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Auction 60517
NANEZ: 2791:BEAUTIFUL INBRED 'CONSTANS' GRIZZLE COCK: DAM-1ST 200M, 1ST 300M !
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Nanez Family Loft


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Currently: $426.00   First bid: $1.00
Quantity: 1   Bid Increment: $25.00
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Seller (rating): quechevere (160)   Auction Status: CLOSED
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Auction Start: 02/13/2017 / 11:41 PM PDT  
Auction End: 02/19/2017 / 06:00 PM PDT  
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INBRED CONSTANS: GRIZZLE COCK

COCK: NEVER FLOWN-NEVER BRED

SIRE: “CONSTANBLANCA”; SIRE TO 2ND O'ALL ACE ALL GRIZZLE ONE-LOFT OKC, OK. DIRECT FROM KLAAS SUPER-BREEDER "CONSTANS": RESPONSIBLE FOR 300+ TOP TEN POSITIONS IN SPECIALS. DAM IS SISTER TO 6TH AU HOF. SHE HAS BRED THREE TOP TEN PRIZE-WINNERS FOR US IN SPECIALS.

DAM: “SPECKLED ACE”; THIS HEN WAS 2ND OVERALL HIGH POINT BIRD IN THE ALL GRIZZLE ONE-LOFT OKC, OK. SHE WAS 1ST 200M., 1ST 300M. HER DAM WAS A TOP PERFORMER ALSO. HER SIRE IS DIRECT FROM "CONSTANS" RESPONSIBLE FOR AT LEAST 300 TOP TEN POSITIONS IN SPECIALS.

SPECIAL NOTE:           

 

DUE TO MULTIPLE HEALTH ISSUES AND  IMPENDING MAJOR SURGERY, WE ARE FORCED TO MAKE AVAILABLE MOST OF OUR BIRDS. AFTER YEARS OF AVERAGING 16-18 HOURS PER DAY, MY CARCASS IS NOT AS RESILIENT AS IT USE TO BE.

 

AT TIMES, EMPLOYEES HAVE CARRIED UP TO 200 HOURS PER WEEK IN ADDITION TO MY LONG HOURS. FOR THE MOST PART, WE HAVE BEEN WITHOUT THAT HELP FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS NOW. WE’VE WHITTLED THE FLOCK DOWN FROM AROUND 3,000 AT ITS APEX TO APPROXIMATELY 1100 AT PRESENT. WE SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE AVAILABLE TO US A POOL OF POTENTIAL WORKERS IN THIS SPARSELY-POPULATED NECK OF THE NORTHWOODS IN ORDER TO CARRY ON THE WORK AT THIS PACE AND ON THIS SCALE.

 

OUR PURPOSE AND DREAM FOR UTILIZING THE BREEDING STATION FOR THE SAKE OF FUNDING HUMANITARIAN & MISSIONS WORKS HAS BEEN REALIZED TO A GOODLY DEGREE OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE STRIVED TO MEET OUR PERSONAL QUOTA OF PROVIDING 600 BIRDS PER YEAR FOR BEGINNERS, TRAGEDY /DISASTER-CASES AND FOR CLUB/COMBINE FUND-RAISING AUCTIONS. ALL OF THESE WILL, BY NECESSITY, BE CURBED IN THE MONTHS/YEARS TO COME. YOU CAN PERHAPS IMAGINE THE EFFORT IT TAKES TO RAISE AN EXTRA 800 LATE-HATCHES PER YEAR IN ORDER TO PICK OUT 600 NICE ONES TO GIFT AND SHIP.  WE HAVE GARNERED AN ENORMOUS MEASURE OF JOY FROM BEING INVOLVED IN THE SPORT AS SUCH; BUT, ARE FINDING IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTINUE AT THIS PACE.

 

AT VARIOUS JUNCTURES OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, I’VE MADE MENTION OF THE DESIRE TO GET BACK TO WRITING & PUBLISHING, TO BE ABLE TO INVEST MY LIFE IN THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE OF OUR COMMUNITY, TO VISIT HUMANITARIAN & MISSIONS WORKS WE’VE INAUGURATED IN OUR ‘FORMER LIVES.’ EACH TIME I’VE GATHERED THE GUMPTION TO TAKE SUCH A STEP BY REDUCING THE FLOCK, WE’VE BEEN MET WITH NEW CHALLENGES AND FOUND OURSELVES WITH EVEN LESS HELP THAN BEFORE—POSTPONING OUR STRIDES FORWARD. AFTER HAVING MENTIONED OUR PLAN TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE OUR BREEDING PROGRAM- AT LEAST 4 OR 5 TIMES OVER THE PAST 3 YEARS, IT HAS ALMOST BEGUN TO SOUND LIKE A SALES- GIMMICK OR TECHNIQUE, AGAINST WHICH I AM VIOLENTLY OPPOSED.

