Description
A guide to keeping and breeding pigeons and their management in wallcotes, polecotes and aviaries.
A new book on keeping pigeons in polecotes, wallcotes and aviaries with chapters on beginner’s breeds, types of housing, pigeons and gardens, how to set up a breeding colony, breeding and management, pigeon predators and diseases and ailments. There are chapters on the origin of the domestic pigeon and the history of dovecotes, especially from Egypt, together with many color photographs and illustrations.
This book is aimed at the person who wants to keep a few doves or pigeons in a wallcote, a polecote or an aviary. It does not tell you how to keep and race pigeons, or raise squabs commercially.
Book Contents:
. Introduction
. Breeds of Domestic Pigeon
. Where to Buy?
. Housing
. Food, Drink, Grit etc.
. Other Requirements
. Management
. Sexing
. When Pigeond first Arrive
. Ringing and Indentification
. Diseases and Ailments
. Pigeons and Gardens
. Pigeon Predators
. Racing Pigeons and Showing
. Origins of the Domestic Pigeon
. Man’s Association with Pigeons
. The Decline of the Dovecote
. List of Avian Vets
. Pigeon Terminology
— Details: Paperback, 74 pages.
— ISBN No: 0947870 318
— Printed in: 2000
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