WELCOME to THE HEITZMAN SION website where you will get to read about and learn more about Sions than any site in the world. I AM THE SION MAN KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD FOR HIS BEAUTIFUL FAMILY OF LONG DISTANCE RACERS. Please study all of these new photos of my Sions and judge for yourself. Thank you. I hope that you love these new photos which I am using on this update. These are all photos which I took primarily in November, 2023 to show you my new lofts and the new five acres which they are located on. I wanted to show you all the progress which has thus far been made and also the very birds which I will be using as breeders in 2024. As Heitzman always said "The Apple Does Not Fall Far From TheTree." I am trying very hard to make this "SION EMPIRE" a real show place for fanciers and especially my family of Sions which are called THE NO SWEAT SIONS. No person has Sions anything like these. I have devoted my life to them. They are distinctly recognized for their long-known abilities to race long distances and also happen to be the most beautiful racing homers to be found in all the world. I will let your eyes see if that is true! WELCOME---WELCOME to all racing pigeon fanciers and especially every person who loves Sions. After 66 years of breeding pure Sions which I obtained from a man who was much my father, Charles Heitzman, a legend who lived in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, my home state----- I have now bred these Sions for so long that they have become my own family of Sions now known all over the world as the "NO SWEAT SIONS." I like to believe that I have highly honored Charles Heitzman in all that I have accomplished. Today, I remain that one single-individual in who you can trust to have the finest and most pure actual racing Sions in all the world. These are the finest Sions which have ever existed. These are birds just as fine in your hand as they look in photos. Balance, tight vents, closed backs---every small matter which constitutes a champion racing pigeon. Beautiful long distance racers. This has not come about in a short time. Nor has it happened without great expense and devotion. I am an author. My seventh novel was just released. The name of that book is, UNCLE MOSES AND ED HAWKINS. You can buy that novel directly from me or you can go to AMAZON.COM and also locate it there. Again, the novel is titled, UNCLE MOSES AND ED HAWKINS BY NO SWEAT.
About 50 years ago, I began to write under the pen name "NO SWEAT." More people today know me by "NO SWEAT" than they do my acual name. My mail comes to "NO SWEAT." And now these beautiful Sions I have are called the "NO SWEAT SIONS." This is a true family of racing pigeons. Birds owning simialr appearances and line bred back to many of the same champions. I may well be that one last fancier in North America who has developed a family of racing pigeons and in which that family is currently racing among the best in the world at all distances and winning. Especially at longer distances. These Sions are quite beautiful and own much "class." That is quickly seen by anyone who knows racing pigeons. I maintain three main colors of Sions throughout my colony and loft operations: Blue Bars, Silver Bars and Reds. Many of these reds being "brick reds" simila to Heitzman's iconic red cock "OLD 51." I do hope to begin working with black checks as an additional color in 2024 as they have always caught my eye.
I have been working with Sions longer than anyone in history. That includes Paul Sion, his son, Robert, and Charles Heitzman as well. I fell in love with them as a small boy. I believe the first word I ever spoke was "Sion." That love remains to this day -- as I am now an old man in my mid70's. (But still spry!) Every bird I breed is stamped with my name on it. As such I do everything I can to make certain any bird bred by me is of the highest quality. When I leave this old world I want those of you who have my birds to remember me through them. They are very much my legacy. These Sions have been very successful in the best one loft races now in the world, including South Africa and The Victoria Falls, as well as the Hoosier Classic. No other Sions anywhere in the world have even remotely began to have approached the results they have won in these major international races. PLEASE note, that the last time I raced in THE VICTORIA FALLS RACE with a small team of my Sions--I won FIRST BEST TEAM USA with those birds ---Mike Ganus with his HUGE entry, winding up second to me. The first time I raced in The SOUTH AFRICA MILLION DOLLAR RACE I also finished on the last and longest main race AHEAD of A-L-L of Mike Ganus' "famous hybrids."
