The Hill Family Loft was founded in 2004 by twelve original pigeons. Seven of those birds are still present in the breeding stock of the loft. Most of the birds are from Doo Drop Inn Loft of Vern Crawley of Durango Colorado. He spares no expense to bring in the best birds possible. The bloodlines are futurity tested and result selected. A few select birds have been added to the colony, some from Vern and a few from other sources.
The Hill Family of Birds is a performance family of racing pigeons based around some of the best futurity bloodlines along with bloodlines from Belgium and the Netherlands. The pedigrees have many of the greats, with Janssen birds establishing the base of this family. We have attempted to obtain the best birds available. Our attempt is to selectively breed a family of high performing birds with great conformation and pedigrees. The following key birds along with their top offspring are the foundation of our loft.
“Cutie Pie” -DOO DROP INN LOFT 107 & “Big Bertha” – DOO DROP LOFT 131
These hens have excellent bloodlines and are granddaughters to “The Miller Cock”. They are full sisters to Vern Crawley’s AHPI 1639 2004 who finished 15th Vegas Crapshoot 2005. Their lineage traces back on the sire side to; Victor Miller’s "Almost Perfect" and "Joseys Doll", Peit Valk's "Beauty", "De Prins" the brother of “Van Moorsel” and "De Prinses", the sire and dam of the famous “De Gouden 14”. "Almost Perfect" is the son of "De Soest” and "t. Wonder van Bergen" the granddaughter of the “Verbart 46”. They are sire and dam to many famous birds and the great foundation to the futurity winning birds of Victor Miller. The Dam side reflects Bob Kinney of Silveredo Loft’s best birds and futurity winners. These include "Dark Viper" and "Blue Star" breeders to many winners and notable futurity winners.
“Ed” – AHPI 1636 & “Ms N” -DOO DROP INN LOFT 136
Both the sire and dam of these birds are line-breed descendents of Victor Millers Wonder Millers. The sire IHC 7090 is a son of “Davids Perfection” and many of the famous Wonder Miller birds crossed with Jos Thone’s “Ace” -BELG 5010022, the 2nd Ace Provisional winner in 1994. The dam OK STATE 253 is a grad daughter of “Almost Perfect” and “Joseys Doll” crossed with Vic Miller’s “Wonder Cock” blood. Other notables in this bloodline are “Mr. Perfect”, “Joseys Pride”, and “De 5000”, one of the last daughters of “Shone Vos”.
“Marauder” -DOO DROP INN LOFT 267
Her sire is also IHC 7090, a son of “David’s Perfection” and many of the famous Wonder Miller birds crossed with Jos Thone’s “Ace” -BELG 5010022, the 2nd Ace Provisional winner in 1994. The Dam to this bird is from Scott McCallister’s futurity winning family and a daughter to his $54,000 Snowbird winner in 2001.
"Buzz" and "Marauder"
“Tiger” -DOO DROP INN LOFT 135
“Tiger” comes from two CBS birds CBS 993 and CBS 4103. These birds are off imports from the famous Flor Engels of Belgium. One of these imports, BELG 6532168, is a son of “De Dikke” –BELG 6237584, one of the foundation breeders and winners of Flor Engels. All these birds are direct descendents of the great “Den 31”. “Tiger” is full brother to the 2nd place bird 200 miles in the 2004 Colorado Gold Rush.
"Tiger" and "Big Bertha"
“Lucky” -DOO DROP INN LOFT 265
“Lucky” is the grandson of “Ikon” -NL 9323197, the 1st National Ace Pigeon Middle Distance N.P.O., all Holland and 1st World Champion Versele-Laga. He is also the gandson of “Magic Star” –NL 1879385, the 4th National Ace Pigeon All Holland N.P.O. winning 7 x 1st. His grand dam is “My Girl” –NL 1360795 also 4th National Ace Pigeon All Holland and winner of numerous prizes. Lastly his other grand dam is “Lady Luck” –BELG 2357450, who bred the 1st Middle Distance National Ace Pigeon KBDB all Belgium in 1999. His sire and dam are the best from Mike Ganus at GFL.
"Lucky" and "Ms N"
“Kahuna” -DOO DROP INN LOFT 186
“Kahuna” is from the best of the Janssen and Delbar Lines. His sire -NR 2252 99 is from Chris Peeman & Sons Delbar cock “The Wolf” who sired Sonja the 7th finisher in the IF convention race 2001. “The Wolf” is also the Grandsire of the “ $15,000 cock”. -NR 2252 99 is also down from De Klak’s “De Turbo” and birds from Henk Van Boxtel. “Kahuna’s” Dam –AU WRPC 984 98 is from Vern Clausen’s Janssens. She is down from Merckx Janssens and the best Calia Janssens from Sonny Scott.
"Kahuna"
“Charlotte” -DOO DROP INN LOFT 140
“Charlotte” is a beautiful Janssen hen down from four direct Janssen Brother birds owned by Mike Ganus. These include “The Producer” –BELG 6559735, “Sapphire” -BELG 6317397, “Red Fox” –BELG 6366630, and “Brightness” BELG 6317423. This line has many of the Janssen’s most famous birds. A few of the notables are “019”, “Schoon Lichten”, “Old Lichten”, “Old Voske’ 93”, and “Bange”.
"Boom" B 6470351 - 00
"Boom" was recently purchased at auction. She is a daughter of "Virenque", the 1st National Bourges winner in 1999 against 13,118 pigeons for Eric Berkmoes of Belgium. She is of the bloodline of Albert Marcelis. She is an older hen but I hope to get some foundation breeders off her in the next few years.
"801" AU 06 LCC 801 x "The First Laidy" IF 04 YORK 836
These birds were on Loan for the 2009 breeding season from Mark Raymond "Ace In The Hole" Loft along with an "801" daughter. I liked the results I was seeing. AU FM 7732 off of "801" was my second best young bird in 09. We had four top 10% finishes out of the four birds flown. I stocked a few off of "801" and they showed good results in 2010 also with an equal 1st race win by 7 minutes at 250 miles and five more top 10% finishes out of 8 birds raced. More of this blood has been stocked to cross for 2011 young birds. "801" is out of the best David Clausing's Houbens. York 836 is out of "President" blood from "Smith Family Loft".