Articles

21/11/2011 - My name is Richard Chambers and I am a teacher and the loft manager at the Kingsmead Technology College School Pigeon Loft. We have set up a racing pigeon loft at the school to try and encourage more young people into the sport, and also to give young people at our school an alternative to the Playstation’s Xboxes and TV screens that so many of our students are dedicating there spare time to.

18/11/2011 - The eagle may be the symbol of American freedom and military might, but no eagle ever received France's Croix de Guerre for valor, or saved the lives of 1,000 troops trapped behind enemy lines, or walked five miles to deliver vital information after being shot out of the sky.

02/11/2011 - Suzy Schollier, institutrice de 4ème primaire, nous en dit plus à propos d'Ichtor, un projet pédagogique développé à l'école primaire “De Schatkist” à Ichtegem (Flandres).

18/10/2011 - Pigeon feathers can be used for many things... For many years now, the British artist Kate MccGwire has been collecting moulted feathers to produce works of art.

17/10/2011 - Children and pigeons, pigeons and children…it’s still an amazing thing! Goose bumps every Friday after school! Parents, grand-parents and little brothers and sisters…They all come to have fun with their feathered friends!

12/10/2011 - Une partie classique de l'évaluation d'un pigeon est l'évaluation de ses yeux. Chaque colombophile, peu importe où que vous alliez dans le monde, évalue ou juge un pigeon en regardant aussi son oeil.

20/09/2011 - Apparue simultanément dans toute l'Europe dans les années 1980, elle a alors fait de gros ravages. Ensuite, si elle est restée toujours aussi virulente dans les colonies atteintes, elle ne s'est plus manifestée que dans les régions et dans les colombiers où la couverture vaccinale était insuffisante.

17/01/2011 - The last week of July the noise was tremendous in our lofts when the widowers came home from their last race. They were allowed to keep their hens. For them the season was over.