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African Owl Almond amongst Antwerp apoplexy beak beautiful beginner birds suffering blood blue boracic acid bred breed breeders canker carriage Carrier cause cere Chequers clean cock corn crop Cropper cross Cumulet difficulty Dragon eggs Epsom salts exhibition fact fancier fancy fancy pigeons Fantail feather rot feeding flights and tail Flying Homer give gizzard grain grit hardy hatch head in-breeding Jacobin judges keep legs loft Long-Faced Tumbler Magpie maize mandible maple peas mate Modena Mottles moult neck nest nest-boxes nest-pans nice old birds Oriental Frill pair perches Pigeon Racing plenty plumage points Pouter primary flights Protozoa racer racing pigeons round roup rump Scandaroon shape sheen Short-Faced shoulders Show Homer skull sound specimen squabs strain STRAND MAGAZINE Suabian success Tipplers trouble Turbit varieties of pigeons wattle whilst white feathers wing disease yellow young birds youngsters