Racing Pigeon Podcast

In season 1 episode 40, we welcome Michael Shirley as our new co-host. We catch up with his career as an educator and talk about how he uses racing pigeons in his school (and how it can potentially grow the hobby). Then we theorize what might be leading to the large losses we are seeing around the country both in OLRs and in club racing.

In season 1 episode 39, Kevin discuss how to train your young birds after the race season starts and then we review some recent OLR results.

David and Kevin finish up the genetics series by examining the 'genetics vs management' argument. We also muse about some loose ends that we uncovered during the series. Link to Thanksgiving Auction Breeder Donation Form - https://form.jotform.com/262443632022043Global Pigeon Network - https://globalpigeonnetwork.com

In episode I am joined by David Stephenson, John Marles, and Dr. Tom Bishop and we discuss performance genetics! If you do not know what that is, well grab your pen and paper because you are about to go school!Dr Tom has provided us with the following links for you to do more research on this topic;https://doi.org/10.2141/jpsa.0130237https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195121https://doi.org/10.1111/age.12328https://doi.org/10.17221/271/2015-VETMEDhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8466513/https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy030https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/37/1/134/5566491https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014181302503733Xhttps://doi.org/10.17221/149/2017-VETMEDhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9365715/As mentioned in the podcast, here are the two USA companies that currently can test for some or all of the genes we discuss:https://genecheck.com/https://avian2.animalgenetics.com/Home.shtmlIf you are in Europe you have these choices:https://www.combibreed.com/pigeons/https://iberogen.com/en/https://slovgen.sk/en/home/https://www.cobalab.com/en.htmlFinally here is an article written by our own David Stephenson on this topic:https://kastleloft.com/blog/2020/05/23/demystifying-the-ldha-and-drd4-racing-pigeon-genes/

In this episode we discuss handling (physical traits). Do they matter and can you genetically 'create' them? Guests include John Marles, Lolo Ramirez, and in the second segment Yoannys Sainz.