The number is deadly
China pigeon information network - Wang Weike
Pigeons are social animals (birds) that have been domesticated for thousands of years, or do not change their social nature. What I mean by this is that there is no need to change their temper, but it is necessary to observe and study the original nature that they embody.
There is a saying in the Chinese pigeon world: "The year you fly best is the year you raise the least." ”I once believed that there were only a dozen "elites" flying in the sky. But the head of the group is small, no matter how hard you tie the bamboo pole with a red cloth strip, they will not fight to fly, and if they do not let it fall for a long time, they will cleverly land on the edge of the nearby building higher than your pigeon loft, and watch you quietly, or not fly. Therefore, observation and research show that all pigeon lofts that fly well at home, without small flocks, fly all over the world into a cloud ......The results of the study were quantified: at least 30 pigeons. Textual, direct verbal and verbal to the fanciers, no one refuted it, all agreed. So the family flew the group to exercise quality, the number of more than 30 pigeons.
Represented by the Belgian Janssen brothers, the Dutch Koopman father and son, etc., the European pigeon industry has been strong and powerful, and there is no "small family" to raise one.
Three. Ten or twenty birds, hundreds of eighty birds do not seem to "relieve hatred", roughly always around 200-300 birds. This is the practice of a breeder in the first class of breeders – it has nothing to do with the quality of the home flight. Why do the pigeons in the traditional pigeon powerhouses do this, or do they all do?After long-term observation, analysis and thinking, the author's research results are as follows——
No matter how good a breeder is, there are too few of them. Because the data shows that some of the descendants of excellent breeders play the same as the previous generation;Some offspring outperform their predecessors;But there are also a lot of excellent breeders, whose offspring do not play - not at all - excellent traits are not inherited, and the ten-year trial of this Janssen pigeon "019" is the most typical and convincing. Theoretically, the best breeders who play and don't play should be half and half;In fact, taking into account various factors, the ideal performer is no more than one-quarter to one-third at most. What does "seed essence" mean?It is the most ideal wild genetic player, but only one percent (one thousandth?).）…
As I have previously stated in the article, pigeon racing is a continuous screening process that cannot be interrupted or escaped. After nearly 200 years of selection, a "ace pigeon competition system" was born - repeated screening and tempering of excellent breeders, the performance of the breeders themselves was greatly tested with the difficulty and number of races, and the best were refined, and then transferred to the genetic reliability test. As a result, the approximate "play" ratio of the previous paragraph ...... appearedIf you are not convinced, to be honest, there is really no better and more reliable means, one word: "Tao", you participate!
It's a bit like digging for gold, where a ton of gold ore costs 05 grams**, this account is "cost-effective" (for example), indicating that there is a ratio between the basic raw materials for screening and the final satisfactory amount of sieved material. This ratio determines that the required "ore raw materials" have a certain basic quantity, which is not enough to support rigorous screening. What the author means: It is no accident that the strong pigeon lofts of the traditional European pigeon racing powerhouses have cultivated (screened) excellent breeding pigeons for generations, and the number of pigeon lofts has been maintained at a relatively consistent order of magnitude. Because of this, the world's best breeders are born there in a steady stream, seemingly uninterrupted. At this moment, give this guarantee quantity, a "fatal" adjective, highlight its importance, and draw everyone's full attention.
It's too easy!
- At least 30 pigeons that fly well at home and at least 200 pigeons that are well bred. As long as we expand the area of the loft and the number of pigeon sheds to more than 200 pigeons, we will be able to select excellent breeders of the same quality as the European pigeon powerhouses!You can think of it that way, but can you believe it?
To give two "irrelevant" examples: on this side of the strait, there are the most loft lofts, and there are a lot of pigeons collected in a year, and it is also a screening natureDon't you need to raise "200-300 feathers" to introduce there?
On the other side of the strait, hundreds of thousands of Haixiang competitions are often screened out every yearDon't you have to go to the "200-300 feathers" to introduce it?
We are always mining stones, buying ores, and refining them
It seems that the continuation (smelting**) after screening is the key trick. The quantity of raw materials (including quality - gold content) is the premise, some keep 200-300 pigeons can eat for several generations, and some often 30,000 pigeons can not refine anything for a long time, this quantity is really "fatal" - two "deadly!".”
Quantity is not everything, and no quantity is impossible. Does it depend on whose hands control this amount?
January 2, 2024.