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Thanks
for dropping by . . . My name is Scott L. Sharp,
from Dundee, Scotland. I have a great hobby of which
I would like to share with everyone worldwide who
share the same interest as myself. Please take a
look around my website and take a moment to sign my
guestbook.
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Because of this great hobby, I have met and
acquainted some wonderful people around the world. I
keep and breed Fancy Pigeons, mainly Tumblers and
Croppers. Nowadays, distance is no object in
reaching out to people in faraway places. Also
meeting new and old friends. Useful information is
always at hand when we need it by just a few clicks
of a button. The influx and innovation of new
technologies has made these things possible. The
Internet is a great modern-day tool of
communication, which makes our world smaller and
everyone easier to reach. Here I am into this world
of modern technology with my very own website.
I
built this page with friends in mind to share with
them the enjoyment of keeping and breeding pigeons.
Also I would love to show you guys some photos of my
pigeons. There might be some fellow breeders out
there who have some good and useful ideas and
suggestions on how best to improve the quality of
our pigeons. But before you visit my photo gallery,
know a little about me, how I got started into the
pigeon hobby and my achievements so far in the
pigeon world. My awareness of pigeons started when I
was a lad.
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My
father introduced me to the pigeon world. He kept
many breeds of fancy pigeons. He bought me my first
2 pairs of English Short Faced Tumblers from George
Robertson of Alva , Scotland , who was then secretary of
the Scottish Tumbler Club. George also gave me a
loan of an almond cock for my first breeding season
Like everyone else new to this breed, I had problems
in raising youngsters. Heartaches and frustration
did not put me off breeding the ESF Tumbler. Each
year I did manage to breed a few. Then my first
breakthrough came in 1965 when I bred an excellent
almond hen. She went on to become my first NPA
Champion and the foundation hen of a long stream of
almonds which became NPA champions over the years.
Baldheads from
America
In
1991, my wife and I were on holiday in Florida and while there
we
visited Jim Zerbo. I bought some yellow ESF from
him. Unfortunately, I never did manage to breed any
pure youngsters from Jim's birds. Something would
happen to the eggs or youngsters when things seemed
to be promising. So in desperation not to lose the
good points in the Zerbo birds, I mated them with my
own strain and things began to click! I also bred
ESF Baldheads for a number of years. My first
Baldheads came from Mr van der Zanden, a Dutch
breeder who had imported some Baldheads from America some years before then. These
Balds I obtained were of good colours and nicely
marked, but were down-faced. Having in mind to get
rid of the down-faced quality, I crossed them into
my red and yellow selfs, but there were many
problems. Obviously the markings went for a few
generations, but the biggest problem were the bull
eyes that cropped up in a high percentage of the
youngsters. Through trial and error, a lot of
perseverance and a lot of culling, I finally did
manage to breed some useful Baldheads with good beak
settings and markings. As the Balds were taking up a
lot of loft space, I decided to dispose of them all
a few years ago. Today I breed almonds, kites, reds,
yellows, deroys, duns and agates in the ESF
Tumblers.
 Over
the years I have bred over 50 ESF Tumblers that have
become full NPA champions in all colours. Birds from
my stud are now in various countries around the
world, such as Australia , Germany , Holland
, Portugal
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France , Iceland , India , Canada and America . My
other loves in the pigeon world are LF Tumblers and
Norwich Croppers. I have bred Norwich Croppers for
over 25 years. My stock came from the top Norwich breeders in Holland
and Germany
, namely Jan Grijsen, Jan Jacobs and Bennie Kleine
from Holland and Thomas Voss from Germany . I
breed
Norwich in Mealy, Cream and
Brown Bars, Black and White.
I have won many top awards with
my Norwich over the years, including best bird in
show at the BPSS Doncaster in 2001 with a young
White hen. As I am now retired from work and taking
more holidays, it is very difficult to get someone
to look after my birds while I am away. I am lucky
that I have a very good neighbour who does a great
job in feeding them for me, but as Norwich take a
lot of extra care I didn't think it fair that I
burden her with all the extra work. So I reluctantly
decided to dispose of all my Norwich earlier this
year. But as I do like some form of Blowers, I now
have a very select stud of Black Voorburg Shield
Croppers, which I bought in Germany last year.
I have also had the honour and pleasure to judge at
the Los Angeles Pageant of Pigeons on numerous
occasions, the US National and the Australian
National four times.
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In
2000, I was very honoured to be asked once again to
judge at the Australian National. I looked forward
to that trip, knowing I would be meeting up with the
many friends I made the last time I
was Down Under. I was awarded the Master Breeder
Certificate from the ESFT Club and in 1993, the NPA
Master Breeder Award for English Short Faced
Tumblers. In 2000 I was awarded the Hall of Fame
Award by the NPA, their most prestigious award. At
present I am the chairman of both the Scottish
Tumbler Club and the Scottish Blower Club, having
been secretary/treasurer of both for 19 years;
chairman of the English Short Faced Tumbler Club
(UK), and member of the United Kingdom Norwich
Cropper Club, the East of Scotland Fancy Pigeon
Society, the Australian Tumbler Club and the Eastern
Pouter and Cropper Club of Australia. I hope you
enjoy visiting and reading my web site! Suggestions
and comments are most welcome. Please feel free to
express them by signing my guest book or by sending
me an email. Please take time to look at my photo
gallery, where I have also placed a few of my
Norwich Croppers. I will be adding to these photos
when this year’s youngsters have completed their
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