How do members pair...?

how do members decide which birds to pair to each other, is it best to best ie racing performance ? or do they study pedigrees and decide which to pair to each other...? or maybe even eyesign

am pairing my fed topper back on with her father this year only got 1 egg from the pair and the youngster went on to top the fed at 197 miles but i lost the young hen that bred her so she will be paird back to father to keep that line try not to put two perl eyes together thats about it with me or two pieds with bull eyes

i try not to put a big cock with a small hen i try to get the balance right
with the sizes also feather texture eye colour and not to close with the
inbreeding .

dont like to inbreed pigeons

ian wrote:

dont like to inbreed pigeons

why is that then ian ,if you don,t go to close
and your breeding with good winning pigeons then it,s fine to keep the family line intacked
but like your self some like to do it and some don,t .

dont mind missing a generation kev but like you say not too close

im going to pair a brother and sister together which were out f a father and daughter pairing........ they might end up with three wings and two heads

never david put brother and full sister together this year my uncle inbred and cross bred for 55 years and there was not much could touch him let me tell ya that ya just must know what yer doing as it can get com

If I bring in a birds I never pair them together allways take them out and put them back just to have diffrent blood in them mind you they go to something good in the first place

inbreed line breed keeps your lines close

i prefer not to do this everyone has a different opinion

yes diverant stokes for diferant folks but you must do this to keep your family close simple as

must do nothing john thats you method but not mine simple as

no didnt say you must do now
but if you want to keep lines of family going this is how you do it simple

o whatever john but not for me

no not everyone does it well it wouldent be a good sport if everyone did the same thing now would it just pionting out one of the methods there is to do things no harm done

your entitled to your opinion and so am i

yes thats what its all about ian thats why theres sites like these

i think some of the top fanciers inbreed/linebreed to keep the family strong, i suppose it depend on what winners, if any they produce as to weather it is successful or not.........each to their own at the end of the day and for the fanciers who have produced winners this type of pairings will be acceptable.....

DAVID wrote:

how do members decide which birds to pair to each other, is it best to best ie racing performance ? or do they study pedigrees and decide which to pair to each other...? or maybe even eyesign

bump bump

would be interesting to know alexhe, members never gave their views on this did they ....?

I'd be intrested to know too...

all keeping quiet alex, they dont want to tell us.............

perhaps its a secret?

just pair birds up at random. just do it as you want. no any rules for that.