A proven family of spinners

I have been raising Birmingham Rollers since 1983.  Prior to that I was just a collector of about anything I could get my hands on.  I got to see my first kit fly at a local fancier named Daryl Rhoades of Redding.  I was attending a school only a couple blocks from his house. 

I purchased my first birds from Daryl in 1983 for 5 bucks a bird. The birds that I got weren't the best that he had but they did produce some descent birds for a novice with my experience. These birds were barely comparable to the birds I have today in many aspects.

The current family that I am working with came to me by way of an older lady friend by the name of Illean Aadlad also of the Redding area.  These birds were descendants are from the Late Great Paul Bradford of Utah. Illean gave me a pair of these Bradford birds when I was going back to get some of my old line birds I had left with for safe keeping while I was working out of state.

I did not now it at the time but Dave Henderson and Carl Schoelkopf had also got some of the same related birds from Ray Parker whom had gotten them from a fancier in Sacramento that was holding birds from Dave Henderson while he was serving in the Army.  The fanciers had ended up selling all of Dave’s birds in the local news paper and Ray bought 2 pairs from this ad in the news paper there.

The birds Dave and Carl got would end up creating the currently line that Dave is still working with today.  Dave’s birds are basically a cousin line to the birds I am working with here.

I have known Dave Henderson for close to 30 years as our mothers use to baby sit each others kids when we were little. I have always been impressed with the way Dave has been able to put birds together year after year and continue to produce high quality rollers. His knowledge of rollers has been a valuable asset to many and will be for a long time to come.  I can attribute a lot of my success in raising rollers today my best friend Dave Henderson’s influence.  We have developed a love and common bond through the years and together we have been able to develop an outstanding line of pigeons. 

Over the past 5 years Dave and I have worked very close with the birds and we have developed a family of birds we are very proud of.  This family is very competitive at the local and National levels. 

If you ever walked into either Dave’s or my loft you would see just how alike our birds are, it’s no wonder as our birds all stem from the same genetics.  Except for the fact that my birds tend to be more dark checks and black Dave has a lot more recessive red in his birds but the characteristics are virtually identical. 

            Dave and I at the NBRC Convention in San Jose, CA in 2002   

I am kind of new to this website stuff so check back periodically as I will be updating from time to time.

Enjoy and Keep’m flying

Joe Urbon

                                                          Visitors Since 2003                                        

Breeding to keep the integrity of today's rollers

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