Ostrava Bagdad Pigeon Details Information

Ostrava Bagdad Pigeon Origin Description Size Ornaments Colors Comment Caring and Pictures gallery Information.

Origin: Czechoslovakia. This breed originated in the city of Ostrava, in Moravia, a part of Czechoslovakia, where it has been bred Since the 1880’s. The Nuremberg and French Bagdads, English Carrier and Dragoon, Coburg Lark and a frilled Owl are all said to be in its ancestry.

Description: It is an exhibition bird only. It is tall, With hard fethering; powerful wings and wing butts; a curved, Slender neck; a gullet; a long vertical neck frill and a prominent eye cere and upper beak Wattle. All If these, coupled with a flat top skull, sunken frontal, and curved beak, make this a very strange looking breed to Western eyes.

Size: Large, average weight cocks 22 to 23 ounces; hens 20 to 21 ounces.

Ornaments: It is clean-legged and plain-headed, but has an inverted breast frill, gullet under chin, and prominent eye cere and beak wattle.

Colors: Selfs in black, red, yellow, and white; blue with black bars, white with red and yellow bars; laced in blue, red, and yellow, with white flights and tail.

Comment: The Ostrava Bagdad was introduced into the United States in 1950 by Dr. Lynn E. Hummel, of Columbia, Missouri. It is presently being bred by a few individuals. It is a very unique breed, and its Bagdad-origin is plainly evident.

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

1. Separate houses for mated pairs and odd birds.

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

3. A suitable feed ration protected from contamination.

4. A suitable mineral ration protected from contamination.

5. Water suitable for human consumption protected from contamination.

6. 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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