And in my 2024 breeding season I am using several of these very birds which raced well in those major races as my breeders. They are perfect pigeons in appearances as well as in the hand. They are birds which have won at races which were under 1,000m yards per minute as well as birds which have won racing 2,300 yards a minute. They set long distance records in China winning at 1,000 KM and also at 700 KM, defeating entries of nearly 3,000 birds. These are the same Heitzman Sions which have won at the Teneriffe Island Race where the birds must race over the water. These are the same Sions in which I have year after year trained the YOUNG BIRDS to race back to my lofts from 500, 600 and even 700 air miles. Four times I have taken YOUNG BIRDS 700 air miles down to Florida and have released them. And on every release did in fact get YOUNG BIRDS back. This happens to be WORLD RECORD LONG DISTANCES. And these 700 mile young birds have gone on to be outstanding breeders.
I am thrilled to announce that in 2024 I will have my champion blue bar hen "SUMMERTIME" return-back to my loft from Africa to breed from. Managing to buy her ack has not been easy. And I we all of this to my dear friend "JW" Jennings in North Carolina. She is the same hen which lead ALL of the entire USA ( over 2,000 entries) in Africa in SEVERAL training tosses and races in the Africa series. NO FANCIER IN THE USA WHO ENTERED THE AFRICA RACES HER YEAR COULD BEAT HER! At one point finishing 5th in the entire world out of the original near 10,000 entries. NO SION IN THE PAST FIFTY YEARS HAS ACCOMPLISHED THE INTERNATIONAL RACING RECORDS WHICH SHE DID. "SUMMERTIME" is a beautiful blue bar "NO SWEAT SION" hen, very typical of my family of Sions. I will be using her tremendous blood all throughout my lofts in years to come. Of some note, "Summertime" was my mother's favorite song and I had it played at her funeral.
In my life time I have now taken over 1,600 first places with these Sions at all levels of competition. MY HEITZMAN SIONS website now has had 3.2 million "hits." This just happens to be far More than any pigeon website in the world. A testament to the interest of my family of Sions. Amen. There is not a single a day which passes in which some fancier does not contact me to relay that they just won a race with one of my Sions. I spend many hours every day one way or the other devoted to my birds. Even if I go on a vacation there are fanciers calling and emailing me which I wind up responding to later that eve. If I manage to catch some sleep, I wind up dreaming about Sions. I always try to answer any emails. Emails are the very best way to reach me.
RROBBINS6@JUNO.COM
I should say that this late summer really placed a tough challenge on me with the birds. For 20 years I had had all my lofts on a friend's property. And because of a death in his family it came to pass that I was given a very short notice that I would have to move my entire loft complex some other place. I almost went into shock. Lost much sleep. But as it developed, I wound up buying five acres in the city of Richmond, Kentucky, about two minutes from my home. It could not have been a finer location for me or the birds. I then went about developing this farm land into a "Pigeon paradise."
These five acres are located along a peaceful valley which has a creek and a partial forest. A serene setting which is abundant in wild life and nature. One of the only quiet places left within the city of Richmond, Kentucky where you happen to be in town but feel that you are some how far out in the country. No telephone poles or wires or any communication towers. Nothing but fresh open skies and air. A perfect place for the birds to love. After bringing in heavy equipment to level certain areas of the land I bought two large trucking containers which are 45 feet long and 9.5 feet tall and 8 feet wide. And I moved two of my old lofts which I had been using and also had them transported to the exact places where I wanted them to be positioned on this new property. None of this task easy or cheap. And all done with a great deal of logistical planning and creative thought.
