IF YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN A TRUE FAMILY OF RACING PIGEONS THEN YOU ARE IN FOR A TREAT. THESE ARE THE NO SWEAT SIONS. FAMOUS FOR LONG DISTANCE AND BEAUTY.
WELCOME! Thank you for taking the time to visit. BLESSINGS. I hope you will enjoy exploring my HEITZMAN SIONS website.
I am a best selling Kentucky author. Authored eight books. Thousands of articles.
My first novel is titled THESE PRECIOUS DAYS BY NO SWEAT. My latest novel is "UNCLE MOSES AND ED HAWKINS BY NO SWEAT." Located on Amazon. My pigeon articles and stories have been appearing in pigeon journals all over the world for 60 years.
My pen name is "NO SWEAT." I am 74 years old. Just celebrated my 52nd wedding anniversary with Chesteen. Been together 60 years. Nancy our only child, an English teacher. Have two grandsons. We raised. Good as they come. Lance and Barrett. Lance has been helping with the birds since he was a baby.
I have had Sions going on 68 straight years. Won over 1,500 first places. All levels of competition.
I appreciate your interest and friendship. Sions have been my life. My name is synonomous with Sions. I have developed my own family. "THE NO SWEAT SIONS." Known for winning at superior long distnces. Also, beauty.
If you are interested in great racing pigeons you are at the right place. Particularly. Superior long distances. That is where you will find your finest racing pigeons. Birds with the strongest homing instincts.
Sions are the greatest pigeons linking the past to the future. No other racing pigeon owns such a rich and continuing history. SIONS helped to win World War One and Two. American and British soldiers landing on the Normandy Beach had SIONS helping them. Heitzman Sions helped China against Japan during WW2. Many of the Chinese today highly adore Heitzman Sions.
NO SWEAT Sions continue to win One Loft Races. Dependable. Racers owning earned reputations. Everyone has heard of Sions. Beautiful long distance racers which finish the tougher races.
Long distance racers. Where true quality surfaces. Winning races today over the world. NOT YESTERDAY. BUT TODAY. Racers paving the future.
In 2024. NO SWEAT SIONS won the largest one loft races in Denmark and Trinidad.
In the last five years. No Sweat SIONS were "BEST TEAM USA" in Victoria Falls, Africa. Beating every "big name" in America.
These Sions finished in the top 100 in South Africa every time they raced.
These Sions set long distance records in China. Winning over tough terrain at 700 KM and 1,000 KM.
Today. They consistently win in Japan.
These Heitzman Sions---a Heitzman Sion blue bar cock--won the greatest long distance race over open water. The Teneriffe Island Race.
Recently. Winning THE BIG APPLE Race in New York. Also a 3,500 entry concourse race in Maryland.
They finished 15th in the smash race prior to the HOOSIER fire. That being the last time they flew there.
A medical doctor in Pennsylvania told by his club memebers my Sions would not win. He won the first race he flew with a silver young cock . And continued to win.
A new fancier in 2024, outside St. Louis. Informed by his local "experts." My Sions would not win. He won their first four races.
I smile. Observing. In Indiana, Texas, Tennesee, and more. Watching "experts" eat their words.
New fanciers should learn the truth about Sions. How fine they really are. Hearty. Beautiful. Mature quick. Live long.
The NO SWEAT SIONS have been coming back from 500 and 600 air miles year after year. They are based on the very best Sions which Charles Heitzman owned. I have devoted my life honoring Charles Heitzman and Paul Sion.
FOUR different years. These Sions came back from 700 air miles. From the middle of Florida to Richmond, Kentucky. Each time. World Record long distance racing for YOUNG BIRDS. Many of the breeders I own today. Have this 700 mile YOUNG BIRD blood.
The NO SWEAT SIONS are based entirely on the Heitzman Sions. Charles Heitzman imported his Sions directly from Mons. Paul Sion in France. After Charles Heitzman died. I became their flag bearer. The flagship for Sions. Like VAN LOON. I believe in maintaining a solid family. Based on performance. Understanding. Line breeding. Appreciating a good thing when you have it. Working with the best. To make it better.
Sions have been winning at all distances over all terrains at all speeds for over 100 years. A racing history un-matched. Never a family of racing pigeons their equals. They are the future. I will enter THE FLORIDA DERBY withfour of my Sions this year. Sions love great and honest competition.
Please take the time to inspect these recent photos. What you see. Are Sions I have now. Basis of what I will be breeding from in 2025. I aim at quality.
Note. In 1971. I flew in the top ten futurity races in North America. I won three of those. Setting a money winning record in The Twin City Gold Band Futurity. In the other seven races. I finished in the top ten.That year. I was selected for WHO's WHO in England. That was over 50 years ago. I have improved every year since.
