Dear readers and readers,

there it is again, the Christmas edition of TaubenMarkt / The sports pigeon. “Nice again”Because one already whole year has vergegangen, Expired, past. Many years ago said to me, an elderly Sports friend “If you only times are in retirement, the time walking around even faster; from then on is only Christmas!” That was perhaps a bit exaggerated, but in one year is really not much to it, in terms of time. A pigeon fancier thinks and lives always in advance. For he must plan yes, plan for his pigeons and his pigeons. And nothing left to chance. we stay in the frontChristmas time a little on this issue. The overwhelming part of all sports fans planning his pigeon breeding. Not only on the time sequence here, but also or mainly as he puts together his couples. The variety of methods are used. By the One does a piece of paper and a pencil in the other, all data is sorted by the computer as the owner it claims. With sophisticated computer programs sample pairings are simulated. The computer can of course only work with the data it has, the facts are. And these are the origins generally. In doing “ancestor loss” or “Ancestry accumulation”, Inbreeding levels and further considered that. But the “real” Breeder sees in spirit, and his pigeons real happening. He takes her in hand, scans their external appearance and looks into his eyes. Is not necessarily with a magnifying glass. Then he decides: This bird with the females and that females with the other bird. Often, eye color and even plumage colors are taken into account or join - the breeder's opinion - are mutually exclusive. In this bizarre arguments are brought. But we want to breed pigeons that win as many prizes, most still early, on the betting flights.

“And nothing left to chance?” Do the opposite so the sports fans that the “free pairing” practice. Let the females to the birds into the compartment, and each of the pigeons can select the partner free. What proportion of sports fans, the process so never knowmand. I personally know a very successful, through the in issue 10/2017 of Taubenmarkt / The sports pigeon bewas directed. A variant of thisit is the method “Guided free pairing”, The statement was so in the impact report another pigeon journal. but it was not described in detail who was to whom directed here now and how. Had the birds in the upper cells are first a female or flew wifechen first to the cells of the past year?

Also a method nothing to chance, turned in the late 1940s (you read right) a then famous Belgian breeder, long since faded to. He wore u in the pockets of his wide Cordjacketts. a. Tobacco tin, whistle, matches and - here it comes - more card games. On each game card he had next King, Queen, Farmer, As or Pik7 the ring Nummer and the sex of one of his pigeons gewrote. Had the man the evening a little time he paused in a cafe or in sports friends, he filled his pipe and shuffled the cards. Then he took starting from the front Map birds until the first female card appeared or vice versa and put them in this episode behind each other. That was his pairing plan. he no longer pleased him, he shuffled the cards again and started over again. Yet he was - shortly before his death - nor that his world-famous breeding pair had not come across the cards mixture into existence, but because some surplus pigeons had not been ignored. His comment on his own dream breeding pair: “Two doves that I would never put together!”

To round nor the opinion of an experienced and successful sports girlfriend when I was atimes before it fully occupied breeding compartment was: “the firecrackers fall out of the foreign-goers!”

So now in the pre-Christmas time enough planning and coincidences. Perhaps brings us of December, so that the mating runs a few mild days and nights at the supporters of the winter breeding problems.

Happy holidays wishes you
the entire BIW team!

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