Loving these guys. I have 2 different bloodlines - both great- though one is more colorful than the other. As a general rule of thumb, better birds usually are plain colors, as they were bred solely for homing.
These guys (when bred for FLYING and not show) are great flyers, hard to home (so that once they 'home' to a place - ie, fly back to it repeatedly - and rehoming them means that they learn a new place is their new home, and fly back it. A good pigeons is almost impossible to rehome, if not), and full of muscle! Good size to eat as well.
Profolic, good parents, and overall a great beginner bird. They do great in both cold and hot weather, and aside from hawks, ravens & crows, they're excellent for avoiding predators. Ravens & crows are very smart, and while homers CAN avoid them, sometimes intellect beats speed. Hawks in general always win, unless you have a good, vigilant line. Fast too.
It won't let me preview, so ill just describe the pics ;
The hen sitting on the eggs is from a different line than the colorful homers. Those eggs were infertile, I think because it was winter so the cock probably didnt do his job quite right..
Then there's the colorful homer, the one that I'm holding. Different line, but still good, though a bit inferior to the one that was on the eggs, simply because color made a difference so sometimes homing was sacrificed for color. But, well worth it.
Then there's the homer squab - not sure who the parents are, but I got him with the hen that was sitting on eggs (I got them as a group with a couple others). Working on building up his muscle for summer flying.
The there's my 2 ferals. They're the ones standing in front of wood. Both cocks, so neither is very afraid of me. Gotta stand up so that they can prove to the ladies that there'll be good fathers... the plain, blue on was actually the father of the 2 eggs the one homer hen was sitting on.
These guys (when bred for FLYING and not show) are great flyers, hard to home (so that once they 'home' to a place - ie, fly back to it repeatedly - and rehoming them means that they learn a new place is their new home, and fly back it. A good pigeons is almost impossible to rehome, if not), and full of muscle! Good size to eat as well.
Profolic, good parents, and overall a great beginner bird. They do great in both cold and hot weather, and aside from hawks, ravens & crows, they're excellent for avoiding predators. Ravens & crows are very smart, and while homers CAN avoid them, sometimes intellect beats speed. Hawks in general always win, unless you have a good, vigilant line. Fast too.
It won't let me preview, so ill just describe the pics ;
The hen sitting on the eggs is from a different line than the colorful homers. Those eggs were infertile, I think because it was winter so the cock probably didnt do his job quite right..
Then there's the colorful homer, the one that I'm holding. Different line, but still good, though a bit inferior to the one that was on the eggs, simply because color made a difference so sometimes homing was sacrificed for color. But, well worth it.
Then there's the homer squab - not sure who the parents are, but I got him with the hen that was sitting on eggs (I got them as a group with a couple others). Working on building up his muscle for summer flying.
The there's my 2 ferals. They're the ones standing in front of wood. Both cocks, so neither is very afraid of me. Gotta stand up so that they can prove to the ladies that there'll be good fathers... the plain, blue on was actually the father of the 2 eggs the one homer hen was sitting on.