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Baskar’s Old German Owl Loft
By Baskar Anjappan
I
am Baskar Anjappan from
Northern California. I was
born and raised in the
southern part of India (Chennai
City). In 1991 when I was in
middle school, I got my first
pair of Homers with two babies
to keep as pets. I started my
pigeon hobby with one of my
best friends, Sridhar Bala and his
brother Sethu, who used to live in
the same neighborhood. My friend
Sridhar and I saved our pocket
money to buy four birds and later
we bought three pairs of fancy
pigeons. As a youngster that was
a huge undertaking.
Now I live in California and
my friend lives in New Jersey. As
with other pigeon fanciers, we
kept buying birds. After a year, I
started keeping birds at my place.
As time progressed we both could
not find any time to keep pets
as we started focusing on our college
education and job futures.
I restarted my hobby by buying
one pair of Old German Owls – red
shields, from Tim Kovatch in the Santa
Cruz area. Tim was great to sell me one
nice pair in February of 2016. Later
I bought birds from YH loft, Chet Ed-
munds, Jeffery Wozniak, Mike Spencer,
Kay Kast and Keith Chadd. There was
great support from the OGO club
members to sell me some birds.
I started focusing on only
black shield, yellow shield and red
shield birds. But I do have few
other colors like blue check, red
check and one pair of blue bar.
Black shield birds were
imported from Canada and Jeff
Wozniak was so generous to sell
some of his imports. Red shield
birds are directly from Victor
Herner in Canada. Victor bought
five pairs of reds from Germany
when he visited a pigeon show.
These red shield birds were from
German breeder Warner Gockel,
one of the top breeders who fo-
cuses only on red shield OGOs.
Importing birds from other
countries like Germany and/or
Canada is not easy. There many
breeders who have vast amounts
of experience in importing birds.
I am very lucky to have them
from both Jeffery Wozniak and Victor
Herner.
I have been showing birds for
the last three years and I’m happy
with the progress I’ve made. My best
performances at the shows are:
Champion of the show - Red
shield, Band #1965 - 35 entries and 5
exhibitors at NorCal Pigeon Fancier
show, California (2018)
Some of best the birds with best crest and rosettes.