When racing with a club on a regular basis there will be a smash race sooner or later. This is a race where many pigeons are lost. It may be due to bad weather, a break down of the hauler…
Building Consistency – A Consistant Family (part 4 of 6)
So, now that we understand the basic principles of Pretzel breeding we can begin. The best proven racers you have may not be good producers. It is best of they come from a consistent family. A consistent family would be…
Building Consistency – Pretzel Breeding (part 3 of 6)
Once we have a few proven champions we keep the parents and discard all of the other breeders that did not make the cut. Culling the stock loft is more important than culling the flyers. The flyers will cull themselves…
Building Consistency – Identifing “The Ones” (part 2 of 6)
To identify which pigeons are the ones to surround your program around you must breed many youngsters from them and fly them out. I have never been one to coddle my young up and coming pigeons. My best stock birds…
Building Consistency In Your Birds (part 1 of 6)
I have written many articles over the years about my experiences with pigeons. I spent most of my life building a top notch strain of rollers. I painstakingly built a family of pigeons that consistently scored higher quality multipliers by…
Breeding Program for Success Part 2
Breeding Program for Success Part 2 11.One or two pair of proven breeders and their closely related bloodlines (brothers / sisters, etc.) can bring great honor to a fancier for many years. The 3 season young bird race series requires…
Breeding Pigeons – Breeding Program for Success Part 1
Breeding Pigeons – Breeding Program for Success Part 1 Because of Taiwan’s unique style of racing and the various breeding seasons, fanciers must cull, select and prepare their breeders several times a year to ensure the greatest possible fertility of…
The Breeding Loft
The Breeding Loft Winning is the result of breeding, training, nutrition, consistency, stamina, heart, superior intelligence and homing ability. In pigeon racing, there is no substitute for any of the above qualities. Only excellent race results, generation after generation in…
Tricks for Pigeon Foster Parenting
Trick 1: If you have a pair where the hen has stopped laying eggs due to any kind of reason, know that you can use this pair as foster parents. A pair which has been trying to get some…
Pigeon Fostering
Pigeon Fostering….. This is our method to raise an all white round, then a race team, using fosters and ‘natural parents’…. Put the pairs together, and let everyone lay a round of eggs. Most pairs will lay within 7-10 days…
