A Guide to Domestic Pigeons - With Chapters on Doves, Training and Their Habits

This vintage book contains a complete guide to breeding and keeping pigeons, with information on selection, pairing, common problems and ailments, and many other related aspects. An accessible and comprehensive guide, this volume will be of utility to those with a practical interest in keeping of pigeons at home, and would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Domestic Pigeons", "A Fantail's Misadventure", "Pigeon Paon", "The Lean Poet of Cos--Runts", "Pigeon Mondains", "Comparison Eggs and Weights", "Synonymes of Runts", "Runts At Sea--Rodney's Bantam", "Runts--Theirs Peculiarities", "Runts in Italy--Effects of Crossing", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on keeping pigeons.