As the saying goes, crows cannot give birth to phoenixes. If you want to be an ideal pigeon, you must be clear about your goals and conditions and choose a breeding pigeon that meets the requirements in performance. If you don't imitate others with your own opinions, or blindly introduce them out of vanity, it is impossible to get useful and good breeding pigeons. If you want to bloom safflower, you must sow the seeds of safflower. If you want to have big flowers, you must choose varieties with big flowers. If you want to blossom early, you must choose early-maturing varieties. This principle is also applicable to the breeding of racing pigeons. Players who want to participate in long-distance competitions should use long-distance pigeon lines for breeding. In order to improve the stability of long-distance homing, the blood of super-long-distance homing pigeons is often mixed. In order to become a player who can return to China quickly, it is necessary to introduce breeding pigeons that frequently beat their opponents in strong competitions. In order to be a player who can tolerate bad weather, we should introduce Boma pigeons who take the lead in homing in bad weather, or introduce breeding pigeons from Hao Qiang Pigeonhouse in areas with complicated and changeable weather on the race line. It is human nature that every pigeon breeder wants his pigeon to have all the above advantages, but it is natural law that pigeons can't meet all the requirements. For example, it is quite difficult to make homing pigeons have both long-distance homing performance and fast homing performance. What we usually encounter is that it is often difficult to last after the speed is increased, and increasing endurance will slow down the speed. However, we can't simply draw a conclusion by reasoning. If we can make the pigeon's physique and wings more suitable for flying, and if we can make the pigeon's muscles developed enough to surpass many opponents, it is possible to further improve its performance in both rapidity and endurance. In fact, many excellent pigeon lines in the world have benefited from this feature and achieved success. So is the contradiction between quickness and tolerance for bad weather. Those who are good at flying in bad weather are usually slow. For example, the "Lion Mountain" system before World War II and the "Hooper" system after World War II all have the advantages of resisting bad weather, but the speed is not satisfactory. Fortunately, through the unremitting efforts of several generations of pigeon breeders, this situation has been improved to a considerable extent, and pigeons with poor tolerance and fast speed can often be seen in today's stadium. In short, we must consider these basic performance requirements when choosing breeding pigeons, and determine the feeding conditions according to our own intentions and pigeon house environment, so that it is easier to achieve our goals. I suggest that friends who have just started raising pigeons should not concentrate on two things at once, but should be clear about their main direction, such as long-distance races, long-distance races going home on the same day, short-distance races of about 200 kilometers, and tasting meetings. It goes without saying that a concise goal makes it easier to find a way to achieve it and avoid the result of killing two rabbits instead of one. In the future, the competition in the carrier pigeon industry in Japan will become more and more fierce. Without great energy and extraordinary efforts, it is difficult to win national or regional competitions. At present, there are not many pigeon fanciers specializing in short-distance races or judging meetings in Japan, while Belgium and other countries have many excellent short-distance express lines and pigeon lines specially suitable for exhibitions. As long as we concentrate on introducing a group of suitable lineages, even novices may succeed. In addition, Japan, Britain and the United States all tend to focus on long-distance races, especially ultra-long-distance races, but it is foreseeable that the long-distance race that returns to the nest on the same day will become the focus of attention of most homing pigeon lovers sooner or later. Pigeons with insufficient experience in pigeon breeding and competition should choose a pigeon line that is easy to raise and manage and does not need too many competition skills. It is best to introduce breeding pigeons from successful pigeon breeders in this area. We can choose two dovecotes from the local Zhuang's dovecotes that win all the year round, not occasionally, and introduce the offspring of representative breeding pigeons into their sheds. I'm afraid senior pigeon breeders in any country will make such suggestions, and in theory, this is also the best way for beginners to succeed. This has many advantages, because pigeons have adapted to the local environment and the characteristics of ethnic routes, and it is easier to fly out. Introducing different lineages from two pigeon houses can avoid the disadvantages of inbreeding. Through hybridization, strong athletes' pigeons can be made, and it is possible to cultivate better offspring with both advantages. In addition, novices can also seek the guidance of the older generation of pigeon breeders nearby, and get a lot of lessons in management methods and competition