10 - Looks like my whole family of Hollywood/Hofkens will be gone soon - details to follow later. Ron Deisher sent Clarity today, she is Cooper's full sister, both out of the Creator Family Syndicate 3. She is a very nice hen and will be a great addition to my Creator family. He also put a full sister to Aphrodidas in the box. She is almost as nice, just a bit bigger. Another super Creator hen to add to the stable.

     All of the birds that have been sent to out of area races for me and others are all still doing well. Also sent several kits out around the country to be raced by friends. All were very happy with the ybs and all birds are doing well. Stay tuned for updates.

 

06/08/10 - A day off and it is rainy and dreary out - bummer. I have decided on two things concerning the future of Turned Luck - eliminating one line and setting prices. First I love the babies coming out of my Creator and Black Widow matings. Because of that I have decided to eliminate the Hollywood/Hofkens line. I have always been a huge fan of this line - I love the way they look, the way they handle and the way they perform, but space is limited.

     The second issue - pricing! I hate the issue of selling pigeons BUT I have spent good money on my stock and like my hobby to support itself somewhat - not support me - I am not in the pigeon business. I raise birds for myself and sell the extras - I don't breed pigeons with the intentions of selling. That whole deal is too stressful and time consuming.

     What I have decided to do is this; any ybs out of any two GFL banded breeders will be $500 - any ybs out of one GFL banded bird and one non-GFL banded bird will be $250 - any ybs out of two non-GFL banded birds will be $100. There will only be two exceptions to this; the first will be if someone wants to reserve a black, that will be an additional charge. The second exception will be for proven breeders or racers, but in all honesty when it is time to sell them there is a fair chance I will still follow the policy.

 

05/21/10 - My new job has been crazy!!! Glad to have it though. My son graduates High School on Wednesday. My little boy through high school and getting ready for college. Man I am getting old.... LOL I am proud to say he was 1 of 28 accepted to Drexel's Architectural Program. Not only accepted but offered a scholarship.. I am a proud daddy.

     Julia's freshman softball year just ended at HS but the tournament ball is well under way. She is actually traveling to Oklahoma City for the College Softball World Series in two weeks. NOT playing YET for a college but her 14U travel team is playing a tournament there the same week and it will give them an opportunity to to see the World Series. She is so excited.

     Well the loft is busy too!! Ramrod and Stewardess have hatched their second set. Their first set - two black splashes - are turning out superb!!! After they lay their next set, they will be split and Stewardess will be mated to Black Powder. Ramrod may go on Blossom or I may make a Creator cross. How about some black Creators!!!!

     And we also have Stewardess' grandchildren in the nest - both Shadowed and First Class have their first hatches under them. Both sets are a super combo of Black Widow, Aviator and Sure Bet. I will be offering a few off these pairs this fall so keep an eye out.

     Supremacy and Diamond's Dollar are on their second set of babies. The first set is developing nicely for my friend Steve Royer - a beautiful slate self and blue bar splash. I will take maybe two more rounds and then Supremacy will go on either  Forbidden Dance or Bleus Dancer for some line bred Sundancer babies - both are out of Supremacy's half sister, Creative Dancer who shares the same super dam - Sundancer.

     Diamond's Dollar will be mated to Cooper to produce some inbred Diamond Maker babies - they are both Diamond Maker grandchildren. I can't wait for those ybs!!!!

     Because of funds I was only able to enter six birds in one loft races - sent two to the Plymouth Peak Pro Challenge and four to the Buckeye Challenge. All six are doing well. Brad Hoggan really liked the two I sent to the Plymouth Peak race. I sent a good cross section of my families. I also sent birds for two other friends so I have a total of 10 birds out to one loft races.

 

05/04/10 - Supremacy/Diamond's Dollar have babies and are back down on eggs. The first set goes to my friend Steve Royer of Utah. I traded them in a deal to get Forbidden Dance back to Turned Luck.

     Both Black Powder/Lucky Charm and Ramrod/Stewardess are back down on eggs. And both of Stewardess' boys, Shadowed and First Class are down on eggs with their hens.

     Could not get birds out to any more races. My son, Jared was involved in an accident and totaled out Tahoe. Thanks God he is fine but now my pigeon budget will be spent on another vehicle for the family. I am sending more birds to CA to be flown by a friend in his combine.

