Hungarian giant pigeon

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Hungarian giant pigeon, black tabby

The Hungarian giant pigeon ( Hungarian Magyar órias galamb , ELRT No. 2) is one of the largest pigeon breeds in the world.

description

The very large, strong, feather-rich pigeon with an almost horizontal posture belongs to the group of giant pigeons , a subgroup of the shape pigeons . It weighs 860 to 1000 grams, has a wingspan of up to 100 cm and, according to the Hungarian standard, should not be longer than 45 to 50 cm. Due to her wealth of feathers, she still looks bigger than she actually is. Much emphasis is placed on the forehead, a wide scallop hood (= comb) and fully built over footwork . When breeding, their three-year development phase must be observed.

The variety of drawings and colors of the Hungarian giant pigeon is very extensive. Three-colored ones are not yet permitted. In Germany, the following colors are recognized: white, black, red, yellow, blue with black wing bands, blue-steel with dark bands, blue-hammered, red-white-hammered, yellow-white-hammered, blue-gray; Tabby and piebald in all main colors (black, blue, red and yellow). In Hungary there are also saddled, homely, hearted and white-winged giant pigeons. In the vicinity of Debrecen, according to Schütte, there are also white people with a blue comb (shell hood) and Nagykörös white with a black comb and black neck.

Flat-footed Hungarian giant pigeons are not allowed in exhibitions. They are pure farm pigeons for carcass production and therefore usually have white plumage.

A smaller form of the Hungarian giant pigeon is the Hungarian bug pigeon , which is recognized as an independent breed. It is always gaffed. With whitehead drawing, it has a tip that does not begin directly on the beak, as usual, but only in front of the eye and the cap ends.

The Polish ( Polish Olbrzym Polski ), Romanian ( Romanian Porumbeii urasi de Salonta ), Carpathian and Transcarpathian giant pigeon are ancestors of the Hungarian giant pigeon.

history

During the 150-year rule of the Turks in Hungary, who brought large, heavy meat pigeons with them, the Hungarian giant pigeon was first mentioned in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The heavy meat pigeons (Turkish pigeons) are probably also the starting animals of the breeding of the Hungarian giant pigeon. From around 1900 these were kept in large numbers as useful pigeons for the production of carcasses. Since 1935, the pigeon has been crossed with breeds with large structural features, with the aim of forming an independent breed. Around 1950 these matings with different structural breeds, possibly also with strong drum pigeons with beautiful caps and feet with vulture feathers , were intensified, whereby the desired structures were consolidated. In 1950 the pigeon was first exhibited as the Hungarian giant pigeon in Budapest.

In the late 1960s, the first Hungarian giant pigeons came to Austria and Germany, where they were in 1974 officially as the third giant dove exhibition dust breed recognized.

W. Engmann received the first Hungarian giant pigeons for the GDR in 1971 as a gift from officials in Budapest, who gave a first breeding line to another breeder in 1973. Further approved breeding animal exchanges followed in 1973 and 1977. Hungarian giant pigeons were shown at shows in the GDR for the first time in 1973 in Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1974 the GDR young poultry show followed in Erfurt and the Lipsia in Leipzig, where they were presented as new breeds, so that in 1975 the breed was recognized by the central technical committee. The young animals were ringed according to the instructions of the central board with bantam wrestling, because due to the strong foot fletching and the small number of individuals - there were only about 5 organized breeders in the GDR - the ring distribution center was not able to produce a special ring size to clearly identify the animals allow.

Literature and evidence

  1. ↑ Entente Européenne : List of cross-references German racial names (ELRT) - National racial names. , PDF file, accessed April 17, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Hans-Joachim Schille: The pigeon book . Instructions for keeping and breeding pigeons. Ed .: Manfred Hartmann. Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1986, OCLC 63215911 , Hungarian pigeon breeds, p. 56 .
  3. ^ Hungarian giant pigeons. In: vdt-online.de. Association of German Pigeon Fanciers , accessed on April 17, 2017 (breed description).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Joachim Schütte, Günter Stach, Josef Wolters: Handbook of the pigeon races . Josef Wolters, Bottrop 1994, ISBN 3-9801504-4-5 , Hungarian giant pigeons, p. 66 f .
  5. ↑ a b 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 , Hungarian giant pigeons, p. 363 f .
  6. ↑ a b c Willi Kolb: Mold pigeons . Ed .: Erich Müller (=  Everything about pedigree pigeons . Volume 2 ). Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88627-602-8 , Hungarian giant pigeon, p. 20-22 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Horst Seifart: Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the SZG giant pigeons 1907–1982 . Ed .: SV Montauban and Hungarian giant pigeons from 1907. 1982, p. 12 f . (21 p., Online [PDF; 393 kB ; accessed on April 17, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Maik Löffler: Hungarian giant pigeons . Giants with character. In: poultry newspaper . No. 9/2011 . Hobby and small animal breeders Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Berlin May 5, 2011, p. 8-11 .