At present, we enthusiasts, according to the characteristics of their respective sheds, combined with personal views, use their own pairing methods to achieve their different pairing purposes.
The generally used pairing methods are: free matching, hybridization, inbreeding, performance matching, eye matching, comprehensive matching, one pigeon multi-matching method, etc.; enthusiasts choose the pairing method according to their own needs and opinions.
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It is generally used less because it requires higher quality in the shed. It is required that the adopter's shed, individuals and groups should have good pedigree and good results, which is difficult to achieve in the shed of the average enthusiast.
The use of free matching methods is difficult for the next generation of breeders to penetrate them, and only on the road can they verify their advantages and disadvantages. In general, the success rate is not high.
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Widely adopted. It is to use two different strains to pair each other, of course, selective hybridization. This arrangement is generally carried out in pigeons with stronger individuals. An individual refers to lineage, performance, body shape, eye sand, and so on.
But it's hard for enthusiasts to really master them. When the offspring participate in the competition, there will often be instability and the achievements will be difficult to consolidate. There are also successes, but there are not many opportunities.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > inbreeding</h1>
Now that everyone is widely used and forms their own distinctive strains, it is necessary to use the inbreeding method to determine the shape.
The range of inbreeding methods is widely chosen, including cousin matching, uncle and nephew matching, aunt and nephew matching, half-sibling (half-sibling) matching and so on. Excellent racing pigeons bred by close relatives are relatively stable.
However, the use of inbreeding is conditional, requiring that the individual family lineage of the inbreeding be good, otherwise it is also in the category of instability. People often talk about "good blood is not afraid of close relatives". It should be noted that in the breeding offspring, the pigeons that are seeded and released are selected.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > performance matching</h1>
It is two pigeons with better racing results that are paired with each other. The offspring bred by this method participate in the competition, and there will often be a large disparity between the advantages and disadvantages.
In reality, there are many fanciers who have introduced ultra-long-range high-grade or homing pigeons, go back to the race to match the results, the offspring are not ideal, some beautify nature in the short distance, feel incomprehensible, some fanciers use pigeons that have not participated in the race to make seeds, breeding offspring to participate in the race, but the results are satisfactory, how to understand this?
A species is a species! What kind of breeding pigeons? What kind of pigeons are there? It depends on how it is chosen. Breeding pigeons is the selection of breeding pigeons and breeding of racing pigeons is the selection of breeding racing pigeons.
Here I will combine this shed and adopt the more successful selection method in practice, make an introduction, and discuss it with the majority of fanciers.
In the early days of pigeon breeding, I let the pigeons be paired freely. Because the selection of pigeons at that time was not understood, there was no good pedigree in the shed, and there was no particularly outstanding race, it was all mixed blood.
At that time, there were also very few professional guidance books for carrier pigeons, so I listened to its free pairing, and the result was that it was repeatedly released.
By the end of the 1970s, there was some vague understanding of pigeon pairing from the breeding practice. Pigeons with good appearance were selected as breeding pairs, and the breeding offspring did not have a high success rate in the practice of racing, only occasional success.
In the early 1980s, inbreeding was introduced, in which the occasionally successful offspring was selected as the base breeder to match an individual of the same breed, and the resulting offspring was also undesirable.
At that time, I was puzzled and always regarded failure as a reality. Now I know that I have entered the blind spot at that time, and how to think and do it cannot break through this blind spot.
In a fortuitous event I broke through the blind spot, maybe this is God help me. People who have been wandering in the blind spot for a long time will encounter this opportunity for natural help sooner or later. Each person's understanding determines sooner or later the help of heaven.
At that time, there was a raindrop peach blossom hen (flying over a thousand kilometers) and a raindrop chicken yellow (super long distance homing), these two hens were father and daughter, idle in the shed, there was no suitable pigeon match at that time, I liked the quality of both of them, so I let them match (father and daughter).
They bred two young birds and lost one when they left the shed, leaving a yellow-eyed No. 19. At that time, the concept of near-blood pairing was vague, and it was always felt that the pigeons from near-blood were useless. So there is no more.
Male No. 19 grew up to be a very good pigeon, and just like his father, he was paired with a 23-gauge trachoma hen (23rd hen 1,000 km homing). Four young birds were produced. According to the vague concept at that time, there should not be so many, but the offspring they produced were outstanding in all aspects.
One pigeon was lost, leaving three birds (two males and one female). In the spring of the following year, I took part in the race with these three pigeons, and the result was ideal, leaving one pigeon in a thousand kilometers without being lost, and all of them returned home.
The last stop was To lanzhou (1,500 kilometers), I sent them all together, and it turned out that they all returned home, and it was not easy to have such results in the early eighties, and how such achievements were achieved at that time, to be honest, I can't tell.
The breeds are still those species, and the pigeons are still the pigeons in the shed. Later, the male of the 19th was paired with other hens, and the offspring bred participated in the competition, and the homecoming rate was also very high. Slowly, I realized a little truth from it, this kind of matching method is the breeding method, called the blood return method (blood return method). In the latest edition of the Dictionary of Practical Pigeon Breeding, it is called consortia.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > is limited to the scope of father-daughter matching, mother-son matching, brother and sister matching, which is different from close relatives. </h1>
Later, I used the bloodline with blood method to breed, and the result was very good results, especially the ultra-long-distance results.
For example, Jingxiang Huangyuan released five pigeons to four pigeons; Jingxiang Shule River released four pigeons to two pigeons; Jingxiang Jiayuguan released two pigeons to two pigeons, and so on. At the same time, there are also breakthroughs in speed: such as putting 1,800 kilometers, returning home in five and a half days (the ring number is Jiangsu 92-156482 sand female), the ultra-long-range one in 96 years (ring number Jiangsu 94-430080 yellow female) and so on.
Because the purpose of returning blood is to purify. It is to raise an individual with good pedigree or good racing performance to a certain purity.
In other words, it is a purer individual "purebred" who obtains a certain strain. The purebred referred to here is limited, and it should be noted that this does not represent a certain breed, but only an individual who has been returned to the blood.
The purified breeding pigeons are relatively stable, and the use of purified pure breeds with other pigeons also plays a role in rejuvenation. If the fanciers in the shed have a strong group, they can use the multi-way breeding method to breed multi-way pure pigeons: such as A pure, B pure, C pure, etc., and then use A pure × B pure; B pure × C pure... Etc. Cross between purebred and purebred to breed racing pigeons.
The method of returning blood is carried out in two steps: the first step is to use the "blood return method of the lineage" to purify, and the second step is to use the "purebred hybrid method" to restore the strength. "These two steps are linked. The first step is to breed the breeding pigeons and the second step is to breed the racing pigeons.
Here I would like to emphasize that:
First, the use of the method of returning blood from the lineage must meet certain conditions.
First of all, it is required that the pigeons be returned to blood have a good pedigree and a certain performance; secondly, when choosing, it is best to choose a pure character.
For those who only have a beautiful appearance, it can be regarded as breeding pigeons to return blood, it is not allowed, the result is disappointed.
Second, if you want to return the blood, use the father × daughter, and leave the male in the offspring; if you want to return the blood hen, the mother × son, and the female in the offspring.
The blood return method of the consort line, for those who have introduced high-grade ultra-long-distance or homing pigeons as breeders, and the next generation bred can not run, in the short distance to beautify nature, and puzzled fanciers, may wish to try the consort with blood method.
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Sun Jingshan
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