Re: Stock how many do we keep
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:27 am
A few years ago there was a young Heremans cock with a brilliant pedigree on both sides. Multiple Fed winners on Australian conditions. He arrived from a race ripped up by falcon. That was that.
David acquired him.
He's called Hawkeye and his progeny are a new level. David won 4 Combine races in 5 weeks this season, all are children or grandchildren of the Hawkeye.
A couple of years ago he arrived at my place one evening and presented me with a blue bar squeaker. I was suitably grateful, although my shed was bursting.
"Do not train this"
, he said.
It was just a little blue youngster, nothing special, and then he was. He suddenly looked good. And Davey kept asking, " You're not training that blue bar?"
Then he told me what he's off.
As a yearling he paired up with an old hen and I let him go ahead. He was running out the door to find a twig then running flat out back in to the nest! In and out!
So he got named Roadrunner.
Mated to a random old hen he left a club winner and fed placed pigeons, and he was only a late bred yearling. This year he has matured into a carbon copy of his father and is paired to a hen by the same cock.
He might be the one to carry on the line.
David acquired him.
He's called Hawkeye and his progeny are a new level. David won 4 Combine races in 5 weeks this season, all are children or grandchildren of the Hawkeye.
A couple of years ago he arrived at my place one evening and presented me with a blue bar squeaker. I was suitably grateful, although my shed was bursting.
"Do not train this"
, he said. It was just a little blue youngster, nothing special, and then he was. He suddenly looked good. And Davey kept asking, " You're not training that blue bar?"
Then he told me what he's off.
As a yearling he paired up with an old hen and I let him go ahead. He was running out the door to find a twig then running flat out back in to the nest! In and out!
So he got named Roadrunner. Mated to a random old hen he left a club winner and fed placed pigeons, and he was only a late bred yearling. This year he has matured into a carbon copy of his father and is paired to a hen by the same cock.
He might be the one to carry on the line.