I maintain a family of racing pigeons. I may well be the only fancier in North America who does this. I remain "OLD SCHOOL." Pure old line Sions. Honest Sions. I take pride in being "on top" of every small matter. Always improving. Understanding genetics. Aiming at the finset racer possible. Appreciating what I have. Knowing a good thing when I have it. You may hear some "expert" fancier claim he does not like families. Why? Becausae he does not have a family. He can't find a family. Not a true family. Unless he finds NO SWEAT. The reason families rarely exist? Becaue fanciers today. Do not want to put in the life time it takes to develop a great family of racing pigeons. Or. Possess the abilities. Today. Everything is "go go go." Don't blink. Fanciers will believe anything they hear. Rarely. Do they know. Or hear. What is true. So many fanciers sell "beautiful pedigrees." Instead of solid pigeons. Maybe. One day. They will have a one loft race just for pedigrees? Pigeons crossed every which way from sundown.
There are "big--shots-experts" in the pigeon world which will tell you anything. They are always "helping you." Exactly like used car salesmen. Politicians. Making endless videos every day --- always "helping you." Motive being--to help GET YOUR money into their pocket in one manner or the other. Claiming crosses are the best birds. Present you with their selected facts which they only want to show. ADVERTISE they have the best birds in the WORLD. If you take the time to research-study--you find---they don't have birds which finish in races. Same people telling you they handle and inspect and judge over a million pigeons a year. When there is only 500,000 minutes to a year. They know. Fanciers rarely check what they say. It goes on and on. Lance, my grandson, helps me with the birds all the time. He loves them. He said. He would like to be a success in the sport one day. I told him. It would never happen. That he was, too honest.
Can you stop to imagine. If in any one loft race any place in the world just happened to have one-half of its entries being NO SWEAT SIONS---what the results would be for every training toss and race therein? You see. Stuff like this is never thought of. Never mentioned. When I fly against 10,000 or 5,000 entries. My family of Sions are the only family to be entered. I race against all the crosses. Let that settle in your head just in numerical advantages and dis-advantges. Yet, you see the results. How this FAMILY of Sions somehow emerges despite the odds from all of those crosses. Odds well over 1,000 to one. Can you begin to imagine? If everything was "even-Stephen" on a level playing field? How much these Sions would prevail--totally dominate.
I am one of those old fanciers who has given his life to racing pigeons. I have heard and seen it all: Professional-slick advertisements. Photo-shop pigeons. ABE LINCOLN fact setters. Pretending Mr. "Nice guy" cons. Excited fanciers who know all the secrets. Fanciers on "the inside track." Tap dancers. Singers. Circus Acts. Fanciers standing on their heads and spitting out ten dollar gold coins to grab your attention. Gorgeous pedigrees framable. Move over Mona Lisa. You name it. Simply Incredible. Fanciers blind.
I am always happy to speak with anyone about Sions. I can talk all day about Charles Heitzman. I honestly try to answer any question you own. I enjoy meeting and making new friends. I am best reached by emails. I always answer any email sent.
Inspect these recent photos of my 2025 breeders. Birds speak for themselves.
THANK YOU---BLESSINGS
Earl Lowell "Robbie" / "No Sweat" Robbins, Jr.
207 Longview Drive
Richmond, Kentucky 40475
HOME PHONE: 859-624-8113
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THE NO SWEAT LOFTS MAINTAIN THREE MAIN COLORS: BLUE BARS, SILVER BARS AND REDS. PERFORMANCE AT LONGER DISTANCES IS THE FIRST PRORITY. THEN, BEAUTY.
FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS THE NO SWEAT LOFTS HAVE BRED OUTSTANDING BRICK RED SIONS WINNING AT 600 MILES AND FARTHER. IN CHINA. THEY WON A !,000 KM RACE WHICH HAD 3,500 ENTRIES.
LANCE ROBBINS. NO SWEAT'S GRANDSON. HAS BEEN A GOD-SEND WORKING WITH THE NO SWEAT SIONS FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS. LANCE IS A RECOGNIZED SWIMMER, SCUBA DIVER, SURFER, AND MORE.
Many of THE NO SWEAT SIONS tace back to the greatest Sion ever exported by Paul Sion. A blue white flight cock named, "LE-ROI." Lew Curtis and Charles Heitzman owned incredible success with racers bred down from Le-Roi. Particularly racing longer distances.
THE BLUE BAR ABOVE IS A DAUGHTER OUT OF MY CHAMPION LONG-DISTANCE SION NAMED "CHATTANOOGA."
Thank you for taking the time to look at some of my 2025 breeders. If you wish to contact me the best way is by email: [email protected] Those two blue checks in the photo behind me. One is of a young hen. I took her 50 miles on her first toss. Two weeks later I released her at 520 miles. She was home early on the second day. Her nestmate came about fifteen minutes later. I bred them from two red checks. "THE RED PAIR." They were bred from HARD CORE, LONGWINGS, RESOLVE and CHATTANOOGA. All were 600 mile YOUNG BIRDS. The other photo is that of one of my greatest breeders ever. "PEG LEG." Unbanded. Blue check cock. His blood lives all throughout my lofts from nearly 60 years ago. Blessings. "NO SWEAT"
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