Question by Al: What is difference between a feral pigeon and a homer pigeon?
Is there a significant difference between these two breeds? How do you tell them apart?
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Answer by Axa
No difference except for the training. Feral means they’re wild and Homer means for show. People take them a long ways away then set them loose and they make their way home
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Feral means a pigeon that has no home . Just like a feral cat it can be any breed Homers are a breed that have a distnct desire to return to his home loft no matter where he is turned loose. A homer can be a feral pigeon if he has gone wild and does not have a home. Clear as mud? In other words a feral animal is one that is basically homeless and usually wild.
A feral pigeon is a domesticated pigeon (of any breed) that has been released intentionally or unintentionally into the wild and is no longer owned by people. Most feral pigeons have been feral for several generations, some may be even hundreds of generations old. They are generally speaking, mutts. The more a feral pigeon resembles the ancestral form (the rock dove) in appearance, typically this indicates a feral population that has been feral for a long time.
A homing pigeon is a specific breed of pigeon that has been trained for sending messages. They do come in a variety of colors, but you should look up “homing pigeon” to see their breed standards.
*All* feral pigeons you see in America are descended from domestic stock in the same way that feral pigs (wild boar) are. You can’t really consider a feral pigeon to be a breed any more than a wild boar of domestic origin (and the greatest majority of “wild” boars in the US really are just domestic pigs gone feral). You can distinguish a feral domestic pigeon from native wild pigeons however, by the presence of a white rump.