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12 month waiver on select models

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fixed rate/24 mth OAC

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fixed rate/ 36 mth OAC

2.95%

fixed rate/48 mth OAC

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Electronically tracked

Bauer explained how the birds are tracked to determine the

winner of a race. Each racing bird has an electronic band around its leg that is tracked by GPS. Every bird is registered prior to the race and its number entered into a computer program. When the birds are released at the start point of the race, the GPS coordinates are recorded. As each bird returns to its loft, an electronic device at the loft records the time the bird returned.

P U B L I C AU T O & R V AU C T I O N

The star racers on the world racing scene will fetch a purchase price in the hundreds of thousands and then be used as breeding stock for the next up and coming generation of racers. Local birds sold for breeding are more reasonably priced at $50-$75 each, but even locally, initial breeding stock can cost in the thousands.

U N R E S E RV E D I N D U S T R I A L E Q U I P M E N T AU C T I O N

tive lofts or homes. The Central Alberta Racing Pigeon Club, which has been in Racing pigeons aren’t like your existence since 2003, hosts seveveryday bird. While they may eral races each year, according to look similar to the pigeons inhab- club member Ivan Bauer of iting barns or feeding in a park, Stettler. they are a unique breed. While the seven or eight memKnown for their powerful bers of the club race pigeons homing instincts and flying abili- primarily for bragging rights, the ties, these special pigeons know worldwide sport of pigeon racing where they are headed and about is quite lucrative. Cash prizes for 200 of them took flight from the larger races can reach into Coronation Monday morning, the hundreds of thousands of Aug. 17 in a race to their respecdollars.

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Leeroy Jones of Ponoka and Ivan Bauer of Stettler, members of the Central Alberta Racing Pigeon Club released approximately 200 homing pigeons south of Coronation Monday, Aug. 17 in the first race of several scheduled for this fall. Bauer reported excellent results from the race, stating the birds were home before he got home. ECA Review/J.Webster

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