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Thanks to NetGalley and Workman Publishing Company for a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. We've kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. I’d also seen signs on the pavement of our local train station asking people to treat the local pigeons with more kindness, and that left an impression on me. REMEMBER , this can not be developed in your birds or breeding program without training and racing - if you are trying to do it by paper or pedigree without racing your birds ,you are wasting your time. Perhaps the most important book ever published on this topic and assembled all knowledge on this topic available at the time of publication.Once you have this champion stud cock it is suggestions to mate this cock with someone's champion Hen and share the offspring, you getting the female babies to line breed down the road back to the stud. MAKING PIGEONS PAY is a classic of the genre because it is not only very good, but also because it was written by Wendell Levi, the best known author about pigeons in the United States. For someone who doesn't have much basic knowledge on birds in general, this was a great introduction to pigeons. He graduated from the College of Charleston in 1912 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1915. And our lively shared story together, including all the things we've taught them—Ping-Pong, for example.

They start with The Racing Pigeon and Pigeon Racing for VOL1, the Pigeon Fancier, The Pigeon Racer and the Last book The Strain Makers The Art of Breeding Long Distance Pigeons. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 48 pages.Well Eric,there were a few "old Hands" down throughout the years,and did you know the last, Bill Cowell(BILCO),passed away 2 weeks ago and although thePIGEON RACING NEWS AND GAZETTE has been dead and buried many years now,mr Cowells christmas ghost stories still surface at this time of year to this very day. My main gripe is so much presumably interesting information missing here: comparison of different pigeon populations by great city (London vs. A phrase this book uses as well) I love the way they bob their heads and ride the subway, and after reading this I've more convinced that they ARE people.