Great video from The Dovecote Loft on how to treat your pigeons for feather lice.
Is Pigeon Racing A Sport, Or Animal Cruelty?
Tom Strato, a 39-year veteran of the New York City Police Department, walked into his backyard pigeon coop on Staten Island, N.Y., and reached for a white racing homer tagged RBC-548. A relative of the pigeon had brought him…
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…
How can we cut costs in pigeon racing?
How can we cut costs in pigeon racing? As you may know pigeon racing costs seem to keep rising and according to a poll I did here with Pigeon Insider members rising costs is one of the main reasons for declining memberships,…
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…
Pigeon Health Matters Part 2 – The Race Stage
Race stage Aim: To maintain winning form through the entire season by good management and maintenance of health. This is when it gets interesting. It is also the time when most fanciers start making serious mistakes. During competition medication is…
Pigeon Health Matters Part 1
From a veterinary health point of view pigeons represent an extreme therapeutic challenge. In a closed stock loft or parrot aviary, where the movement of birds in and out is very low it is simply a matter of testing birds,…
Joseph Van Dorning’s Pigeon Racing Tips
No 1. Make sure your loft is 100% vermin proof. There is nothing that will knock your birds off form quicker than a small mouse urinating or leaving droppings or drinking from the birds water fountain. No 2. Make sure…
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…
