 LOUISVILLE 2006 NYBS ChampionPhotos & Results
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Welcome
Here you will see and learn about Show Rollers.
I am a Master Breeder of Show Rollers and also a URC Certified Judge. I have been raising Show Rollers and showing them for over 25 years.
My family of Show Rollers are some of the very best in the United States. They have done more winning the past five years than any other family since the former Emerson family of Show Rollers. On this sight, I will share my breeding and conditioning tips and pictures of the results.
Click HERE to visit my loft photos and my 1978 breeders to the present day CHAMPIONS
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My Show Roller goal:
To improve the less popular colors being shown today.
New Loft 2007
Click photo for inside views
CURRENTLY
Director at Large of the
United Roller Club of America
Midwest Director of the
Midwest Show Roller Club
Secretary/Treasurer of the
Baldhead Show Roller Club
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MEMBER
United Show Roller Club
Midwest Roller Club
National Show Roller Association
American Baldhead Roller Club
Western Roller Club
Southwest Roller Club
Baldhead Show Roller Club
West Of England Tumbler Club
Eastern Tumbler Club
Central Tumbler Club
Western Tumbler Club
Pacific Tumbler Club
United English Tumbler Club
National Pigeon Association
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Profile submitted to the UETC
My name is Ron Simpson and I was born in 1949 in Columbus, Ohio.
My wife's name is Jan and we've been married for eight years. I have two daughters, Shelly and Chrystal. Shelly is 34 and Chrystal is 23. My oldest daughter is single and my youngest daughter is getting married in April. I live in Waldo, Ohio and have for about ten years. I am relatively new to tumblers and have only had them for about a year. My first pigeon when I was a kid was a black muff tumbler and I found a white tippler hen to breed with him and was hooked from then on. I was about 12 years old and ended up trading my hamsters for these pigeons. It wasn't long before I had ten or twelve different kinds and was severely over crowded. My dad told me to cut down or get rid of them! I was selling off pigeons the very next day. I grew up in a little town called Richwood, Ohio. I think just about every kid in Richwood had pigeons at one time or another. In 1963 some of these kids and myself decided to start a pigeon club. The first meeting was at my house and I was elected President. We called the club the “ Richwood Junior Pigeon Club Fanciers”. We ran this club just like an adult club would. We had several senior club advisers and believe it or not we had about 25 or so members. Several of us had been to pigeon shows in Delaware,Ohio and we wanted to have a show in Richwood. There was a club called the Central Ohio Pigeon Club Fanciers and we talked them into letting us borrow their cages to have our first show. Money was pretty tight for us kids so we had to rely on donations. We went to the American Legion and talked them into letting us have the show in Richwood and they agreed. We then went to every merchant in Richwood and asked for a money donation to buy trophies. The local feed store donated a bag of feed. I can't remember how many trophies we had donated but I do remember just about every young fancier there won a trophy and some of us won two or three. We had an all breed judge come in and volunteer to judge the show. It turned out to be such a big event that the local newspaper showed up and took a picture of all of us. The paper even put this picture on the front page of the Richwood Gazette. With the money we made from the show, we decided to buy some pigeon books and start our own little library within the club. We had two girls in the club so we nominated one of them to be our librarian. Everything was going great until some of us started to turn 16.
 Then girls and cars came into the picture. At that time in my life I was raising fantails and flying rollers. I remember my dad coming out to my loft one day and giving me an ultimatum. He said, “Son, you have a choice to make since you are not taking very good care of your pigeons anymore. You are going to have to choose between raising pigeons or chasing girls.” Again I was on the phone the next day selling pigeons. Through the years, however, I always tried to subscribe to the American Pigeon Journal and keep up to date as to what was going on in pigeons. Then in about 1976 I felt there was something missing in my life. I told my wife that I wanted to start raising pigeons. I will never forget the look on her face and her reaction to that! Anyway, money was tight back then and the next thing was to figure out how to come up with enough money to build a pigeon loft. Since I was selling insurance then, I decided to take a loan out on my insurance policy and build a new loft. I always liked the muff tumblers and always read Al Westling's tumbler talk in the APJ but didn't know anyone that had any. Since rollers and fantails were the last two breeds I had, I was off and running. I had and showed both until about 1984 and with my business growing bigger and pressure trying to raise and show both breeds I had to make one of those tough choices again. I decided to get out of the fantails and raise and show only rollers. I worked hard and showed a lot trying to become a top breeder in Show 
Rollers but never could quite reach the top. The two top breeders back then were Ed Emerson and George Petro. They went head to head hard for several years and then Ed Emerson got out of Show Rollers and went into racing homers. George became top dog in the Show rollers until he got cancer back in 1996. I was very fortunate to be able to get some of George's top birds before he died and the next year I had my first National Champion. Since then I have had three all age National Champions and six Young Bird National Champions. I have also become a certified judge and master breeder in the show rollers. In this profile I was asked about my most memorable award and most memorable times.
