Nov/December 2025

CHINESE OWLS – Page 36 – Purebred PIGEON Breed of the Issue - CHINESE OWLS My History with Recessive Reds by Mike Lopez A pproximately three times in the past 5.3 decades I have started over - and over. Last one was the beginning of 2017 just after the Grand National in Washington State. In the Fall of 2017 I got restarted from the worst loss of my career in pigeons. I finally started over again for the third time. The baby recessive red in my hand on August 25, 2019, is out of a very good recessive red Chinese Owl cock to a tumbler hen (I’ll reveal the color in a future article so as to keep you wondering). Reference: Purebred Pigeon Magazine 2023 Nov/Dec Old German Owl Special issue, page 22, article by Leonard Kuz- minski. That’s the baby a few years later. The old hen, grandma, is still in my color projects. She is just as red now as in 2019. The other pictures are the related recessive red Chinese Owls from F2 to present 2025. In between I had to sell out of Chinese owls due to a health scare, from October 2024 through January 2025. I sold studs of all the color I had, some 250 Chinese Owls in all. I only kept some AOC projects and eggs and babies under my great feeders. So the babies and eggs left behind started adding up. They are also back in small numbers, just matur- ing here 6 to 12 months old and now waiting for molting day.•