The Right Type is always the Type you like to fly. My A-Team has big birds and small birds. They all spin, the big birds & the small birds can produce nice donut holes. My smaller birds tend to spin faster and my bigger birds have a lot more depth. I like to see birds with a lot of depth in my team.
The main thing to look for in birds is speed in the roll, big or small they must have the speed. If the type looks right but doesn’t have the speed you can’t add it in. Speed first then type second.
My smaller birds tend to have better control & roll 20 to 30 feet. Ruby Roller & Gene Giegoldt lines, all Pedigreed birds.
My larger birds tend to roll 30 to 50 feet. My larger family of birds came from Hector Coya & go back to Bob Scott.
My Pedigree birds from Tony Chavarria at roller-pigeon.com & Gene Giegoldt out of Simi Valley Ca. produce excellent birds.
The smaller birds are the type I feel you should breed for because the average will spin faster. Look at gymnasts or combat air planes, they are on the small side. We are going for the performer so I try to breed that way.
I use to fly Model airplanes all the time and the shorter ones turn a lot faster. I still have U-Control planes. The combat planes are all flying wings, very, very short, my all time favor it is the VooDoo with a Fox 35 and silk on the wings.
We should always try to get new people set up with the current trend of birds and fly a 20 bird Kit. I think all those famous birds in the past were flown with two or three other birds to keep them going and you scored the single bird, not in the 20 bird kit like today. Most fly today in an 11 or 20 bird kit. The club I belong to competes with the 20 bird kit.
New people in the sport don’t usually have the luxury of being able to have 2 or 3 different families of birds, so they should go for current style, smaller birds and try to fly a 20 bird kit.
There is always the exception in birds, some are culls and some are fantastic. Big birds roll fast, small birds roll fast.
Just keep good records and fly what you like to watch in the air.
Robert Miller
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