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Racing pigeons aren’t the typical bird you’ll find on the city streets. These pedigree birds can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. In March 2019, Armando the racing pigeon sold to a bidder in China for over $1.3 million. So what is it that makes racing pigeons so expensive?
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@18utkb 5 лет назад

Pigeon: sells for $1.3 Million Me: looks at my *150+* Pigeons

@18utkb 5 лет назад

@Auto blipper good idea tho I already sold my two pigeons for $20

@iamf6641 5 лет назад

@@18utkb i just cath colorful pidgeoms and sell them as if they were racing pidgeons

@kumarthecowboy 5 лет назад

@@18utkb wait what ?

@18utkb 5 лет назад

@@kumarthecowboy yea I have My Grandmother has more than 200

@battosaijenkins946 5 лет назад

But seriously, how do you deal with all the bird poop? It's gotta be disgusting and even disease prone like the pigeons all over downtown in mostly every city.

@JustinY. 5 лет назад

Racing and Pigeon. Those are two words I thought I'd never hear together.

@prosnipeplayz3941 5 лет назад

Justin Y. Cykkaa

@zilldraws 5 лет назад

Justin Y. Yo

@mrsunj2 5 лет назад

I cant hear

@basstion4146 5 лет назад

The legend

@bernardstrauss1183 5 лет назад

STOP FOLLOWING ME

@overlycreative1 5 лет назад

"you love daddy, huh." This made me smile. What a great bond this man has to his birds.

@SquidandCatAdventures 4 года назад

It was cute, but I wasn't completely convinced that pecking = affection, lol.

@colepruett7013 4 года назад

Hearing that someone held a pigeon hostage and asked for a ransom is something I never thought would ever happen

@louly3212 2 года назад

Joey from friends once held a duck hostage lol

@GreySchezwan 5 лет назад

Gonna run to the park with a net to get rich quick. Wish me luck 😏

@Favour135 5 лет назад

I guess I'll see you in the park

@ForecieYT 5 лет назад

Good luck 😂

@JEMurl 5 лет назад

Gonna run to the sewer with a net to get rich-real-quick...... Anybody know if Rat Races are a thing? Wish me luck? 😕

@doobeone 5 лет назад

good luck

@clarkstephenflores494 5 лет назад

those are feral pigeons diffrent from homing or racing pigeons

@sajjeel123 5 лет назад

*Mike tyson wants to know your location*

@hashtag__7475 5 лет назад

Buissness Insider: You know what's expensive Me: Ferrari?! Lamborghini?! Gucci? Loui Vuitton? Buissness Insider: No pigeons

@JessmanChicken86 5 лет назад

what are "no pigeons"?

@thermgraphics6937 5 лет назад

Jesse Cohen are u dumb?

@hashtag__7475 5 лет назад

Lol thought of editing it too lazy😂

@hanxo17 4 года назад

Hahaha

@stevederobles3975 4 года назад

Dnjdjroeir

@AverytheCubanAmerican 5 лет назад

I will never look at a NYC pigeon the same way

@RobertGrillo 4 года назад

You can thank breeders for massive populations of feral pigeons they abandoned to urban areas. They breed hundreds just to get the one racing champion they can sell for a fortune.

@RobertGrillo 4 года назад

@Jace Johnson Pigeons are considered to be one of the most intelligent birds on the planet and able to undertake tasks previously thought to be the sole preserve of humans and primates. ... The pigeon can also recognise all 26 letters of the English language as well as being able to conceptualise. Human ignorance of other species and what the science tells us is the dumbest and most dangerous problem here.

@farhanrahim2770 4 года назад

@@RobertGrillo r8

@64jsanchez 4 года назад

Y pensar que te has comido tantos en cuba

@takem82.02 4 года назад

And London pigeon xd

@Pottedplant53 4 года назад

Pigeons are so cute and clever and I love their adorable lil' faces!

@rangaswamy2809 3 года назад

Puget

@ki-adimundi8695 5 лет назад

At my dad’s peak he had about 1500 pigeons! Too bad he couldn’t sell any realy good ones, but he did win a lot of competitions

@shabbirkoylawala 4 года назад

👍

@Replicant-by1eh Год назад

Hope you ate them then atleast

@Yeppo_ Год назад

@@Replicant-by1eh Hopefully not as that is a cruel thing to do

@Random.Thoughts21 3 года назад

The feeling of seeing your birds come back home.

