Best Racing Pigeon Pedigree

Pedigree is all that matters! It is for that reason why great sums are paid for children of champions. It is for that reason why birds whose generation is closer to the foundation are more expensive than birds of later generation. It is also the reason why a 10th placer in an International race sold more than a higher ranked pigeon. Why? Simply because the 10th placer is a validation of its bloodline and the higher ranked pigeon may come from less known origin.

Pedigree ensures a greater chance of breeding success. It tells you how a bird is bred. It tells you the method of breeding great fanciers use. It will guide you in your breeding choices and pairing decisions. Most importantly, it will give information about the origin of the bird.

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Success for Long Distance Pigeon Racing

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Correct training, feed, and good birds (strain names are pretty immaterial so long as they are from good long distance families) are important, and a family that can succeed on your course. A long distance winning strain that has been developed on a flat, level course over the span of years might not be one to fly a mountainous course against a strain that’s been developed for that one.

One thing I always, always look for is a soft wing (personal prejudice perhaps) but an older winning flyer showed me years ago that birds which would “lay their wing in your hand” usually did much better at the distance than did those that “snapped it back”. Color is pretty immaterial (though I try to watch for any in the family that might wind whip their flights excessively)

Some fly widowhood, some natural (a good hen on just hatched squeakers is hard to beat even with a good widow cock bird). I’ve done both and seen both win.

Feeding on the curve also helps as does correct training (which seems to vary on different routes – that’s something you might have to check with your local flyers). So does making sure they’re hydrated correctly for the flight.

One hugh part of the recipe is seeing that the birds love their home and feel secure in it.

If you want “strains” – which I’ve found over the years often really aren’t what people say they are (how many times have you heard the “It’s Janssen – it’s mom was out of so and so” and they sort of ignore the sire? or the grandsire? or any of the others in the family line?”

Look for flyers who are currently winning in the distance and terrain that you want to fly in. Ask them – often if they’re not your direct competitors (and sometime even if they are) and if you are polite, you will get a direct and useful answer for yourself.

in addition to checking out some of the larger longer races here in N. America, you might simply want to Google the Barcelona National pigeon race to get results of some fo the long distance birds and strains presently flying in Europe as well. You might also want to Google Australian pigeon races – they fly some really long distance races there as well.

Below I’ve listed the website URL for one of the people who flew the Barcelona and places pretty high up and their birds.

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Racing Pigeons

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Racing pigeons are a special breed of pigeon, they were bred specially for message delivery back in the medievil days, 2 different people had the one bird, and this bird new these 2 locations.. so these two people would use this bird to send a msg to eachother, and for all the people they need to send messages to fast they had a bird for it. so if they had 20 people, then there was 20 birds..
now days, they use them for racing, the bird is taught trust there owner and they teach them and special noise they will use and when the bird learns this noise and comes to the owner, the owner then lets the bird out to fly around and teachs to bird to come to the noise and learn the area, like what there house looks like, and the bids remembers this ands so when they learn all this, and a race is on, they can take them thousands of miles away and the birds will fly home.

How Racing Pigeon Find Their Way Home

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Pigeons use at least three different modes of navigation. Right between their eyes, they have a layer of magnetite cells (like natural magnets). These sense the earth’s magnetic fields and they use that sense to help get back to where they feel “comfortable”. Second, they have been shown to use the angle of the sun and the time of the day (sort of an internal clock that lets them know where the sun “should” be for home, and they head that way. Third, there is evidence from some Italian studies that they may actually use scent — though there is still some experimentation being down to verify this. Fourth: they’ve been shown to also use some visible landmarks – they often follow roads, etc., which you can actually see them do if you have racing pigeons and follow them sometime.

There is also evidence that pigeons can hear infrasound (deep sounds way below what human beings can hear) and that they may also use these clues to find their way. A pigeon in California can likely hear the wind going thru a pass in the Rocky Mountains.

There is still much research being done on homing in pigeons as well as in wild birds. It’s a field that is active and it’s still got a lot of surprises waiting for us to discover.

Pigeons are fascinating and wildly exciting animals that are much, much more than just the “things” that are dirty because they’re forced to live in human dirt and oil in cities.

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Racing Pigeon

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Racing Pigeons

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This is a comprehensive guide to the popular sport of pigeon racing. Topics covered include the history of the sport; physiology of the pigeon; housing, management, and breeding; training for young and old birds; ailments and diseases; and race administration. Illustrated throughout, this is essential reading for the fancier, or anyone interested in this popular sport.

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