Generally speaking, we advise fanciers to think about whether or not to keep a breed after the pigeons are out of the race. But sometimes it's possible to keep some pigeons directly, or sometimes you have to keep them directly. It's that there is less competition testing in the middle, and in fact, you have to breed after leaving the seeds. The pigeons that are kept are used for breeding, and they are used to breed young pigeons. So it's okay to look directly at the breeding value. However, if conditions and time permit, the competition will be tested first, and the continuation and success rate will be relatively high in the later stage. So when can you keep the seeds directly?
In the first case, we use some older breeders when we raise pigeons, and some of them are really good. When we produce pigeons, we also want to leave some descendants for our pigeons. But the breeders are older, and it's not sure if they will be able to produce pigeons next year, and there are fewer pigeons. Therefore, at this time, the pigeon can consider keeping the breed directly to avoid some uncertain factors. Sometimes a good pigeon is no longer available, but the breeder is too old and there are no successors.
In the second case, some of our breeding pairs have been tested really well. The pigeons that come out are probably excellent breeders, so in a situation like this we can keep the pigeons directly. However, the direct planting is actually stained with the light of its former brothers and sisters. This is actually a good practice when you are in dire need of breeding pigeons, and the success rate is quite high. For example, some pigeons do not have time to set rings, and they belong to this category of pigeons, then it is more suitable to keep the breed directly.
In the third case, a pigeon is a close breeding pair. There are many ways to pair pigeons, but inbred pairs are one of the more special. And the pigeons that come out are a little bit special. Generally speaking, if the breeding pigeon is excellent and the breeding pigeon is also excellent, then the success rate of the breeding pigeon is high for the inbred pair. In other words, the so-called breeding value is higher than the competition value. Of course, it's okay to compete. In this case, if you keep the seed directly, you can test the value of breeding when you keep the seed.
In fact, it can be said that the pigeons that can be directly kept can be reproduced, but it is a matter of success rate. In principle, it is advisable to say that all pigeons are tested in races, except in some special cases. If the pigeons are still young, then it is good to have a competition and inspection of the pigeon races, so that the later use of the pigeons will be more guaranteed.
When choosing a carrier pigeon as a breeding pigeon, it is important to pay attention to the pedigree of the pigeon we are choosing. We breed pigeons that are often crossed in order to get better pigeons, and although many of the pigeons we have bred fly very well, it is not certain that the pigeons will not be able to be used as breeders after a few generations of crossbreeding. Therefore, when choosing pigeons, you should also see if there are a lot of hybrids, and it may not be very suitable to take home a more hybridized pigeons.
When choosing a breeding pigeon, it is very simple and very important to choose what you need, for example, you already have some breeding pigeons at home, then you have to introduce them on the basis of your own pigeons. If you want to breed pigeons separately, then the introduction should also be carried out with this purpose. If you buy one pigeon here and one pigeon there, and it is not a pedigree pigeon, it is a cheap ordinary racing pigeon, then the effect of using it is often the same as using a sky-falling bird.