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is the prettiest and also because the resulting squabs have red plumage 
-closely resembling the pure Carneaux squabs. Of course they cannot be 
sold for breeders as pure stock Carneaux but these Carhome squabs can 
be put on the market in competition with pure Carneaux squabs and will 
sell up to them surprisingly strong. One of our customers who is pro- 
ducing these Carhome squabs writes the following emphatic words: “The 
results of my breeding one of your Carneau cocks to a red-checker Extra 
Homer female are more than satisfactory. First, it is impossible to tell the 
difference in color and size. Second good result, it makes the young ones 
very hardy. I made other experiments by crossing a Carneau cock with an 
English hen Homer (carrier). The results are not so good because you can 
tell as English blood in the squabs and it destroys the beauty of the Carneau 
head.”’ 
We do not breed Carhomes at our farm because our reputation has been 
built up and will be continued on pure stock. But if you wish to breed 
squabs for market, then you can go ahead with confidence on this cross. 
We sell them at the price formerly charged by some for Homer pairs, and 
they are superior to any Homers for producing big squabs and breeding fast. 
Understand, there is nothing to prevent you from building up a business in 
the Carhomes for breeders but you cannot sell them representing them as 
pure Carneaux. The blood of the young will be half Carneaux and half 
Homer. You sell them on their merits as squab-breeders. 
For our customers of many years’ standing who are shipping steadily in 
to the markets of all the cities on this continent not only the best Homer 
squabs, but three-fourths of all the squabs sold, we recommend our Carneaux 
cocks to be crossed with their red-checker Homer females as the best means 
of increasing the weight per dozen of their output and the quantity of squabs 
produced; and bettering both the appearance of the squabs and the quality 
of the meat. 
We do not advocate the crossing of a Homer red-checker cock to a Carneau 
hen (or, to coin a word, Homecarnes) because (1) the cock should be master 
in fact as well as name, (2) the female likes a large male better than a small 
male, (3) the female is not so likely to break her mating to secure a more 
vigorous helpmate, (4) the male is better able to defend his mate and family 
from other males or females, (5) the male Carneau, the best of his kind, is 
larger and better than the male Homer, the best of his kind. (The female 
Carneau is inferior to the male Carneau.) 
CARNEAUX AND HOMERS NOT IN THE SAME PEN. 
As a rule, each breed of pigeons should be kept in a pen separate from 
other breeds. If different breeds are kept in the same pen, the breeds may 
mix, no matter how carefully the pairs are mated, and of course the young. 
are liable to mix. There is nothing about a Homer pigeon which keeps it 
true to its own species. If Fantails or any other fancy breeds of pigeons are 
kept in the same pen with Homers, there is nothing about the Homer which 
would lead it to be true to its own species. He or she ‘is just as liable to seek 
a different breed fora mate. As to the two kinds we sell, the Homers and 
the Carneaux, if they were kept in the same pen, it is quite possible that an 
attachment for a Carneau cock or hen might form with a Homer of the 
opposite sex. So if you are breeding both the Carneaux and the Homers 
for the pure stock you should keep them separate. 
