Pigeon box

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Pigeon caves (top left) and pigeon box (bottom right)
(illustration from 1886 by Bruno Dürigen )

Pigeon boxes and pigeon caves are nesting boxes for domestic pigeons that hang on the wall of the house or stable instead of a dovecote .

Today, flight boxes and transport boxes for pigeons are sometimes referred to simply as "pigeon boxes". Sometimes pigeon houses are also meant.

description

Gottlob Neumeister describes pigeon boxes as "containers that are made of long square boards, are attached to the walls in rows one above the other and are provided with access holes and step boards, with the wall or wall taking the place of the rear wall." A row of pigeon boxes was common eight inches high, a single compartment six inches wide. In the middle of the box a square or arched hole was cut out as a flight hole. For pigeon breeds with a field pigeon-like shape, such as colored pigeons , this hole was ten by six inches. For larger breeds , the box and entrance hole were designed correspondingly larger.

According to Buhle, there should also have been pigeon boxes woven from willow.

According to Johann Christian Gotthard , pigeon boxes around Halle were primarily known as pigeon caves. Bruno Dürigen describes pigeon caves as pigeon boxes that are attached under the rafters protruding from the building wall by covering the protruding ends with boards at the front and bottom.

Attachment

Usually pigeon boxes and pigeon caves were attached to a weatherproof east wall. Pigeon boxes attached to the west walls were exposed to the weather, rain and wind and were often abandoned by the old pigeons, so that the chicks sitting in them died "very easily". All the cracks in these boxes had to be carefully covered with lime to protect them from the cold and rain and to prevent vermin .

Pigeon incubators in the vaulted ceiling of a stable
(illustration from 1906, Dürigen)

Similar caves were also created inside the threshing floor or in a cattle shed . For a stable of the Baersdorf estate near Bojanowo , such a frame is occupied, which was occupied with a few pairs of young pigeons in winter. They also brooded in the warm stables over the winter and delivered young pigeons for the kitchen.

fitness

Pigeon boxes are generally not suitable for pigeon accommodation. Similar to the pigeon house , they offer the house pigeons insufficient protection from the weather, hair predators ( martens , polecats , weasels , poaching cats ), crows and magpies . They are difficult to clean and difficult to disinfect and are therefore good breeding grounds for vermin . The pigeons themselves feel disturbed by the creation of a ladder, leave the nest and flee. It is difficult to catch and care for sick pigeons.

Pigeon dung can also get extremely hot quickly and so the pigeon boxes under the roof ledge were sometimes the cause of house fires.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taubendriss to Taubenkaue (Rhenish Dictionary, Volume 8, Sp. 1097). In: woerterbuchnetz.de. Trier Center for Digital Humanities / Competence center for electronic cataloging and publication processes in the humanities at the University of Trier, accessed on July 21, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Willi Baunach: My flight boxes. Retrieved on July 21, 2013 (including assembly instructions).
  3. ↑ pigeon box. Retrieved July 21, 2013 (illustration of a transport case).
  4. ↑ Round tour 8: Geestinseln on the march, download the accompanying brochure. (PDF; 21.3 MB) p. 12 , accessed on January 29, 2017 : “To the east of the church is a larger building, the former rectory. In front of this house was a pigeon house on a whitewashed stake. "Mitnanner achter de Duufkast gahn" (Go together behind the pigeon box) was what it was called in Stedesdorf when a couple wanted to get married. "
  5. ↑ a b c The dwellings of the pigeons. In: Gottlob Neumeister: The whole of pigeon breeding. 3. Edition. The text revised up to date and edited by Gustav Prütz. In addition to 17 plates. BF Voigt, Weimar 1876, pp. 5-6, doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.50691 .
  6. ↑ Chr. Adolph Buhle: The pigeons with their relatives. Their natural history, breeding, maintenance, care and diseases and their healing, as well as economic-technical use. (= Natural history of domestic animals in economic and technical terms. 3rd volume). Ed. Heynemann, Halle 1844, p. 94, archive.org
  7. ↑ a b The pigeon box. In: Johann Christian Gotthard: The whole of poultry breeding or complete instruction in the maintenance, care and treatment of the diverse economic poultry, its various uses, knowledge and healing of its diseases. Beyer and Maring: Erfurt 1798, pp. 122–126 ( full text in the Google book search)
  8. ↑ a b pigeon boxes and pigeon caves. In: Bruno Dürigen : Poultry farming according to its current rational point of view . 2nd completely revised edition, Paul Parey, Berlin 1906, p. 1015, (digital copies in the HathiTrust Digital Library from page no longer available , search in web archives: New York and page no longer available , search in web archives: Chicago ) @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / hdl.handle.net@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / hdl.handle.net
  9. ↑ Accommodation. In: Manfred Hartmann: The pigeon book. Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1986, p. 145, OCLC 64495066 .
  10. ↑ posture. In: Kurt Vogel: Biology, keeping, feeding. A specialist book for breeders and owners of domestic pigeons, wild pigeons, sport or carrier pigeons and other flying pigeons (= the pigeon). 3rd, unchanged. Edition. Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 233, OCLC 246277835 .
  11. ↑ Rudolf Piemer: An ornament of Farms - dovecotes. In: The Heimatbote. Issue 16. (no year, online ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ( PDF; 118 kB), accessed on July 19, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familienarchiv-papsdorf.de