Build consistency – Identifing "grace" (part 2 of 6)

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To identify which pigeons are the ones to surround your program around you must breed many youngsters from them and fly them out. I have never been one to coddle my young up and coming pigeons. My best stock birds and proven champions get my respect and are given the best, but they must earn it.  I don’t give any preference to youngsters off of “big name” in the sport pigeons or imports. They are flown just like the rest. They have to prove to me they are worthy of any attention.

It is best to keep notes. I keep a notebook handy so I can write down what I observe. I used to use my memory for everything but realized that writing things down keep it very realistic. You cannot be sentimental about the birds that are in the process of proving themselves if you truly want to build top quality pigeons. I am now sentimental toward some of my champions and best proven stock birds but they earned it and after all we do keep pigeons because we enjoy having them.

There are many things to look for with the building process. One of the major things not to look at is physical appearance. Beginners to the sport will begin listening to all the old secrets of champions. There are no secrets. If there was a secret it would be this, “do the work”.
I would advise against looking at wing length, structure, keels, eyes, feather etc until you understand what it is that gets the job done. A pigeon may look like someone poured the feathers on and they are truly beautiful but the bird could be a hopeless cull.
Learn what a true champion looks like then you might begin to pay a little attention to the physical characteristics. The most important aspect of a great pigeon is what he has to commend himself in the smarts and intuition department.

You can always make a pigeon with excellent character and tenacity more beautiful through selective breeding but you cannot make a beautiful pigeon smart by using just beautiful pigeons in the stock loft.

For myself personally I prefer the look of a true champion above any others and until proven I am highly suspicious of the pretty ones.

Building Consistency – Identifing “The Ones” (part 2 of 6) by Ken Easley

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Build consistency – the Consistant (part 4 of 6)

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So, now that we understand the basic principles of Pretzel breeding we can begin. The best proven racers you have may not be good producers. It is best of they come from a consistent family. A consistent family would be made up of birds that win on a regular basis and carry many common genes in the flock. You can rely on pigeons like these far more than any other. You can make them consistent yourself but it takes time.

Try to get as far up the ladder as you can when starting buy obtaining good stock. This way it takes you less time to reach the upper rungs.

Mate the champions together in every possible combination that you can. In other words, mate every champion hen to every champion cock that you own.

Fly the youngsters in competition if possible to really test them. They should be flown out to at least 400 miles as youngsters to really test them, 300 miles being the minimum.

Keep records of every pigeon that does well and who it is out of. Give a check mark to each individual parent that produced a winner. Don’t worry about the pairs just yet, just look at each individual parent to see how many good ones they produced with each mate.
I would look for pigeons that compete in the top 20% most of the time.

It won’t be long until you can clearly see which cocks and hens are your best producers. You may find a nick pair in the group also. This is a pair that produces several good ones when mated together but not as much mated to others.

A truly top producer will produce good ones with all mates providing they are of some quality. These are the best pigeons for our purposes and to be valued the highest.

In several years you will have a family of pigeons surrounding the best producers and you will learn what is missing from the equation. Don’t bring in lots of pigeons until you know what you need to complete the flock, at least during the building phase. It may be toughness or it may be speed.

Some pigeons come home like they were shot out of cannon. Others come home at a slower pace. Some are good for the distance and some are good for sprint racing. I personally like all around pigeons that do well from 150-450 miles.

Building Consistency – A Consistant Family (part 4 of 6) by Ken Easley

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Building Consistency (part 6 of 6) – Conclusion

It is recommended that you keep the lines of 4 value within the family; Even five or six lines are good if you have a place but four delicate jobs. You can separate these lines and maintain them through Tess are raised. You can use these lines to cross each other when needed.You can save a quite good with four legs for 15-20 years without complication can turn up too. Then you need to add some blood up genes to do again. When looking for new blood, remember that it took a long time to get to where you are so bringing blood inferior cannot be reasonable.Find someone who has built Loft birds consistent matching the philosophy about what constitutes a great racer. They may not click on the first mating. Sometimes they click to the right from the beginning, and it sometimes can be grandchildren who kick it equipment.Also, remember that at the beginning is like machoona network for fish. You may not receive the anything worth keeping tosses a few first. Try many times and keep only the best. After you have established the family the main attention is to be in your family, not chasing rainbows by continuing to buy different families ions. Never get satisfaction of building a family of inconsistent unless you stay the course.Every time you bring new birds bring a whole host of new genetic material to weed through. More weeding process has time less serious ???? your line. There is nothing wrong with much experience of start to find out what packages, but then move forward with your line. If you continue to purchase pigeons and run the game in a new buying addiction to fly a blood peoples. This is fine for some people but not for the actual stock.Many will say, "Tales of the brothers to champ is the best production. This is the last sign is not established. Established perennial family will produce the best. This is the testimony of family built from top proven lalopi. Once you learn what looks like a champ to begin to identify some of the features. You can see confidence in a bird. Nothing beats a real fighter, proven air.Enjoy your quest that is your pleasure in mind, have fun.Building consistency (part 6/6) – a conclusion by Ken EasleyPigeon racing from pigeon | Pigeon racing pigeonsView Related Articles Here: http://michael-pigeonracing.blogspot.com

Building consistency in your birds (part 1 of 6)

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I have written many articles over the years about my experiences with pigeons. I spent most of my life building a top notch strain of rollers. I painstakingly built a family of pigeons that consistently scored higher quality multipliers by the judges in World and National competitions. One of the most important aspects of putting together a family of pigeons that will perform to the strictest standards is starting with good stock. You can’t expect to build a great family of birds using inferior stock.

