During the race, the pigeons are transported to a certain distance and then released to see if the pigeons can go home. The level of this ability to go home is the ability to return home. Some pigeons will come back after five hundred kilometers, while some fanciers will lose a lot of money when they put three hundred kilometers, which is the difference in the ability to return home. And when we race pigeons, we tend to attach great importance to the ability to return home, because this is the basis for pigeons to win prizes.
However, our races require the return of the pigeons and the return of the pigeons to be able to return faster. There is a big difference between a pigeon flying 1,500 meters in the same race and a pigeon flying at a speed of 800 meters. This is something that requires a certain amount of training. Most of the pigeons' ability to locate their nests is innate, and only a small part is the improvement of acquired training. That's why we say that the homing capacity of pigeons is also an important way to analyze heredity.
For example, when our pigeons are bred into breeding pigeons, the descendants of the pigeons still pay attention to this homing ability, the pigeons can come back, and not too late, then it means that the homing ability of this pigeon is relatively good, and the descendants have such ability, then it means that the homing ability of this breeding team is very good, and such breeding pigeons already have a certain stable foundation. Especially for fanciers who come back no matter how they put their pigeons, the breeding pigeons will not be very bad.
With a certain ability to return, then the ability to improve the return of pigeons can start from the speed. It's also simple and straightforward. Stability is there, and stability is stable homing ability. Then slowly increase the speed, or hybridize some fast pigeons, will soon have an effect. Therefore, when we choose pigeons and breed breeding pigeons, we must take the ability to return to the nest as a requirement, which is also based on genetics.