Breeding Racing Pigeons is Easy by Dr. Wim Peters Get two pigeons, one of either gender, provide them with a loft, nesting material and a secluded spot and before long, on average 10 days later, the hen will have laid…
Using Fostering in your Breeding Strategy
Using Fostering in your Breeding Strategy by Domanski Family Loft I was half tempted to entitle this section “Embryo Transfer”. In horses, embryo transfer is the procedure of artificially inseminating a mare from sperm from a specific stallion. Once the…
Intensive Inbreeding “A Practical Discussion” Part 2
Intensive Inbreeding “A Practical Discussion” Part 1 by Domanski Family Loft The reason that my strategies involve working with the descendents to start the inbreeding program starts with the two foundation birds and not the ancestors is because most people do…
Intensive Breeding Theory
Intensive Breeding Theory By Domanski Family Lofts What is it that we want to accomplish when we breed? We want to produce prize and race winners. We want to produce birds that we can introduce back into the breeding loft…
Creating “Sports” When Breeding Racing Pigeons
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…
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…
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…
Understanding Breeding and Genetics Part 1
Understanding Breeding and Genetics Breeding good racing pigeons can be accomplished without any knowledge of genetics. Just think; how would the stockmen of years gone by, who did not have an inkling of genetics, have bred their livestock? Theirs was…
3 Tips for Selecting Breeders
From the very beginning the selection of breeders has been fascinating for me plus rewarding in meeting top flyers in different parts of the world. Like any other subject matter, Pigeon Graders, there are several good ones in America, have…