 

04/23/10 - Both of the Ramrod/Stewardess babies are black. They have been moved under fosters and Ramrod is driving again. I just weaned the ybs from Black Powder and Lucky Charm and he is driving again.

     I also just paired up the nestmate brothers from Widow's Bet and Stewardess. First Class is mated to Too Grand - a granddaughter of Sure Bet and Super Crack 699. This pulls Sure Bet in from both sides as First Class is also a Sure Bet grandson. I have Shadowed mated to Blossom - out of the eight great grandparents in this mating you have Sure Bet three times, Black Widow three times and Aviator and Eclipse. WOW!!!!

     Sent ybs to the Buckeye Challenge and Plymouth Peak Pro Challenge on Tuesday. Also have a partnership with four more birds at the I-Race/Gold. Might send five more of my own. Next week I am sending a grizzle our of Diamond's Dollar to the PA Dutch Grizzle Race, a beautiful little blue bar grizzle hen. Her daddy is Quick Silver II - a Silver Boy Grandson.

 

04/14/10 - WE HAVE STEWARDESS BABIES. Ramrod and Stewardess hatched out there first set yesterday. And Black Powder and Lucky Charm's second set are both black !!!! The Widow's Project is in full swing.

      Supremacy and Diamond's Dollar finally seem to be in love - hopefully fertile eggs will follow soon.

     Looks like we will have Turned Luck YBs going to at least 5 One Loft and Futurities in either our name or partnerships. Keep tuned in for details. Follow them on the One Loft Races page.

 

04/07/10 - Stewardess' Granddaughter Scores Big !!! Blue Check Hen W's Kathi, AU 09 AUB 1648, owned and flown by Paul Watson, Flying W Loft, Cool, CA was named 2009 DIGEST North American Continental Awards 1st Sprint Ace Pigeon and 2nd Overall Ace Pigeon Division 6 !!!

 

03/22/10 - We have Supremacy and Diamond's Dollar in the an individual right now. Plus Ramrod and his Aunt Stewardess are mated and happy. Black Powder and Lucky Charm have just hatched out there second set so we should have a few of them to offer soon. Later Black Powder will be mated to his half sister Stewardess producing double grandchildren of Black Widow. Stay tuned.

 

03/16/10 - I wrote about the bad luck with Bourne, but Mike Ganus came through again and it gets better each time. I liked Bourne so much I wanted a full brother. Well Mike couldn't come up with one, so instead he sent a truly fantastic half brother - a son of Boomerang and Sundancer. This cock is phenomenal!!!! And out of two National quality racers. Check out Supremacy.

     I recently, within the last couple weeks, started a new career with Lowe's and with that, my time is not my own. With this career change and my son going to college in the fall, my financial situation will be different for awhile. It looks like I will not be racing from home for a few years. So I will be reducing my stock loft and concentrating on just a few one loft/futurity races each year as well as the development of my Creator, Black Widow and Sure Bet lines. I will try to have a stock sale every fall on iPigeon. I am not in the pigeon breeding business so will offer birds at very reasonable prices.

 

03/04/10 - Again BadLuck Loft - due to circumstances out of everyone's control we had to replace Bourne.

 

01/11/10 - GREAT NEWS !!!!! This is going to sound crazy but I have pneumonia and pleurisy. It is great news because the doctors figured out through this that my lung problem has been a chronis infection this whole time. Not caused by the birds just aggravated by them. 28 days of antibiotics and steroids plus lung treatments and the infection is gone BUT THE BIRDS STAY !!!!!

 

01/06/10 - Doubloon's replacement arrived today and what a bird. I couldn't get a full brother but Mike did one better. He sent me a son of Boomerang mated to Diamond Maker. A half brother but what a half brother!!!!!!

 

12/16/09 - I think we are going to change the name to BADLuck loft... some time today before I got home from work a Coopers hawk crashed through one of the glass windows in the front of the loft. I had just cleaned hem two days before so I admit it could have been mistaken for an opening in the loft, but I thought the glass would repel something the size if a Coopers. He must have really been hauling butt when he hit it. I found him dead on the floor in the hallway.

     Unfortunately that is not all I found!!! Before the hawk dies he killed Doubloon and three others, Kitt - a double Rocket gr'daughter, Okie - an inbred OHF Aarden hen and a sweet Hofkens hen I bred. Kitt was bad enough, but the loss of Doubloon is crushing. he was going to be the base of my Creator family. I have something in the works to replace him so stay tuned for details.

