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