(1) Put your hands on the pigeon, immediately put your fingers under the pigeon's chest and abdomen, and use your fingers to feel the speed of the pigeon's heartbeat frequency and the strength (size) of the heart's beating power. If you feel that the heartbeat frequency continues

(1) Get started with the pigeon. Immediately put your fingers under the pigeon's chest and abdomen, and use your fingers to feel the speed of the pigeon's heartbeat frequency and the strength (size) of the heartbeat. Feel that the heartbeat frequency continues to be fast and the beating sound is loud and powerful. , and can even feel the rapid blood flow in the blood vessels of the chest and abdomen, is the best fast pigeon. Those whose heartbeats can barely be felt in the consciousness, or are too weak, relatively slow and steady, are long-distance pigeons; those whose heartbeats have a high frequency and weak beat are medium- and short-distance pigeons with average abilities. Those with a steady heart rate but strong and powerful beats are excellent long-distance pigeons that are good at speed and endurance.

(2) Press the chest muscles of the held pigeon with your fingers. Among the three most basic feelings of "hard, moderate and soft", they belong to short (within 500km), medium (700km) and long (1000km) respectively. Pigeons in the distance.

(3) The weight of a pigeon is related to the racing distance it is adapted to, and also related to different feeding conditions such as living pens, dead sheds, and whether it has been competing. There is no absolutely unified scale. It all depends on the pigeon owner's adjustment and control. It is a variable floating index that can be controlled artificially; as long as it is not used for competition, it does not belong to the category of pigeon identification standards, and it is generally not used to measure the quality of a pigeon.

(4) The body shape of pigeons when held by the upper hand can only be smooth, lying on the stomach, and stretched (stretching the arms and retracting the head, which is inconvenient to hold in the initial hand; the stretched arms mentioned here are longer than the usually described humerus) , different types with slow wing beating frequency. It is actually a rare powerful fast pigeon and cannot be mistaken for a physiological defect.

Three types:

1. The wings of the winged pigeon are extremely muscular. It is strong, has super explosive power, and can fly at high speed within its extreme racing distance. It is often the king of short and medium distance races.

2. The smooth type is more common and has a "neutral" body shape, and its wings can remain natural in the hand. The original posture of hugging the body is the best type for advocating "hand feel" and comfort, and it is also suitable for a wide range of racing distances.

3. As soon as the prone pigeon is started, the head, trunk and tail will be bent downward, and the wings and frame will be bent. On the contrary, the shoulder type pigeon does not lift up, but hangs down.

The lying type pigeon is the only type of pigeon that can obtain a certain amount of lift from its body shape, and it is the lightest and most labor-saving type of pigeon. This type of pigeon is relatively suitable for long flights. Of course, distance and difficult-to-fly events are not limited to long distances. This type of body shape can also be seen in excellent pigeons in short and medium distances.

(5) Good pigeons will have close-fitting and soft feathers. , the texture of feathers can be examined from three aspects: softness, tightness and thickness; the anti-corrosion ability can be distinguished from two properties: oil and powder. Logically speaking, fluffy will not have a tight and thin feeling; texture is thicker. If it is thick, it will definitely lack the soft and elastic texture; the anti-corrosion properties of the feathers are either oily or powdery. To put it simply, it is not easy to see the overlapping edges of the feathers, and the whole body of the feathers is tightly hugged and integrated into one; it feels smooth. Those with feathers that are smooth and silky are called fine; those with darker (dirty) feathers are oily feathers, and those with bright feathers and more pink feathers are powdery feathers.

is used for pigeons in short distance races, and there is no need for feathers. So demanding; when endurance determines the outcome of a competition, such as medium and long distance or difficult-to-fly events, the obvious advantage of high-quality feathers will appear.

(6) The main feather starts from the third feather. The wings have gaps, and the feather surface is arranged in a "louver" shape. The gaps become larger as you go up. This is a typical "quick bar". The wings are too wide (referring to the cross surface of a single feather bar). Shape. The best main feather strips are wide at the base and narrow at the ends. The width of the base and ends does not change much. Even very narrow feather strips are not the most ideal ones; from a mechanical point of view, such feather strips To put it another way, the pressure on the end of the wing when flapping is too high, and the deformation is too large and it is easier to break.

(7) Pigeon fanciers think that pigeons with the main and secondary feathers connected equally or the primary feathers being longer than the secondary feathers have their own advantages. In line with the saying "A ruler is shorter, an inch is longer": for the same distance, if the main feathers are long, you can flap the wings a few times less, which is good for saving energy; if the main feathers are short, of course, you need to flap the wings a few more times. This will fly faster than the former, but it will consume more physical strength.

(8) When most people look at the wings of pigeons, they only pay attention to the external shape and structure of the wings, but do not pay much attention to the shape and structure of the feathers under the wings. In fact, there are 6 rows of feathers under the wings, which should be neatly arranged, closely stacked, and have no "V"-shaped openings at the connection between the primary and secondary feathers. Among them, the last 6th row of feathers is behind the 5th row of feathers. They are generally much shorter than the 5th row of feathers. You can’t see the 5th row of feathers without blowing them with your mouth. The best 6th row of feathers is almost as long as the 5th row of feathers. row of feathers. Wings that meet this standard have better lift, making it easier to fly. However, for short-distance events, strength determines victory or defeat, and saving effort is secondary, so there is no need to have such requirements for their wings.

(9) Pigeons are divided into speed type and endurance type. This is actually a question of which one is dominant, the pigeon’s muscle explosive power or endurance. The method to determine which type a pigeon belongs to is very simple: place your index finger and middle finger under one wing (shoulder) of the pigeon, and lift it up for a moment or a few times before opening the wing for inspection. Pigeons with good explosive speed do not need to be induced. They will press the wings down hard to resist the force of your fingers; endurance pigeons have very little or almost no resistance, and further induction (repeatedly raising the wings) is useless.

For good fast pigeons, especially the orthodox Janssen pigeons, if you open the wings, you can gradually feel and see the entire wings shaking faster and faster. The best fast pigeons have this trembling feeling in the hand without opening their wings. When encountering such a rare product, it is superfluous to check whether other conditions are good or bad. From this, you have to believe that the saying "A master can tell the quality of a pigeon by looking at it as soon as he gets started" is not an exaggeration.