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Pigeons are on earth from thousands of years. All the domesticated types of pigeons evolved/derived from rock dove. Pigeons can be seen all around the world except the coldest regions of earth like north and south poles. Human beings are keeping them from early ages and used them for different purposes in ancient times. In today's era, human beings breed them for sports and exhibitions. In this long period of time there are numbers of breed/strains or types of pigeons have already developed. There are few classes that are only categorized as show class pigeons and some are developed for flying abilities. Number of show exhibitions held around the world. Where pigeon fancier show their amazing pigeons and compete on the basis of looks, color, size and complete personality. On the other side flying competitions held across the world with different breeds and different rules. Fancier compete with their opponents by their trained flying teams of pigeons. Pigeons who spend m...

It took little time to come up with some good pictures for better understanding of ideal Pakistani high flyer pigeon's wing structure. As I already discussed in my last article that due to the extensive cross breeding. We come across with many varieties of Pakistani high flyer pigeons. There is not a particular shape of wing that can be categorized as best among all. You must know few basic things to pick best Pakistani high flyer pigeon. For giving you some good idea, I have prepared two samples for you guys to understand high flyer body silhouette in comparison to low flyers. If you see silhouette of low flyer pigeon you can easily compare this with falcon. As they are compact and has proportionally long wing. Body structure slim as compare to high flyer pigeons of Pakistan. Whereas if you see body silhouette of Pakistani high flyer. You can easily see that their wing and body structure are proportionally bigger and broader. Therefore, their tendency of flying at lower al...

Wing structure of Pakistani highflying pigeons may differ according to breed. As everyone knows that every bird made differently. Their wings are also made according to the need. If you take a look on birds of prey, they have many different breeds that are specially designed according to their prey. IF you see sparrows, they also have many breeds and each breed has different wing and body structure. In birds of prey, there are hawks, buzzards, eagles, falcons and there are many sub-classes among these breeds. For example, falcons are expert hunters of pigeons they are small, fast and have amazing aerodynamic body. They can chase wild pigeon in the air, even if wild pigeon flying on its top speed but falcons cannot glide without moving their wings for long time like eagles do. Eagles have comparatively bigger structure with bigger wing span. Their wings are specially design to stay in the air without moving the wings and to spot their prey. This is the reason they mostly hunt ground ...

Today, I will discuss another very important topic related to pigeons living area. How to make it, what should be the space, how many sections are needed and at which direction it should be made. Before getting into this topic, kindly note that I am writing it to our whether prospect. Here in Pakistan, we have hot to moderate weather and in some areas, it goes lower than 0 C. Here in Karachi, throughout the year temperature goes up to 45C and lowest would be fewer than 10C. So I will try my best to share each and everything that I learned in my pigeon fancy. I have traveled all around Pakistan and meet many fanciers to understand their loft structures and I learned many things that can be applied to a loft structure. Space requirement: In my whole survey, I have witnessed that fanciers are utilizing their available spaces very cleverly. For example; one friend of mine is flying pigeons from his shop that is on the ground level and he is still a champion of his c...

  Today I am going to start a very interesting discussion. As we all know that high flying pigeon fanciers are getting ready for summer competitions. Here I want to tell my readers that In Pakistan and also in India Competition starts in peak months like May and June. Here in Pakistan, fanciers start preparing their birds from end February. Initially it is very important for fanciers to select better birds for competition. There are many criteria to select bird for summer competitions. I have already defined tools of selection best bird for competition in my initial articles. Now comes to very important aspect that is food mix and food plan for summer competition. before setting up right mix it is very important to understand the requirement of a pigeon. There are three main processes in preparing the pigeon for summer competition.      1.      Plucking all primary feathers 2.      Completion of all primary feathe...