As an old man I was faced with either having to give up my pigeons or go whole hog into them. I wrestled with the ideas of both as when you are in your seventies it is easy to throw up a white flag, retire, give up so many things you once loved. We have all seen so many fanciers bow to this. But I simply could not begin to stop being who I have always been. That boy in love with pigeons. I could never give up my Sions. I knew, if I did anything like that I would never be happy. I would be haunted with that decision every day. So, with the help of my great friend in North Carolina, JW JENNINGS, who helped me with money in being able to buy the five acres-- which were in an auction--- as I was 1,000 miles away on Singer Island, Florida at that time---and also with the help of my smart banker at the Community Trust Bank, Stephen Johnson, I was able to buy the property and dive head first into a huge--mammoth project which I believe only a hand full of old pigeon men would have ever dared. These four buildings then became the new center for what is now --unquestionably--the center of the world for SIONS. This is "the capital of all Sions." THE SION FLAGSHIP! This place is "SION CITY." It is a Sion empire! And certainly a place where I smile at those many fanciers who do not begin to understand or appreciate what a true family of racing pigeons happen to be. A family of Sions which I have created which has taken my entire life and heaven only knows, how much money. And how so many "negatives" had to be conquered. Fanciers so often poor in spirit and intelligence.
I remain that one place in all Kentucky where you can see for yourself who truly SHINES with racing pigeons. There is no place in Kentucky for racing pigeons which is anything like what I have now established. You only need to visit my lofts to realize such. With my Sions I have NOT taken a route for "get rich quick" schemes promoting hybrids. Every day a new bird or a "new car" on their slick-advertised car lot. Despite the rhetoric, those (used-car) fanciers are lacking in understanding what a family truly is. They understand genetics--NOT. And they are lacking in all the patience and hard work it takes to create a family of pigeons. Now, after all these years, I can point at any bird I have and say that for ten straight generations back I bred every single bird in that family. That is something that neither Paul Sion or Charles Heitzman could ever do. And that almost all of my Sions flew 500 miles or more as a young bird. There is no other fancier in North America who can do this. NONE. If I happen to be bragging, then yes, that is exactly what I am doing. I have earned it. After 66 years with the Sions and after 1,600 first places with them at all levels of competition--yes, I have earned it. My family of NO SWEAT SIONS are winning TODAY and they are NOT Sios existing off of what their great, great, great, great grandparents did sixty years ago--as some so-called Sion fanicers enjoy advertising. You must keep the blood alive and active if you wish for success. Elsewise you might as well breed a barn yard full of chickens who lay eggs and little else. Cluck cluck.
I customized my new containers developing them into lofts in which I wanted to be FOR THE PIGEONS and not for myself. Almost every loft I have ever visited in my long life with pigeons has been a loft designed FOR THE FANCIER and NOT for the pigeon. Over and over the same stuff. Typical monkey see-monkey do stuff sadly so rich in our unthinking sport. I have long known this. And I have long observed, if you have exceedingly happy pigeons then you will have exceedingly healthy pigeons. And when you do this, you have an advantage. Birds love great open spaces, heights and sunshine. Nature decreed all this a gillion years ago and through time. If you have not noted that --- then you have no business working with a pigeon. As such I have kept all the roosts and nests in these containers beginning at five feet in height and going up to the roof which is nearly 10 feet in height. I also cut out an entire half of the side of the walls of the containers. There is no heat in these wonderful spaces as you might begin to believe. Much the opposite. Extremely fine air as you would want for your birds if you give them every consideration. And when I did I utilized the walls and also bought new dog kennels which I converted into aviaries----I wrapped these dog kennels FOUR TIMES on the outside in all kinds of chicken wire, quarter of an inch wire and more--so as to prevent any hawk and anything else being able to manage to hurt any pigeon I own. A layer of four wires, Which was not cheap or easy to do. But done nonetheless. My birds love it and the hawks hate it!
