Writers in the pigeon world have to flaunt their great achievements first, in order to show their strength and authority. This is completely understandable in competitive sports, there was a martial arts alliance leader in ancient times, and there is also a talk of Huashan on the sword, coupled with today's sports and the economy, it is everywhere in terms of words and left. There are even half-pot readers, who judge their heads and feet, pick at the thorns of eggs, and even speak ill of each other, causing the speaker to become inflamed, and those who moan without disease are common;
In fact, the author believes that the frontispiece is nothing more than persuasion. Nowadays, people have strange thoughts, thinking that free must not be good, and the unprofitable Confucius has already gone to immortality, which deduces the credibility of the work. Sikong Jian here advises to learn to have words, if you don't believe me, please say goodbye, if you half-believe, please leave, if you believe it all, please calm down on the reason, don't scrutinize the wording, after all, we are talking about raising pigeons, as long as it is applicable, which is the dialect.
Let's talk about the method of learning. In the same class, the listeners understand thousands of people, and the teachers all hope that the scholars can pass, but the fact is that people are divided into three levels, which can be average. Combined with the results of the pigeon world, there are always victorious generals, mainstays, and those who endure humiliation in their lives at the bottom of the valley called the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The winner is the general, and the loser is the turtle. When the general is still a turtle, this requires aside the mentality and method of learning that all lies in understanding, it can be said that the stupid bird flies first, and the person is not lazy. Besides, there are a few victorious generals, and there are pigeons in various places, but they are like horns. Sikong Jian preached the pigeon road, not higher than these masters, not more than everyone knows, but to help everyone systematically sort out the pigeon raising ideas, refine the techniques, keep improving, add wings to the tiger, and not to polish a mediocre talent into a master. Here Sikong Jian said to this classmate that raising pigeons is risky, and investment needs to be cautious.
To put it simply, learning is learning, and why is this done, and where is the principle? These are not copied one by one. Because the pigeon environment is different, feeding is different, understanding is different, and the concept is different, only if you understand the principle, you will be able to integrate and break into a sword. Some time ago, I saw a master talking about pigeons, saying that pigeon breeding needs to learn aerodynamics, mechanics, nutrition, medicine, mathematics, to know astronomy, to understand geography, according to this sentence, Sikong Jian weakly asked: These are understood, can you still raise pigeons?
In the Qing Dynasty, Zou Ping wrote the "Book of Pigeons", which has "the first discussion of the eye, and the second discussion of the accommodation". CCTV pigeon pulpit has a famous interpretation that raising pigeons first looks at the eyes, and then looks at the posture of the pigeon. Staying is lodging, it is a sleeping position. I see that this interpretation has also been published in authoritative pigeon magazines in China, which shows that the pigeon culture is worrying. In addition to accommodation, there are also old, long-term engagement, and well-known, such as fate, which should be understood as bloodline in the pigeon classic, that is, raising pigeons first on pigeon eyes, and then on birth, that is, blood. Sikong Jian is using this to study today, not by talking about this theory, but by emphasizing understanding, and only by understanding correctly can it be implemented correctly. Therefore, the key concepts after Sikong Jian need to be repeatedly demonstrated, and those with high understanding, please bear with me, don't be too long-winded, just want to say endlessly.
Raising pigeons, Sikong Jian doesn't think that he has to learn so many theories, but he thinks that he must do all kinds of details well. The so-called details determine success or failure, do all the details well, synthesis is success. The perfect synthetic pigeon is the champion, Sikong Jian does not advocate the goal of winning the championship every time, but the pursuit of continuous and stable results, invincible performance, but also to help you to a higher level of feeling.
Sikong Jian is in the fruit city of Shu Kingdom, according to the experience described here, only in this practice, the words of one family, for reference only. There are four grades of 200, 300, 400 and 500 km, and the speed is 1100-1500 m/min before the spring race and 800-1300 m/min before the autumn race.
Pigeon racing is inseparable from breeding. Let's talk about the breed first, now it is called the bloodline of the pigeon, and the breed is the first, which shows its weight. Without good weapons, everything you get is useless. The quality of the species cannot be judged with the eyes, it is nothing more than the bias of personal hobbies and the precipitation of various theories in the head. With different opinions, different hobbies, and the spirit of not admitting defeat, no one doesn't think their own breed is not good. But in the dead of night, at the end of the year, you really evaluate your own breeders, let go of the spirit of not admitting defeat, let go of the mentality of covering your ears and stealing the bell, do your pigeons still think that they are super breeders? or are you fighting on the battlefield to exterminate the weapons of the bandits? If not, if you want to eliminate, do you have a way to eliminate? Let's take a look at the factors that affect the judgment of good pigeons, and accordingly decide the selection of breeding pigeons:
1. Grade selection
In Sikong Jian's pigeon racing book, the results are more than everything else. It is true that there are also youngsters that do not perform well and the good racing traits interrupt the genetics, but the chances of success are always high, and choosing a winning pigeon is one of the shortcuts to success. In practice, there are some reasons that lead to the fact that the self-kept breeders or the introduced breeders have not participated in the inspection, so it has to be judged from the eyes, experience and feel of the pigeon owner.
