| Secrets Of The Racing Ace |
| By Old
Hand A little goldmine of race secrets, shortcuts to the winner's table, the tips that the regular winners like to keep to themselves! The 'fine tuning' of a fit racing pigeon so often depends on the ability of it's trainer to motivate the bird, to channel it's attentions, aggression and competetiveness into something real and tangible, to convert the sheer exuberance of a bird flying free, fit and happy, into the same pigeon racing home with purpose and determination, to get back home fast as fast as it possibly can, keen and eager to rejoin it's loft and mate, rather than just a bird returning happily home after a day's fly. Learn how! Written in Old Hand's inimitable parable style. Prices:UK: £7.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £7.60. USA: $13. Canada: $17. |
| Ailments & Diseases of the Racing Pigeon & How To Treat Them |
| By Old
Hand Tells the fancier how to recognise the symptoms of ailment and disease, and how best to treat each disorder to effect the essential remedy. Birds and animals under stress are always prey to ailment, the would-be successful fancier must be ever ready to nip it in the bud. Written in layman's language, without technical jargon that so often confuses the amateur, this book seeks to illustrate to the fancier the basics of those ailments and diseases that commonly affect our birds, and how to treat them to best advantage. The writer does not try to take over the duties of a Vet, but suggests instead well tried remedies and actions that have been tested and proven in the field of avian medicine over many, many years. One of the sport's best sellers for half a century! Bang up to date. Prices:UK: £8.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £8.60. USA: $14.50. Canada: $19.50. |
| Pigeon Breeding and Racing |
| By S W E
Bishop His last book, which deals with all aspects of pigeon racing, particularly of breeding winners and the basic requirements of producers. An entire lifetime in the sport has been combed, gleaning out the successes from the failures, and is set down for posterity. The knowledge derived from hundreds of visits to the finest Champions in the land, the experience gained in handling countless winners, and breeders of winners, all here. An absolute treasure chest of racing pigeon fanciership set down to make the pathway easy for the novice. A 'must' for every fancier. 256 pages of text. Prices:UK: £10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £10.60. USA: $18. Canada: $24. |
| Cultivating Condition in Racing Pigeons |
| By Old
Hand As the title implies, this book reveals some of the great secrets of conditioning racing pigeons for racing. Information which has been kept secret for many years is now made available to the beginner. Just sending pigeons to races is not the answer, for if they are not in condition they cannot give of their best efforts. Many a good racer has been wasted because it's owner has not known how to make the best use of it's talents. A whole racing season is soon past, why just 'chuck it and chance it'? These are the lessons of a man's lifetime, hard won facts that will save the reader the pains and misfortunes that the mistakes of life cost in gaining the experience contained in these chapters. Take advantage of the industry and painstaking desire of one of the Fancy's successful men, who seeks to lead the Novice (and not-so-novice) fancier along that same path to success. Prices:UK: £6.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £6.60. USA: $11. Canada: $15. |
| The Secret Of Eyesign |
| By S.W.E.
Bishop The world's best seller textbook on pigeon racing is devoted to the fascinating study of 'Eyesign' and it's implications. Natural colour photographs of the various eyesign colours, and written in easy to follow style. S.W.E. Bishop took the rough cast material of Felix Gigot's 19th Century explorations, and forged them into ingots of sound knowledge and reasoning. He has beaten a pathway into a previous vacuum, and filled it with exciting record and detailed facts for others to follow. Prices:UK: £9.60. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £10.10. USA: $17. Canada: $23. |
| The Pigeon Fancier |
| By Old
Hand The utterly indispensible basics that all fanciers must know if they are to succeed in pigeon racing. A highly informative book that has enjoyed regular sales over many years due to it's undoubted value as a tutor in pigeon racing knowledge. Written by a Master at the game and revised in 1995 to keep abreast of modern day developments. Many a fancier who has thought that he knew it all has blessed the day he read this volume. It was written for a purpose, to teach - and it does! Even those who have finished with school admit they have benefited from finishing classes later on. Prices:UK: £6.60. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £7.10. USA: $12. Canada: $16. |
| Pigeon Gas |
| By Bilco