I have now had all my Sions placed in these new lofts and I can report to you that almost on the very second they were released into this kind of environment --- they could not stop smiling. Now after a month since I did this, the birds are totally at home and more in love with this loft than I have ever seen any birds in any loft. They lounge around in these huge aviaries as if vacationers on Miami Beach. And when it comes to roosting they fly up to their high roosts and look down at me -- and smile. You see, my pigeon friends, this is what making pigeons happy and healthy is all about. If the birds could talk they would tell you what they love and this would be it. Think for a moment what the wild pigeons most like when they find a place to survive and then use your mind to do what you can from that learning. IF you build a loft like everyone else then you are just another monkey doing what all the other monkeys do. And if you listen to what all the monkeys say--- It should not be so long that when you look in the mirror--you will see--another monkey.
I decided to paint all these new lofts a color called "DERBYSHIRE GREEN." I believed it best represented the "Kentucky Derby feeling" on that first Saturday in May. I know that Heitzman loved the color. It is a lucky color. It is a Saint Patrick's Day color. And it is a great color to blend in with the natural settings which this loft complex owns. I am in no way finished with the lofts. They will remain a work in progress. I still have much to accomplish before I am satisfied. I need to run water to the lofts. Electricity. I will be doing much landscaping. And I will be "dressing up" the appearances of the lofts to eventually have them all a beautiful pigeon "show place." Rome was not built in a day. And I will be filming another video for my "you tube fan club" some time in November or December. In this new video I hope to show some of all the new aspects of what has been evolving-developing. It feels good knowing that when I film a video that nearly a quarter of a million fanciers watch it. Normally, More "hits" than most all the "experts" explaining their "pigeon stuff" combined. And now days, it is exctly so many of these poor wretch experts" touting they have the finest racing pigeons in the world-----who go about to do all they can to actually copy what I do. I hope that you will closely study all these new photos which I mostly took in November, 2023, of my lofts and birds. These photos are many of the actual 2024 breeders I will be using and should give you a very good notion and idea as to the looks and quality of my family of Sions. I hope you enjoy looking at the new "SION EMPIRE" which has its kingdom in Kentucky. Kentucky has the finest thoroughbred race horses in the world. Second in racing only--only to my Sions!
Anyone wishing to contact me regarding SIONS or anything about my own faily of Sions---OR------would like to know more about my latest new book---- should please contact me. I am always happy and available to talk about racing pigeons and my books. My newest novel is called UNCLE MOSES AND ED HAWKINS. You can find it on line or better yet order it from me. If you order it from me, I will send you an autographed copy. I enjoy sending out my work to others. I am already working on another new book as I write even now. I especially enjoy helping young fanciers get started and learn all they can about the sport. I like to give them solid advice. It is always best to get off on the right foot. It is always smarter to ivest in quality than to waste money on junk. So many fanciers will not take out the time it requires to truly help a new person in the sport. You never know in life how well you can help someone unless you try. And I love the older fanciers who email me to say they are getting back into the sport and love the Sions. And so many of you who knew Heitzman and enjoy living those times now back through me. So many wonderful stories. PLEASE, it is always best to reach me by an email:
RROBBINS6@JUNO.COM
EARL LOWELL "ROBBIE" / "NO SWEAT" ROBBINS, JR.
207 LONGVIEW DRIVE
RICHMOND, KENTUCKY 40475
EMAIL: RROBBINS6@JUNO.COM
859-624-8113 HOME PHONE
606-782-4988 CELL PHONE
859-622-1448 WORK PHONE
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And what would this great sport be without all the freinds you have a chance to make and be with through life--that can be as much the bargain getting to be with the pigeons as the pigeons themselves, amen. So many times I run across individuals in the sport who are deeply jealous of who I am or lacking in patience as well as in intelligence. But I kiss the sky every day for the genuine friends who I have managed to have made. I have lost many over the years, Charles Heitzman, Edna Scifres, Waldo Hotchkiss, Otto Meyer, Tony Melucci, John Garzoli, and so many others less famous in the sport. I am thankful to still have Gary Stone and John McQuithy still alive and with me in this sport. We have been together since the 1950's raising the great Sions. And I am thankful to count Jim Isselhardt as a friend who was a fierce competetor when I used to show and now remains a person I can talk with any day about the birds. Jim and I have been friends since the mid 1970's. And several years ago a fancier named JW Jennings in North Carolina came along to wind up now being a close friend. JW has proven such over and over. And I sense a new and wonderful friend in a man named Mike Clements in California of this past year. A fantastic person. It is these true friend fanciers who help me get out of bed every day and go feed and water the birds. It is these fanciers who are at my side when days are not so sunny. I love my Sions, truly. But I must confess, I love my close pigeon friends, too.
