Modern Old British Strains by Jim Emerton

MODERN OLD BRITISH
STRAINS
By Jim Emerton
Each and every bird is an individual of
mixed genetic ancestry. There are no pure
pigeons from any fancier, ancient or
modern!! Trends occur with origins that
become a modern fashion of the day. The
race reality is that a good pigeon to be
timed at over 700 miles is the product of
good management and will be uncommon
in any family, IE a relatively small
percentage of birds bred for THE
BARCELONA MARATHON.
JIM DONALDSON in Scotland, NEIL BUSH at
Amcotts, and Denney breed a good one for
example. With notable outbreeding intros
into the families, many of these have been
home bred for generations eg over 25 years.
My strain has been good from 31 to 879
miles from its evolutionary base in 1976 to
now 2015. See pigeon
ADDICTION on Google.
MUSGROVE
The old boys are master breeders and
conditioners for specialist marathon racers
and great pigeons are rare in any
generation of fanciers. It pleases me to
know that good ones are still being bred by
the old stalwarts. Naturally after the earthly
parting of the good men, the genes become
further mixed, with just traces of what was
the long term focus of those dedicated men
and so time and tide wait for no man: they
are eternal, immortal. Transience and
perpetual change are real.