1, with a fierce appearance like an eagle and a calm and agile personality, their manners often have a distinctive demeanor, that is, "bold, arrogant and arrogant";
2, the back of the head should be wide, the back of the head should extend to the neck in an arc, and even the eyeball should be slightly forward and downward. Such homing pigeons are often very clever;
3. With smart eyes and bright and dry eye sand, the eyelids must tighten and wrap the eyeballs tightly, and they must never loosen or even show meat;
4. The nasal tumor is fastened close to the tip of the nose, showing a heart shape;
5. It has a keel structure with both rigidity and flexibility, a developed body shape with both rigidity and flexibility, moderate weight and flexible and light flight.
6. Feathers should be thick and wide, long and pointed, thick and hard, thin and tight, solid and close-fitting. The last three feathers are longer, and the tenth is better than the ninth.
7, homing performance is strong, it is best to have their own or previous generations of blood can overcome the performance of overcoming bad weather.
8. Good pigeons have a feeling that the car engine is at the same speed after getting started, and they are ready to go.
& lt/IMG & gt； First, stand.
(1) If the pigeon's standing posture is obviously greater than 45 degrees, it looks upright, and most of them are speed pigeons that can win high prizes in short and medium distance events; Standing in a horizontal position is more common in long-distance pigeon racing.
(2) From the front of the pigeon, if the distance between the wings is too wide, the radian of the wings (excluding the feathered part) is relatively flat; With this shape of wing, the lift of the wing is not enough, so it is not labor-saving to fly for a long time. Only suitable for short-distance and easy-to-fly events.
Second, feel
(1) As soon as the pigeon gets started, immediately put his finger under the pigeon's chest and abdomen. It is the best fast pigeon to feel the speed of pigeon's heartbeat frequency and the strength (size) of its heartbeat with your fingers. I feel that the heartbeat frequency continues to be fast, the beating sound is loud and powerful, and even the blood vessels in the chest and abdomen are flowing rapidly. I can hardly feel the heartbeat in my consciousness, or it is too weak, relatively obvious and slow, and it is a long-distance pigeon; Pigeons with high heartbeat frequency and weak pulsation are short-distance pigeons with average ability. And the heartbeat frequency is stable but the pulse is strong and powerful, so it is an excellent long-distance pigeon good at speed and endurance.
Identifying pigeons in this way must be done at once. After a few minutes, when the pigeon's mentality stabilizes, it will no longer feel wrong. The initial fingers are not sensitive enough, so you can put your ears on the pigeon's back to listen.
(2) In the three basic senses of "hard, medium and soft", pressing the pigeon's pectoral muscles with fingers belongs to pigeons with short (within 500km), medium (700km) and long (1000km) distances respectively.
(3) Pigeons' weight is related to their adaptation distance, different feeding conditions such as live pigs and dead sheds, and whether they have been competing all the time. There is no absolute uniform scale, and it is a variable floating index that can be controlled artificially. As long as it is not used in competitions, it does not belong to the category of pigeon identification standards, and is generally not used to measure the quality of a pigeon.
(4) The shape of the pigeon being held on the hand feels smooth, prone and propped up (it is not convenient to hold the hand at first; The frame here is different from the commonly described pattern of long humerus and low flapping frequency. It is actually a rare strength fast pigeon, which can't be mistaken for a physical defect.
1. The stout pigeon is extremely strong and explosive, and can fly at high speed within its limit distance, and is often the king of short and medium distance races.
2. Smooth type is more common, belonging to "neutral" body shape, and its wings can also keep the original posture naturally held in the hand, which is the best type to advocate "feel" comfort and adapt to a wider competition distance.
3. The head, trunk and tail of a prone pigeon bend downward as soon as it starts, and its wings are opposite to those of a framed pigeon, not lifted upward, but drooped downward.
If we exaggerate the pigeon's figure as a familiar device that can glide in the air, the prone pigeon is a "flying saucer" thrown in the air in the right way (concave downward), the smooth pigeon is a "discus" thrown out (both upper and lower sides are convex), and the propped pigeon is a "flying saucer" thrown out in the wrong way (concave upward); You can imagine which one glides farthest. From this comparison, we can know that the reclining pigeon is the only one that can get a certain lift from its body shape and is the lightest and most labor-saving in flight. This figure is relatively suitable for long-distance events that are difficult to fly. Of course, it is not limited to long-distance flights, but can also be seen in excellent pigeons in short-distance races.
