M J Beat / 30 Nov 2010 18:26

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In order to improve one's pigeons of a particular breed, one must
selectively breed pigeons of the same breed. Via culling and careful
selection one may improve the breed with improvement of the desired
characteristics that one is breeding for. This is done by line-breeding and
in-breeding birds belonging to the same breed. This is not done by crossing
distinct and separate breeds. Take any photo of Mehdi's recent post and
cross any two birds from those different breeds and one would definitely end
up with a pigeon but that is all.

Gordon Hughes has presented the most classic piece of evidence of this kind
of breeding for all of us to see. We are all too familiar with his family
breeding chart in which birds (of all one breed by the way) were used to
improve the English Flying Tippler from what it was when he started. Yes, we
have some fantastic flying birds today because of the ongoing process of
careful culling and selection of many generations of English Flying
Tipplers. The English Flying Tippler is a domestic breed of pigeon, it is
not any pigeon flown in a competition organized by a "tippler club". There
are many "tippler clubs" all over the world, and numerous numbers of them
which fly pigeons other than the breed we endorse as the English Flying
Tippler. They call their pigeons "tipplers" but they are just high flyers
(other breeds) flown to a completely different standard. Well, that's it in
a nutshell.


Submitted by M J Beat on 11/30/2010 6:28:26 PM