The Homing Pigeon

Edgar Chamberlain

• Publisher: Home Farm Books
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781446549230
• Print ISBN:
  9781443772631
  9781443772631

Originally published in 1907. One of the earliest and possibly the most important book ever published on homing pigeons. The well illustrated and detailed chapters include: The Columba Livia - Origin and Production - Lofts and Fittings - Food and Feeding - Interbreeding - Crossing - Mendel's Law Applied to Homing Pigeons - Founding a Loft - Some Physical Characters - Feathers and the Moult - The Homing Instinct - Training - Preparing for Old Bird races - Preparing for Young Bird Races, etc. Many of the earliest pigeon books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Chapter I The Columba Livia
• Chapter II The Origin and Production of the Homing Pigeon
• Chapter III Lofts and their Fittings
• Chapter IV Food and Feeding
• Chapter V Interbreeding
• Chapter VI Crossing
• Chapter VII Mendel’s Law applied to Homing Pigeons
• Chapter VIII How to Found a Loft of Homing Pigeons
• Chapter IX Some Physical Characters
• Chapter X Feathers and the Moult
• Chapter XI The Development of the Homing Instinct
• Chapter XII Training
• Chapter XIII Preparing for the Old Bird Races
• Chapter XIV Preparing for the Young Bird Races
• Chapter XV Miscellaneous Information