Written by the expert in breeding, showing and raising pigeons!
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One of the rarest books in the racing pigeon literature, and it is among the most important.
This is the THIRD volume of a set of Five from Jules Gallez. WE have ALL FIVE OF THESE VOLUMES!!
Everything you needed to know about widowhood. Topics include: widowhood in general, used in lofts, Q&A, flying your birds... and more!
Owner signed inside cover and added Part 3 label on Spine and his name labeled on first page
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Guiding theme of this book which aims to help in maintaining and restoring the health and efficiency of our pigeons.
The major pigeon diseases, their prevention and treatment are described in a brief and with the aid of numerous illustrations - easily remembered from. The aim of this book is to enable every pigeon fancier to recognize diseases quickly and in time.
When describing methods of treatment, the authors recommend certain drugs with which they have gained extensive experience. No doubt other products and combinations of similar composition may be equally successful in use.
Special emphasis has been placed on purposeful and effective prevention. The recondition of prevention is an accurate estimation of the diseases that may occur in pigeons at times of particular stress.
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One of the rarest books in the racing pigeon literature, and it is among the most important.
This is the SECOND volume of a set of Five from Jules Gallez and Theunis Venter.. WE have ALL FIVE OF THESE VOLUMES!!
Everything you needed to know about widowhood. Topics include: widowhood in general, used in lofts, Q&A, flying your birds... and more!
Owner added a Label on binding says - Part 2
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One of the rarest books in the racing pigeon literature, and it is among the most important.
This is the FIRST volume of a set of Five from Jules Gallez. WE have ALL FIVE OF THESE VOLUMES!!
Great book written by Jules Gallez on his methods and techniques on raising and racing old and young pigeons. Topics include: Topics of general interest to the novice, the loft, moulting time, on feeds and feeding.. and more!
All pages are in Very Good condition.
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Originally born out of a series of articles Mr. Gordon wrote on Widowhood flying, this book has 3 parts: Basic Widowhood flying, introducing the techniques and methods, Modern Widowhood, for those about to attempt their first such flights, and then a recap of the authors visits to Europe, Israel, and the Canary Islands and the various pigeons and events he saw there.
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Innumerable times has the late Arie van den Hoek been asked to record his enormous experience as a pigeon expert in a book. In this book, theoretical background knowledge would go hand-in-hand with the day-to-day, actual experiences of the sport of pigeon fancying.
This request was hardly surprising. For many years he had gratified fanciers with his many expert tips in his articles for the European pigeon press. From these alone his extensive knowledge of the racing pigeon was evident. At the same time he clearly showed that the possessed a great deal of practical experience, which is of supreme importance in the loft.
Both elements thus form the base of The Big Pigeon Racing Book. On the one hand a fair amount of practicalities and on the other sufficient scientifically proven knowledge to be able to refute half-truths and mistakes.
Just leafing through The Big Pigeon Racing Book will show you that here a well nigh complete survey is given of the hobby which in Belgium and Holland alone has many hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic adherents. Some conspicuous examples confirm this: homing faculty, bad races, doping, genetics, composition of breeding pairs, anatomy of the pigeon, diseases and treatment, feeds and housing.
Van den Hoek is not the only person responsible for these and many other subjects. From the beginning a second pigeon expert has played a major role in designing and implementing this book: Professor Dr. G. van Grembergen, scientist and practical pigeon fancier. He occupied himself with those subjects in which he has gained fame far from Belgium: genetics, health, disease and physiological factors such as digestion and egg laying. His Dutch colleague concentrated on such subjects as feeds housing, racing and breeding.
However, the cooperation between these two prominent and expert fanciers went further than that. They supplemented each other’s texts, so that The Big Pigeon Racing Book gives a diverse picture of past and present fortunes of the pigeon.
While writing this book, Arie van den Hoek died. He had appointed a successor in Jan Hermans, who provided the final textual supplements faithfully following the spirit of his illustrious predecessor. In addition he was responsible for such important components as the illustrations legends and so on. Finally, Mrs. van den Hoek-van Straalen perused the final version with a critical eye, before giving permission to publish.
The book’s developmental history is not only given to honor the founder of The Big Pigeon Racing Book, it is also hoped to make clear to the reader with how much care this treasure of data has been collected. This treasure will not only be of help to the veteran fancier, but also to someone who has just started to keep pigeons and everybody in general who takes an interest in the achievements of racing pigeons.
They will find answers for many questions. The judgment of the authors is faithfully based on truth and did not permit offering answers to each and every problem. This small facet of nature does not surrender all its secrets, even if it can be studied at such close range. For this reason the phenomenon of the racing pigeon will never cease to fascinate. This
book was born from this fascination and hopefully will only serve to increase the enthusiasm of its readers still further.
The ISBN on the publishing page states: 0853900272. In the Worldcat.org, the ISBN number is correct. If you look this ISBN up on ISBN Search org, Amazon or Abebooks the ISBN comes up as a DIFFERENT BOOK that is not at all related to this book. We can not confirm which book this ISBN belongs to. Errors like this do happen in Book Publishing!
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This is a very heavy and LARGE book!
This is a first edition and first printing of this book.
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| 1. Flight and play 2. Maintaining the species 3. Health and Diseases 4. The body, it's anatomy and physiology 5. Feeds 6. Housing |
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Rousseau Frères, 1958. rigide. 1 vol. en carton souple éditeur & jaquette illustrée, Rousseau Frères, Bordeaux, 1958, 502 p. avec 11 planches couleur et plus de 200 en illustrations. État proche de l'état Très bien (VG) (la jaquette est légèrement froissée, mais le livre lui-même est en très bon état) Langue : Langue : français.
Livre de pigeons français ! Par Louis Mannant, Juge officiel de la Société centrale d'aviculture en France.
Un ouvrage rare traitant des différentes races de pigeons d'ornement. Ce livre contient 6 chapitres. Nous avons fourni 4 photos montrant le début de chaque chapitre, mais au total il y a 12 pages couvrant l'ensemble des chapitres. Ce livre sur les pigeons contient beaucoup de matériel.
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Rousseau Frères, 1958. rigid. 1 vol. in soft cardboard editor & illustrated jacket, Rousseau Frères, Bordeaux, 1958, 502 pp. with 11 color plates and more than 200 in illustrations. Very Good (VG) condition (dust jacket slightly rubbed, but the book itself is in very good condition) Language: French.
French Pigeon book! By Louis Mannant, Official Judge of the Central Aviculture Society in France.
A rare work dealing with the different breeds of ornamental pigeons. This book contains 6 chapters. We have provided 4 pictures showing the start of each chapter, but in total there are 12 page covering all the chapter listings. Lots of material is covered in this pigeon book.
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Very hard to find a copy of this book. A nice clean copy of a scarce title on the world's greatest strain of racing pigeons. Printed and published in 1952. This title tells the Story of Fred Shaw's Pigeon Racing career and also a tribute to Renier Gurnay - creator of the Gurnay strain. There is an introduction by S.W.E. Bishop in praising Shaw & the sport of Pigeon Racing.
Crisp, gilt lettering on front cover and spine.
