It is recommended to let the pigeons build their own nests because this activity makes them love the nest more and will help during races. Some of the best materials for pigeon nests are:
Being a fan of Alan Wheeldon’s articles, I started to apply his advices in my own loft. This case study, inspired from his article “Breeding Winners“, comes to show 8 youngsters bred from the same couple, in several months this year (of course, one round of eggs were adopted by another pair, to speed up the young birds production).
I made 5 videos, 1 with the breeding pair and 4 with the 4 nests of youngsters. I am sorry that my idea came too late, I should have filmed all the babies at the same age, before moulting of the first 4, in order to see the phenotype differences better. Anyway, here we go:
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I am mad about red pigeons. FULL reds especially, more than red checkers. The funny thing is – I heard many fanciers saying that they are crazy about red pigeons too, they love the color. More than that, some of them want to create a full family of successful red pigeons. Are there strong families of reds nowadays? I’d love to learn about a fresh line of successful reds, like the famous Bricoux that were killing the long distance races many years ago and also looked gorgeous!
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