@wintershock 4 года назад

I have one homing pigeon. My dad rescued him from a dangerous little spot at work and he was pretty much half dead. He brought him home and I took care of him. He had a brother but his brother didn’t make it past 3 months. I was sweeping out my pigeons coop today and he kept attacking the brush.

@khansarfarazalam 4 года назад

I had pegeons and one of my pigeon which I gave it to my friend. He released him at the time sun set think pigeon Won't Leave his place but he just drank water and flew away. He left that place almost 7pm and 8:30 pm night he was at my house. I still miss him.

@martinpajunk3570 3 года назад

Imagine the ransomers who stole somebody's pidgeon ring the guy and be like *in dark deep voice*: "We have your pidgeon"

@McIntyreBible 4 года назад

This reminds me of the time in my young life (20) when I had racing pigeons. Fond memories!!

@julier5614 4 года назад

Pigeon : free they are literally outside La de racer pigéon : 1.4mil$

@yepperdeedooda 5 лет назад

I had no idea that these types of birds are so expensive. I just thought you catch them or something and train them like a parakeet

@ryangarcia2651 5 лет назад

Nice pic

@HH-kl8ed 5 лет назад

Ryan Garcia ikr damn

@thatoneguy4726 4 года назад

They are pretty expensive but you can't just catch one since those are extremely inbred but what I use them for is hatching eggs like let's say I have Indian fantail eggs ill put them in her nest and she raised him but they do cost a buck or two

@derrickconnolly9164 4 года назад

Omg. Pigeons will always return to their roost. So when the army took pigeons with them. Knowing they'll return home. To race pigeons they would all have to be released in a different place at the same distance and which one gets home first

@BelgianRacingPigeons 4 года назад

defenitly not

@scipioprime69 3 года назад

In our neighborhood, its a common practice that when someone's pigeon came into your loft they gotta have to pay a ransom to get it back. I have 10 pairs of pigeons before, we used to track those trucks that are going to release racing pigeons. When we see some pigeons already in air, we release some of our pigeons to lure some of racing pigeons into our lofts. Its like piracy and I miss clapping and whistling for pigeons.

@bobbybrooks4826 2 года назад

They also were used for their eyes... They were used to find lost at sea sailors

@Gothiclovesick Год назад

I have one feral blue bar from the Bronx my MIL found as a baby. He’s just the sweetest most easy going pet. Like a cat. He did a mating dance for me! 😂 My sweet Henry.

@monicahenrion1559 5 лет назад

Anyone else remember the pigeon guy episode on Hey Arnold! I didn't know racing pigeons was a real thing till now.

@dantirk1819 5 лет назад

Lmao I have a friend that called me that guy

@IAmGonnaPutSomeDirtInYourEye1 5 лет назад

Me - ok let me see an expensive video before i go to work to keep me motivated!

@matthewhayden6505 5 лет назад

Everybody thinking they can grab a pigeon from their backyard and end up with a bird even worth $5.00 is insane. These birds are like race horses and have been breed to near perfection in some cases. People spend decades breeding off of champion birds. A wild pigeon couldn’t do half the stuff race pigeons do

@death5913 3 года назад

true My Relative my grandmother's brother manage to Breed a pigeon That can fly from Sabah Malaysia back to Manila

@87channels 5 лет назад

This reminds me of the video I made on how a racing pigeon beat a network company in a race of data transfer speed. So they're pretty fast, yeah.

@souljapolo96 5 лет назад

Me, an intellectual: *catches a street pigeon and feeds it bread crumbs laced with coke and sells it for $1.4 million*

@jawediqbal9475 5 лет назад

sells to whom ? 👍

@RedobleJF 5 лет назад

Thats not how it works idiot

@MrRourk 4 года назад

Will not work. Very obvious in the eye sign.

@niamtxiv 4 года назад

guess, you don't know how this works.

@TantiPraenuntiaFabam 4 года назад

Jeez do none of you not understand a joke?