My most memorable award was when I was 14 years old and showing fantails as a junior. I was at a show in Delaware,Ohio and all of the young fanciers got to bring up our best cock bird and our best hen. At that time, there were a dozen kids showing pigeons. Boy was I excited after I won! I ended up with Champion and also best opposite sex. I was on cloud nine for about a week after that!
As a matter of fact, I still have both of those junior trophies. My most memorable time in pigeons was when my mom sent my name into a television show on channel 10 called Dinner Theater; a show that featured kids hobbies as well as cartoons. I felt honored when I was chosen to appear on the show! I was a real celebrity in my little hometown for a few days!
After retiring in 2000, I have not been employed. I now consider my “job” to be trying my best to breed good quality show rollers. In 2001, I started playing with colors that normally don't win at district point shows or nationals. I would like to think I have improved a lot of the less popular colors in show rollers. Since my show rollers needed feeders or foster parents, I tried my luck with raising homers. They worked okay for a while and then I got interested in show racers. A friend of mine, Bill Henderson, had show racers and was a master breeder in them and he wanted to get started in show rollers and I wanted to get started in show racers. We traded some birds and it was a win-win for both of us. I thought I could use the Show Racers for feeders but that did not work out at all. Still longing for another breed I decided to try my luck at muff tumblers. Then about a year ago I started doing my homework on who to buy from. Everyone from my area told me I should contact Carl Wissler. It wasn't long before I had about four pair from Carl. Then a Show roller Buddy from Omaha, Nebraska, Eldon Boone, told me about a friend of his, Bob Witte. Bob has been super as a mentor and has helped me with birds, standards, books, color charts, pictures, diagrams, etc., in addition to becoming a real good friend. Carl has been great also. I flew out to the show in Lancaster,Pa. this year and got to spend some time with Carl at the show and his house. I also plan to fly out to visit with Bob Witte and Eldon and a few of the guys in that area this spring. Since acquiring black, red, teager/splash, and bar muff tumblers from Bob and Carl, I got interested in yellows. I contacted Herb Merklebach and he graciously started me off in some yellows. All I can say is that these tumblers must be highly contagious because now I am in the process of adding a new 24 x 24 addition to my main breeding loft. I made a lot of mistakes last year in trying to breed muff tumblers and space was one of them. The new addition should provide me with ample space to breed from around 20 pair or so. I also made a mistake last year with feeders. I realized that the show racers were far too large to use as feeders. It was easy to find homes for the show racers as soon as a few people found out that I was going to get out of them. This year I am using flights and expect to have much more success in the breeding pens.
In this profile that I was asked to do, there was a question that was asked about what I would like to see in the tumbler fancy in the future. Since I belong to the UETC, PTC, ETC,WTC and the SWOETC, I am surprised that these clubs have not banded together somehow and put up a tumbler web site. These are relatively inexpensive and fairly easy to do any more. Just think of the exposure the Long Face Tumblers could get and possibly even new members and breeders! The guy who did mine, Steve Johnson, did a great job and I know he would be happy to do one for the tumbler hobby. I would also like to thank Larry Deckert for sending me this profile and asking me to do this. I hope to make a lot of new friends in the tumbler hobby and hope to meet all of you soon at a show.
Ron Simpson
Ron Simpson
4436 St. James Rd.
Waldo,Ohio 43356
Phone (740) 726-2960
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