Welcome to the website of Tony and Lee Painter of Fibbersley Lofts, Willenhall, West Midlands. Through the course of these pages you'll learn a little about ourselves and our birds.. (Please click on the "full screen mode" button towards the top right hand corner on the photo gallery to see a clearer version of that picture)

In the main, we fly the Staf Van Reets, De Meyers, Cattrysse and Verkerks with some other very fine pigeons added into the equation. We pride ourselves on our pigeons and their performances. We've flown the Van Reets since the very early 1990's and this family of pigeons have won literally hundreds of 1st prizes for us.

The De Meyers were a more recent introduction. These are a Lightning Fast sprint family that we introduced from Belgium largely with the help of our good friend Kevin Head. We would class it as no exaggeration to say that we must have one of, if not the finest array of De Meyer families in the UK at the moment. Indeed our 2011 West Midlands Region Award winner "VAN PERSIE" is 50% De Meyer! This 2010 cock has 11 x 1st to his name and 3 x 2nd!

In addition to these families we fly the Cattrysse family from Colin Lloyd. These are a very versatile pigeon for us. Pigeons carrying this blood have won 1st SW Section for us in the MNFC, 2nd Open MCC, 4th Open MCC, plus West Midlands Region Awards and represented the UK in the Poland Olympiad (Our great 2 time West Midlands Region Award winner "OLYMPIC TAFFY".  "OLYMPIC TAFFY" is 50% Van Reet and 50% Cattrysse - Please see the "OLYMPIC TAFFY" page for more info on this super cock).

Another recent addition has been with some fantastic Verkerks. In number we don't carry many of these, but their bloodlines are incredible. We have a full brother to Cath Lycett's "Champion Houdini" (West Midlands Region Sprint Champion in 2005 and 2nd Overall Sprint Champion of the UK in 2005) in the race team doing well 3rd Open 5,000 birds etc. We have also had the mother of "Houdini" on loan at our lofts to mate to our "Olympic Taffy". The offspring of this mating are on one side for our own breeding programme and they are of absolutely top-drawer quality.

Our main Club is the WILLENHALL LIBERAL which is affiliated to the WOLVERHAMPTON FEDERATION. The "Liberal" is one of the biggest Clubs in this Federation, and there is often over 6,000 birds in the Federation.

Besides this we are also members of the MCC (Previous winners of 2nd Open, 2nd Open, 4th Open etc) and the MNFC (Previous winners of 1st SW Section etc).

We are now the proud winners of not only one, not two, not three but FOUR West Midlands Region Awards. We also provide other lofts with excellent pigeons too - as this website will demonstrate. Housed at our lofts we have our 3 Award winners :- "OLYMPIC TAFFY" in the 0-250 miles category for his efforts in both 2007 and 2009, and the Overall Champion of the West Midlands in the 0-800 miles category, our very own "Willenhall Warrior" and also the 2011 Award winner "VAN PERSIE"

Some of our performances include :- 1st Lye Two Bird Cherbourg Gold Ring Race 1st,2nd,3rd Dewdrop Open Swainswick 1st Londonderry One Bird Open Race Cherbourg 1st,2nd and 3rd Redditch HDS Open Race Yeovil 1st,2nd,3rd,5th,6th Wolverhampton Gold Ring Race East Prawle. In addition to this, there are regular good performances in the very strong Wolverhampton Fed (8,000 birds) We have topped the following Federations :- Wolves, Worcester, Dudley, Gloucester, Bromsgrove and Wolves Midweek Federation. We have won many prizes in the Section and Open of the MNFC (Including 1st SW Section) and we've also won 1st section in the MCC, finishing 2 x 2nd Open, 4th Open etc..