EARL LOWELL "ROBBIE" / "No SweaT" ROBBINS, Jr.
AUTHOR OF:
THESE PRECIOUS DAYS
NEFARIOUS
VOLUME 1, SINGER ISLAND AND ERNEST HEMINGWAY
VOLUME 2. SINGER ISLAND AND ERNEST HEMINGWAY
LETTERS FROM A GENIUS TO AN OAF
BLACK BLUEGRASS
UNCLE MOSES AND ED HAWKINS
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RROBBINS6@JUNO.COM
About 50 years ago, I began to write under the pen name "NO SWEAT." More people today know me by "NO SWEAT" than they do my acual name. My mail comes to "NO SWEAT." And now these beautiful Sions I have are called the "NO SWEAT SIONS." This is a true family of racing pigeons. Birds owning simialr appearances and line bred back to many of the same champions. I may well be that one last fancier in North America who has developed a family of racing pigeons and in which that family is currently racing among the best in the world at all distances and winning. Especially at longer distances. These Sions are quite beautiful and own much "class." That is quickly seen by anyone who knows racing pigeons. I maintain three main colors of Sions throughout my colony and loft operations: Blue Bars, Silver Bars and Reds. Many of these reds being "brick reds" simila to Heitzman's iconic red cock "OLD 51." I do hope to begin working with black checks as an additional color in 2024 as they have always caught my eye.
I have been working with Sions longer than anyone in history. That includes Paul Sion, his son, Robert, and Charles Heitzman as well. I fell in love with them as a small boy. I believe the first word I ever spoke was "Sion." That love remains to this day -- as I am now an old man in my mid70's. (But still spry!) Every bird I breed is stamped with my name on it. As such I do everything I can to make certain any bird bred by me is of the highest quality. When I leave this old world I want those of you who have my birds to remember me through them. They are very much my legacy. These Sions have been very successful in the best one loft races now in the world, including South Africa and The Victoria Falls, as well as the Hoosier Classic. No other Sions anywhere in the world have even remotely began to have approached the results they have won in these major international races. PLEASE note, that the last time I raced in THE VICTORIA FALLS RACE with a small team of my Sions--I won FIRST BEST TEAM USA with those birds ---Mike Ganus with his HUGE entry, winding up second to me. The first time I raced in The SOUTH AFRICA MILLION DOLLAR RACE I also finished on the last and longest main race AHEAD of A-L-L of Mike Ganus' "famous hybrids."
And in my 2024 breeding season I am using several of these very birds which raced well in those major races as my breeders. They are perfect pigeons in appearances as well as in the hand. They are birds which have won at races which were under 1,000m yards per minute as well as birds which have won racing 2,300 yards a minute. They set long distance records in China winning at 1,000 KM and also at 700 KM, defeating entries of nearly 3,000 birds. These are the same Heitzman Sions which have won at the Teneriffe Island Race where the birds must race over the water. These are the same Sions in which I have year after year trained the YOUNG BIRDS to race back to my lofts from 500, 600 and even 700 air miles. Four times I have taken YOUNG BIRDS 700 air miles down to Florida and have released them. And on every release did in fact get YOUNG BIRDS back. This happens to be WORLD RECORD LONG DISTANCES. And these 700 mile young birds have gone on to be outstanding breeders.
