PIGEONS, DOVES AND DOVECOTES
BY
M ROBERTS & V E GALE

This is a comprehensive guide to keeping and breeding pigeons and their management in wallcotes, polecotes and aviaries.

This book has some great colour photographs of the different types of pigeons and the squabs.

It also shows many photographs of dovecotes and dove keeping equipment.

Contents of the book are as follows:-

introduction
breeds of domestic pigeon, choice of breeds
where to buy
housing, types of polecote, wallcote, aviaries, stables, sheds, siting your pigeon house
food, drink, grit, minerals and containers
other requirements, water ponds, nesting pans, perches, nest boxes and nest litter
breeding in polecotes, wallcotes and aviaries, selection, courtship , nesting, eggs, incubation, hatching, squabs, leaving the nest, breeding age, barren hens, foster parents
sexing
what to do when the pigeons first arrive
ringing, other methods of marking or identification and handling
diseases and ailments
pigeons and the garden
pigeon predators
racing pigeons and showing
the origin of the domestic pigeon
man's association with pigeons
the decline of the dovecote
lists of avian vets
list of useful names and addresses
labelled parts of the pigeon
pigeon terminology

Quite a substantial amount of information, clearly written and demonstrated.