4/9/2023 0 Comments Pigeon pedigree maker![]() ![]() Most successful racehorse and greyhound owners rarely breed their own horses and dogs. If being a fancier is as simple as that the sport would be minus its main attractions. ![]() Too many enthusiastic recruits to this national sport imagine that continuity as a fancier depends merely upon mating up the male and female survivors of this year’s racing in order to produce replacements that will round off next year’s team. To start ones loft with members of a winning strain is one thing to reproduce winners from it year after year is yet another. ![]() Even if he founds his loft on the choicest specimens obtained from a winning family of great eminence he must still commit himself to the duty of breeding his own winners in every succeeding generation of their descendants, a formidable undertaking even to one accustomed to raising livestock. WHETHER A beginner likes the prospect or not, the first big job he must tackle as a pigeon fancier is that of being a ‘Strain-Maker’. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |