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Home › Science › Zoology › Domesticated Animals › Pigeons

Pigeons





Definitions:

  • Body-mark: coloured body and white tail
  • Dun: grey-brown
  • Grizzle: a peppered combination of white and colour
  • Saddle: ten outside primaries and underside of the body white, the rest coloured
  • Splash: coloured body with 25%-75% splashed and white
  • Squab: for the purpose of meat
  • Tail-mark white body and coloured tail

Breed (Origin)

  • Description
American Roller (USA)

  • Any shade or blend; Use: Performing, Stunting
Birmingham Roller (United Kingdom)

  • Various; Use: Performing, Stunting
Broad-tailed Shaker: See – Fantail

Carneau (Belgium, France)

  • Black, dun, red, white, or yellow; Use: Showing, Squab
Chinese Owl (Asia)

  • Almond, ash-red, ash-yellow, blue, brown, grizzle, indigo, khaki, pied, saddle, silver-white, or splash; Use: Squab
Cropper (??)

  • ??; Use: Interest, inflating of crop
English Trumpeter (United Kingdom)

  • Almond, barred, black, cream, dun, lavender, marked, mottled, red, saddle, silver, splashed, white, or yellow; Use: ??
Fantail (India)

  • Almond, black, blue, brown, body-mark, chestnut, cream, checkered, dun, golden-buff, grizzle, silver, splash, tail-mark, white; Use: Performer
Giant Homer (USA)

  • Blue check, or silver; Use: Squab
Helmet (Europe)

  • Almond, black and green sheen, blue, brown, cream, dun, indigo, khaki, lavender-grey, red, silver, yellow; contrasting coloured crest on head; Use: Decoy for racing pigeons
Hungarian (Austria)

  • White, with various colours; Use: Showing, Squab
King (USA)

  • Blue, dun, red, silver, white, or yellow; Use: Showing, Squab
Lahore (Iran)

  • Like a penguin; Use: Squab
Maltese (Austria, Germany)

  • Black, blue, dun, red, silver, white, or yellow; Use: Crossbreeding, Showing
Modena (Italy)

  • Barred, checkered, barless, at least 150 colour variations; Use: Breeding, Flying, Pigeon-knapping, Showing
Mondain (France, Italy)

  • Various; Use: Showing, Squab
Nun (??)

  • White, with black; Use: Interest, being attached to owner
Oriental Tumbler (Eastern Asia)

  • Almond, ash-red, black, checked, dun, grizzle, red, T-pattern, white, yellow; Use: Performing, Stunting
Pouter (??)

  • ??; Use: Interest, inflating of crop
Runt (Ancient Europe)

  • Bar, black, blue, dun, red, silver, white, or yellow; Use: Squab
Shirzai: See – Lahore

Strassers (Moravia)

  • Black, brown, checkered, dun, red, or yellow; Use: ??
Tippler (??)

  • Rich, deep metallic copper; Use: Formerly long-term flying, but tumbling now bred out




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