Book 1: Eye-Sign and Body Confirmation ($25 US)

EYE-SIGN INFO

Circle of Correlation

Widths 8 to 13

Scores 27 to 44

 

Solid and composite colors

 

Yellow tough pigeon

 

Yellow + Distance lines = Double tough pigeon

 

Yellow + Distance lines + Teardrops or Flares = Triple tough pigeon

 

Love the bright eye

 

Forget the insipid (dead) eye

 

Textures

• Pearlitic (broken cast iron appearance)
• Fish scales
• Peppered
• Granular

 

Iris Pigmentation

 

Bright eye

 

Capillaries close to the surface

 

Wires

Masterpiece

Pale or Bleached

Long Distance

12 colors

Strengths

Multi colors

 

 

INNER CIRCLE

 

• Widths
• Scores 37-44
• Bold colors
• Pale colors
• Beads of sweat
• Sand paper
• Concentric
• Ribbon
• Bottle cap
• Kneaded
• Suspended

 

SENSITIVITY

 

• TYPES
• Iris
• Pupil

 

• PUPIL SIZES
• Very small = High quality
• Medium small = Very good yet
• Medium = Iffy
• Medium large = Getting questionable
• Large = 90% will never make it

 

·    Snappy pupil SUPER, can do the distance

·    Jumpy iris circulation, breakaway orientation, and true navigation line

·    Loner champions

 

EYE BALANCE

 

Four points are needed to distinguish your best pigeons.

 

If your pigeon has top scores on these items:

• Circle of correlation     44
• Inner circle                  44
• Sensitivity                   44
• Iris pigmentation         44

 

Pigeons with these types of eyes are rare and are super champions.

 

They can breed super champions without any so called eye breeding points.

 

Eye Breeding Points

 

Breeding Points are icing on the cake.

 

• Perfect eye balance
• Full change of color
• Serration heavy
• Serration
• Pale or bleached
• Backside bulge
• Racing selection
• Breeding selection
• Cluster
• Rosette
• Occasional bonus points

 

Learn these secrets…

 

BODY CONFORMATION

 

Faults

 

No fault will eliminate a pigeon as worthy, nor could any great strength make a pigeon champion.

 

• Frontal look of head, slightly downward and cross-eyed.
• From the sides eyes should neither bulge nor be recessed.
• Eye to centered in head.
• Beak line to dissect center of the eye.
• The cere should be wide, white and hug the eye tightly.
• A flat top is okay.
• The rear skull should be rounded.

 

The Tail

 

• Width of tail should be narrow such as one feather width to 1 1/2 inch width.
• Many champions have what is considered by many as too long.
• For the most part the primaries should reach the black portion of the tail.  Some excellent short distance racers fall short of this trait.

 

The back + rump

 

• Back and rump strength are forgotten by lesser fanciers.
• The tail or rudder must be strong to fight turbulent winds.
• In addition, forward action of the 9 air sac chain for respiration starts here.
• There should be a rise similar to an inverted teaspoon here.

 

Frontal Body Look

 

• Should be broad for large lung and muscle capacity.
• This wide look should taper (funnel) quickly to the back and rump juncture.

 

The wings

 

• The wings of super long distance pigeons are super flexible, and will lie motionless on the inspectors hand.
• The ones with snapback quality + vibration can be champions, but of lesser quality than the aforementioned ones.  In flight, the tertiary feathers should cover the back.
• The butt of the wing should be thick but not exaggerated.
• The forearm must have ample meat (muscle) for obvious reasons.
• There should be short step of 1/2 to 3/4 inch between the primary and secondary juncture.
• Many long distance champs will have two steps – the second one – between 6 and 7 primaries.
• The last four primaries are the hand and these four box feathers should be long and almost equal length.  I prefer the #10 feather to be about 3/8” shorter than the #9 (65 years experience on this).
• Skilled selectors can test the wing by undulation of the primaries while holding the box feathers.  The strength of the tendon and other qualities are found by this method.  The tendon also goes to the third muscle of flight.

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