Author: David

Below is a partial list of what I have for sale in 2017. All should be old enough for breeding in 2018. Most are 2017 hatches with a few exceptions.

Sylvan Izzy – SOLD

AU 2011 GHC 12727: $450

A daughter of the Legendary Ugly Bastard. Bred and raced by John Marles

Breeding record includes: In 2015 Izzy bred a hen GHC 7856 who was as YB: 21st vs. 2007b. 200 miles (1%) | 91st vs. 1615b. 350 miles (5%) | 75th vs. 1310b. 120 miles (6%) | 118th vs. 1250b. 120 miles (9%) | Then in 2016 OB she was: 9th vs. 1295b 120 miles (1%) | 52nd vs. 2119b 200 miles (2%) | 9th vs. 1128b. 120 miles (1%) Izzy bred Kastle 1641, a money winner in the Dixie Convention and Kastle 1646 who was a survivor of the Apple Cup finishing 11th place in the final 350 mile race. Sylvan Izzy is loaded with the greats and is line bred back to the world class Kleinen SEVEN TIMES!

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Just Makin It – SOLD

2011 AU FSI 1166: $600

Son of the Magic Pair, AU Registered Champion

Breeder of 6th place Grain Belt Convention Race 2016

Breeder of Just In, who was 14th (eq 1st) Plymouth Peak OLR 325 mile final race and 14th place Avg. Speed. He has also bred winners at the club level and a money winner in the 2015 Dixie Convention Race: 32nd vs. 228b @ 300m with Kastle 1531 who as a yearling won 9th Combine vs. 693b. 100m | 42nd Combine vs. 639b. 160m. Just Makin It is Grandsire to 2nd vs 79b @ 250 miles BOW Challenge.

Extremely tame, perfect physical specimen.

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Exchange Rate SOLD

GB 14 C 30138: $600

Bred by Mark Evans, double Shadow

She bred 2nd Champion birds in my club winning a 1st, 2nd and 3rd in 2015. Another daughter with another cock raced well for Jim Combs in North Carolina finishing in the top 15% on the 250m. and 300 m. Bred Kastle 1601 who was 4th @200 119b. and 5th @ 300 57b. in the Banks of Wabash Challenge. Two times in the money. Exchange Rate is grand dam to GNEO 1992, 6th place combine vs 674b, 100 miles in Ohio. Exchange Rate is a grand daughter of Shadow, Top Investment, Eisenhower and Sissi 264. Loaded with Shadow blood and a good dose of the classic Sissi and Picanol blood.

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Kastle Prizzy BB cock – Pending

2017 AU Kastle 1646: $500

11th place 350 miles in the final Apple Cup OLR

One of very few survivors of a tough series plagued with sickness.

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Perfectizzy BB hen – SOLD

2017 AU Kastle 1791: $300

Son of the Perfect Pair X Izzy

57th Avg. Speed at the 2017 Plymouth Peak OLR

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Kastle 1727 BB cock  SOLD

Einstein X Kastle Black: $750

This bird will test LDHA AB and DRD4 CCCT

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Kastle 1757 BC Recessive Opal Cock

Down from Golden Gaby, Eisenhower, Black National: $2000

KASTLE 1757 bred Kastle Kingsman, who won 20th place (3 min. to win) in the final 350 mile race at the Apple Cup in 2018 (over 900 birds originally entered).

This pigeon will test for the EXTREMELY RARE COMBINATION OF LDHA AA and DRD4 CCCT PLUS the unusual recessive opal color. Just try to find a genetic package like this anywhere. And of course we won’t want to overlook the fact that this family is producing race winners at the distance and under tough conditions.

 

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Kastle 1796 & 1797 BB – SOLD

Full siblings to Danica Need to Know, one of our top hens: $600 each

 

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Kastle 1776 BC Hen & Kastle 1775 BC Hen  – **SOLD**

Koopman X Evans Gaby cross: $900 ea.

These birds will test for the EXTREMELY RARE LDHA AA and DRD4 CCCT.

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Kastle 1737 BB hen – SOLD

Just Makin It X Kastle Gold: $450

From an AU Registered Champion mated to an imported direct child of Golden Gaby X Davina.

These are clearly good for 350 miles as young birds. 1737 is a full sister to 6th place Grain Belt Convention Race (340 miles) 2016. Also full sister to Just In, who was 14th (eq 1st) Plymouth Peak OLR 325 mile final race and 14th place Avg. Speed.

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Kastle 1736 BC cock – SOLD

Just Makin It X Kastle Gold: $450

From an AU Registered Champion mated to an imported direct child of Golden Gaby X Davina.

These are clearly good for 350 miles as young birds. 1736 is a full brother to 6th place Grain Belt Convention Race (340 miles) 2016. Also full brother to Just In, who was 14th (eq 1st) Plymouth Peak OLR 325 mile final race and 14th place Avg. Speed.

