Field pigeon (domestic pigeon)

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The field pigeon is considered the first breed of domestic pigeon . Field pigeons are direct descendants of tamed rock pigeons . Their appearance hardly differs from that of ordinary city ​​pigeons .

Field pigeons were shy, fleeting animals, which in ancient times in Italy, France, Spain and North Africa were kept by the thousands in pigeon towers and had to look for their food in the field (→ fields ). They always returned to their pigeon towers, which could house up to four thousand animals. Their husbandry served not only to produce meat, but also to obtain their dung. Deaf dung was a valuable raw material and was used for tanning leather and increasing the yield in fields.

According to Schütte, field pigeons differ from the German field refuge , who descends directly from the first tamed pigeons. Vogel does not make this distinction between field pigeon and field fighter.

literature

  • Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , field pigeons, p. 62 .
  • Curt Vogel, Marianne Vogel, Wilfried Detering, Maik Löffler: pigeons . A manual for breeders and keepers of domestic pigeons, wild pigeons, carrier pigeons and other flying pigeons [...] Weltbild, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-736-6 , field pigeons, p. 44-45 .