(Bill Cowell) The most copied writer in the sport of pigeon racing. His original thinking includes two of the best kept secrets in pigeon racing husbandry, the selection of long distance birds and how to control the moult of YBs so that they race with well clad heads and a full wing, both systems now changing the sport. Recollections, tips, details of practices and fads, some still current, some now gone from the sport, but all of interest to the dedicated fancier who not only competes with his birds, but who loves them too. Plus 20 pigeon short stories - some true, some fanciful - for the fancier's family, to interest, inform, delight and even sadden the reader. 'Bilco' has been published in over 33 different countries and in countless publications, world-wide and his work in many spheres, not just pigeons alone, is always so readable. This 1992 book is exactly what it says, a 'gas' about pigeons! One that any thinking fancier will enjoy and read over and over again, as the passage of time shows how accurately his pen has portrayed the record and lessons contained therein. Prices:UK: £13.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £13.60. USA: $23. Canada: $31. |
| Old Hand's Loft Record Book |
| By Old
Hand This 100 page book enables you to record just about everything you can possibly need, as a permanent record of your season's hobby. Pages for lists of birds at start of the season, your stock birds, details of reference birds, records of 40 breeding pairs, their laying and hatching dates, ring numbers of YBs, vaccination dates, training and racing results, your club and fed positions, racing conditions, and wind & weather. An absolute must for the methodical fancier. Don't trust to memory, write it down. If Pharaoh's hieroglyphics can last 5000 years, so can yours! Prices:UK: £2.85. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £3.35. USA: $5.50. Canada: $6.50. |
| Management of the Racing Pigeon |
| Illustrates for the novice fancier how he should set about
adopting a successful system of daily management. Far too many novices
start off with no real idea of what they need, or of how they should
manage their resources. This book sets out a programme which, if adopted,
will set him on the road to success, for it is based on the tried and
trusted routines of champion fanciers.
Prices:UK: £6.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £6.60. USA: $11. Canada: $15. |
| The Pigeon Racer |
| By Old
Hand Two books in one, for it incorporates the author's brilliant work "The Four Winds", widely acknowledged as the finest work on how to train and race. Even fanciers of considerable experience have learned from this work, and have acknowledged their latest successes as due to the information gleaned from these pages. Prices:UK: £6.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £6.60. USA: $11. Canada: $15. |
| The 6 Principles of Pigeon Racing |
| By Old
Hand Which deals with the knotty problems of loft design, specialised loft equipment and the necessary accessories to expert pigeon keeping, all vital to the welfare of racers. It clearly illustrates the benefits of adequate ventilation, and highlights the damage that can be wreaked if this aspect is neglected. How to ventilate without draughts is important , yet is so often neglected by ignorance. Prices:UK: £6.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £6.60. USA: $11. Canada: $15. |
| The Strain Makers |
| By Old Hand You know the old adages and the truths of them: "There's no substitute for breeding ....What's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh...It's bred in them ...If they've got no breeding they can't succeed..." Breeding is, quite simply, the system by which one fixes the desirable characteristics of a breed, and eliminates the undesirable ones, and this book is the Bible on which all successful breeding principle is founded. In easily understood terms, it illustrates,step by step, the right way to go about building your own strain, to perpetuate not just your name but success in every generation. Prices:UK: £7.60. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £8.10. USA: $14. Canada: $18. |
| The Technique of Breeding Racing Pigeons |
| By Old
Hand The basics of real pigeon racing lies in the art of breeding winners. This book delves deep into this important subject for the beginner. The 'How' and 'Why' so many fanciers fail to breed winners, even from winning stock, is explained in easy to understand terms. Invaluable to the novice. Prices:UK: £6.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £6.60. USA: $11. Canada: $15. |
| Winning Dietary For Racing Pigeons |
| By Old Hand The first, and so far, the only work of it's kind, devoted to the proper feeding of racing pigeons. Did anyone ever tell you what to feed your pigeons on, or when to feed them? Did anyone ever explain the values of various feeds, and the reasons why some values are good and others not so good? In all our racing pigeon history only one writer has ever tried to set down on paper, at length, the reasons for feeding the many and varied cereals and pulses that make up the pigeon racer's ideal feed, and if you care to ask any successful stock manager in any field of animal husbandry what the most important factor for success is, he will tell you in one word - Feeding! The answers are here. Prices: UK: £7.10. Europe, Eire, Rest of World: £7.60. USA: $13. Canada: $17. |