@johnhalchishick7094 2 года назад

I raised pigeons as a kid,I learned a lot. For instance did you know there's a thing called pigeon pox. Horrible disease affects only the pigeons. The local 4-H club hooked me up with the medication I need to stop all the birds from dying and the birth defects their associated with

@jadenreyes8132 5 лет назад

I never knew these existed still.

@BelgianRacingPigeons 4 года назад

Really great video explaining it all the most expensive pigeon was not far from where i live.

@skycastlechronicles 11 месяцев назад

seems like a foto montague almost, that many pigeons in one container! 😁 seeing pigeons with new eyes every vid that I watch… In the past I thought they were.. well… pigeons! They seem to be so much more than that!!

@skycastlechronicles 7 месяцев назад

I just found my own comment by chance!! 3 months after I left it! Its still the newest! I feel interconnected with myself! Nobody liked it so I just did! Share the love… !

@Aoudhubillahi 5 лет назад

Would have been a tremendous service to have given and explanation of the race for pigeons with an animated or still diagram of what that is about. But nice article anyway.

@chubbybunny6975 4 года назад

They literally separate them from their mate, and let them panic-fly back to their mate. It's cruel honestly

@Agent32. 5 лет назад

I mean how, the ones i see, all they do is eat, dance and mate whole day

@ImNinjaSquirtles 5 лет назад

And poo

@hermansohier7643 5 лет назад

Same as people .

@RockieGFX 5 лет назад

more than that. research dood.

@RockieGFX 5 лет назад

@@ImNinjaSquirtles yea but atleast research on smoething

@adrianjordan8282 4 года назад

Because these aren’t regular pigeons they’re high end top of the line breeds worth thousands they aren’t your regular good for nothing sky rat you see eating bread in the street those can’t do a thing that these can I own about 40 high roller pigeons and I hate when ppl and new friends think they’re normal pigeons they see in the street they have nothing to do with each other

@michaelcheevers68 4 года назад

I have kept racing pigeons in the past , but never raced they are among the most enjoyable animals I have kept

@rainnnnnn372 8 месяцев назад

I have a white racing pigeon I wanna release it outside can I ??

@michaelcheevers68 7 месяцев назад

@@rainnnnnn372 yes , but you need to let it see out for a few weeks to get it's barings.

@rainnnnnn372 7 месяцев назад

@@michaelcheevers68 too late it's escaped I'm soooo worried

@rainnnnnn372 7 месяцев назад

@@michaelcheevers68 it chilled on a tree branch outside my window and then when I called him he took off!!!!! N I haven't seen him since 🥺 I hope he's going to be ok!!!!!!

@Attaningimpossible 8 дней назад

Very nice birds and I like this video 😮

@jenniferbates2811 5 лет назад

I've always loved pigeons. It's sad but a lot of them are used in religious ceremonies too. 😢

@jenniferbates2811 4 года назад

@Shaikh Mustafa Salman I wish I did, I have a parakeet now, when I was younger my neighbors had some, we could pet them and hold them. They weren't afraid of humans.

@jenniferbates2811 4 года назад

@Shaikh Mustafa Salman no way!! Thats so awesome! I🤯🤗, I also have 2 cats and a puppy, so she I a big cage and I let fly around the house. I put the animals in a different room first

@bitcrazecartoons4125 5 лет назад

John Wick - The King Of Pigeons

@amitk4878 5 лет назад

Blute t-shirt guy is either an Italian mafia or some long lost brother of robert de Niro 😁

@saifm344 4 года назад

Idk man kinda looks like Jerry Seinfeld if he gave up...

@j-dog7767 4 года назад

Imagine the look on that guy’s face when his 1.4 million dollar pigeon inevitably struck an eighteen wheeler.

@pardhupardhu3958 5 лет назад

Great job

@SciFactsYT118 5 лет назад

Today's fact: Pigeons are monogamous creatures (one couple mate for a lifetime). Couple of pigeons can produce up to 8 broods per year when the food is abundant.

@karthikbhattiprolu 5 лет назад

Wrong fact

@user-jt7kn8sc5d 5 лет назад

What’s wrong about it?

@davidonfim2381 4 года назад

They're socially monogamous, but they do mate with other pidgeons. Smart birds.

