| Welcome to the TarHeel Loft! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flying High in the Land of the Sky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Why keep pigeons? Maintaining a loft of competition pigeons is a fascinating and educational pastime... a hobby that is wholesome and provides fanciers like myself with hours of enjoyment spent in one's own backyard. It's a diversion from daily work and a hobby that one finds himself deeply engrossed. Watching the birds respond to love and care is a pleasure you can have every day. It teaches the hobbyist and creates within him an interest in genetics, nutrition, weather, mathematics, animal husbandry, physical conditioning, veterinary medicine, and woodworking. There's no greater personal satisfaction to be obtained than that of raising a young Homer from an egg, training it to adapt to its loft, developing it into a true athlete, and watching it return from its first 100 mile race... or raising a young Roller and watching it break from the kit and execute it's first of a series of spins as it falls from the sky. In this joining of two creatures are the legend of thousands of years of friendship...one earthbound and looking skyward at the product of his and nature's partnership... the other airborne, taking wing to complete its instinctive purpose for being. On the ground, or in the air... the rewards of the partnership are many. I'm Bob Simpson... Thanks for dropping in! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| My Involvement in the Hobby... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I breed and fly two breeds of competition birds: Racing Homers and Birmingham Rollers. I also play an active role in club administration. Competition Member of the Western North Carolina Racing Pigeon Club since 1995 Club Secretary-Treasurer * Average Speed Champion - 1995 YB * Loft of the Year - 1995 YB * Bird of the Year - 1996 YB * Loft of the Year - 1997 OB * Loft of the Year - 1998 OB * Bird of the Year - 1998 OB ** AU Club Wins - 13 ** AU Piedmont Combine Win - 1 ** AU Race Diplomas - 59 Competition Member of the Carolina Flying Roller Club from 1984 through 1993 Winner of 9 club competitions with 26 runner-up finishes Club Secretary-Treasurer 1984-1993 Editor of BACKSPIN Roller Bulletin from 1985 through 1995 -- 300 members in Canada, England, Holland, and the United States NATIONAL BIRMINGHAM ROLLER CLUB NBRC Regional Director 1990-1997 NBRC Publishing Editor since 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| My Loft in the Mountains of Western North Carolina, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The TarHeel Loft is located just south of Asheville, North Carolina -- situated on a mountain plateau at 3000 feet elevation. This region of the country is the Heart of the Blue Ridge, the Land of the Sky, and the Gateway to Heaven. In my loft are housed two competition breeds --- Birmingham Rollers, with Joe Houghton, George Mason, and James Turner bloodlines... and Racing Homers, with Janssen, Van Reet, Sion, and Muelman bloodlines. I also keep a few fancy breeds purely for the pleasure of having them around. |
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