At the end of the spring race of '98, my pigeon won the city 1000 km Grand Prix. Like a kitten circling around the fish tank, the top few years have finally touched the Champions Cup.
In addition to being happy, I invited a few good fanciers to have a drink at the hotel and let everyone share my joy. During the banquet, I was deeply impressed by a sentence by mr. Wang Weike, a writer of the magazine "Chinese Pigeon" and "Pigeon World", and my close friend Mr. Wang Weike - when I lamented that it was not easy to win the championship, he said: "There are champions every year, next year to my home, the same rotation, but we should be wary of the kind of people who can rush into the top place in all race distances every year"! Everyone laughed, but I took this to heart.
Looking back now, what Mr. Wang said was exactly what I had deliberately done for many years: to strive for a good result and keep it. My method of operation is to breed in close blood between the pigeons with excellent performances. Savor, my approach is to go in three steps, one ring buckle and one link, do not mess around.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the first step is to select species</h1>
More than ten years ago, the so-called selection of breeds, compared to the way of importing foreign famous pigeons now, is not the same, at that time there was no other way to get the "SkyFall Bird", Qingdao is a coastal port city, some convenient conditions, and "Skyfall Bird" is not a pigeon of the Taiwan pigeon, Europe, Japan Foot Ring.
However, at that time, the quality of these bole strains was often significantly better than that of the old breeders in our hands. Recalling that the number of "falling birds" that flowed through my hands was not small, and there was a difference in quality between them, my principle was to choose the one I liked to stay, and there was no choice for my own use, and I took it back to thoroughly test and eliminate.
My method of operation for more than ten years is the same, without prejudice, without mixing with emotional factors, without preconceptions, calmly and objectively examining the offspring of the selected breeding pigeons, and doing a pertinent and accurate descendant identification.
I believe that the offspring of a well-standing breeding pigeon should be able to steadily reach the level of 1,000 km homing, and the descendants of a breeding pigeon must reach more than 60% of the 1,000 km homing to meet the selection requirements.
On the basis of stable homing, continue to screen for speed. Thousand kilometers can be returned to the "brain" is good, fast return speed is a strong ability to fly, with these two "legs", is a good pigeon, you can determine the quality of breeding pigeons. In this way, I selected five excellent breeding pigeons.
They are represented by the Japanese grey sand-eyed in '82,[2] the Taiwan dark raindrop yellow-eyed in '83,[3] the English light raindrop yellow-eyed in '84,[4] the French raindrop white-striped yellow-eyed in '85, and the French raindrop yellow-eyed in '87.[5] the French raindrop yellow-eyed in '87.
The descendants of these five breeding pigeons have achieved a stable and rapid return of 1,000 kilometers, and the descendants of the breeding cocks [2], [3] and [5] have been tested to have the ability to return home quickly for 1500 kilometers.
The ancestors of the five-way breeding pigeon are all males, not accidentally, in practice, I feel that the selection of breeds and males is convenient to use, one is the fast inspection speed, the cocks are active when pairing, available at any time, healthy, always in a "peak" state, unlike hens, estrus has a cyclical nature.
In addition, the male breeds quickly and smoothly, and in a short period of time, it is good to disassemble and gather well, and the number of offspring is large, and the test feedback is rapid.
In addition, the breeding period of the cocks is long, and it is not harmful to be older. A belgian famous breeding, with more than 70 female offspring in a year, with females as the main breed, the rational effect seems to be the same, but in reality it is much more troublesome.
In addition to the similar appearance and body structure of the males and females of the five-way species, I require that the females must have excellent results, and resolutely do not use the nameless "white roll" females as seeds.
In my breeding and screening process, I use the racing female as a breeding platform, no female can not do, do not use the female as the main blood, but to choose the best.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > the second step can be called a "destructive" test</h1>
No matter which breeding pigeon's descendants, no matter how handsome and ugly they are, whether they are fat or thin, they are all basketed and released for testing, without exception.
Grasp the age of the month, although the bad weather is also at all costs, the wind and clouds are unpredictable, more heroic nature, many of my excellent pigeons, just have the background of bad weather, on the road for the sharpener, bad weather is the best whetstone.