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| 1. Early Days 2. The Achievements of Paul Verhoye 3. My first Meeting with M. Gurnay 4. I Revisit M. Renier Gurnay 5. The Fun Begins 6. The World's Greatest Winning Strain 7. A Few Champions 8. Particulars of the Layout of M. Gurnay's lofts 9. Racing at "The Grange" 10. Pigeons that have collected money is buckets Full 11. Food 12. Imagination 13. Eyes of the Gurnays 14. Gurnays in Many Parts of the Worlds 15. Fascination of the Sport 16. The importance of the Hen | 17. Mealies, Reds and the Red Chequers 18. Breeding the Racing Gurnay Type 19. The Havana Gurnay 20. By Request ! 21. Loft Innovation 22. Artificial Insemination 23. Breeding the Winning "Ego" 24. The Stamina that Stays 25. The Phenomenon of the Master Mind 26. Flying the "Golden Horn" 27. Brain Masterpiece 28. What is the "Homing Instinct" 29. The 1,000 Challenge Match 30. Renier Gurnay - An Appreciation by Fred Shaw 31. Conclusions 32. Extracts from Fred Shaw's letters |
Pigeon raising, one of the oldest hobbies known to man is becoming more and more popular. Even people with limited space are finding great satisfaction in raising, training and breeding one or more varieties of pigeons. This basic handbook removes the mystery form the hobby and explains everything that beginner needs to know. Both popular and little know breeds are shown for the first time in full and true pictures. The concise text leads the beginner through all the steps - from selecting birds, to housing, feeding, breeding and keeping them healthy.
A special section devoted to raising and training Racing Homers clearly tells how to prepare the birds for the race.
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| 1. Pigeons as a Hobby 2. General Management 3. Varieties of Pigeons 4. Housing for your Pigeons | 5. Feeding your Pigeons 6. Pigeon Breeding 7. Keeping your Pigeons Healthy 8. Training your Pigeons |
The mourning dove is the most numerous, widespread and heavily hunted of North American gamebirds. It has adapted to habitats ranging from montane valleys to hot, low deserts to congested suburbia. Its abundance, adaptability, curious ways, unique vocalizations, darting flight and other characteristics have garnered great public interest. but not until now has this popular and fascinating bird been fully profiled.
This book provides in-depth information on the biology, life history, population characteristics, behavior, and research on the species. The result is a book that should become an invaluable reference tool to biologists, sportsmen and women, bird watchers and others. It is designed to assist the morning dove enthusiast to better understand this important North American.
29 chapters in four sections cover topics as classification and distribution,migration,nesting,reproduction strategy,growth and maturation, feeding habits,diseases, survey procedures, population trends, care of captive mourning doves and hunting.
This book features nearly 400 photos, 100 tables and 75 figures, which bring to life the information presented in text. A thorough index makes information on any aspect of the mourning dove instantly available, and the references cited facilitate further study on particular points of interest.
Each topic is handled by leading experts in the wildlife field, who share the results of decades of research on the mourning dove.
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On the publishing page this has the all important number line of:
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Along with stating "First Edition" on the publishing page.
The ONLY defect with this book is a price tag on the front of the dust jacket and the dust jacket is showing some shelf wear. Otherwise this book is in amazing condition.
Very large and heavy book!!!
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| 1. Introducing the Mourning Dove 2. Life History and Biology 3. Population characteristics and Appraisal 4. Research and Management |
All you need to know on Genetics in regards to breeding pigeons. Title also includes chapters on Physiology of Reproduction, Hormones Concerned with Reproduction, Hormones and Parental Behavior, Polygamous Breeding, Hormones and Racing, Nutrition and Reproduction, the effect of Parasites on Reproduction, Mendelism, Color Inheritance in Racing Pigeons and more!
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| 1. Introduction 2. The Scientific Way 3. Past and Future 4. Physiology of Reproduction 5. Hormones Concerned with Reproduction 6. Hormones and Parental Behaviour 7. Psychological Influences on reproduction 8. Polygamous Breeding | 9. Hormones and Racing 10. Nutrition and Reproduction 11. The effect of Parasites on Reproduction 12. The Cell and Life 13. The Development and Cause of Sex 14. The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics 15. Mendelism 16. Color Inheritance in Racing Pigeons |
Pigeon raising, one of the oldest hobbies known to man is becoming more and more popular. Even people with limited space are finding great satisfaction in raising, training and breeding one or more varieties of pigeons. This basic handbook removes the mystery form the hobby and explains everything that beginner needs to know. Both popular and little know breeds are shown for the first time in full and true pictures. The concise text leads the beginner through all the steps - from selecting birds, to housing, feeding, breeding and keeping them healthy.