I am thrilled to announce that in 2024 I will have my champion blue bar hen "SUMMERTIME" return-back to my loft from Africa to breed from. Managing to buy her ack has not been easy. And I we all of this to my dear friend "JW" Jennings in North Carolina. She is the same hen which lead ALL of the entire USA ( over 2,000 entries) in Africa in SEVERAL training tosses and races in the Africa series. NO FANCIER IN THE USA WHO ENTERED THE AFRICA RACES HER YEAR COULD BEAT HER! At one point finishing 5th in the entire world out of the original near 10,000 entries. NO SION IN THE PAST FIFTY YEARS HAS ACCOMPLISHED THE INTERNATIONAL RACING RECORDS WHICH SHE DID. "SUMMERTIME" is a beautiful blue bar "NO SWEAT SION" hen, very typical of my family of Sions. I will be using her tremendous blood all throughout my lofts in years to come. Of some note, "Summertime" was my mother's favorite song and I had it played at her funeral.
In my life time I have now taken over 1,600 first places with these Sions at all levels of competition. MY HEITZMAN SIONS website now has had 3.2 million "hits." This just happens to be far More than any pigeon website in the world. A testament to the interest of my family of Sions. Amen. There is not a single a day which passes in which some fancier does not contact me to relay that they just won a race with one of my Sions. I spend many hours every day one way or the other devoted to my birds. Even if I go on a vacation there are fanciers calling and emailing me which I wind up responding to later that eve. If I manage to catch some sleep, I wind up dreaming about Sions. I always try to answer any emails. Emails are the very best way to reach me.
RROBBINS6@JUNO.COM
I should say that this late summer really placed a tough challenge on me with the birds. For 20 years I had had all my lofts on a friend's property. And because of a death in his family it came to pass that I was given a very short notice that I would have to move my entire loft complex some other place. I almost went into shock. Lost much sleep. But as it developed, I wound up buying five acres in the city of Richmond, Kentucky, about two minutes from my home. It could not have been a finer location for me or the birds. I then went about developing this farm land into a "Pigeon paradise."
These five acres are located along a peaceful valley which has a creek and a partial forest. A serene setting which is abundant in wild life and nature. One of the only quiet places left within the city of Richmond, Kentucky where you happen to be in town but feel that you are some how far out in the country. No telephone poles or wires or any communication towers. Nothing but fresh open skies and air. A perfect place for the birds to love. After bringing in heavy equipment to level certain areas of the land I bought two large trucking containers which are 45 feet long and 9.5 feet tall and 8 feet wide. And I moved two of my old lofts which I had been using and also had them transported to the exact places where I wanted them to be positioned on this new property. None of this task easy or cheap. And all done with a great deal of logistical planning and creative thought.
As an old man I was faced with either having to give up my pigeons or go whole hog into them. I wrestled with the ideas of both as when you are in your seventies it is easy to throw up a white flag, retire, give up so many things you once loved. We have all seen so many fanciers bow to this. But I simply could not begin to stop being who I have always been. That boy in love with pigeons. I could never give up my Sions. I knew, if I did anything like that I would never be happy. I would be haunted with that decision every day. So, with the help of my great friend in North Carolina, JW JENNINGS, who helped me with money in being able to buy the five acres-- which were in an auction--- as I was 1,000 miles away on Singer Island, Florida at that time---and also with the help of my smart banker at the Community Trust Bank, Stephen Johnson, I was able to buy the property and dive head first into a huge--mammoth project which I believe only a hand full of old pigeon men would have ever dared. These four buildings then became the new center for what is now --unquestionably--the center of the world for SIONS. This is "the capital of all Sions." THE SION FLAGSHIP! This place is "SION CITY." It is a Sion empire! And certainly a place where I smile at those many fanciers who do not begin to understand or appreciate what a true family of racing pigeons happen to be. A family of Sions which I have created which has taken my entire life and heaven only knows, how much money. And how so many "negatives" had to be conquered. Fanciers so often poor in spirit and intelligence.
