The yearlings pigeons
Some fanciers claim to save their yearling pigeons (yearlings) for the future. What exactly? What is the real meaning of the term save? Pigeon fanciers often consider that yearlings are “spared” if they are...
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The young pigeons
In Belgium and in Netherlands, competitions for youngsters are very popular. A large number of pigeon fanciers indulge in this type of game. With us, five national competitions for youngsters are organized every fortnight...
Has the carrier pigeon reached the end of its evolution?
Beginner: I recently read in a book dealing with the evolution of species, that we can consider this evolution to have come to an end. This would mean that the men and animals that...
The sprint and middle distance pigeon
Beginner : At the beginning of June you told me about long distance pigeons. By describing the pigeons of Robert Willequet, from Kwaremont, and by quoting me an extract from the portrait of the...
The secret of the speed of the pigeons
There are specialists for all distances and for all racing systems. But whether they race their pigeons natural or widowhood, they have all their secrets which, in practice, almost always boil down to one....
How to feed the middle distance pigeons? (2)
Beginner: During our last conversation, you told me that the champion whose system you revealed to me of feeding his pigeons at the Corbeil competitions in Orléans at L’Union d’Anvers, did not let go...
The selection of pigeons
Beginner: Among the qualities of a pigeon there is one which seems to me very difficult to define, in particular the quality of balance, and which, according to you, is judged as soon as...
