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Our Doves
Our white doves are descended from the flock once presented as a gift to Walt Disney from Belgium. Successive generations flew in attractions and parades in the decades that followed, and more recently were introduced to racing homer bloodlines. We purchased 70 youngsters in February 2005 and brought them home from Florida to Arkansas and began training them to fly home to our loft. We divided our flock into 3 groups. "Washington County Flyers", "Benton County Flyers" and "The home team." The home team stays home and devotes themselves to raising our next flock "Carroll County Flyers" which are already leaving the nest and trying out their wings. Our white doves are of a variety also known as 'white homing pigeons'. In interesting fact: All pigeons are doves, but all doves are not pigeons. Homing pigeons are a selectively bred variety of 'rock doves' bred for stamina and homing ability. Properly trained birds can fly hundreds of miles! They mate for life and utterly devote themselves to one another. Ardently courting, cooing, and kissing -- holding each other's beaks and bobbing their heads together -- it's very easy to understand why they are the emblem of love. But more than that, they share the responsibility of raising their young: Taking turns on the nest and doting over their young ones, both parents feed them and hover over them protectively until they are old enough to try their own wings. |