Giving Iodine to your Racing Pigeons Lugol’s Iodine is necessary in avian nutrition and supplementation is desirable. It should be administered one (1) day a week at one (1) Teaspoon per gallon, and during the racing season I recommend it…
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 Inbreeding “A Practical Discussion” Part 1
Intensive Inbreeding “A Practical Discussion” Part 1 by Domanski Family Loft When we discuss breeding, we are not discussing simply how to put two birds together and get offspring. We are discussing how to breed to a higher standard to get…
*Video* Motivation Technique for Your Racing Pigeons
*Video* Motivation Technique for Your Racing Pigeons by Terry Moore Here is a fantastic video from one of our resident pigeon racing experts Terry Moore. In this video Terry shows us how he uses his squeakers to help motivate his…
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…
*Video* Water, and Important Ingredient to a Racing Pigeon
*Video* Water, and Important Ingredient to a Racing Pigeon Here is a another great video from Lavender Hill Lofts on how important water is to your birds. When you breed late breeds be sure to watch them closely especially when…
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…
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…
