Pairing Up

I think some of the best fun time of keeping pigeons is spending the winter evenings with a warming drink poring over pedigrees of your birds with all the notes you have made of their breeding record, performances, age, sex, temperament and conformation. Then ‘paper pairing’ pairs

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Ways to Facilitate Pairing

Pigeons are influenced more by ‘hours of light’ rather than temperature, so if you want to pair up before the natural light hours influence your birds which is generally in the beginning of February (in the UK) you might want to deploy some lighting. I would use

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Bull Mating

Bull Mating is the practice of mating a top stock cock with several hens during the same period. If one has a exceptionally good stock cock or have brought in an cock to Outcross into your loft with the hope of injecting hybrid vigour and improving your

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Loft Design

Tips There has been a lot of information published on various designs for Racing Pigeon Lofts. There are certain basic factors that exist in all well designed lofts 1 Room – Sufficient cubic air capacity for the number of birds housed 2 Ventilation – Pigeons need plenty

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Hints on Form

When training your pigeons look for the following signs 1. When released they head straight for home not endless circling 2. When arriving home at the loft there is no hanging about they go straight in the loft not spend time on the roofs or garden 3.

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Training Young Birds

Starting in the parents nest box I place two small pots in the box for food and water. These are primarily for the Old Birds so that I am sure they always have food available and are feeding the Young Birds with food not regurgitated water. At

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