German Beauty Homer Pigeon with Origin Description Size Ornaments Color Comment and Pictures

Origin: Germany. What the Americans did in creating Show Racers, the Germans did with their Racing Homers, only earlier-about 1900. The Germans, though, out crossed to the show Antwerp and the Show Homer. The new breed was first called Schonheitsbrieftaube (Beauty Racing Homer), and later Deutsche Schautaube (German Show Pigeon).

Description: The Beauty Homer is breed in the United States for exhibition only. It is typically a Homer, but differs from the Racing Homer and the American Show Racer in that it has a bullet-shaped beak, a much longer and thinner neck, a horizontal body and tail and much longer legs.

Size: Medium, average weight about 480 to 580 grams.

Ornaments: The Beauty Homer should be plain-headed and clean-legged. Its beak in a departure from the wild (Columba livia) type.

Colors: It is breed in many colors and patterns: self’s in black, red, yellow, and white; tigered, grizlled, T-pattern, checkered, barred, barless, white-barred, and others.

Comment: The breed was introduced into the United States in December 1945, by Major L. F. Tharp. It has no attained great popularity here. In Germany it is said to be second only to the Racing Homer.

Seven steps must follows for Pigeon growing:

The requirements for pigeon breeding are simple, but they must be followed to be successful.

There should be no relaxing or neglect at any time, for it is much easier to prevent trouble than to eliminate disease, parasites or vermin once these have occurred.

1.    A dry house with the inside protected from rain or snow.

2.    Separate houses for mated pairs and odd birds.

3.    A flypen, if the breed requires one that dries out easily.

4.     A suitable feed ration protected from contamination.

5.    A suitable mineral ration protected from contamination.

6.    Water suitable for human consumption protected from contamination.

7.    Suitable nesting materials.

If any one of the seven is neglected, trouble of some sort will eventually occur.

References: Wendell Mitchell Levi (1891-1976), accepted everywhere as Mr. Pigeon

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