Coburg Lark Pigeon with Origin Description Size Ornaments Color Comment Pictures and Video

Origin: Coburg, Thuringia and Saxony of Germany, where it has been bred for a over a century. Neumeister (1837) described it and attested to its popularity. Neumeister gave the Archangel and the Runt as possible ancestors. Other writers include the Nuremberg Bagdad and the Montauban.

Description: Formerly a dual-purpose breed, it is now being bred in Germany principally for exhibition.

Size: It is a medium-to-large breed, some authorities giving its weight at 18 to 20 ounces, other around 23 to 28 ounces. The show specimens weighed by Stauber for this

work averaged 18 ounces; sixteen others weighted by Zurth averaged 23 ounces (650 grams).

Ornaments: It is plain-headed and clean-legged. It has no ornaments.

Colors: There are two main classes: the true lark coloration by which the German mean an evenly checkered dun or silver and the silver lark, having dun bars or barless wings. In both classes the neck should be a soft greenish color and the breast a light bronze. The eye should be orange.

Comment: The Coburg Lark has never achived popularity in the United States. Though a few are bred, they have rarely been exhibited at a national show. As a squabbling breed it would have difficult competition with the established kings, Carneaux and Mondains, though its dilute coloration insures light-skinned squabs, which are desired for top market prices.

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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