@finthehuman5698 4 года назад

No they are not. If you have a pair and add another cock, they will fight (by hitting each other with their wings) and the winner owns the hen.

@hughjanus7460 4 года назад

False

@lilmicki510 5 лет назад

I’m over here trying to sleep and this video comes up as recommended

@racingpigeonchannel9119 2 года назад

Great video brother

@daviddavis4885 3 года назад

No no, they aren’t pigeon racers, we’re pigeon **FANCIERS** It’s the most posh thing I’ve ever heard

@andresmanz 5 лет назад

They have a great deal of them in Cuba 🇨🇺 Even the gvnt supports and encourages the sport. They say that just in case they go to war they'll be able to have them for backup communication.

@death5913 3 года назад

True and their good For decoys

@MuhammadAli-sz9gv 4 года назад

In Pakistan we have pigeons who can fly all day long even at the temperature of 50 C + .

@Buildbeautiful 3 года назад

Yes but those highflyers are not racing pigeons

@MuhammadAli-sz9gv 3 года назад

@@Buildbeautiful yup these are high flyers, have you ever tried a pair of racing pigeon and high flyer. Coz that will surely increase steamena.

@clyde9767 5 лет назад

AnIMaL ABuSE

@Andrea.Magana 5 лет назад

My dad won first place one time with his racing pigeons!!!

@JEMurl 5 лет назад

Yey! 'So Expensive' is back!

@ranashahid2806 Год назад

Fantastic 9ice setup for pigeon ❤❤👍👍

@FreakyFunnies Год назад

i once raised pigeons and used to flew them up in the sky. SOld one white one in down town amman in a birds market , 2 days later he was on the top of my roof back again , LOOL. also a falcon once i bought and trained. Flew him one let him go skied in the sky and laded back at the house. awesome times!

@demeter-the-great Год назад

I have so many questions: 1) How do they know where to go 2) Why do they come back and not fly away? (Consistent food I guess) 3) How do you race them? Is it short distance or always long distance?

@agusrt.sncinj Год назад

It's not always food. I have racing pigeon (I don't race them ) and they go out when sun comes out and they're full of foods when they're back. A safe home is enough for them they're really loyal to you.

@demeter-the-great Год назад

@@agusrt.sncinj thanks for the info - can you let me know about the other questions?

@militaryhomes6292 Месяц назад

1. No one knows for sure how they know their way home. Some say they sense the magnet energy. The angle of the sun or by smell. It might be a combination. My best guess is the magnet theory. Mainly because they circle around a bit before they head in one direction. Just like we have to do with our phones sometimes to get the GPS to work. 2. It's instinct. 3. They do both short and long distance. There is a famous race in England where they release the Birds in France and they fly over the English channel. It's around a 600 Mile race. ....my grandfather had pigeons during WWII and my dad raced them in NY. One of my brothers has a white dove release business in NY and another brother has a one Loft race in Louisiana.

@torreyintahoe 4 года назад

I loved racing pigeons but I gave it up because so many of the birds don't make it back that I felt it was unethical. I still have about 50 birds but they just fly around the house and hang out on the roof.

@true767 Год назад

Whasapp me I am sale my birds

@racingpigeontv9428 4 года назад

Nice content

@ImranPetsInfo 4 года назад

Awesome 👌🕊🕊🕊

@johndavis9487 3 года назад

So the world's first drone was invented in 1907 by Julius Neubronner. You learn something new everyday!

@kakarodordas5484 5 лет назад

I neeed to go the Park right now.

@aldenreeves6302 3 дня назад

I had them as a kid. Would love to have them now at 78 years old.

@altha-rf1et 4 года назад

Just heard of how expensive the birds are, someone in Tampa where I live stole some, just was on the news, now local owner are sleeping with them with guns to protect their investments Another thing that I wish I knew about growing up on the farm.. First time viewer liked and subsribed

@Anna-zc9bp 5 лет назад

Mom, I want a racing pigeon for Christmas!

@altha-rf1et 4 года назад

I remember the cartoon Catch the pigeon with Muttly and his laughing

@dionisiohilariojr.6072 4 года назад

So expensive, because caring equals caring. Thanks to "Business Insider" You gave my bird hobby a chance. A very different feeling when it comes to caring for a bird.

