Introduction to Paul Walsh Loft  30 years of WINNING

In the earlier days, the need was clear to me, I needed produce my own family, using the quality birds from gifted champion fanciers only, and  to introduce occasional birds to strengthen the strain without losing the original bloodlines.

30 years ago when I started racing, I put  the emphasis on strains/families of racing pigeons in the USA, I was to develop pigeons that raced well in the 500 & 600 mile  old bird races and the 400 mile young bird futurities. I under stood then same as I understand now  If you want to become a champion, buy from CHAMPION BLOODSTOCK it is the only way! There is no other way 

My family of birds originated from  champion flyer's and breeder's from Bristol Pa, the Philadelphia area.  One of these great fanciers  then moved to Scranton Pa., Patsy DePietro.  I trained with DePietro for a number of years and was his student for all of them. Many a winner I had, was a result of DePietro's blood. Patsy introduced me to Fats Schofield where I acquired from him some breeders I was also introduced to New-year loft at that time who was the premiere long distance and futurity King of all time in the Philadelphia area. His loft won every Futurity offered to him to fly. Fats and DePietro also had New-year loft birds. Today New-year blood runs strong in many of my present day champions   Around  the same time period ,Frank Gable who was a champion long distance champion  in the Scranton Pennsylvania area and was getting out of birds. Frank gave me his top two foundation birds . who were responsible for many long distance wins for him, This is the basis for my family and they will win from 100 to 600 to this day and score in the futurity races across the USA.  These birds I have developed into my own strain that is as good as anyone's best and I have the wins and the Race records to prove it.

Patsy DePietro's family of pigeons many of which were direct from Fats Schofield  excelled at races from 100-600

The Schofields excelled in the 500 & 600 mile old bird races, but were even more successful at the 300 and 400 mile Young Bird futurities. Fats believed that young bird futurity races were crucial in his evaluation of his breeding program. Fats also had more of a European mindset in keeping his family competitive.  If good birds were available to improve performance, they were added without regard to "strain". Fats produced a family of pigeons that was unique in that it was competitive in a large geographical area of the United States and performed well with many different handlers. The fact that Fat’s family of pigeons was able to adapt to the different handlers and conditions in the young bird futurity races in different areas of the country and Win is a strong testament to there Quality.  

The blending of these families of birds is the basis of the Walsh family of birds. The present day Walsh Pigeons  mature fast enough to compete  and win as young birds and are still dominate at all distances in old birds. It does not matter if its a slow race with a head wind  or a fast race with tail wind my birds will be with in striking  range for the win of the race.  In 2008 my #417 wins the 500 for Walsh. These birds love to fly and will fly at will for hours at a time in the heat of the day.

I have continued to select my family of pigeons based on the principals taught to me by Patsy and Fats. While It has been tempting to vary the family in order to pander to fads and fancies of the times I have stayed the course and continued to apply the same selection pressure on the family to develop a family of honest hard working no nonsense competitors that are able win and reproduce themselves in the stock loft. To day they are all Walsh pigeons, an interwoven and specialist family of birds winning for Walsh and across the USA.

Most fanciers go wrong when they get caught up in the mass marketing hype of the time and throw away years of work for an unknown. They see in the pigeon publications, auction sites a new fad or marketing scheme developing, which talks of winning, and decide that they must have these birds.  

I will bring in a bird in the same way as Fat’s did. Two that I brought in recently are Torin  & Molly . Their blood has been added to the family but only after they were proven competitors, and through breeding and testing of there children it was determined that they were an asset to the family. My experience is that, most of the time when you bring in a bird it does not work out.  It is only with attention to detail and hard work that you can breed better family of birds.  I am proof that if a fellow goes to the top flyers and pays attention to his advice and gets some of his very best birds he will get to the top of the race sheet.

"I have a rule here at Walsh Loft. Breeders are for breeding and flyers are for flying. I do not ask my flyers to become my breeders, even the race winners," I to inbreed for stock and outcross for flying. As a rule, I do not put just any bird in the breeding loft. It must be a champion or a daughter or a son of a champion and much thought must go into the process of placing a bird into the breeding loft. A one or two times combine winner does not make my breeding loft. I have always maintained of keeping together successful pairs at the end of the year I will take the time to and try a new mate . In the flying loft I will let two birds mate the way they like and may or may not take a pair of youngsters off them.  Many times I get calls for birds of a certain strain, when these guys call I think to my self they are lost in this sport,  and I will recite a story about Ad Schaerlaeckens, the famed Dutch flyer and author. "When asked 'What strain do you have?' Schaerlaeckens says the champions in Holland and Belgium do not understand. What does this man want, a strain or a good bird? This is because the majority of the super birds in Europe are products of crossing." I am a small team flyer, I do not have large race teams, every week this team was competing against odds of members with many more birds on there old bird team then myself, I  believed in sending quality  birds to a race instead of quantity.  . The simple principle of genetics.  HEREDITY IS HANDED DOWN FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT.  LIKES BREED LIKES. and you see this in Walsh Birds. So there is no need for you to be left behind , you become a Wanna Be or spend the nest ten years saying I could have .

Make Today The Very First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life in this Pigeon Sport

You should start off with pigeons that can and will put you on top of the race sheet and at Walsh loft we have them.

