The national standard squab book . smore than half way around. The male may be seen peckingat the female and driving her to nest. When one pigeon isseen chasing another inside and outside the squab house,the driven one is the female and the driver her mate. Neither the squab breeder nor the flying-Homer breederis much concerned about the color of feathers. There areblue checkers, red checkers, black checkers, silver, blue,brown, red, in fact about all the colors of the rainbow. Colorhas no relation to the ability of a pair to breed a large pair ofsquabs. We wish specially to emphasize the fact
The national standard squab book . smore than half way around. The male may be seen peckingat the female and driving her to nest. When one pigeon isseen chasing another inside and outside the squab house,the driven one is the female and the driver her mate. Neither the squab breeder nor the flying-Homer breederis much concerned about the color of feathers. There areblue checkers, red checkers, black checkers, silver, blue,brown, red, in fact about all the colors of the rainbow. Colorhas no relation to the ability of a pair to breed a large pair ofsquabs. We wish specially to emphasize the fact that thecolor of the feathers has no influence on the color of the skinof the squab. A white feathered bird does not mean a white-skinned squab. The feed affects the color of the meat a corn-fed pigeon will be yellower than one fed on a with dark skins (almost black in some cases) are theproduct of blood matings. The trouble with a dark-coloredsquab is in the blood and the only remedy is to get rid of them. THE MATING way of mating squab breeders is to turn cocks and hens in equal numbersinto the same Den. The rruting cooo is used when the breeder wishes to pair acertain male with a certain female. The above mating coop is divided by a cock is placed on one side of the partition, the hen on the other, as are left thus for a day or two to tease each other. Then raise the partition,or take it out, and allow them to approach each other when they usually will befound to have formed an attachment. This being the case, they may be put intothe large pen with the other birds, where they will find a nest box and go to house-keeping. If they fight when the partition is removed, try again, or try other coop pictured above is two feet long, one foot wide and one foot deep. 70 LAYING AND HATCHING 71 either by killing the parents or by remating. Usually thetrouble conies from one parent bird, which you find by turningup
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