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Kastle 1419 BC cock – SOLD

Einstein X Lovely Rita: $450

From my race team and from two proven breeders of racers and breeders. 1419 is LDHA-AB

I received my two birds from Rick Mee’s Apple Cup Yearling Classic last week. I have to give major props to him for a great race series and conditioning of the birds. My birds came back with such great muscle and silky feathers. I entered three birds last year in his race. It was only the second OLR I’ve ever entered. One bird was lost off the loft in the early months, but two of them raced and completed the entire series against the top lofts in the USA. Some flyers had entered 18-20 birds in this race!

These were some tough conditions with a mix of cross winds, head winds and heat. Right Turn Clyde finished in the money (27th Average Speed) but Amazeballs came in too late to finish high enough for money. Still happy she toughed it out and made it home.

Right Turn Clyde is out of my Koopman pair (my only pair like this) and is line bred to Kenny’s Girl (Protege Loft) and Witoger 720 (also Protege Loft). Amazeballs is actually a niece to Right Turn Clyde and is a cross with my Koopman’s and Evans Gaby’s via the Wicked Pair.

Thanks for the fun and entertainment, Rick, and I’ll be sure to enter again!

AU 13 Kastle 1396, dubbed “Mr. Kastle” by Donald Campbell, has returned to his birth loft where he will breed for the next few years. He was sent to Don as a baby to race in the IHC club in Cleveland where he built a very good record with a limited young bird and old bird season. Turns out, he’s proven to be a great breeder, too. That M&D Evans Shadow blood just keeps producing winners generation after generation. Mr. Kastle is 100% M&D Evans and a grandson of Eisenhower x Joint Venture with additional doses of superb genetics from Golden Gaby, Carrie, and Queen of Diamonds.

And now that I’ve had the chance to have father and son next to each other and I’m amazed at how similar they are. This is my goal: line breed from the producers and try to make clones that perform as the parents and grandparents did. Don has worked tirelessly and applied his talents to my birds and I can’t thank him enough for that and for letting me “borrow” Mr. Kastle for a while.

1396 Racing Results:

As a Young Bird:
11th vs. 443b. 100 miles (3%)
8th vs. 545b. 100 miles (2%)
33rd vs. 357b 175 miles (9%)
30th vs. 275b 100 miles (11%)

As an Old Bird:
4th ACE bird ABC Combine & Ohio-Penn Fed
6th AU ACE bird Ohio Middle Distance
1st Section, 4th Combine, 70th Fed vs. 1372 b. 96L 300 miles (5%)
34th Combine vs. 407 b. 32L 200 miles (1%)
16th Combine vs. 542b 29L 150miles (3%)
1st Club, 5th Combine vs. 469b 34L 300 miles (1%)

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Results for babies of 1396

AU 14 GNEO 758
1st Combine, 200m., 705b.
29th 300m., 856b. GNEO Race

AU 14 OCR 28
2nd (eq. 1) 200m., 229b.
5th (eq. 1) 200m., 188b.
8th (eq. 1) 175m., 266b.
8th (eq. 1) 100m., 220b.
11th 200m., 178b.
79th 340m., 537b. (Ohio Classic Race)

AU 14 OCR 03
3rd (eq. 1) 100m., 269b.
6th 200m., 197b.
10th (eq.1) 100m., 90b.

It was a nice surprise to find that Mark Evans has featured one of our photos and our story on the “Daily Update” section of his website. Check it out by clicking below.

 

Below you will find photos and descriptions of our M&D Evans pairings for 2015. I will only be raising one extra round from each of them to make available for sale. The rest are being raced here at Kastle Loft and around the country in futurity and One Loft Races. This is a racing loft, not a breeding station, so we do not have much to sell. Because of that, I highly recommend that you place a deposit on any bird that you may want. It is the only way to guarantee getting what you wish.

The prices below will be honored until October of 2015. A $100 deposit will hold a baby for you. With a deposit, I can also put you on a waiting list in case someone backs out. By holding a bird for you, I will not make it available for purchase to anyone else while I feed, medicate and care for it. Therefore, the deposit is non-refundable. If I am not happy with the quality of the birds, I will refund your money or we can apply it to another available bird. I fully expect that the 2015 hatches will be mature for the 2016 breeding season with the exception of Dark Storm young ones. Total balance will need to be paid before I ship any birds. All birds must be paid for by the end of 2015 or I will resell the bird. I do not have space to house birds into the next breeding season. If I can determine the gender of a bird or if gender is not requested, I would prefer to ship the bird as soon as possible to get them acclimated in their new home. Please be prepared to pay the balance due when the bird is approximately 6 weeks old. You will be notified well in advance of that date. All birds will be vaccinated with PMV and KM-1.