I remain that one place in all Kentucky where you can see for yourself who truly SHINES with racing pigeons. There is no place in Kentucky for racing pigeons which is anything like what I have now established. You only need to visit my lofts to realize such. With my Sions I have NOT taken a route for "get rich quick" schemes promoting hybrids. Every day a new bird or a "new car" on their slick-advertised car lot. Despite the rhetoric, those (used-car) fanciers are lacking in understanding what a family truly is. They understand genetics--NOT. And they are lacking in all the patience and hard work it takes to create a family of pigeons. Now, after all these years, I can point at any bird I have and say that for ten straight generations back I bred every single bird in that family. That is something that neither Paul Sion or Charles Heitzman could ever do. And that almost all of my Sions flew 500 miles or more as a young bird. There is no other fancier in North America who can do this. NONE. If I happen to be bragging, then yes, that is exactly what I am doing. I have earned it. After 66 years with the Sions and after 1,600 first places with them at all levels of competition--yes, I have earned it. My family of NO SWEAT SIONS are winning TODAY and they are NOT Sios existing off of what their great, great, great, great grandparents did sixty years ago--as some so-called Sion fanicers enjoy advertising. You must keep the blood alive and active if you wish for success. Elsewise you might as well breed a barn yard full of chickens who lay eggs and little else. Cluck cluck.
I customized my new containers developing them into lofts in which I wanted to be FOR THE PIGEONS and not for myself. Almost every loft I have ever visited in my long life with pigeons has been a loft designed FOR THE FANCIER and NOT for the pigeon. Over and over the same stuff. Typical monkey see-monkey do stuff sadly so rich in our unthinking sport. I have long known this. And I have long observed, if you have exceedingly happy pigeons then you will have exceedingly healthy pigeons. And when you do this, you have an advantage. Birds love great open spaces, heights and sunshine. Nature decreed all this a gillion years ago and through time. If you have not noted that --- then you have no business working with a pigeon. As such I have kept all the roosts and nests in these containers beginning at five feet in height and going up to the roof which is nearly 10 feet in height. I also cut out an entire half of the side of the walls of the containers. There is no heat in these wonderful spaces as you might begin to believe. Much the opposite. Extremely fine air as you would want for your birds if you give them every consideration. And when I did I utilized the walls and also bought new dog kennels which I converted into aviaries----I wrapped these dog kennels FOUR TIMES on the outside in all kinds of chicken wire, quarter of an inch wire and more--so as to prevent any hawk and anything else being able to manage to hurt any pigeon I own. A layer of four wires, Which was not cheap or easy to do. But done nonetheless. My birds love it and the hawks hate it!
I have now had all my Sions placed in these new lofts and I can report to you that almost on the very second they were released into this kind of environment --- they could not stop smiling. Now after a month since I did this, the birds are totally at home and more in love with this loft than I have ever seen any birds in any loft. They lounge around in these huge aviaries as if vacationers on Miami Beach. And when it comes to roosting they fly up to their high roosts and look down at me -- and smile. You see, my pigeon friends, this is what making pigeons happy and healthy is all about. If the birds could talk they would tell you what they love and this would be it. Think for a moment what the wild pigeons most like when they find a place to survive and then use your mind to do what you can from that learning. IF you build a loft like everyone else then you are just another monkey doing what all the other monkeys do. And if you listen to what all the monkeys say--- It should not be so long that when you look in the mirror--you will see--another monkey.
