CHAPTER XXX 

 CARNEAUX 



Origin — Much Credit Due to Specialty Clubs Fostering this Breed — 

 Principally a Utility Breed — Exhibition Bird Second to None — 

 Description of the Difl^erent Varieties. 



Different writers lay claim to the fact that the Carneau was 

 originated in France years ago and tliat as far back as we can 

 trace pigeons we find a large red pigeon, though smaller than 

 the Runt, and which was, no doubt, the ancestor of the present 

 day Carneau. Later we find this breed carried into Belgium 

 and there bred lor many years. It is to the Belgians that much 

 credit must he gi\en for the results tfiey have obtained in per- 

 fecting tliis breed as a commercial squab prod'ucer. So we know 

 very little as to who first imported this breed for several persons 

 liave claimed this credit l)ut from several sources \\e learn that 

 the first importation was made aljout the year nineteen hundred. 

 Mr. A. Therrien, of West Lynn, Mass., writing in "The Carneaux" 

 published by the International Carneau Club and Pigeon Asso- 

 ciation in nineteen hundred and ten says: "In a large consign- 

 ment of fancy stock sent to me by the late Dr. M. C. Fondeur, 

 five pairs of extra good Carneaux I found. I believe these five 

 pairs were the first ones ever sent across the water. I have as 

 yet been unable to find anyone to dispute this point." While 

 we are more or less interested in knowing who made the first 

 importation of this grand breed we are all the more interested 

 in what the breed is and will do as a commercial squab producer 

 and an exhibition bird. There can be no doubt in the minds of 

 our breeders that we have perfected this breed to what it is 

 today and much credit is due the International Carneau Club 



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