Here is some Pigeon information.
Here is some Pigeon information.
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Oriental Roller Pigeon
The Flying Oriental Rollers origin was Asia or possibly Asia Minor. The exact country of origin is hidden in antiquity. For centuries great attention was paid to the high-flying performing pigeons in Turkey, India, Persia, and other eastern civilizations. It could have originated in any one of them and subsequently been developed in the others. The Oriental Roller was imported into England around 1870. Today's Flying Oriental Roller is nearly a lost art in North America. We are at a pivotal point in the history of the breed on this continent.
Birmingham Roller
What Is A Birmingham Roller?
A Birmingham Roller is a pigeon of breathtaking and exquisite performance, turning over rapidly a succession of backward somersaults while descending toward earth in an unbroken sequence like a spinning ball. While long performances may be seen as the most spectacular, the true Birmingham Roller is not necessarily a deep performer, but rather one whose merits are measured and valued strictly upon the rapidity of its performance. Contrary to the popular misconception, the velocity or rapidity of the roll is not its rate of descent, but the rate at which each backward revolution is executed. What I consider to be a "good" roller is one which will be seen dropping not only straight on a calm, windless day, but dropping with its wingtips in an upright position and looking like an initial "H" and being completely free of any fine irregularities or wing changing at periodicals.American Flying Tumbler
A beautiful and hardy small breed of pigeon
developed by Mr. Gus C. Lichtenwald of Portland, Oregon U.S.A. from American Rollers and English Muffed Tumblers. Easy breeders and excellent parents, AFTs have good temperament in the show room and with other birds. They are bred in a wide range of colors and markings to suit any pigeon lover's taste
North American Highflying Rollers, American Rollers, and the American Flying Tumblers
The facts that so much confusion exists about these three, it becomes time to differentiate among the three breeds. As a group, the North American Highflying Roller, American Rollers (two varieties) and the American Flying Tumbler is not only similar to one another, but are closely related and are allied breeds. The true North American Highflying Roller makes up the root of this group of breeds and first appeared in the loft of George 'Old Man' Stevens of Toronto, Canada in 1869. These first came from a cross of Almond Oriental Roller cock of ~ old Kurdistan type, so crossed upon a Blue Offside Badge Birmingham hen. This Birmingham hen was said to be a roll down of such uncontrollable ability that she barely made it off the ground and was a short, squatty pigeon with heavy grouse. In those days, the Birmingham Roller was unlike what is seen today; It is said that half would roll down and more resembled the Old English flying Muffed Tumblers than what known today as a Birmingham. This particular Blue Oddside hen was bred Thomas Boddy of Wolverhampton, Britain and exported to Stevens in 1867. The resulting young of the Almond Oriental cock and the Blue Oddside hen were particularly valuable pigeons due to being of a fine color quality, vivid markings and most importantly were very high and long fliers and deep rollers.