skills. You can't be stingy if you want to introduce breeding pigeons. Be sure to choose the offspring or peers of ace in the pigeon house, and try to choose pigeons with similar appearance to racing pigeons. In order to save money and buy pigeons with better performance, you can buy late-born pigeons. Because the genetic performance of late-born pigeons is not bad, and pigeon owners are willing to take action because of their slow development and slightly poor physique. It is wise to introduce some high-quality breeding pigeons with the money from buying many pigeons. Victor Robinson, a British pigeon breeder, spent a long time saving money when he was a teenager, and finally brought in promising offspring from the most famous Ottoman pigeon house at that time. Later, that pigeon became the basic pigeon of Robinson family. With several years of pigeon breeding experience, we can further introduce pigeon breeding from the best pigeon houses in China. After ten years of pigeon breeding, it is best to introduce breeding pigeons from abroad, because the conditions of pigeon racing abroad are very different from those in Japan. First of all, the climate is different, the humidity is different and the terrain is different. Whether there are birds of prey on the race line, whether it is an endless plain or a mountain with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, whether it is a shower that comes and goes in a hurry or a rainy day, these environmental conditions have completely different requirements for racing pigeons. Japan's feed is also very simple, while pigeon houses in Belgium, Britain and other places use quite exquisite feed to raise pigeons. Therefore, the introduction of breeding pigeons from countries and regions with excellent conditions in all aspects may not receive immediate results in Japan. But the reason why we introduced breeding pigeons from abroad is that the history of pigeon breeding in those countries and regions is much longer than ours, and the pigeons there are several grades higher than ours. Therefore, when introducing foreign blood pigeons, we should first consider the shortcomings of pigeons in our own loft, and we need to introduce the blood of pigeons from which loft to make up for these shortcomings. Pigeons of this pedigree to be introduced must have incomparable advantages over pigeons of any pedigree and any pigeonhole in China. From these analyses, it is not difficult to see that it is meaningless to introduce foreign blood just out of blind worship of foreign pigeon lines. On 1933, I introduced Xi male pigeons from Heiczman pigeon house. After the war, I introduced more than 100 representative breeding pigeons from famous foreign lofts, and often went to Belgium, France, Britain and other lofts to choose pigeons myself. The above is my personal experience and understanding. The key point of raising racing pigeons is to make racing pigeons stand out in important events represented by long-distance running competitions. No matter how many pigeons take part in the competition, only one pigeon wins the championship. Only pigeons with extraordinary performance and one in a thousand can win the first prize in the fierce competition. Therefore, we make clear the purpose of breeding, and strive to cultivate pigeons that can be crowned champions through fierce competition. As we all know, it is meaningless to send many mediocre pigeons to the stadium. The key to cultivating racing pigeons is to make excellent pigeons, even if there is only one feather. Generally, the breeding of domestic animals mostly needs to cultivate a large number of excellent groups with uniform quality, and racing pigeons only need one feather out of a thousand to win the championship. No matter how much truth you have, such as establishing your own contingency, in the final analysis, there must be a gem-like individual to lay the foundation. If you don't win the championship in the competition, no pigeon line can be cultivated. To sum up the breeding characteristics of racing pigeons is to make an extraordinary individual elite, not to shoot arrows indiscriminately to win. A small pigeon house with only twenty or thirty pigeons can sometimes beat a big pigeon house with hundreds of pigeons. This is the fun of raising pigeons and racing pigeons. We must not forget this basic principle, and we must not enter the vicious circle of a large number of pigeons competing and a large number of pigeons losing. The basis of reproductive effect is the performance of male and female pigeons, so we should put the greatest energy and money into seed selection. With excellent breeding pigeons, the key is how to pair breeding pigeons. When you are a runner for a long-distance race, the more difficult the race is, the more decisive the performance of pigeon breeding is. Pigeons must have the performance suitable for flying that distance if they want to return home with full load and achieve excellent results in the thousand-kilometer race, and this performance is largely obtained through the genetic combination of their parents. In other words, the performance of the pigeon from its parents determines whether it is possible to overcome the obstacles in the competition and win the championship. It can be seen that whether excellent offspring can be bred has been determined at the pigeon breeding stage.