At that time, the young birds, five hundred, seven hundred must return quickly, the slow one is eliminated, and the multi-level race is the most powerful detection method. At this time, you can't be soft-hearted, otherwise, there will be endless pigeons, and there will be many inferior goods.
The young birds that survived, thousands of kilometers old, came back without counting, or asked for a quick word, then added the lost, but also eliminated a batch.
In my experience, short-distance flying fast, thousand kilometers may not necessarily return home, thousand kilometers fast pigeons, themselves or descendants, short-term and medium-distance often will not be slow, The Japanese pigeon industry titan, Xiangsheng Iwata Josan said well: "What is the first criterion for screening pigeons?" It is to see if it is fast.
This cannot be ignored, and is even more important in the pursuit of fast contemporary pigeon racing. The speed of the pigeons is innate and is not given by the breeder.
To know the speed performance of a pigeon, it can only be tested by the performance of it and its descendants." "It is useless to apply any tricks if it is not a fast pigeon. To put it bluntly, a fast pigeon is a fast pigeon, so our judgment must be based on the results of the race. "It's really a quote.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > the third step, to stabilize and improve the performance, only to approach the path of blood reproduction. </h1>
It is not how clever the individual is, but the only way to do so, the last resort. My approach: use pigeons with excellent racing performances as breeding pigeons, and implement blood matching, close to father and daughter, and slightly farther away, half-siblings.
Of course, the near blood distribution should be degraded, and it can be seen that it will be eliminated early, and it will not be seen, and it will be carried out in five hundred or seven hundred kilometers of flight tests, and those with problems with physical strength and orientation functions will be reflected in the loss and slowness, and they will also be eliminated.
There is a distinct genetic separation of near-blooded pigeons, unlike hybrid pigeons, which differ in appearance and plumage, but are usually healthy and strong.
Blood-related pigeons are good and good, poor is very poor, manifested in all aspects of the inside and outside, in a separate state, I call it "forked" phenomenon, the use of near blood is a good addition, a strong advantage in genetics.
The parent is accurately oriented and fast, and the mother is also accurately oriented, fast, and has the consistency of the ancestral advantage, and the genetic performance in this field will exceed that of the parents. As for the other side of the disadvantage, of course, only with the release to detect and eliminate.
To engage in close blood, one is not to get too close, and the other is to strictly eliminate it.
Fanciers who engage in hybrid advantages are also "Yan Tao", I think it is also "Yan Tao", the method is the same on the surface, and it is very different in the long run.
The hybrid offspring "Yan Tao" is an individual with unstable genetic factors, and the pigeons that survive after the "Yan Tao" offspring of the near blood are the breeding breeding sources of excellent gene concentration, just like the ring buckles of an excellent breeding chain with a consistent "bayonet", which is used strictly and handily.
For more than ten years, the main blood in my shed each way breeding pigeon has been continuously near blood with 6-7 generations, this process to master the far one near and one far (distant relatives - close relatives - distant relatives of the matching method), the first generation of appearance, feather color differences, several generations down, the consistency of the structure will appear, the descendants of pigeons in addition to the excellent performance of the neat, bones, eye sand, body shape obviously tend to be consistent, very beautiful.
This kind of strictly selected blood pigeons can be planted and raced, the genealogy is clear, the generations of excellent results, into a virtuous circle, excellent results will emerge in an endless stream, passed down in the same vein, stable and consolidated, is a high realm.
Since the emergence of this state, the pigeons exported in my shed have performed very well in the south, north and west, and I have transferred fanciers nearly blood pigeons, which can predict their performance, so that the output is reputable and the introduction is very solid.
Five main blood, nearly two hundred multi-generational storage sheds, from the appearance of the feathers, it is easy to distinguish which way from which way, and even make the young pigeons will show what kind of appearance and feather color, can be predicted and controlled in advance.
Since the 1990s, my pigeons have achieved a relatively high number of high prizes within the 1,000 and 500 km races, but I am not satisfied with my past results and think that there is still a lot of room for improvement, and I can only continue to insist on the close blood match, which I am full of confidence.
Today, I only recorded my experience and communicated with the majority of fanciers, hoping to get everyone's criticism and guidance.
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Wen | Chen Liguo
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