(5) Good pigeons will have close-fitting soft feathers, and the texture of feathers can be investigated from three aspects: softness, compactness and thickness; Corrosion resistance is different from oil and powder. In fact, fluffy won't feel tight and thin; Rough texture will definitely lack soft and elastic texture; The anticorrosion performance of feathers is either oily or powdery. Simply put, it is not easy to see the overlapping edges of feathers, and the whole body feathers are tight; Things that feel as smooth as silk are called fine; Dark (dirty) feathers are oily feathers, and bright feathers are powdery feathers.
Pigeons for short-distance races need not be so harsh on feathers; When endurance determines the outcome of a game, such as a middle-distance, long-distance or relatively difficult-to-fly game, the obvious advantages of high-quality feathers will be shown.
(6) I like the wings with gaps in the main feather from the third root. The feather surface is arranged in a "louver" shape, and the gap increases as it goes up. This is a typical "quick undressing"; Feather wings are too wide (referring to the transverse surface of a single feather bar) to form such a shape. The best main feathers are wide at the bottom and narrow at the end. Even if the width of the bottom and the end does not change much, even if it is narrow, it is not the ideal feather; From a mechanical point of view, the end of such a feather strip is under too much pressure when flapping its wings. Does Zhu Xian 2 have sf? Too much deformation is more likely to break.
On the other hand, although pigeons with no gaps or small gaps flap their wings faster than pigeons with large gaps, pigeons with such feathers are not useless. At least, their flapping efficiency is the highest. As long as you have good strength, you can still win within a certain distance (for example, pigeons in Zhan Sen have more wings). In short, pigeons don't fly entirely by wings; Moreover, match day is not just a kind of weather, and even the perfect wings can't adapt to all the weather.
(7) I think pigeons whose main feathers are even at the joints or whose main feathers are longer than the auxiliary feathers have their own uses. This should be the saying that "feet are short and inches long": at the same distance, the wings of the main feather can be flapped less, which is conducive to saving physical strength; Of course, if the main feather is short, you have to flap your wings a few times, so that you can fly faster than the former, but you need to consume more physical strength.
Numerous examples prove that many things in pigeons should be "moderate", so I choose pigeons with the same or little difference in main and auxiliary feathers. In this way, I am not afraid of any race distance or race situation.
(8) When people observe the wings of pigeons, they only pay attention to the external shape and structure of the wings, and seldom pay attention to the shape and structure of feathers under the wings. In fact, there are six rows of feathers under the wings, which should be arranged neatly and stacked tightly, and there should be no "V"-shaped opening at the joint of the main and auxiliary feathers. The last six rows of feathers are behind the five rows of feathers, which are generally much shorter than the five rows of feathers. You can't see five rows of feathers without blowing with your mouth. The best 6 rows of feathers are almost as long as 5 rows of feathers. Wings that meet this standard have better lift and fly with less effort. But for short-distance events, strength determines the outcome, and labor saving is secondary. There is no need to ask yourself to insert wings like this.
Because the feathers under the wings of fast pigeons are messy, while the feathers under the wings of long pigeons are often neat. Usually these characteristics can also be used to judge whether a pigeon is suitable for flying short-distance events or long-distance events. Of course there are exceptions; It is best if a fast pigeon has good feathers under its wings. In addition, whether the feathers under the wings are close to the main feathers is closely related to the health of pigeons; In other words, it is related to whether pigeons are at their best. Observing the shape of feathers under the wings before the game is helpful to accurately judge whether the racing pigeons are in the peak period.
(9) Pigeons can be divided into speed type and endurance type, which actually depends on whether pigeon's muscle explosive force or endurance is dominant. The way to judge what kind of pigeon belongs to is simple: put the index finger and middle finger under one wing (shoulder) of the pigeon, lift it up once or several times, and then open the wing to see. A fast pigeon with good explosive force will press its wings hard and resist your finger force without induction; Endurance pigeons have little or no resistance, and it is useless to induce (repeatedly lift their wings).
