[Bella]

After taking in two feral pigeon orphans, I am officially addicted to all things pigeon and am going to be building a loft to get into homers.
I've been so excited the last few days and have begun my quest to get a proper pigeon education before I get birds.
So, I thought to stop by Barnes and Noble this morning to get a good book that I can carry around with me. I have found a wealth of information on the net and especially here at this forum, but when I can't get to a computer I find myself thinking only about pigeons and that I must know more about them
After perusing the shelves for a bit I found nothing on pigeons. So I asked a staff member for assistance.
He was dumbfounded and said with one eyebrow raised "Wow. I didn't know anyone still did that!"
He ran a computer search of their inventory which turned up not one single book about homing pigeons or pigeons in general for that matter.
The only thing available to me was a single book simply called "The Homing Pigeon" that would be printed for me if I ordered it...
I turned it down in hopes that I can find something better I can order online.
In all my years of reading on many obscure topics I have never once left Barnes and Noble empty handed.
Honestly I'm boggled and had no idea that pigeon keeping was that uncommon...
Strangely enough there were over a dozen books on falconry.
Who woulda thought?

 

[Ed]

the same dexact thing happened to me when I got started lol
I went to the bookstore and the sales person said the same thing
"people still do that" " I thouhgt homing pigeons were extinct"
He meant the carrier pigeon LOL
I then went to the library and got the same results... ONE BOOK

 

[Margarret]

Bella,

Go to some of the pigeon supply sites. Just google pigeon supplies. They carry all kinds of books on pigeons.

Margaret

 

[Keith C.]

Carrier pigeons are still around.
Passenger pigeons are extinct, but there enough skin mounts, that I have hope somebody may clone them and bring them back.
Keith

 

[psychopomp]

Try amazon for older books i got a decent on on racing pigeons ( even tho I dont have any) just for reference on pigeon keeping.

people DO think I am weird...well weirder than usual!

good luck!

 

[george simon]

Check These Out

HI BELLA, There many books on pigeons and there are two good magazines.All the pigeon supply houses sell themJedds in California, www.jedds.com then thereis FOYS on the east coast www.foyspigeonsupplies.com The two magazines are Purebred pigeonthis magazines is on all breeds show types, www.purebredpigeon.com The second one is the Racing Pigeon Digest www.racingpigeondigest.com I would check them all out. GEORGE

 

[Bella]

Thanks guys! I appreciate the point in the right direction! George...great links!

 

[RodSD]

Pigeon keeping is one of those low-profile hobby or not mainstream hobby. I think most people has no clue. I mean I didn't know that you can race pigeons before even though I had pigeons as a kid.

It used to be that there is only one book from the library I go to about pigeons. It was written I think either in 1970's or 1980's. Now that one disappeared as well.

I probably learn more reading Internet articles and this forum and the lessons I learned from experience. Just ask and we will answer.

Here are some old school books written before our time:
http://books.google.com/books?id=JzBJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=pigeon&lr=&as_brr=3
http://books.google.com/books?id=GixJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=pigeon&lr=&as_brr=3
http://books.google.com/books?id=_N4XAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=pigeon&lr=&as_brr=3
http://books.google.com/books?id=I0...0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPR7,M1
http://books.google.com/books?id=Jk...maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES

Here are some snippets of our modern time:
http://books.google.com/books?id=GS...maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES
http://books.google.com/books?id=Aa...0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPA2,M1
http://books.google.com/books?id=C9...maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES


There are a lot more there so go search.

 

[LUCKYT]

Right on Keith! Dave

 

[maryjane]

I say, just carry a laptop around with the link to this site right where you can click it. That's the best pigeon info you can find in any book hehe. I hope you do find some good books, you should keyword search "books" on here as there are several threads about what are good books.