What is the difference between the Racing Homing Pigeon and (Common) the Birds I see Downtown and Under Bridges?
Night and Day. I never have seen one of the birds downtown being sold for $137,000. The Homing Pigeon has been bred now for a few hundred years to be strong and healthy. If kept by a Fancier, they are well cared for, bred right, and medicated constantly. Most Breeders that find a sick bird in there loft bury them. That way they don’t breed the sickness on down and down the family tree. There is no doubt that some of the birds you see downtown could be cross bred by a Lost Homing Pigeon, but if it does not have a band on it, I wouldn’t catch it to Race against the many Thoroughbred Pigeons that are entered into the Racing Sport.