I decided to paint all these new lofts a color called "DERBYSHIRE GREEN." I believed it best represented the "Kentucky Derby feeling" on that first Saturday in May. I know that Heitzman loved the color. It is a lucky color. It is a Saint Patrick's Day color. And it is a great color to blend in with the natural settings which this loft complex owns. I am in no way finished with the lofts. They will remain a work in progress. I still have much to accomplish before I am satisfied. I need to run water to the lofts. Electricity. I will be doing much landscaping. And I will be "dressing up" the appearances of the lofts to eventually have them all a beautiful pigeon "show place." Rome was not built in a day. And I will be filming another video for my "you tube fan club" some time in November or December. In this new video I hope to show some of all the new aspects of what has been evolving-developing. It feels good knowing that when I film a video that nearly a quarter of a million fanciers watch it. Normally, More "hits" than most all the "experts" explaining their "pigeon stuff" combined. And now days, it is exctly so many of these poor wretch experts" touting they have the finest racing pigeons in the world-----who go about to do all they can to actually copy what I do. I hope that you will closely study all these new photos which I mostly took in November, 2023, of my lofts and birds. These photos are many of the actual 2024 breeders I will be using and should give you a very good notion and idea as to the looks and quality of my family of Sions. I hope you enjoy looking at the new "SION EMPIRE" which has its kingdom in Kentucky. Kentucky has the finest thoroughbred race horses in the world. Second in racing only--only to my Sions!
Anyone wishing to contact me regarding SIONS or anything about my own faily of Sions---OR------would like to know more about my latest new book---- should please contact me. I am always happy and available to talk about racing pigeons and my books. My newest novel is called UNCLE MOSES AND ED HAWKINS. You can find it on line or better yet order it from me. If you order it from me, I will send you an autographed copy. I enjoy sending out my work to others. I am already working on another new book as I write even now. I especially enjoy helping young fanciers get started and learn all they can about the sport. I like to give them solid advice. It is always best to get off on the right foot. It is always smarter to ivest in quality than to waste money on junk. So many fanciers will not take out the time it requires to truly help a new person in the sport. You never know in life how well you can help someone unless you try. And I love the older fanciers who email me to say they are getting back into the sport and love the Sions. And so many of you who knew Heitzman and enjoy living those times now back through me. So many wonderful stories. PLEASE, it is always best to reach me by an email:
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EARL LOWELL "ROBBIE" / "NO SWEAT" ROBBINS, JR.
207 LONGVIEW DRIVE
RICHMOND, KENTUCKY 40475
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And what would this great sport be without all the freinds you have a chance to make and be with through life--that can be as much the bargain getting to be with the pigeons as the pigeons themselves, amen. So many times I run across individuals in the sport who are deeply jealous of who I am or lacking in patience as well as in intelligence. But I kiss the sky every day for the genuine friends who I have managed to have made. I have lost many over the years, Charles Heitzman, Edna Scifres, Waldo Hotchkiss, Otto Meyer, Tony Melucci, John Garzoli, and so many others less famous in the sport. I am thankful to still have Gary Stone and John McQuithy still alive and with me in this sport. We have been together since the 1950's raising the great Sions. And I am thankful to count Jim Isselhardt as a friend who was a fierce competetor when I used to show and now remains a person I can talk with any day about the birds. Jim and I have been friends since the mid 1970's. And several years ago a fancier named JW Jennings in North Carolina came along to wind up now being a close friend. JW has proven such over and over. And I sense a new and wonderful friend in a man named Mike Clements in California of this past year. A fantastic person. It is these true friend fanciers who help me get out of bed every day and go feed and water the birds. It is these fanciers who are at my side when days are not so sunny. I love my Sions, truly. But I must confess, I love my close pigeon friends, too.
EARL LOWELL "ROBBIE" / "No SweaT" ROBBINS, Jr.
AUTHOR OF:
THESE PRECIOUS DAYS
NEFARIOUS
VOLUME 1, SINGER ISLAND AND ERNEST HEMINGWAY
VOLUME 2. SINGER ISLAND AND ERNEST HEMINGWAY
LETTERS FROM A GENIUS TO AN OAF
BLACK BLUEGRASS
UNCLE MOSES AND ED HAWKINS
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