HOW TO TELL SEX OF PIGEONS 



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and are usually in the majority. Two poor specimens mated 

 together will throw youngsters having the samp, and probably 

 more, detects than the parents. 



We all know the rajiidity with wliirli pigeons multiply, they 

 do not believe in race suicide, and some of \is have seen il 

 figured out how many pairs of birds we should raise in a given 

 time by starting with say ten pairs. This scheme is just what 



A WHITE KING COCK 

 The result of proper selection. — Photo from Jack M. Pun. Stockton. Cal. 



I have mentioned above, a desire to save every bird hatched and 

 at the end of the year we have a bunch of birds, some good, 

 some bad, and others not fit for anything. In short we have a 

 flock which a wise breeder would go through and very proba- 

 bly cull out sixty-five per cent. In view of the fact that pigeons 

 do multiply so rapidly we should be willing to cull and cull 

 until it hurts because it is the only way of building up a paying 

 flock of birds even though we do mate wisely. 



