Pigeon Racing

Herbert R. Axelrod

• Publisher: Holyoake Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781446543931
• eBook ISBN: 9781447484639

This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to racing pigeons, with information on training, feeding, housing, showing, breeding, and much more. This complete and timeless guide will be of considerable utility to both prospective and existing fanciers, and would make for a wonderful addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book include: 'The Pigeon's History', 'The Loft', 'Keeping the Loft Clean', 'The Pigeon', 'Feeding', 'The Breeding Season', 'The Moult', 'Colors', 'Teaching the Young Bird', 'Cooped', 'Young-Bird Racing', 'The Club', 'Old-Bird Racing', 'Winning Systems', etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a new biography of the author.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Pigeon’s History
• 2. The Loft
• 3. Keeping the Loft Clean
• 4. The Pigeon
• 5. Feeding
• 6. The Breeding Season
• 7. The Moult
• 8. Colors
• 9. Teaching the Young Bird
• 10. Coopies
• 11. Young-Bird Racing
• 12. The Club
• 13. Old-Bird Racing
• 14. Winning Systems
• 15. Widowhood System
• 16. Eye-Sign
• 17. Diseases
• 18. The Off Season
• 19. Pigeon Shows
• Glossary of Most-Often-Used Terms
• Suggested Readings
• Index