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The Florida Pair

New pairing for 2015. I call them my Florida Pair, as both of them have raced in the GHC and/or FSI.

Cock: AU 11 FSI 1166 “Makin’ It” – He is an AU Registered Champion having raced in the GHC for John Marles against very tough competition. He is line bred to the Perfect Cock, the product of an uncle x niece mating. A very high percentage of his siblings are equally good or better racers, as are his cousins, etc. Perhaps even more important, his siblings are breeding equally successful racers at high percentages. This tells me that this line is potent for racing and breeding, so my odds of reproducing the same are in my favor. To boot, he is a physically perfect specimen.

Hen: AU 12 GHC 1947 “Lucy in the Sky“- She is also a successful racer having also competed in very tough competition in the GHC and FSI for John Weeks. Four siblings in the same year scored and a sister was 14th Champion YB GHC club. She has proven herself to be statistically my best hen as a breeder so far. She has bred multiple outright club and combine winners and money winners for me and for others and multiple ACE birds while being mated to two different cocks. Her children are breeding winners against 200-700 birds. She shares the same blood as the cock mentioned above (1166).

They both have performance. Their siblings and successive generations have high performances. They are both line bred, although the hen a little more lightly than the cock. The hen is a proven breeder. They both are nearly identical in physical qualities. I have a hard time telling the two apart.

My expectations are, based on both performance and fairly tight genetics, is that they will breed clones of themselves. Check back with me in November and we shall find out! Children from this pair are $500 each. (SOLD: Randy Parker -h, SOLD: Jay Holder -c). Update: A third baby has become available.

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The Kastle Black Pair

This pair should produce some great racers, especially in the headwinds. Check out the results of First Drop Don, who was raced by Don Campbell of the IHC club in Cleveland. This bird was on the first drop of every race he was in, including a fifth race at 175 miles when Don had a clock malfunction and lost the race.

Also extremely noteworthy is the hen, Kastle Black, who is the ONLY daughter of Black National in North America. (A son of Black National will be joining Kastle Loft later this year – co-owned by Kastle Loft and Pressing On Loft – see below. These are the ONLY children of Black National in North America!). Black National was a fantastic and accomplished racer in headwinds for Les Morris in the UK before being bought by Mark Evans. Black National is already breeding winners. Their babies so far have been very consistent in their size and conformation. They are medium in size and very strong with nice chest size. Two children available from this pair and are $800 each. (SOLD: Rosario Loft, SOLD: Rino Truglio -c).

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The Wicked Pair

Of course let’s not forget this pair. They were easily the best producers of 2014, including “First Drop Don” you see above. Just check out those results from their babies above. Wicked Strong is a grandson of Shadow and has Shadow in his pedigree 3 times. The Need to Know hen is a stunning grand daughter of Pre-Olympic, Lady of the Rings, Davina and Lord of the Rings. The babies are generally medium to medium-large and are very strong. The will be blue bars, blue checks or dark checks. I had a couple of white flights pop up this year. Children from this pair are $500. (TWO SOLD: Randy Parker -h,h).

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Pair 1

I’m very excited about this pair of imports. Einstein has proven through two generations to produce winners, Ace birds on up through to the Federation level. His children are already producing winners and a 2nd AU ACE Ohio. He is one of the last babies to ever be sold from Myrtle Loft’s #1 breeder Eisenhower. I can count on one hand the number of children off Eisenhower in the U.S.

The hen of this pair, Kastle Gold is one of the very last children of Golden Gaby to be sold by Mark Evans. Golden Gaby has proven to be a fantastic breeder at the highest levels and down through many generations. Mark Evans has declared that he will no longer be selling children from Golden Gaby, so I feel very fortunate to get one of the last. Kastle Gold, whose dam is the world-class Davina, is ridiculously strong and fierce and for quite a while I thought she was a cock. Children from this pair will be full of strength and vigor.  A burly blue check cock from this pair is available at $800 (SOLD – Ralph Buran). 

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Impeckable Pair

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Impeckable (11 AU GHC 12732), a proven breeding son of the Perfect Pair and bred by John Marles, has joined the 2015 breeding season at Kastle Loft. This cock is a son of the Perfect Cock and grandson of Shadow. He is mated to Exchange Rate (14 GB C 300138) who is a grand daughter of Shadow and also a grand daughter of Eisenhower. These babies will be line bred to Shadow. They are small to medium, very streamlined and look like little missiles. They have had perfect performances in young bird racing for me this year so far. Children from this pair are $500. (TWO ARE AVAILABLE)