A special section devoted to raising and training Racing Homers clearly tells how to prepare the birds for the race.
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| 1. Pigeons as a Hobby 2. General Management 3. Varieties of Pigeons 4. Housing for your Pigeons | 5. Feeding your Pigeons 6. Pigeon Breeding 7. Keeping your Pigeons Healthy 8. Training your Pigeons |
This volume is dedicated to the field identification of pigeons and doves, and it incorporates much recent information on the family.;Pigeons and doves are a large family of birds occurring throughout the world. Many species are specialist frugivores, while others feed on seeds. Most are arboral and the tropical species in particular are often brightly colored. The family includes gregarious migratory species, as well as shy, ground-dwelling forms such as the exotic crowned pigeons of New Guinea.
This is a first edition book with the all important number line contained on the publishing page:
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This is a very large and heavy book.
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The author of this book is best known writer about pigeon racing in continental Europe. Belgian, Dutch and German readers have been settling down with his pioneering books by the light of the reading lamp for many years.
Presents detailed topics dealing with breeding and racing methods of successful lofts; a history of the modern racing pigeon; basic tenets and principles of breeding and development; genetic disposition, environmental factors and pigmentation; super dominance and dietary resistance; breeding and racing hens on the widowhood system; the stud system; line breeding; linkage; old strains and modern lofts; etc. A great addition to the serious fancier's library.
Armed with this book, every fancier who wants to embark on a course of private study will be sure of his ground! In both breeding and racing! With the emphasis clearly on breeding on which success in pigeon racing hinges.
20 chapters! See list of the Table of Content below!
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| 1. Heredity is an underlying principle 2. A bird's eye view summary 3. Terminology a bit of a bother 3. Mendel's Three Principle 4. Recessive genes 5. Linked characteristics (Linkage) 6. Genetic disposition, environmental factors and pigmentation 7. Hereditary resistance 8. Super dominance 9. Line breeding or illusion? 10. The stud system | 11. Breeding, condition and widowhood 12. Breeding and racing hens on the widowhood system 13. Flanders' Connection 14. Old strains - modern lofts 15. Feigned Ignorance 16. Practical questions 17. A heartfelt word of thanks 18. Afterword 19. Photography 20. Bibliography |
Advise and guidance based on the general practices of successful pigeon racers and breeders on pigeons - general management, healthcare (treatment / diagnoses / diseases)
Chapters include:
1. The Loft
2. Nest Boxes
3. Nutrition and Associated Disorders - Carbohydrates - Protein - Fats - Vitamins (A,B,C,D,E and K) - Trace Elements and Minerals - Sugar - Garlic - Tea (Herbs) - Milk - Salt - Medicines
4. Pigeon Diseases and Treatments - Worms (Roundworms, Hairworms and Gapeworms)
5. Common Disorders (Kidneys) - Kidney Disorders - Nephritis and Treatment - Coccidiosis and Treatment - Canker and Treatment - Respiratory Infections and Treatment - Salmonellosis and Treatment - Paramyxovirosis - Ornithosis and Treatment - Aspergillosis and Treatment - Anaemia and Treatment
6. Disorders of the Reproductive System - Ovary Disorders (Cysts, Ovaritis, Cloacitis, Abdominal Laying, Egg Infection) and Treatment - Egg Retention and Treatment - Soft-Shelled Eggs, Dead in Shell, Nestling Diarrhoea Coli and Treatments - Blood Stained Droppings
7. A Few Letters In Brief (Questions and Answers)
8. Droppings
9. Quick Diagnoses
10. Useful Drugs
11. Oral Rehydration Salt Formulas
12. Widowhood
13. Quick Index
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