The World of Pigeons: 3 Classic Books on Raising and Breeding
Classic Guides to Loft Management, Breeding, Feeding, Racing, and ExhibitionBy John S. Trecartin, John H. Robinson, Carl Dare
Length11h 56m
About this audiobook
The World of Pigeons gathers three classic practical works into a compact history of aviculture, pairing instruction in raising and breeding with the observational knowledge that has long made pigeons objects of domestic, sporting, and scientific interest. Its pages range from methodical advice on housing, feeding, health, selection, and mating to discussions of varieties, standards, and the patient craft of improving a flock. The collection's significance lies in its preservation of hands-on expertise: a record of how fanciers translated close attention to plumage, form, behavior, and heredity into durable breeding practice. John S. Trecartin, John H. Robinson, and Carl Dare represent the tradition of the pigeon fancier as breeder, recorder, and teacher. Read together, their manuals illuminate a culture in which amateur natural history, agricultural husbandry, exhibition standards, and early practical understandings of inheritance intersected. Their differing emphases make the volume more than a set of instructions; it becomes a composite account of the communities, values, and accumulated experiments that shaped pigeon keeping. Recommended for breeders, animal-history readers, and students of domestic science, this volume offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare approaches within a single field. It rewards practical consultation while inviting reflection on the relationship between care, classification, selective breeding, and human-animal companionship. Readers will find both useful guidance and a revealing dialogue among classic voices in aviculture.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length11 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit
2Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit
3CHAPTER II.
4Profitable Squab Breeding
5Profitable Squab Breeding
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6CHAPTER I
7CHAPTER V
8CHAPTER VIII
9Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture
10Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture
11PREFACE
12CHAPTER III SPECIES AND THEIR DIVISIONS IN DOMESTIC BIRDS
13CHAPTER V MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS
14CHAPTER VI DUCKS
15CHAPTER IX MANAGEMENT OF GEESE
16CHAPTER XIII PEAFOWLS
17CHAPTER XVIII MANAGEMENT OF PIGEONS
18CHAPTER XX DISTRIBUTION OF MARKET PRODUCTS
19CHAPTER XXII OCCUPATIONS RELATED TO AVICULTURE
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