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Pigeon racing rules the roost in China among bird sports, with one enthusiast even spending $200,000 to buy a prized pigeon.
Pigeon takes flight in China. The sport of pigeon racing might have first taken off in Western Europe with the Romans in 220AD, however it didn’t find a perch in China until the 1960s in Shanghai. Back then, the main breeds of pigeons used for racing were the native Li and Yang species. China’s reform and opening-up in the late 1970s saw an influx of foreign breeds introduced into the country however, causing the sport to soar.
Big domestic races
Boasting about 30,000 registered members, the Beijing Racing Pigeon Association (BRPA) is preparing to sound its air horn for this year’s first homing pigeon race in Xinxiang, Henan Province, on April 22 takes flight in China. The 550-kilometer race, which involved 20,000 pigeons last year, will this year see feathers fly among pigeons from Beijing’s 14 districts and two counties.
The birds will be transported to the race course via trucks, then taken out from their lofts and released to fly home. With electronic timing, the first pigeon past the post stands to pocket its owner 3,000 yuan ($474.60) and a trophy. The BRPA will also have a flock of competitors in a 1,000-kilometer national race in Hubei Province, as well as another 600-kilometer race in Henan Province, both slated to be held in May.
The BRPA is currently spearheading intensive training for its members ahead of the big races. Pigeon trainers are already familiarizing their birds with the courses. “Usually, we put our pigeons through five or six days of intensive training ahead of a big race,” said Wu Changfu, 56, who trains 50 pigeons and will enter 10 into the Henan race.
“It takes about six hours for the pigeons to fly 500 kilometers.”
Endurance and speed
Bred with an innate homing ability, modern-day homing pigeons have been known to fly up to 1,800 kilometers in a single race at speeds of between 80 to 170 kilometers per hour.
Pigeons usually begin racing at six months old and compete until they are 10 years old. Ding Haichao, a 38-year-old pigeon owner who took up the sport 16 years ago, said some pigeons begin racing at just three months old.
Most racing pigeons are of foreign breeds as they are faster then domestic ones. In an average 500-kilometer race, foreign breeds can finish up to a half hour faster than their Chinese counterparts, said Wu.
It isn’t all glory for pigeon owners though. Training their birds often spans an hour early in the morning and late in the afternoon. While the birds are away, the owner usually busies themselves by disinfecting their birds’ aviary.
“It is important to train pigeons to fly when the weather is not so favorable, such as in rain or snow. This way, they can get good exercise and brace themselves for inclement weather during races,” said Ding, who owns the Beijing Shouxin Homing Pigeon Loft in the capital’s southern Daxing district China and raises about 1,000 pigeons for different owners before the takes flight.
Flippin’ the bird
Although pigeon racing originated in the West, it has flown to new heights in China half a century after it first made its mark. Prize money for pigeon races in China can reach as high as one million yuan, proving the sport is big business among enthusiasts.
In January last year, a Chinese buyer paid $200,000 for a racing pigeon at a Belgium auction, setting a new world record. The bird’s name was Blue Prince, and he was one of the highly pedigreed racing pigeons that have long been considered the gold standard in the pigeon racing world.
While there are concerns among pigeon racing purists in Europe that the sport faces decline amid the continent’s debt crisis and aging of bird owners, more young people in China are taking an interest in the sport, ensuring its future remains bright.
Passion for competition coupled with lucrative prize money offered in races suggests pigeon owners in China are in it for the long haul, and aren’t merely winging it.
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Pigeon Sniper may face charges
Since early this month, someone in Seattle has been shooting pigeons with blow darts, leaving the often still-living birds flying above and walking on the city’s streets with darts sticking through
them.
Seattle residents are alarmed but have run with the creepiness of the situation by calling the birds “zombie pigeons.”
Yesterday, the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the pigeon sniper, according to the Seattlest blog and the Times of Seattle.
The injured pigeons have so far avoided capture by animal control officers, because, despite their disturbingly protruding dart wounds, they are still able to fly, the Seattlest reports.
However, PETA says the animals are highly susceptible to infection. If the pigeon sniper is caught, he, she or they could face animal cruelty charges.
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Town Council agrees pigeons cull
A cull of pigeons has been approved at a meeting of a West Yorkshire town council.
Bird droppings have caused £50,000 of damage to Morley Town Hall by blocking drains which have caused flooding.
People have been told not to feed the problem birds and now council officials say that they have to decide on the most effective method.
The Pigeon Control Advisory Service told the BBC that culling “causes the birds to rebreed”.
“We are not throwing away our rubbish properly and we’re feeding them over and above what they need,” said Emma Haskell, of the Pigeon Control Advisory Service.
“The key message is to stop feeding them.”
‘Ate alive’
Ms Haskell said that in the USA, contraceptives were fed to birds to control their population, but they were not used in the UK because contraceptives had not been proven to be an effective method of control.
Elsewhere in the UK, councils have used birds of prey to keep the pigeon population at bay, but Ms Haskell said this was not recommended either.
