One Hartlepool schoolboy is making his mark by taking up a “dying sport” and becoming “one of the country’s youngest pigeon fanciers”.
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00:00 I'm with Darren Brown who's seven and I'm at his pigeon loft is that right? Do you keep your pigeons here? Yes. How many pigeons do you have? I don't know. 2? 3? No. How many do you think? 80 or like 60 I don't know. Right, do you look after them? Yes. So what do you have to do to look after them?
00:26 You have to like clean them out, give them food and stuff like that. Is it hard work? Not really. No? Do you race your pigeons or do you show your pigeons?
00:37 What? Do you race them? Do they go for races and fly around? Yeah. When they fly around are you
00:43 never frightened that they don't come back? No. Do they always come back? Do you like it? Yeah,
00:49 yeah, yeah but I have to get a sick from those. Ah, from over there? Yeah. Right. This is my breeding loft.
00:58 Oh, you've got a breeding loft? Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah but that one's like,
01:02 like I haven't raised them from like baby birds and things. I haven't raised those. People just
01:12 give me them. All right, that's nice. Nice to talk to you. See you later. What? See you later.