Acquisition of pigeons – process responsible, right now you define future reserve of the dovecot and can choose that bird who is pleasant to you most of all. However and in such, apparently, simple business there are subtleties which the beginner needs to know. How it is correct to choose pigeons?
Instruction
1. The choice of the seller – very important component. Buy birds only from acquaintances or well checked pigeon breeders to have warranties of their decency. Unfortunately, expensive thoroughbred pigeons are very often stolen therefore as a guarantee surely exchange coordinates with the seller and also write down his name and if it is necessary, passport data. Stolen birds are often used for resale therefore if to find a pigeon, without contact information of the seller to you it will be very difficult to prove that it not you stole it. If the pigeon breeder causes in you suspicions or mistrust, it is better to refuse acquisition of birds and to go to other place.
2. Examine plumage of a pigeon – it has to be uniform, accurate and correspond to a breed exterior. Often birds in dovecots suffer from lice and peroyed therefore surely very meticulously examine wings of pigeons on light. If gleams or small holes are noticeable – the bird is infected and you should not buy her. Also look on a stomach, an anus and the platform under a beak – in these parts at feathers quite friable and traces of louses and nits are well noticeable.
3. Look to a bird in eyes. At a healthy pigeon they clean and well opened, do not water and do not swell. Examine a beak – from it should not flow. Healthy young birds have a beak and a voskovitsa equal, without outgrowths and deformations. Not superfluous will be to glance to a pigeon in a beak. Examine an internal part and make sure that it clean, pink and without any raid. Diseases of digestive tract are diagnosed on a condition of an anus and color of a dung. Take with yourself a small box and put a bird there for some time. Your task is to receive a dung, but so far the pigeon just walks about on the box, can pay attention to its mobility and gait. The healthy bird looks vigorous and not slowed down, does not limp and does not sit down, nakhokhilvshis.