. Profitable pigeon breeding; a practical manual explaining how to breed pigeons successfully,--whether as a hobby or as an exclusive business. Pigeons. b4 PIGEON BREEDING to select their mates and pair off and will soon start billing and cooing and very i)ro]>abIy start a nest. They have, there- foi'e, mated jvist as they \\onld ha\e done had they never been confined l)ut of that class that fly at large. AVc allow them to go ahead ^\â itll their first set of eggs and during this time we study- each pair carefully to sec that they arc properly suited to each other to produce the
. Profitable pigeon breeding; a practical manual explaining how to breed pigeons successfully,--whether as a hobby or as an exclusive business. Pigeons. b4 PIGEON BREEDING to select their mates and pair off and will soon start billing and cooing and very i)ro]>abIy start a nest. They have, there- foi'e, mated jvist as they \\onld ha\e done had they never been confined l)ut of that class that fly at large. AVc allow them to go ahead ^\â itll their first set of eggs and during this time we study- each pair carefully to sec that they arc properly suited to each other to produce the best rcstilts possible. It they are so suited we catch them one b> one and place tlie pi'oper leg liands on. «'ING OR SPANGLED POLISH LYXX Photo from Edwin AV. Knowles, Baltimore, Md. their legs, giving each pair a different numbered band from any other pair and enter, on our records, the numbers on the bands anil the i)arcntage record. For example: Suppose we num])er a pair twelve white. Suppose that the cock bird in this pair was bred from pair twenty-six yellow and the hen from fifteen blue. Tliese nundjcrs arc entered on the record sheet,-; for our new ])air twelve \\hite and this information at once establishes the jiarentage record. In all cases we band the cock on the rigid h'g and tlie hen on the left one. On the other hand suppo.^c we find a pair mated that are not suited to each olh(>r ill tliat they are both AN'cak in the same sections. We should remember that wlicn two birds \\\th the same weakness. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hazard, F. Arthur. Warrenton, Mo. , American Pigeon Journal Company
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