You would spend years trying to compensate for flaws in the gene pool by mating birds in a manner to compensate for weakness. You are fooling yourself to believe that this would come quickly. It is only wishful thinking at best.

So, to start we must find top quality stock. It is worth the price if the birds are truly top quality. The quality may be found through paying a lot or it just as easily may be found from a gift of a friend in the sport. Some of the best pigeons I have ever owned came from a gift and were the basis for my strain.

It is rare you will find someone that truly knows his line of pigeons and is willing to give up a great prospect to a stranger, even for a price unless he has plenty to spare. You will more likely get his second best. The only time it goes the other way is if the breeder has plenty of great birds and can spare one. I have seen some that got through because the owner didn’t really know what he had also.

Most guys that get started in racers will begin with substandard pigeons and spend several years learning the difference. All is not lost since much can be learned from such experiences.
You will be extremely lucky to find two truly top pigeons but this is the basis for a foundation. The best pigeons will be bred by you in your own loft providing you stick to the plan, pay attention to details and have the tenacity of a wood pecker. I was once asked which animal was my favorite in the animal kingdom. I answered it would have to be the wood pecker. When asked why I would choose a woodpecker from such a wide variety of animals I said because a wood pecker can peck a hole in a tree with his nose.

This takes great determination and steady pecking. I now use this in my business to motivate and focus, steady pecking will win the day.

Building Consistency In Your Birds (part 1 of 6) by Ken Easley

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(Part 5 of 6) Building Consistency – The “ ” Race Smash

When a race with the Club on a regular basis will be the race smash sooner or later. This is a race where many ions are lost. It must be due to bad weather, go down hauler, allow strange location behind the mountains or just the odd circumstances, perhaps even attacks a Falcon. This is really learn something about the doves you are working with. You may lose some of them faster. I lost the birds who built themselves a good reputation as a young birds only to lose the race smash.
Some of the "perceived to be" lesser birds that hang in the top 20% in the first place may show themselves to be the sharpest ions and difficult group.
In 2008 I was sent a challenge ACE pigeon of the world, classic Las Vegas, flew them locally. I'm captive bred animals three brothers from one pair that flew in all three. One flew up into the local; One flew the WAC and Vegas. One in WAC placed 12th of 300 kilometres. He also laid the 60th in 400 I believe. He never won the top honor, but always had one plus only 160 pigeons had left at the end of the competition. I had them sent him home. Other brother flew Vegas, the results were similar. His last flew up into local and to my surprise the same results. Sent to the brothers follow all three, the results were similar. It was a good lesson, well worth the price of admission.
It takes a good ions to win, plain and simple. I flew up into the youngest brother of old birds locally. He was the first behind his trap, a hen, and loft of Honourable Baahrim also.
The next race was 500. Hauler broke at miles 400 and released the birds on the side of a highway. They were behind the leg 16,000 named elevation mountain in Colorado. Many members of the Club were a caller wants to know if I received all the pigeons as race smash. I was worried because I'm not flown in 300 due to schedule work my pigeons was that much since the young birds, in fact, I had no time to train them in the road at all. Outside the pigeon 8 I received back four. First home at a respectable third brother was.
After talking to the guys at our everyone were heavy losses with some guys getting there without repetition. This is something to consider leaving the row of pigeons, toughness, good handle on intuition.
He was a champion in individual pen breeding Loft for several months. I sent her. She was the first race of the season, 400. She came in second. One winner diploma fast vtrngolt ACE national never made it back. Therefore, a good speed, but that's not all.
After all the most important materials that are built into the family is a matter of keeping improving it.
(Part 5 of 6) building consistency – race "smash" by Ken Easley
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Build consistency – pretzel cultivated (part 3 of 6)

Once we have a few proven champions we keep the parents and discard all of the other breeders that did not make the cut. Culling the stock loft is more important than culling the flyers. The flyers will cull themselves but you and you alone are responsible for what goes in the stock loft.
When you have several proven champions from the air you will want to try them at breeding. There are countless methods of breeding but none have ever out matched the pretzel breeding method. I ran across it by accident really. When I was a boy my father and grandfather advised against breeding too close. There was a lot of apprehension associated with breeding close relatives. Since then I have bred them very close and tried every kind of mating you can imagine and using the very best of stock. Having tried inbreeding, line breeding and just plain old out crossing I can tell you, the best method has proven itself over and over again to be the pretzel breeding method.
The Pretzel breeding method is simply trying to keep your best three or four pigeons blood at the forefront of your breeding program in heavy concentration without breeding brother/sister or mother/son or father daughter mating. It is geared toward mating uncle / niece or aunt / nephew or cousins. Double cousins is a favorite of mine. It is not good enough to just mate double cousins and expect excellent results. They must be all proven pigeons and this takes time. They have to be flown out to prove themselves worthy of a shot in the breeding loft. Then they must prove themselves as stock birds. They must reproduce as good as themselves or better and in good percentages.
Building Consistency – Pretzel Breeding (part 3 of 6) by Ken Easley
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