     On a good note, I am expecting a shipment from my good friend Ron Deisher. He is sending a pair out of our Widow's Connection mating, a cock out of our Creator Family Syndicate III pair and a cock out of his Gabriel and Faith. They won't make up for the loss of Doubloon but it will cheer me up some. There is also another Widow's Connection cock on the horizon - a black cock. More details later.

 

12/02/09 - GREAT NEWS !!!!! I might just be able to keep a few. Since moving all the birds out to the show loft, which has wire floors throughout, I have progressively had less reaction to the birds. It has been almost two months since I have had a full blown episode. I have also intentionally been spending more time with the birds to test my lungs and reaction. So far no more problems.

     What does this mean? Well I have convinced my family to let me keep a few birds. I am cautious that the cooler weather and the fact that the molt is over my be big factors so I may not be over this; only time will tell.

     Luckily most of my Creator birds have not sold - though three key birds are gone - so I will concentrate on what I have left of them. My great friend Ron Deisher has agreed to return Doubloon and Diamond's Dollar. He is also going to provide me with two more Creator cocks - one out of our CFS3 pair, Doubloon and Princess Cut (pictured below). And a second one off of his import Spierings pair, Gabriel and Faith.

     He is also sending back Black Powder and Stewardess. Returning these birds will allow me to continue to participate in the Widow's Connection and Creator Family Syndicate projects.

     My plan is to breed from a few key pair and see how it goes. It is obvious that I will never be able to go back to my race loft but maybe I can continue in some capacity from my original show loft - sending a few birds out to one loft races and possibly selling some kits and providing a few race kits for friends. I will certainly keep you posted.

 

In the meantime I still have lots of good birds that I need to get rid of.

I must reduce the numbers for sure.

 


06/02/09 - Princess Cut arrived today. She will be rested for a few days and then paired with Doubloon. You can find more details here, Creator Family Syndicate.

She is here and mated to Doubloon

 

 

     Ron Deisher of PDQ Racing Loft has been helping me out quite a bit in establishing my Creator family. I was able to help Ron pick up Princess Cut and will be splitting some youngsters as a result. After she has been with Doubloon awhile she will be headed back to Ron's. We are calling this the "Creator Family Syndicate". Jim Sears, Steve Royer and Harold Lamons are also involved. Another collaborative effort to improve all of our families and provide inbred stock for the sport.

 

Contact Either Ron or Myself To Reserve Your Foundation Quality Youngster

Joe - racers@turnedluck.com

Ron - rondeisher@pdqlofts.com

 

 


We Scored !!!!!!  e1st Buckeye Challenge

 

We Scored AGAIN !!!!!!  3rd Buckeye Challenge

 


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09/19/08 - I am on my way to proving my choice of breeders and the quality of my birds overall! I had 4th equal 1st at the inaugural Buckeye Challenge. This was only the 130 mile warm-up race but it was our first one loft entry, so that is one for one scoring. There were five on the drop and we were 4th through the clock. This youngster is out of our Sure Bet stock; the sire is Sure Risk. I hope this is just the "warm-up" for the 250 mile feature race to be held next Saturday Sept. 26th. Stay tuned and watch the reports for 47811!!!

 

09/28/08 - WOW !!!!!!! We hit again !!!! We scored 3rd on the Buckeye Challenge Feature 250 with another Sure Bet Family bird; Sure Sweet is the dam of this one. This time it was 47807. So we have been in two races and scored twice with two different birds; not a bad start.

 

     This was a tough smash 250 miler. No birds on the day; only four the second day and one the third. I am proud to say our 47811, the equal 1st finisher from the 130 mile race came home Friday; six days after the release and one of only 6 birds to return. We were the only loft to have multiple entries return home from the race. Both of these birds are from our Sure Bet family.

 


 

       I have added several more inbred double grandchildren of Sure Bet to the stock loft. Be on the look out for some fantastic Sure Bet great grandchildren soon at working man's prices. See the new breeder's on the Sure Bet Stock page.

 


 

     I are also working on a Vervoort Hofkens family to add to our Hollywood Hofkens. Plus we discovered that our foundation Hollywood cock, Lucky Prince carries the recessive red gene. So watch out for some recessive red Hofkens in the future!!! This may also include some recessive reds off of Sure Risk !! See the new breeder's on the Hollywood Stock page.
 


 

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