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Blue Billy Pair

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Blue Billy Shears, a proven breeder and a double great-grandsons of Champion Shadow. He is mated to Michelle My Belle, a darling little hen who is inbred to the famous Rolls Royce. They have proven to breed very determined birds which are frequently first to the loft. They will be blue bars on the small to medium size and very intelligent. Children from this pair are $300. (ONE IS SOLD, ONE IS AVAILABLE)

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Mosaics

I have one or two recessive opal birds (also called mosaics to the Brits and racing pigeons folks) that will be available. They will have the blood of Shadow, Eisenhower, Jester, Carrie, Lady Spirit, 90 Cock, Golden Gaby, Joint Venture, etc. Then hen of the pair is Dear Prudence (pictured). The cock will either be a son of Kastle Einstein (from Pair 1) or a cock that is a product of Golden Gaby x Lady Bliksem and the 90 Cock x Lady Spirit. Mosaic babies are $400. (ONE IS SOLD, ONE CHECK WF HEN IS AVAILABLE)

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Dark Storm

Last but not least, this fantastic son of Black National, co-owned by Kastle Loft and Pressing On Loft, will arrive in the U.S. in time to breed a couple of late hatches in 2015. Please inquire as to availability, pricing and pairings. There are only two children of Black National in North America and we have them both! These babies will be hatched in late summer, so I cannot guarantee sexual maturity by Jan. 1. (SOLD: Wayne Jackson. SOLD: Rino Truglio. More are available as he will be mated to multiple hens.)

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New to Kastle Loft for 2015 is Kastle Black. She is a direct daughter and the only direct child of Black National in the U.S.

This super racer for Les Morris and now owned by Mark and Dick Evans, contains the best Vandenabeele bloodlines of M & D. Evans at Myrtle Lofts crossed with Vandenabeele bloodlines from Rik Cools of Belgium. In the pedigree of Black National you can see many outstanding top performance racers and breeders including the super De Blauwe Gaby 103 from Koen Minderhoud, who is in the pedigree three times. Also you’ll find the world-famous De Wittenbuik B.88.3206112 five times, and De Bijter B.80.3250688 five times, so it is not surprising that Black National is an outstanding performer and already a proven breeder. The dam of Kastle Black is a daughter of another outstanding performance and breeding pigeon, Golden Gaby.

Countless hours over many months along with a great set of birds gave us an enjoyable young bird season this fall. Our club raced 7 races, of which we won 4 of them. Kastle Loft had a great showing in the IHC club with our birds being flown by Don Campbell. And in North Carolina, Jim Combs found success with some of our new Gaby’s in the Tar Heel Race Club Auction race (3rd place with Kastle 1466) and in one of his combine races (4th and 7th place vs. 261 birds with siblings Kastle 1486 and 1487).

In club races, we finished with 4 Firsts, 4 Seconds, 4 Thirds and 4 Fourths as we enjoyed large drops when our birds came in. We also earned Champion Loft and had the top 6 Champion Birds and 9 of the top 10. With Don Campbell racing our birds, we had multiple diplomas, multiple equal firsts. But the most impressive stat came with the OCR race. We sent Don 4 birds in April. All four birds raced in regular club races earning diplomas and equal firsts. All four birds clocked in the OCR race. We finished 2nd (eq. 1), 4th, and 14th out of 537b and 47 lofts at 340 miles. We had two birds qualify for AU ACE status.

We have removed the under-performing breeder birds from out team and have replaced them with a spectacular set of imports from Mark Evans and one Registered AU Champion flown by John Marles out of his Magic Pair and line bred to the Perfect Pair. We are bringing in a direct child of the World-class Golden Gaby when mated to Davina. This is one of THE last birds to ever be sold out of Golden Gaby, according to Mark Evans. We have also acquired a direct daughter of Black National, a very accomplished racer for Les Morris and in head wind racing. Another import, a grand daughter of Shadow x Top Investment and Eisenhower, will also be joining our stable of fantastic hens.

Our last addition to our breeding team will be a direct daughter of the impeccable and potent Perfect Cock (son of Shadow) and the Ugly Bastard (daughter of Golden Gaby).

In April, 2014, we collected a group of dark check squeakers in Don’s loft and shot a quick group photo of them. Little did we know what kind of results they would collect during their young bird season! They are 4th and 5th generation down from Shadow.

 

Another old bird season has passed and we had another enjoyable season flying with our friends. We had some very good races and most everyone had good returns all season long.

Not only did we land the #1 Champion Bird position, but also the 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10th positions as well. Most of our birds flew and clocked in most of the races, but our Champion Bird, “Cinco” (12 AU Kastle 05), flew and clocked in every race including the 400 and 500.  “Cinco” is bred from a pair of birds gifted to me from a great northern flyer Ron Woloszyn.

Kastle Loft also earned two 1st place diplomas, two 2nd place diplomas, and three 3rd place diplomas. Complete results can be seen here.