Jean-Luc BOYER and Bernard LARDEUX, both impassioned stockbreeders of pigeons and professionals, wanted to propose to you a work of quality, complete, where the techniques, structural innovations, and the aspects of production and selection will be presented.

A very beautiful book of approximately 400 pages and more than 200 photographs all color

This book is available since the 31/03, if you are interested you can order it by using the purchase order (price of work 51,00 €) - you can pay by Paypal 

    Much among us raises pigeons for the pleasure. The diversity of this bird leaves free course with many activities:

    - Pigeon fancying, competitive sport, where the carrier pigeons are intended for races speed or endurance through Europe.

    - Show pigeon, the pigeons are high on their external characteristics, their beauty, they are selected to approach a standard of beauty and are judged at the time of avicolous or colombicoles exposures.

    - Production of squab intended to propose to the consumer mets quality with gustatory and nutritional qualities without equivalent.

    The books on the breeding of the pigeons exist but the majority are now old and the evolution of the techniques, the races, and the professional environment of this production involved since ten years, a deep evolution.

Authors:

         Jean-Luc BOYER               contact me ! (I speak english)

Impassioned pigeons as of 12 years, contest pigeon fanciers to 15 and squab producer of flesh with 16, its way seems very traced. BTS livestock productions out of pocket, it integrates the colombicole station of Béchanne (86-88) and takes part in the creation of EURO in 1989. Today, director of the pigeons activity of GRIMAUD BROTHERS SELECTION, his knowledge, his many travels all over the world and his experiment of the ground make the specialist in reference in it.

        Bernard LARDEUX

Former professional stockbreeder, was during many years the technical adviser of reference in France.
Its many travel of share the world, its study on the breeding of pigeons in the USA, widened its knowledge.
with this work, it signs its 4th book on the pigeon of flesh.

SUMMARY :

The place of the breeding of the pigeon in the economy

Races of pigeons - Pigeons of sport (pigeon fancying and contest) - Pigeons of exposure (colombiculture and exposures) - Squab production

The plumage and the Moult

Of the design of the eggs to the slaughter-house

The pigeon ones Food The control of the breeding Artificial incubation in breeding of pigeons

Luminous programs -  Cycles of reproduction - Production of young pigeons by cycles

Increase in productivity for Christmas - The collecting and the transport of squab

Losses of production or lack to be produced -  The reform of the reproductive couples

The breeding of the future reproducers  - Selection

Identification of the pigeons -  The breeding of the pigeon by great cold

The protection of the breedings of pigeons and environment

The creation of a breeding of squab - Working time and organization of work

Ideas of receipts

384 pages and nearly 250 photographs color, graphs and drawings