Creating “Sports” When Breeding Racing Pigeons Overview I use the term “Sports” because it was a term used by M.H. “Dad” Paget in his book Intensive Line-breeding. In his term of sports it was used to define products of successful…
Evaluating Breeders
Evaluating Breeders By Domanski Family Lofts It’s easy to evaluate racers, they either, win, diploma, score in the points, are also ran’s or get lost. Breeders are an entirely different matter, In order to properly evaluate them, you have to…
6 Must’s For Selecting Breeders
6 Must’s For Selecting Breeders Recently we have been discussing breeding and in particular we have been discussing some very important things you should be looking at when selecting your breeders. In the last article we went over three of the…
Racing Pigeons: Three Things to Look For When Selecting Breeders
Racing Pigeons: Three Things to Look For When Selecting Breeders 1. Racing Performance Chances are better that you will produce a winning pigeon if you are breeding from birds that are winners. In racing pigeons, we are selecting for so…
Breeding Racing Pigeons: Methods of selecting breeders
Breeding Racing Pigeons: Methods of selecting breeders Genetics are not covered in this section. Entire volumes of scientific information is available on the subject of genetics. One can easily get lost. What most pigeon fanciers want to know is; how…
Racing Pigeons Laying Cycle
The Laying Cycle of Racing Pigeons The time line for the laying cycle begins with pair up or mating. 5 Days – after mating the cock should start driving the hen. This is seen by the cock chasing…
Pairing Racing Pigeons For Breeding
Pairing Racing Pigeons For Breeding If you are breeding with a strategy and not by chance the art of pairing up is essential. When breeders are not producing young, cocks and hens must be separated to enable you to reintroduce…
Sexing Racing Pigeons
Sexing Racing Pigeons Let me get this out of the way here first I am not an writer by trade, this will be a listing of statements, facts and observations on the many ways of telling the gender of homing…
Understanding Breeding and Genetics Part 3 – “Pigeons win races, not names…”
Understanding Breeding and Genetics Part 3 – “Pigeons win races, not names…” As in life, there are never any dead certainties. With pigeons even less and to be realistic, one must only work on small success percentages. Any pair of…
Understanding Breeding and Genetics Part 2 – Selection
Selection Selection is at the basis of all breeding and the improvement of all animal species depends on it. Long before any animal breeder ever used his stockman’s eye to select certain individuals, natural selection had from the very first…
