Pigeons

Freak weather, fatigue and inexperience can result in losses, more so if the birds are younger than six months old.

We take a look at the importance of racing performance, natural selection and human intervention in pigeon breeding.

Heat training will only help to a point. Pigeons should have the right genotype to handle heat.

Since an overwhelming number of rich racing pigeon fanciers have entered the sport over the last few years, cash prize money in SA has rocketed into the millions.

In the final part of THis series on pigeon health, I'd like to remind readers that it's an area that's not conclusive and there are always advancements. Diagnostics is a specialised field and I will continue to report on new research findings.

Sick Racing Pigeons can't produce healthy offspring and sick pigeons in a loft put other lofts at risk of contamination. Keeping our pigeons healthy is everybody's business.

This article is going to save you time and money. Beginners and struggling fanciers often don't get proper support with their pigeons. Even worse than getting little to no help, is getting conflicting advice.
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In part one of this series we concluded that the winning pigeon of a race event can’t become the winner if it doesn’t have more speed.

Helping a friend retrieve a hat blown off by the wind 35 years ago led the late Bob Kinney to become a world-renowned racing-pigeon breeder and racer.

Tom Lock, veteran South African champion, did for the pigeon racing fraternity what Mohammed Ali accomplished for boxing and Gary Player did for golf.

The twelfth Sun City Million-dollar Pigeon Race will take place on 2 February 2008.

When I first took an interest in pigeon racing in 1968, the number of wealthy pigeon fanciers on South African soil could be counted on the fingers of one hand.