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The Wickhams were
created by a top South Australian flyer by the
name of Keith Wickham.Keith believed that to
create a good family of birds you needed a good
quality base.He then imported some high quality
birds which started him in creating an unbeatable
strain as we know here in Australia as the
Wickhams. The birds he
imported had either bred winners or were directly
of winning pigeons.These were BCC NEHU36E3086
Havenith/Logan,RCPH NURP38E 449 Gits, MC NURP39
3399 Gits/Bricoux/Sion. BBH NUHW42D 7285
Bricoux/Sion. The havenith Cock was a winner of
the Irish National for the Sharrock Brothers. The
Gits hen was a gift to a Mr.Morgan who won an
endless amount of races with her just before he
sold out to the Sharrock Brothers,who then
presented her to Keith.This was the "Crack
Hen" .
He then purchased from a
J.Howard a RCPH NURP44A3060 Gits/Bricoux/Sion,and
RCC 455322, who was reffered to as "Feather
Legs".
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From E.Bradshaw he
purchased two more birds, BBPH NUR39F2729
Bricoux/Sion and MH NURP39F2877 Bricoux/Sion.
These birds were all proven except for the
"Feather Leg Cock". He inbred an line bred these birds, and
the first year most of them were kept for stock.
The next year he flew all of
the youngsters off the originals.
He soon had success and then
mated the best performing pair out of his team
who were nestmates.
The success from then on was
unbelievable putting Keith Wickham in the top
Ranks of South Australian Flyers.
he won nineteen SAHPA races,
and won the aggregate eight times.He was also in
the list of Top Ten flyers time after time.
Anyone lucky enough to aquire
Wickham Pigeons in Australia have also had great
records in their racing carreers.
Ivan Fonti.
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