ELVIS AND DIXIE BREEDERS OF THE 2006 I.F. CONVENTION RACE, LONG ISLAND NEW YORK

I Believe that my Bird's performance speaks for its self a family

that wins for me and in other lofts in the USA

The Four Pigeons Chosen To Illustrate the Walsh Family

The greatest pleasure is in going to my lofts and witnessing a uniformity of type, color with a very obvious family pattern. Intelligence, compass, homing instinct, navigation skills, determination, courage and heart are inherited from the bird’s pedigree or Ancestors' Bloodlines.

 My advice to any fancier would be to pursue the family line as the surest way of being able to find consistency built upon an experience with the type and quality and expectancy. It applies I would imagine to any breed of pigeon and the surest way of breeding with any sort of certainty is to produce a family. This is my advice only. It is a system which has been good to me and my birds over the years but I refrain from saying that this is the only way for it is not the only way. There are fanciers who have been provided with a wonderful stock sense and who have the ability to buy or acquire birds to gel as breeders and winners.

I believe therefore that the future is secure with the present birds at Walsh loft  for being so close within the family concept, they can hardly fail to produce their like . I hope that this little guide through my family  will be of interest to you. Over the last 30 years I have been fortunate in producing some beautiful winning pigeons for myself and for others and have felt justly proud in owning  a few champions.

I can recommend this family of  Walsh pigeons to any loft , especially if you are looking for hard day long distance birds as they have bred countless winners flying in that type of conditions "An elite bloodline that carries with it years of perseverance and careful planning at the hands of  a master breeder and keepers of the strain. Performances in racing and Breeding are outstanding. A Family of birds that I have proven to be  as good or better then the  best.  The  knowledge and experience in handling this great family I have gained over the years, has and will continue until the end. 

I believe  a Champion loft is only as strong as the weakest link. Take a good hard look and make sure you are not the week link.

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Love all, trust a few.  Do wrong to none." 

  WHEN DOLLY WAS mated to Ruari

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Flying  with the Greater North Carolina Concourse and the ACC pigeon Club.in  the 2006  Old Bird season ,Which was my first year flying in NC at the Beach.loft.

Walsh  Loft here at SunSet Beach NC

 

2008 Old Birds I flew with the  Central Carolina Combine of NC

Our loft won 7 out of the 10 Combine Races, 1st Average speed , 1stChampion loft and 1st Champion Bird 2008 OB

2007 GNCC CONCOURSE OLD BIRDS First Average speed and First Champion loft .  2,3,4,5,6,7th ETC, place Champion Birds. click to see other averages

Greater NC Concourse    Bird of the Year Report      Bird of the Year

     2.   8   IF 06 SCHO  BB   C   348 Pts  5 race(s) 1789 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     3. 1606   IF 06 SCHO  BC   C   328 Pts  5 race(s) 1789 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     4.   78   IF 06 SCHO  GRIZ C   252 Pts  4 race(s) 1370 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     5. 4297   IF 05 ACC   GRIZ C   252 Pts  4 race(s) 1037 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     6. 6145   IF 06 ACC   BB   C   252 Pts  4 race(s) 1250 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     7. 3536   IF 05 SCHO  BC   C   240 Pts  5 race(s) 1575 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     9.  100   IF 06 SCHO  BB   C   224 Pts  4 race(s)  902 Miles WALSH LOFT         

     12.  62   IF 06 SCHO  BB   C   188 Pts  3 race(s)  617 Miles WALSH LOFT         

    17. 6143   IF 06 ACC   BB   C   180 Pts  2 race(s)  625 Miles WALSH LOFT          

    21.   88   IF 06 SCHO  DC   C   156 Pts  3 race(s)  871 Miles WALSH LOFT         

    30.  135   IF 06 MRC   BLUE H   100 Pts  1 race(s)  206 Miles WALSH LOFT         

    35. 3597   IF 05 SCHO  BB   C    96 Pts  1 race(s)  460 Miles WALSH LOFT         

  

 

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2006 GNCC CONCOURSE OLD BIRDS

FIRST OVERALL AVERAGE SPEED 2006

 

 Our race reports are on the President of the combines web page http://www.paulk.us/reports.aspx  I have plans on listing them here as soon as time becomes available . 

 My first old bird season here on the southeast Coast of North Carolina met with moderate success when compared to my past performance with the birds.  With everything taken in to consideration I am quite pleased with my old bird team of nothing but yearlings and them flying against larger teams and  many older birds with considerably more experience.  You also have to realize that I started concourse racing with twenty-nine birds and sent every one of them to the races week after week.  They came banging in time after time and demonstrating their great form, with the widowhood cocks strutting and cooing to their mates as they immediately trapped.  Just watching them it was hard to believe they had flown the distances that they had. 

Every week this team was competing against odds of members shipping fifty birds as that is the Concourse limit.  There were some members that, like myself, believed in sending quality instead of quantity which has always been my practice.  I was beaten in two races by a total of 1/2 second in one race and five seconds in the other.  The birds did their thing and in one of these races  at 200 miles I got greedy and tried to get all five through the traps instead of concentrating on the first one to hit the landing board.  That cost me the win losing by 1/2 a second,  but I still had second through six in the concourse. I won the 300 taking 1,2,3,4,& 5 . On the first 400 I was 4,7,8,9 the second 400 I was 1,2,5,& 6 here is the races below,

scroll down below and you will see some of my futurity results.