English pouters

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English pouters: blue and blue hearted, white and black hearted (Schachtzabel, 1906)
English pouters: red pale and yellow pale hearted (Schachtzabel, 1906)

The English pouters are two breeds of domestic pigeons that belong to the group of peanuts . Specifically, these are the English Großkröpfer that often simplified English pouter is called, and the English Zwergkröpfer .

Both have an extremely upright posture, "so that one could draw a vertical line from the eye to the standing surface". The large pouters are even considered to be the largest of the high-standing goiter pigeons (size: 40–48 cm from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail). The Zwergkröpfer, on the other hand, is the smaller version of the English Kröpfer and with a maximum length of 35 cm is hardly larger than the Brno Kröpfer, for example . The duo of English large and English dwarf peppers is one of the few examples of dwarfism in the field of pedigree pigeons .

The back line of the English crooks falls down to the tail end. The ratio of the front to the back is about 2/3 to 1/3. The feet are feathered. They are very lively and trusting. Both English large and dwarf peppers are recognized in the colors white, black-hearted, dark-hearted, dominant red-hearted, dominant yellow-hearted, blue-hearted, blue-hearted, brown-white-hearted, red-white-hearted and yellow-hearted. At shows, these pigeons are judged primarily on their shape.

English large pouter

English large pouter (GB / 310) in brown color

The English pouter is one of the most famous pedigree pigeons. It originated in Britain and is one of the oldest breeds regularly described in ancient scriptures. The first descriptions come from Willughby (1678) and Moore (1735).

Around 1850 the first representatives of this breed were introduced to Germany, where it was widely spread.

English pouters were crossed into most pouter breeds for refinement, the anglicization of which (high upright posture, narrow body) was not always to the advantage of the respective breeds.

English dwarf pouter

Blue-hearted English dwarf pucker (GB / 329)

The English dwarf pouter was created around the middle of the 19th century and is therefore not nearly as old as the English pouter. Sir John Sebright (1767–1846), the breeder of the Sebright dwarf chickens, was one of the first successful breeders and is considered to be the breeder of the English dwarf pouter, whose breeding was unfortunately lost. The London ornithologist William Bernhard Tegetmeier (1816–1912) also studied them and used various European dwarf peppers, v. a. small, large peppers and Brno peppers as the basis for his breeding. English dwarf peppers were introduced to Germany at the end of the 19th century. Initially, however, they were not widespread, since, according to Bruno Dürigen, the Brno "seem more delicate, more beautiful, finer". In the 1920s, however, there was a trend reversal and by the mid-1930s they were just as widespread as the large Kröpfer.

The dwarf kröpfer is about a third smaller than the large kröpfer and differs from the Brno kröpfer u. a. through the barrel fletching and the uncrossed wings. The toe fletching of the English dwarf pouter is plate-shaped, but the toes and legs of the Brno pouter are not feathered. The long wings are carried "tightly closed" by the dwarf crook, their tips should not cross on the tail. The wings of the Brno, however, are clearly crossed.

Evidence and further literature

literature

  • Erich Müller (Hrsg.): Chicken pigeons, wart pigeons and potatoes. (= Everything about pedigree pigeons. Volume 3). Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2001, ISBN 3-88627-603-1 , Englischer Kröpfer, pp. 95–98 and Englischer Zwergkröpfer, pp. 171–173.
  • Hans-Joachim Schille: Beautiful pigeon breeds. from Aachener Bandkröpfer to Zurich Weißschwanz. (= Species in color. Volume 2). Karin Wolters, Sebnitz 2001, ISBN 3-9806312-2-2 , Englische Kröpfer, pp. 116–117 and Englische Zwergkröpfer, p. 123.
  • Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races. Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , Englischer Kröpfer, p. 188 and Englischer Zwergkröpfer, p. 216.
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: The English Pouter in the 18th Century In: Geflügel-Börse , vol. 96, January 1975, p. 3
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: The English pot breed in the interwar period In: Österreichischer Kleintierzüchter , 28th year, April 1974, pp. 7–8
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: The English Pouter in the 19th Century In: Deutscher Kleintierzüchter January 1977. No. 1, pp. 12-15.
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: The breeding of English crookers in the 20th century In: Geflügel-Börse 100th year, October 1979, No. 20, pp. 3–5.
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: Red-hearted English pouters. Your breeding in the past and present In: Deutscher Kleintierzüchter March 1984, No. 6, pp. 14-16
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: The English pouters in the GDR In: Deutscher Kleintierzüchter June 1984, No. 12, pp. 18-20
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: On a pigeon fancier tour in the GDR In: Deutscher Kleintierzüchter February 1988, No. 3, p. 18
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: My long way to the breeding of lacquer-rich red English pigeons In: Österreichischer Kleintierzüchter June 2000, 55th year, pp. 10-12.
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: 1912 - 2012: 100 years of organized breeding Englischer Kröpfer In: Joy with small animal breeding November 2012, 67th year, pp. 12–15
  • Leonhard Kühschelm: Origin and history of the English crook from 1668 to 2017. (PDF, at www.englische-kroepfer.de, accessed May 2, 2018)
  • Lebó László: Monográfia az angol-begyes galambokról és magyarországi tenyésztökröl (= monograph on English pigeons and Hungarian breeders). Self-published, Kaposvár 2019

Web links

Commons : Englischer Großkröpfer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : English dwarf pucker  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , Englischer Kröpfer, p. 188 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , Englischer Zwergkröpfer, p. 216 .
  3. ↑ Association of German Poultry Breeders (BDRG): German pigeon standard. Publishing house Reutlingen Oertel & Spörer, ISBN 3-921017-03-3 .
  4. ↑ EE list of pedigree pigeons (ELRT) ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF document, accessed on January 9, 2015 (number 310) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.entente-ee.com
  5. ↑ Erich Müller (Hrsg.): Chicken pigeons, wart pigeons and Kröpfer (=  everything about pedigree pigeons . Volume 3 ). Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2001, ISBN 3-88627-603-1 , Englischer Kröpfer, p. 95-98 .
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schille: Beautiful pigeon breeds . from Aachener Bandkröpfer to Zurich Weißschwanz (=  species in color . Band 2 ). Karin Wolters, Sebnitz 2001, ISBN 3-9806312-2-2 , Englische Kröpfer, p. 116-117 .
  7. ↑ EE list of pedigree pigeons (ELRT) ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF document, accessed January 9, 2015 (number 329) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.entente-ee.com
  8. ↑ a b Erich Müller (ed.): Chicken pigeons, wart pigeons and potatoes (=  everything about pedigree pigeons . Volume 3 ). Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2001, ISBN 3-88627-603-1 , Englischer Zwergkröpfer, p. 171-173 .
  9. ↑ a b c The breeding of the English dwarf potato. In: englische-kroepfer.de. Breeders Club of Engl. Large and dwarf peppers, accessed on January 25, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Bruno Dürigen : Poultry farming. 1923
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schille: Beautiful pigeon breeds . from Aachener Bandkröpfer to Zurich Weißschwanz (=  species in color . Band 2 ). Karin Wolters, Sebnitz 2001, ISBN 3-9806312-2-2 , Englische Zwergkröpfer, p. 123 .
  12. ↑ Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , Brünner Kröpfer, p. 215 .