“The peregrine falcon is the pigeon’s natural predator, not the Harris hawk which is commonly used,” she said.
“Pigeons fly a lot faster than the Harris hawk and it will only ever catch young, injured or sick pigeons.
“There was outrage in Norwich when a Harris hawk flew down and ate alive a pigeon in the middle of the town centre. It was all very upsetting.”
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The in-toeing epidemic (pigeon toed gait) – estrogen?
The mystery of the in-toeing (pigeon toed) epidemic among young women continues:
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/09/pigeon-toed-gait-endemic-among.html
(I am convinced that this gait is not an affectation – I am sure it is involuntary in most instances.)
The best suggested explanation came from Paul Jaminet – vitamin D deficiency; with its bone-softening effects.
This suggests that in-toeing may be a result of softening of the feet, in some way, shape or form; if not bones them perhaps joints?…
Which then leads on to the idea that it might be due to some increase in estrogen – whether natural, in contraceptives, or as an environmental pollutant (which may explain why surprising numbers of men walk this way too).
The only ‘evidence’ I can present for this is that estrogen softens and loosens joints (i.e. softening the ligaments that join bones to bones – this is well known in pregnancy) – perhaps making the ankles or internal joints of the foot more ‘floppy’, and hyper-flexible feet may cause the observed change in gait?
Well, I’m not very convinced by this – but the phenomenon is real and new, and there must be some explanation!
NOTE added – on further reflection I think the problem is likely to be neural – neuromuscular – rather than musculoskeletal – and subtly neuromuscular – hence perhaps related to basal ganglia dysfunction.
What ever causes basal ganglion dysfunction might be environmental toxins of some sort; but could also be infective – as many new diseases eventually turn-out to be.
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Pigeon races up in the sky!
Pigeon racers from far afield have their eyes on Tasmania.
Avid pigeon racers are trying to establish a contest that rivals the great long distance, cross water, pigeon races held around the world.
Experienced fliers, George Rettas and Alex MacDonald and other enthusiasts organised the ‘Conquer the Strait’ one loft race from Perth in northern Tasmania.
The idea of the ‘Conquer the Strait’ challenge is to test some of Australia’s best racing pigeons over one of the roughest stretches of water in the world.
The race was designed for the birds to fly over more than 500 kilometres from south western Victoria, including over 300 kilometres of Bass Strait.
And while an outbreak of the paramixovirus in Victorian pigeons curtailed the inaugural race in October 2011, a shortened race format over 220 kilometres from Woolnorth to Perth was held.
Pigeon racers from far afield joined the Tasmanian long distance enthusiasts who were out to prove they have the best birds on earth.
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Pigeon fever is an equine disease that doesn’t have anything to do with pigeons. It’s an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis which results in the formation of abscesses, usually along the chest (pectoral region) and lowest part of the abdomen. The name “pigeon fever” comes from the swelling in the chest region that vaguely resembles a pigeon-breast. A recent report describes and outbreak of pigeon fever involving at least 30 horses in Louisiana, bringing the estimated number of cases in the state in 2011 to over 100.
Pigeon fever is a regionally (and to a lesser degree seasonally) variable disease. It predominantly occurs in California, but over recent years it has expanded its range in the western US, and from this report, it’s obvious that it has a good foothold in some other areas in the south east as well.
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis lives in the soil, and causes infections in horses when it gets inoculated under the skin via wounds and perhaps sometimes through fly bites. Once it gets into the tissues, it starts to grow and causes painful (and potentially large) abscesses that often need to be surgically incised in order to drain them.
Infection control practices on farms can help reduce transmission of the bacterium between horses and to reduce the risk of injuries. These include:
- Quarantine of new arrivals and careful inspection for sign of infection.
- Isolation of known infected horses.
- Use of “contact precautions” when dealing with infected horses to prevent transmission of the bacterium via peoples’ bodies or clothing. This involves the use of protective outwear (e.g. coveralls and boots that are only used for the infected horse(s)) and gloves.
- Proper use of handwashing / hand sanitizer by people handling infected horses (or any horses, really, from a broader standpoint).
- Prevention of cross-use of items like buckets between infected/quarantined horses and the general horse population.
- Use of fly repellent, especially on horses with open wounds or draining abscesses.
- Careful cleaning and disinfection of areas potentially contaminated by pus from draining abscesses.
- Inspection of stalls, paddocks and fields for things that could cause wounds that might subsequently become infected.
Pigeon fever is a good example of why it’s important to know disease patterns in your region (and those to where your horses travel). Being aware of the possibility of a specific disease is an important step in diagnosis, and knowing there is disease activity in any area in which your horse may have been is a key part of that. This disease is also an example of why we need ongoing disease surveillance and reporting, because if a disease makes it into new regions, veterinarians and horse owners need to know about that as soon as possible to allow for quicker diagnosis and use of control measures. Unfortunately, organized disease surveillance and communication is sorely lacking in horses.
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