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Don’t confuse the price of an animal with its value. Let me explain:
You get the chance to buy a Rabbit for £10. You take it home, mate it to your does, and get a load of rubbish you have wasted £10.

I get a message that a breeder in Holland has a buck for sale which I know will blend into my line, I buy him for £200 and I get 20 good young ones from him, that works out at £10 each – That’s value!

I was a successful Pigeon Racer before I started with Rabbits. We had a saying in the old days: ‘Don’t just buy Pigeons – buy the man’
Let me explain:
A top flyer in the next village was approached by a friend of mine who wanted to buy 10 youngsters from him, the good fancier said ok, by chance he was coming to our village the next day, so he said he would deliver them, my friend took the delivery and started to race them, and race them, and race them.
For 2 years he raced them and never won a prize.
Let me explain:
My friend should have:

- Visited the top flyers shed
- Found out what corn the good flyer used
- Asked about the good flyers training method
- Asked how the good fancier conditioned the birds.
- Saw how the good flyer sent the birds.

(eg) Sitting, Feeding Small Young, Feeding Big Young, Widowhood, Roundbout, Darkness system.

Simple use the same rule with Rabbits!

My Sheds are a bit Ramshackle, but we have over 100 youngsters running around, this means that my stock are happy and producing well.

30 years ago my Dad and I won a Big Pigeon race, a reporter was sent from the Pigeon Magazine to do a write up on the performance.

The reporter bloke stood for ages looking into the shed.
He then put pen to paper and wrote something to the effect will not describe the loft in detail, not many dovetail joints to be seen, Father told him to go away, we sent the Bird to the race, not the shed!