2. Regional selection
Good pigeons are not everything. In the land of foreign projectiles, one standard can be accepted, and China has a wide area, and the climate is very different from north to south, so there are basically no pigeons killed by the north and south. The northern plains pursue speed, and the southern mountains are high and foggy and seek stability, so it is particularly important to choose pigeons that are suitable for the local climate, race line and schedule, commonly known as the right road. It is advantageous to choose the local high pigeons as the base, and then introduce the pigeons to crossbreed, and the results can be seen in a short period of time, as for the consolidation and development of the bloodline, that is a later story.
3. Appearance selection
1. Body type: In the city where the author is located, there are all kinds of eyes of high-ranking pigeons, but the body size is roughly the same. Except for a few difficult races and a big tailwind super high speed, they are generally medium and medium to large in spring, medium and medium to small in autumn, and those who are too big and too small have not entered.
2. Head shape: Looking at the world's famous pigeons, 80% of the super famous pigeons' head shape arc is quite large and obvious. Aside from the factors of pigeon photography, this phenomenon is in line with the characteristics of a large head, a naturally large cranial cavity, and a high intelligence of carrier pigeons. Fanciers compare their own pigeons with good results and find that most of them do not have this trait, thus questioning this argument. Sikong Jian reminds you here, I said that this characteristic is mostly reflected in the super pigeon, has your pigeon's performance reached? You can compare the head shape of the local famous pigeon, the descendants of the super play, you see if there is this characteristic.
3. Nasality: The nose interval is deep and wide, it is undoubtedly a good breed, this characteristic is reflected in a hen, it must be the whole shed to improve the overall contract, the nose width is more difficult to find.
4. Wing type: From a distance, a group of pigeons in a group of pigeons is a pair of big wings at first sight, which must be a good flyer. Pigeons with this characteristic generally play a distance of more than 500 kilometers in the mountains, and belong to the heroes who do not chirp or not.
5. Standing posture: frontal view, feet apart, legs, neck length moderate; side view, the body part above the legs rises more than 60 degrees is a short-range fast pigeon, 45-60 degrees belongs to the good nature, generally several levels of ace pigeons in this category, tend to be parallel, remote distance, stable temperament, rapid bottom in this category of the majority. It is not absolutely impossible to have fast pigeons of this size, but the chances are very low, and the results are mostly achieved in bad weather.
6. Sports: Observe the pigeon when walking, the excellent pigeon neck and body have coordination, the head and neck are wavy in the walk, one after the other can see a kind of strength, jump and land, grasp in place, with ease, will not stand on a perch and move a few feet and wings.
7. Feel: The first feeling of excellent pigeons is coordination, the first feeling of touching the palm of the hand is that the airbag wall is thick and strong, the keel is probed forward, easy to touch, the keel arc is obvious, the rear is retracted, the keel length is moderate and good, the skeleton is tough, but it can't feel like touching the iron pestle. Some fanciers think that pigeons such as iron pestles have a good skeleton, but I personally think that such pigeons have high bone density and heavy weight, and the room for muscle adjustment is not obvious when adjusting during the competition, and the operability is small. The pubic bone at the back must be close together, and the keel and its over-smoothing are natural, the keel is not perfect to be raised or lowered, but this over-the-top and pubic bone will change with the pigeon's physical condition, so it should be tasted when it is normal and healthy.
8. Feathers: Feathers are required to be thin and slippery, how much rain powder is related to the state of the pigeon and daily feeding, the pigeon is healthy and in good condition, the rain powder must be abundant, commonly known as the ash. At the same time, the dust on the feet of the pigeon is a major indicator of health, and the pigeon with the feather cover is reliable, but it is not that the feather is not covered or it is all a bad breed.
9. Personality characteristics: excellent pigeons have many independent characteristics, such as the best position at home, the position of free advance and retreat and the position of the fortress where people can observe the entrance, the pigeon that makes strange performances at regular times or positioning every day, etc., these are trustworthy horses. The top pigeon has two extreme manifestations, the pigeon that appears in your sight every day from a young age and the pigeon that makes you forget that it exists.
The major traits of the pigeon are an all-round match, and there is no perfect pigeon, all of the above is only a relative probability, and it is absolutely a dogma. Playing with pigeons is fun, and many pigeon fanciers, including famous masters, also have pigeons that do not understand pigeons. However, it is very helpful to play with your own pigeons, for culling and designation, as well as for the assignment of the individual races. I hope that Sikong Jian's words are for your reference, please practice and compare with a questioning attitude. If there is anything wrong, please advise.