Dad, get me pigeons

So, as a pigeon, is not no other domestic animal. Why holubareni pay only boys and men and among women farmers pigeons is like saffron?

Why more than eighty assessors ornamental and utility pigeons Czech Union farmers are only two women? This circumstance would have deserved the attention of psychologists. Pleasant appearance, no shapes, rounded curves, the softness of feathers touch ... Is it the answer?

A little history

Holub home is one of the few successfully domesticated bird species. The exact zoological designation Columbia livia domestica Linnaeus, 1758 based on the assumption that domestic pigeon came domestication of wild living ancestor - Holub rock, still living on the coast of western Europe, the Mediterranean and Central and South Asia. References to domestic pigeons can be found in the oldest written text or drawings. Adult pigeons,but especially young pigeons, and pigeon eggs for people to become a complementary source of livelihood. The projected center of domestication is considered Mesopotamia region, then the pigeons spread to Egypt and later to other countries. In Europe since the 17th century was their cilevedomemu development, in the written records are preserved descriptions of specific breeds, like today's breeds.

Groups breeds

We are here to address intensive commercial breeding of pigeons, whose main aim is to produce young pigeons for the purpose of slaughter. Although their meat is a diet high in demand as a delicacy, for most farmers is a priority breeding of ornamental pigeons.

As with other types of animals, pigeons and even some farmers gradually focused on a specific herd characteristics,deliberately stressed the variations in body shapes, the color of plumage or pernatych ozdobach. Due to significant differences in these traits was therefore possible to distinguish each individual breeds, and sometimes even whole groups of breeds. In the last century, especially in the last fifty years, thanks to the practical use of knowledge of laws of heredity and the deliberate breeding ustalovaly have kept shocks color, combination of different stained plumage led to the creation of new nature, created with the entirely new breed.

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