Critical Issues in Pigeon Breeding.
ANECDOTAL, ENTERTAINING, AND EDUCATIONAL COMMENTS ON
OPEN QUESTIONS
PART II
WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE BELIEVE TO KNOW
Part I to III, 60 pages each
© Sell publishing, Achim 2020.
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More than one hundred short contributions created
chronologically over the years under 'taubensell', in three
parts with 60 pages each. Many contributions refer to
classifications of color and breeds. New insights are shown with
the hope that readers will recognize the exemplary. Mendel's
findings from hereditary experiments with peas will hardly have
interested the pea growers. But they became the basis of
genetics for the entire animal and plant world. If we understand
the inheritance of blue bar x blue barless mating, we follow in
Mendel's footsteps and apply the inheritance mechanisms he found
in plants. How much closer it is to see for example from the
experiments with Rubella and Frosty that and how a recessive
hereditary factor like Frosty becomes visible in hens and
heterozygous cocks when it is placed in a different genetic
context. Something that epistemologically represents a
continuation and not a refutation of Mendel. The knowledge could
be the starting point for understanding previously not
understood phenomena in other factors. Reading the articles with
different perspectives on many aspects of pigeon breeding could
be useful to strengthen this flexibility of thinking and at the
same time help like a serum against the repeatedly burgeoning
fakes of the past. In part, contributions were triggered as a
response to myths about the origins and past of races that have
been rebutted again and again. The revival of such myths is
often the result of fantasy, in which reality and dream world
are interwoven. Sometimes someone would find an ancient source
and not know that old does not automatically mean true. Posted
often enough and given 100 likes, it becomes a truth for others
that they spread with a clear conscience. Sometimes stories are
told over and over again in order to give an advertising legend
against better knowledge of one's own race. Even Moore, as the
author of what was probably the first monograph on pigeon breeds
(1735), was not immune from this.
Breeding committees of some special clubs and organizations
should also be more interested in animal breeding questions, in
order to understand how their own breed is embedded in the canon
of pigeon breeds and to take this into account when setting
standards. A lack of monitoring of breed developments and a lack
of documentation of the peculiarities of phenotypes as well as
rare colors make the claim of the fancy poultry breeding
organizations to want to preserve old cultural assets seem
strangely empty at the moment. There is a recognition procedure
for new breeds that is partly felt to be superfluous and
harassing, probably to keep them low in the alleged interest.
What happens afterwards with these breeds and also with the old
breeds and colors is lost in indefinite responsibilities.


