Picasport
These performing medium sized “Fabio” of the pigeon world are full of infatuation, driven by one attribute, to seek out the white feathered hen and mate and bring her home. The picas appear in variety of colors like many other pigeons. Picas are firmly a performance breed, though pica fanciers do show their picas in action for audiences to enjoy. There are many different levels of sueltas, for example in the cases of smaller sueltas, the most common one is pica fanciers will bring pica cocks over to a friend’s house for some friendly competition. The name of the game will be stealing the hen from the friend’s picas by out performing the other cocks she is use to flying with. The visiting picas do not have a nest box for the hen to follow them back to. Medium sized sueltas takes place for example after a church ceremony; a local club will release the picas for everyone to enjoy watching them chase after the hen. The other suelta is a huge event that all pica fanciers can come to compete for a championship. A couple of weeks before the event date, the picas are taken to the club location where the suelta will take place and is taken care of by the local pica club members. This way, the pica cocks knows where to bring the hen when the event starts. The bottom line is that in any size suelta, points are given to the cocks who steal the hen by out performing the competition in both flying capabilities and great ground work.