Pigeon Fanciers

Mary Of Exeter

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10 Years
Apr 10, 2009
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Rowan County, NC
I was just wondering how many other pigeon fanciers there are on the site
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And do you just have them for fun/pets, or competitions like rollers, pigeon racing, or showing?
What breeds do you have?

I just had to take a break from this chicken streak I've been on lately....or else I might turn into one!
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We have modenas, english owl, norwich cropper, voorburg shield pouter, valencian thief pouter, swiss mondain and some shield marked racers......
 
I had a pair of parlor rollers
and a pair that just showed up at my house one day (different days)....one was racer who itried contacting the club it came from and never got a responce and theother was a nontagged normal looking pigeon hen.

I miss htem so much would raise any sort of pigeon again just because I really like them. deffinatly like them a lot more than doves.
 
Wow, you guys have breeds I've always wanted!
Norwich croppers and ice pigeons. They're some gorgeous birds
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Those trumpetes are pretty too.


I also like pigeons more than doves. Mostly because you can let them go and they come back. Poor little doves have a hard enough time finding their way around the building
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I raise Homers, I do not race them but I do breed for unique colours and nice type.

I handraise most of my young ones, esspecially out of pairs that produce really odd coloured ones. I like nice and Calm birds, and when handraised, homing pigeons are wonderful and calm birds. I try not to raise more then 10 at once tho, its just such a mess when you have 10 babies pushing eachother away from the bottletrying to get at it....

Its a lot of fun though!
 
Oh I love getting fancy colors in my birds. Of course since I race now, color isn't the most important thing...but I still like the surprises
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I'm going to try to get some blacks to mate with my indigo birds...so that hopefully I'll have a flock of andalusian homers to kick everyone's butts with
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(I'm a color genetics nerd, by the way
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I don't feel very comfortable with hand raising babies unless I have to. I feel more safe letting the parents do the job. But once they're weaned I usually start handfeeding them seeds and peanuts to get them tame. Then before I know it, I've got a pigeon on each shoulder, foot, knee, and one on my head!
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Opals are great
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There's only but a million different variations of Opal to play with, even in Recessive red. Turns those pink. Everyone around here would probably have a fit if I showed up with a bunch of pink birds
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Good thing I have chickens to play with color-wise. If not, then I'd probably break down and breed all my racers to have crazy colors
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