Whats up with the Eye sign on a Pigeon?
OK. “When my eye sees my birds tail feathers stuck up in the trap on race day, it is the only sign I look for.” When I first got into the Sport I remember seeing my uncle look through a hoop at his birds. Said he was looking for a “worm”. So I looked. And looked. And looked at every bird I handled. For a while I thought I was on to something when I found two eyes alike that performed well. Well, I went on to look, and look and look. Then someone loaned me the Pictorial Magazine. About fifty copies set in my room and after looking at nearly half of them (they feature eye signs in wonderful color) I went blind. I personally couldn’t tell you one eye from another. If the pigeon has two eyes on its head and sees out of both of them, thats another good eye sign to me. I do not mean to put rubbish on any person that has written and made a fortune on eye signs. I came nearly falling off my feet when a friend came in my loft and picked out one of my best birds and said he did it by looking at
