trouser feathers ?

[jimmy w]

can anybody tell me where the trouser feathers are on our featherd friends and can you tell form from them thanks jimmy :-/

[Guest]

can anybody tell me where the trouser feathers are on our featherd friends and can you tell form from them thanks jimmy :-/

;Di know i,d be on form with feather trousers  ;D ;D ;D                 andy.

 

 

[Larry Lucas]

Jimmy, I think the feathered legs (and sometimes feet) is a throwback to the Antwerp Cumulet or the Liege Smerle that were used in developing the modern racing pigeon. I can't remember which one had feathered legs.

[ribble]

Brasspenning wrote about it a few weeks back, there was a topic on p-chat about it.

I think he was talking about fretted flights?

[Guest IB]

'Lost in translation' perhaps? Never did find out the meaning of a similar phrase where the original had been Hungarian, translated into Dutch, and from there into English:-

 

The wing shape best able to improve performance capacity through speed is not the old-fashioned, broad shovel form, but a somewhat longer, smaller wing type. Such pigeons are usually open on the back and their "trouser pins" are shorter.

[Guest]

do you secendry flight ?

[OLDYELLOW]

Jimmy, I think the feathered legs (and sometimes feet) is a throwback to the Antwerp Cumulet or the Liege Smerle that were used in developing the modern racing pigeon. I can't remember which one had feathered legs.

 

the strains that caried the feathered legs were Gurnay , Hanseens ,also the Tournier as his birds originated from Gurnay and the Ipswitch strain Westcotes  

[Guest]

do you secendry flight ?

 

sorry do you mean secendry flights or  feathered legs??

[DUBLINFLYER]

do you mean stockings on the birds feet/legs?

[Larry Lucas]

The Cumulet and Smerle were primarily sprinters, as I recall. I have one family of birds that are good sprinters and when they are inbred a little too closely they produce feathered stockings and feet. I have never had one race well, but others have.

[stan p]

soffles had most feather leg of the breeds i have seen

                                                         stan

[jimmy w]

iv just found out they could be either 3 or 4small feathers under the wing but not sure

[OLDYELLOW]

are you refering to the secondary wing underneath the bird  small white feathers ?

[jimmy w]

i think thats the ones oldyellow just over an inch long i think ive got a.book over in the dookit might be in there

[OLDYELLOW]

i dont know about telling form from these feathers theres far more other pointers that say form , although when i buy birds in this is one thing that i look at and i like theses to sit tight to the wing and not be over long as can reduce there areodynamics during flight  unless its a blow home  

[ChrisMaidment08]

they donate distace or sprint depends on number and lengh i say 3long 2 short sprint 2short wide and 4 smaller long distace but its all fallacy just the same

[jimmy w]

thanks for your posts lads