To Cull or Not to Cull
To Cull Or Not To Cull; That Is The Question You have to be able to “read” pigeons. Kit watching, from liberation through flying and down and it is mandatory. So are the many hours of in coop watching. You can learn more from just being alone with your birds than you can by […]
The Value of Rolldowns
With the exception of Yellow Rollers I know of no topic that incites more arguments than the use of rolldowns. Here we have an interesting article by Tom Monson. The Value Of Rolldowns I have a different view of “rolldowns.” The way I see it, every roller is a potential rolldown. It all […]
Pros & Cons of Breeding Methods
Pros and Cons of Breeding Methods Inbreeding (mating of closely related individuals) Pro Produces uniform or predictable offspring. Hidden (recessive) genes show up and can be eliminated. Individuals will “breed true” and are “pure”. Doubles up the good genes Eliminates unwanted traits. Con Doubles up on […]
Genetics Chart
Another page by Nick Siders Genetics Some basic things and a few definitions: The Cock Bird can be covering another of the basic colors which are ash-red, blue/black, and brown while the Hen covers no other color. She is what you see while the Cock can be ash red, but is also covering blue […]
The Pigeon Body
Another of Nick Siders articles. A Closer Look at the Pigeon Birds have a lightweight skeleton made of mostly thin and hollow bones. The keel-shaped sternum (breastbone) is where the powerful flight muscles attach to the body. Birds have a smaller total number of bones than mammals or reptiles. This is because many of their bones […]
The South African Rollers
Our thanks to the South African Distance Roller Pigeon Federation for sharing this article on the history of Birmingham Rollers in South Africa. The SA Distance Roller Pigeon The SA distance roller pigeon. Why the name and where did these roller pigeons come from? In this article the story of this breed’s history unfolds, […]
A Different Spin
Story from the Hamakua Community News. Article not dated. A Different Spin Story and photos by Sarah Anderson The sun hadn’t yet cracked the eastern horizon as Eldon Cheney walked up the lawn from the guest room wearing a red baseball cap that read, “spin‘em if you got’em” under the initials “NBRC”. Cheney, who […]