Good fast pigeons, especially orthodox Jensen pigeons, can gradually feel and see the whole wing shaking in waves when they open their wings, faster and faster; The best fast pigeons have this trembling feeling when they enter the door without spreading their wings; When you meet such a high-quality product, there is no need to look at other conditions. From this, you have to believe that it is no exaggeration to say that "experts look at pigeons, write diaries online for the first time, and instantly know whether they are good or bad".
Third, bones
(1) Speed race and endurance race have different requirements for bones; Usually, people demand too much from pigeon bones used in speed races. Actually, it's totally unnecessary. In an event where strength determines everything (strength is produced by the excellent quality of pedigree), under normal competition conditions, any superior conditions such as body shape, bones, muscles and wings are insignificant, but long-distance running with certain endurance is very important. 19 signs show that boys really love you, including bones.
Pigeons in long-distance endurance races require strong and light bones. A good pigeon appraiser can weigh a pigeon skeleton by hand. This sentence sounds like a fantasy. If you think about it carefully, you will understand the mystery. Accustomed to the hands of excellent racing pigeons, I am very sensitive to the feelings of pigeons of different qualities. Pigeons of the same size look a little heavy when other conditions such as muscles are unchanged, because the bones (skeletons) are too heavy.
In order to reduce the weight of birds in flight, almost all the bones of the whole body are porous, and the thickness of the hole wall of pigeon bones can not be exactly the same, because there are some differences between different strains. Thin and tough cave walls are of course the best, because they are so important that they will consume more physical strength and shorten the distance of continuous flight; Sure, it's too light. When flying at high speed, it will deform too much and press the internal organs, which will slow down the speed because of the obstruction of organ function and feel uncomfortable.
(2) The flight kinetic energy of pigeons comes from muscles, and the development of muscles determines the flight speed. Therefore, the keel shape of the speed pigeon will be "low in the front and high in the back", which is more convenient for the chest muscles to attach more muscles; The keel shape trend of endurance pigeons is relatively gentle, and there is no feeling of "holding hands" on the front of the keel. If I want to participate in the pure speed race, I will choose a pigeon with a low keel and a feeling of "topping the hand" as a contestant pigeon. The statement that the front keel is "deep" and has great resistance does not apply in speed races. On the contrary, I would never use this type of pigeons in a long-distance race, because their strength can't fly that far. Even if it can fly back, it will be the next day at the earliest (I can't fly anymore, I need to find a place to rest for one night).
(3) The shape of pigeon carcass is determined by the shape of skeleton structure, and the carcass shape that can adapt to various competition situations is an equilateral triangle; The carcass with deep keel (feeling "high keel") or shallow keel (feeling "low keel") adapts to different types of special competition conditions respectively. When the pigeon's physical quality reaches the best, and its pectoral muscles are very plump and filled into strips, it will feel the keel "concave" and become an ideal and difficult "apple" shape. And this type, deep keel pigeons are almost impossible to contact. However, not all "pigeons" have their uses. All kinds of bones and corpses have their own shortcomings and strengths, and there is no uniform fixed standard. Therefore, no matter what kind of bones and corpses I face, I treat them equally and don't regard them as shortcomings. The difference is that I use different events or places.
(4) The distance between pubic bone and keel should not be too strict. According to the qualifications and feelings of the judges of more than ten national prize-winning pigeon tasting competitions, no matter what distance the top prize-winning pigeons are, the distance from pubic bone to keel is long or short, there is no rule to follow. So, I don't care about this, what I care about is whether it is "put away". As long as the pubic droop, that is, the end of the pubic bone crosses the extension line of the keel shape, it will be eliminated immediately; That's not what the recent pigeons said. In fact, the length and arrangement of the distance between the pubic bone and the keel are congenital, and the looseness (opening) and tightness (closing) of the pubic bone are determined by the quality of the constitution.
Some requirements for hand feel are of course the experience and laws summarized from the performance pigeons, but they are not absolute. When choosing a pigeon, you can't kill it just because you are not satisfied with some places. Pigeons can fly well for a reason, and it doesn't matter if they are flawed. That's called "the beauty of flaws"! Otherwise, many pigeons will be killed by mistake.