 

SOME FEEL PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED IN ‘GOING OUT OF BUSINESS’ ONCE A LEAP-YEAR; I HOWEVER, CANNOT AND WILL NOT PLAY SUCH GAMES AND SLING AROUND SUCH SEMANTICS.

 

AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, OUR BIRDS HAVE MADE A FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE SPORT OVER THE LAST 5-6 YEARS. WE’VE HAD REPORTS OF OVER 3,500 TOP PRIZES WON FROM OUR STOCK JUST SINCE 2011. ALMOST 700 OF THOSE HAVE BEEN SECURED IN THE REALM OF ONE-LOFT RACING. TO A GOODLY DEGREE, THESE RESULTS HAVE TRICKLRD DOWN FROM A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF KEY PIGEONS. IN 2008-2009, WE PURCHASED 1,500 BIRDS FROM THE TOP PAIRS OF APPROXIMATELY 225 DIFFERENT LOFTS. WITHIN 24 MONTHS THEREAFTER, WE HAD GIVEN AWAY OR ELIMINATED THE MAJORITY OF THESE. AS THE DUST SETTLED, WE HAD RETAINED 60 FROM THE ORIGINAL CONGLOMERATION. THESE HAVE BEEN AND ARE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR LOFTS.

 

NOW, LEST I BE MISUNDERSTOOD, IT’S IMPORTANT THAT THE FOLLOWING BE MADE CLEAR: 1) WE ARE MAKING AVAILABLE EVERY BIRD WE OWN OTHER THAN OUR FRIEND ‘IRON-CLAD’. 2) THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE ARE GETTING RID OF EVERYTHING EXCEPT ONE BIRD. 3) IF WE CAN SELL MOST OF OUR BIRDS, WE WILL STOP THE HEMORRHAGING AT AROUND 250 BIRDS AND WORK WITH WHAT IS LEFT. 4) JUST BECAUSE WE ARE MAKING MOST OF OUR BIRDS AVAILABLE DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE  HAVING A CLASSICAL K-MART CLEARANCE SALE AT CLOSE-OUT PRICES.

MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT WE MOST OFTEN MAKE   AVAILABLE, BIRDS FROM OUR VERY BEST ON POPULAR WEBSITES STARTING AT $1.  I DON'T THINK THAT THERE ARE OTHERS OUT THERE WHO OFFER BIRDS STARTING AT A BUCK, FROM THEIR BEST BREEDERS THAT ARE CURRENTLY PRODUCING WINNERS OF SIGNIFICANT MONEY RACES. WE WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO OFFER BIRDS AS SUCH. HOWEVER, WHEN YOU E-MAIL US WITH A REQUEST, REGULAR PRICES WILL  APPLY. AGAIN, AS MOST KNOW, WE ARE ALWAYS WILLING TO WORK WITH YOUR BUDGET- BUT, PLEASE DO NOT BE OFFENDED IF YOU ARE NOT OFFERED BARGAIN-BIN PRICES.

 

DO LET US KNOW IF YOU WISH TO PURCHASE A LARGE GROUP AND WE WILL, OF COURSE, BE KIND WITH SIGNIFICANT DISCOUNTS.

 

PLEASE DO NOT WRITE SAYING YOU ARE A BEGINNER IF YOU HAVE BEEN FLYING ONE-LOFT RACES AS LONG AS WE HAVE. THIS IS UNBECOMING OF A PIGEONEER.

 

WE WILL HAVE A TRUNCATED BREEDING SEASON THIS YEAR DUE TO THE UNCERTAIN NATURE OF MY SURGERY, RECOVERY TIME AND OTHER HEALTH MATTERS. WE WILL RAISE BIRDS FOR ONE-LOFTS AND BREED SOME TO OFFER FOR STOCK. SO, DO NOT BE OFFENDED OR SUSPICIOUS WHEN YOU SEE WE REMAIN IN THE SPORT. WE HAVE DEAR FRIENDS AND PRECIOUS PROJECTS THAT WE STILL NEED TO FUND- SO, WE ARE NOT ‘GIVING UP THE GHOST’; RATHER, WE ARE TRYING TO CUT BACK DRASTICALLY SO THAT I WILL NOT SUCCUMB TO BECOMING A MERE GHOST RATTLING AROUND WITH A SCRAPER IN MY HAND AT 2:00 IN THE MORNING!

 

PLEASE E-MAIL WITH YOUR REQUESTS. IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE AT PRESENT TO EVEN  ANSWER THE 20-25 CALLS A DAY. SO, PLEASE

E-MAIL:  NANEZNEWS@YAHOO.COM

*WE DO NOT HAVE SPECIFIC SALES LISTS, CATALOGS OF PICTURES OR READY-MADE PEDIGREES OF 1000 BIRDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.

 

 

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS AS WE NAVIGATE THESE UNCERTAIN PATHS.

NANEZ FAMILY LOFTS: IN THE TOP TEN OF ONE-LOFT RACES 350 TIMES IN FIVE YEARS!



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