01/07/2026
Barless homers have long been a favorite of mine (followed closely by dark checks and t-pattern!). I started with Janssen based flyers with some HVR, Buitta, Coudou, Verbruggen, Mueleman, Trenton and others from local fliers.
I went to the National Young Bird Show, amount other places and met Tom
Barnhart through dragoons and homers. He started me with my first barless and first barless carriers. I believe it was an indigo bar and a blue barless pair. I also got a blue bar carrying barless and a cream bar c**k (that didn’t carry barless). These combined with my flyers created some stunning birds.
Through the years, I’ve had. Blue and silver, ash red, ash yellow, indigo, rec opal, dominant opa, brown, and khaki barless. This year I also added blue grizzle barless!
It’s been fun watching them develop over the years, all the way back 25 years ago the same family.
Now that I have some flying bird blood to inject in to them thanks to Jason Sieveking, Steven Ly and Tom Barnhart, I should be set for a long time to come.
I do have about 10 pair I need to trim down but it’s harder than you think!
