NANEZ FAMILY LOFTS: 536: RARE OFFER: DIRECT FROM OUR FRIEND ‘IRON-CLAD’.
SIRE: “IRON-CLAD CONSTANZ”; AN AMAZING ANIMAL! 1ST KANSAS PRAIRIE CLASSIC AT 305 MILES- BY 33 MINUTES. A VERY UNUSUAL PIGEON IN MANY WAYS. HIS FIRST FIVE YOUNGSTERS [HE IS A 2013-HATCH, HIS FIRST BABIES ARE, OF COURSE, 2014 HATCHES] TO COMPETE HAVE BEEN 2ND, 2ND 4TH, 7TH, 8TH IN ONE-LOFT RACING <<WITH 5 DIFFERENT HENS>>! IN ADDITION, HIS YOUNGSTER WAS A TOP CAPITAL PRIZE-WINNER ON THE FINAL IN SOUTH AFRICA THIS YEAR. HE WAS ONLY TEN [10] MONTHS OLD WHEN HE SIRED THE BIRD THAT WAS 207TH ON THE FINAL. IRON-CLAD’S KIDS WERE ALSO IN THE TOP 200 AT LEAST 20X IN S.AFRICA THIS YEAR INCLUDING 42ND CAR RACE #4.
‘IRON-MAIDEN’, WHO WAS 207TH ON THE FINAL IS ACTUALLY OUT OF ‘IRON-CLAD’ WHEN MATED TO THE MOTHER OF THE BIRD LISTED BELOW [DAM OF ‘535’ BEING OFFERED].
FIVE OF HIS KIDS HAVE SOLD <RESPECTIVELY> FOR: $2,200, $2,200, $2,500, $2,800, $2,800.
IRON-CLAD IS A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME PIGEON [I THINK]. SKEPTICS WILL SAY ‘OH, YET ANOTHER ‘ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME PIGEON’.’ I DID A WRITE-UP ON HIM LAST SUMMER WHEN WE OFFERED HIS FIRST BABY AND SUGGESTED THAT HE MAY ECLIPSE ‘CONSTANS’ [HIS GR.DAD] & ‘THE PERFECT STORM’ [ANOTHER GR.SON OF CONSTANS].
NOT ONLY DID HE WIN 1ST BY 33 MIN. INTO A STIFF HEADWIND [FOR OVER 300M.] BUT HIS FULL SISTERS WERE 3RD AND 13TH THAT DAY [ONLY 13 DAYBIRDS]. THE MORNING AFTER RECEIVING HIM BACK, HE BOLTED FROM THE HOLDING PEN, LANDED ON MY SHOULDER AND BROUGHT BLOOD TO MY EAR BY TUGGING AT IT. THE NEXT WEEK, AS HE SAT ON MY SHOULDER, OUR MASSIVE CAT JUMPED DOWN FROM A SHELF IN THE OFFICE AND HIT THE FLOOR. IRONCLAD IMMEDIATELY WENT INTO PROTECTION MODE AND RODE THE BACK OF THAT CAT- FIGHTING BEAK-AND-NAIL. STRANGE!
WHEN I PUT HIM WITH, WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A HEN- BUT WAS PROBABLY A HENNY COCK- IRONCLAD DISMANTLED THE BIRD OVERNIGHT, KILLING THE POOR THING AND DESTROYING THE CARCASS. THE ONLY THING MISSING FROM THE BREEDING COMPARTMENT WAS ‘HELTER SKELTER’ SCRAWLED ON THE WALL!
NOW THAT WE HAVE KIDS & GR.KIDS OF IRON-CLAD IN THE LOFT, IT IS FASCINATING TO SEE HIS TRAITS BEING PASSED ON TO THEM. ONE DAUGHTER LANDS ON MY HEAD EVERY TIME I GO IN HER SECTION. A SON BOLTS FROM HIS INDIVIDUAL COMPARTMENT TO LAND ON ME AND FIGHT ME WITH ALL OF HIS MIGHT. A FULL SISTER REFUSES TO TAKE A MATE---OTHER THAN ME----! I WAS IN THE WEANING LOFT ONE DAY AND TWO YOUNGSTERS LANDED ON MY BACK AS I BENT OVER TO FILL THE FEED TRAY. THEY WERE BOTH GR.KIDS OF ‘IRON-CLAD’ FROM 2 DIFFERENT HENS. AND, AS I WRITE THIS, I HAVE A GR.KID OF HIS IN THE OFFICE BEING PREPARED TO GO TO S.AFRICA. THE LITTLE THING SPINS AND COOS AND BEATS VIOLENTLY AGAINST THE DOOR UNTIL I GIVE HIM SOME ATTENTION……ETC.
NOT ALL OF HIS KIDS/GR.KIDS ARE LIKE THIS- BUT OF THE 8-9 BIRDS ON THE PLACE THAT ACT THIS WAY- EVERY ONE OF THEM [APART FROM ONE SISTER] IS A CHILD OR GR.CHILD OF HIS….ONLY TIME WILL TELL WHETHER WE HAVE ON OUR HANDS A TEAM OF OLYMPIANS OR ‘SPECIAL-OLYMPIANS.’
DAM: “TOP SPLASH”, DAM TO THREE 1STS WITH THREE COCKS IN 2011. DAUGHTER OF = 1ST LATE HATCH CLASSIC; DAUGHTER OF 1ST OVERALL ACE OF P.A. DUTCH CLASSIC WINNING $23,OOO +. 1893 HAS 5 SIBLINGS THAT ARE MONEY WINNERS IN ONE-LOFT RACES. MOM IS GRANDDAUGHTER OF "NEVER SAY DIE" AND DOUBLE GR.DAU. OF CLAUSING’S ‘410’
FOR THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS, WE HAVE PONDERED WHETHER TO OFFER MOST OF THE BIRDS UP FOR AUCTION THIS WEEK. WE’VE SET THEM ASIDE, THINKING WE MIGHT BRING THEM BACK TO WISCONSIN [THEY ARE IN OKLAHOMA CITY]. WE’VE DECIDED TO LET THEM GO UP FOR AUCTION.
*BROTHER TO CONSTANS
*DIRECT FROM CONSTANS’ NESTMATE
*TWO DIRECT FROM ‘IRON-CLAD CONSTANZ’
*ONE DIRECT FROM ‘NICK’S GIRL’ WHEN MATED TO HER GR.SON THAT WAS 1ST ACE RED ROCK 1-LOFT SERIES.
NANEZ FAMILY LOFTS
IN PURSUIT OF PRODUCING
ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE PIGEONS!
IN THE TOP TEN OF SPECIALS OVER 300 TIMES
IN FOUR YEARS! | 
