PICASPORT NETHERLAND
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History
History
In Spain and in many other parts of the world now, the Palomas Deportiva or A.K.A. picas are flown in competitions called La Suelta. This is a competition where pica cocks are released into an unknown area and the hen is released into a designated area with a white feather tied to one or two of her own tail feathers . Pica cocks are diligently painted for individualism and scoring purposes.
The Pica sport was developed in Spain when Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo (AKA Francisco Franco) was ruling in the 1940’s.He was born on December 4th, 1892 and died on November 20, 1975.
This ruler liked the thieving pouters very much, especially the sueltas with the old valencians pigeons. He ordered laws to keep the sueltas under special protection and some still exists today. For example, during a suelta, the cocks are protected if they are in someone’s yard. The owner of the pigeons does not have to ask permission for his birds to be in that yard. Legally the owner can come into the yard and collect his birds if he wishes to do so. If the hen lands in traffic followed by cocks, they are protected and cannot be harmed, meaning that the street will be closed for the suelta. Franco loved the pica suelta so much and wanted everyone else to participate only in that sport and he forbids to fly with other thieving pouters. All the other thieving pouter flyers had to choose to stop raising their breed to compete in sueltas and breed for show purposes only or continue with the picas sport solely. This is one of the main reasons why the show standard exists.
Not everyone was happy to hear that, so the brave went on breeding projects to improve their thieving pouter breeds. All in all, the fanciers started mixing all kind of different thiefingpouter breeds and formed the modern sporting pouter, the first picas,are a result of different Spanish thiefingpouter breeds. And not to forget the colomba livia. the breed of pigeons that are the purest of pigeons untouched by man. They are great flyers and have a strong resistant against diseases, in other words naturally healthy and have a strong drive.
In Spain and in many other parts of the world now, the Palomas Deportiva or A.K.A. picas are flown in competitions called La Suelta. This is a competition where pica cocks are released into an unknown area and the hen is released into a designated area with a white feather tied to one or two of her own tail feathers . Pica cocks are diligently painted for individualism and scoring purposes. The Pica sport was developed in Spain when Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo (AKA Francisco Franco) was ruling in the 1940’s.He was born on December 4th, 1892 and died on November 20, 1975.
This ruler liked the thieving pouters very much, especially the sueltas with the old valencians pigeons. He ordered laws to keep the sueltas under special protection and some still exists today. For example, during a suelta, the cocks are protected if they are in someone’s yard. The owner of the pigeons does not have to ask permission for his birds to be in that yard. Legally the owner can come into the yard and collect his birds if he wishes to do so. If the hen lands in traffic followed by cocks, they are protected and cannot be harmed, meaning that the street will be closed for the suelta. Franco loved the pica suelta so much and wanted everyone else to participate only in that sport and he forbids to fly with other thieving pouters. All the other thieving pouter flyers had to choose to stop raising their breed to compete in sueltas and breed for show purposes only or continue with the picas sport solely. This is one of the main reasons why the show standard exists.
Not everyone was happy to hear that, so the brave went on breeding projects to improve their thieving pouter breeds. All in all, the fanciers started mixing all kind of different thiefingpouter breeds and formed the modern sporting pouter, the first picas,are a result of different Spanish thiefingpouter breeds. And not to forget the colomba livia. the breed of pigeons that are the purest of pigeons untouched by man. They are great flyers and have a strong resistant against diseases, in other words naturally healthy and have a strong drive.