@goblin5202 4 года назад

Thank you for specifying “expensive” for I am a pigeon

@64jsanchez 4 года назад

You are a chicken

@nugsymalone1247 2 года назад

Such an awesome history for birds people consider flying rats. I wrote up a petition to stop the abuse of pigeons at a fedex I used to work at and won. I saw those birds raise young better than a lot of humans, but I also respect them since my great grandfather used to raise them

@savagenectar3634 5 лет назад

Why do I ALWAYS look at a Pigeon and think of Mike Tyson ? Much Love Mike !

@pengamatyoutube8971 3 года назад

Amazing ...

@123four... 2 года назад

It's kind of funny how pigeons went from being the birds of the nobility to being super common animals then being sold at very high prices again. Granted, most pigeons aren't super specialized racing pigeons, but still.

@N64PAUL 5 лет назад

the pigeon with the camera attached to it is adorable

@ericperez2915 4 года назад

Wow! Very Expensive bird. Amanda!

@issachege5606 4 года назад

I too love those birds for sure

@alexbenavidez4500 4 года назад

The line "You love your Daddy, yeah?" In that New York accent just killed me.

@ds-nb4ln 4 года назад

This was great, I have been researching "excellence products for racing pigeons" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Hansaac Riyliver Scheme - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some amazing things about it and my brother in law got excellent results with it.

@rightinfotv977 3 года назад

Wao super good job sir 👍💝

@lightningwingdragon973 6 месяцев назад

My grandfather raced pigeons in Brooklyn. Vincent Caldarola. We still have the poster from the memorial race when he died.

@racingpigeon901 Год назад

Nice looking ♠️

@salvador9769 4 года назад

I love pigeons they're beautiful animals

@baskabaska2249 4 месяца назад

Wow nicee❤❤❤

@tonisaputra7279 4 года назад

Racing pigeon is good, but diving pigeon (merpati kolong) is better. We flying the bird only 1km but the bidr flies high and the most beautiful thing is the DIVING SPEED to get in the ring.

@MadlaLoftTV 5 лет назад

NICE VIDEO ...NICE PIGEONS JUST LIKE MINE 😄😄😄

@jawediqbal9475 5 лет назад

Last year my nephew's pigeon was champion of Lahore ,Pakistan and this year 2nd ..

@propanzx924 5 лет назад

Bet it won't last against the drones hovering over your house now

@vforvendetta937 5 лет назад

@@propanzx924 ??????????

@hartz9921 3 года назад

They really are beautiful.

@TheHummingbird876 4 года назад

How do they know how to come back? It always baffles me! I love birds. I've been watching one at my house for a month now. It comes angmd goes. Now it has company of its kind. I think it's what we call a chicken hawk in Jamaica. It's so pretty. I just wanna touch it.

@sinahshomolekae2799 9 месяцев назад

Right on my heart ❤️

@andyjohnson3790 3 года назад

So racing pigeons on GTA might be more fun than shooting them then.

@kamdaman 10 месяцев назад

We had a racing pigeon come to our backyard and sit on the lid of our hot tub everyday for no reason and we looked up the owners tag on its leg and turned out the owner passed away so the bird was on its own, a few weeks later of hanging out in the backyard an animal bit its wing and we had to take it to a vet, he lost his wing so can't fly anymore but we built him a big cage so he can be inside and on nice days he likes being carried outside. Been a few years and I was afraid he'd get depressed but thankfully he's not. He's full of love and energy. Now he gets spoiled with toys and premium food he's living the life 😂

@silvererain 5 лет назад

don't you just hate it when people say "persons" instead of "people"

@forexkurt 5 лет назад

Pigeon is a passion some so love pigeon even dont change a Ferrari

@banhatlessducks 4 года назад

This is beautiful

@tickle296 4 года назад

Man..jumped out of his shoes.😂😂. Lots of real studies of genetics, pure dedication and unconditional love for pigeons may give you the Champion Status in long distance pigeon racing. The reason behind dwindling fancier number is that pigeon sport is heading towards Racing only. Endurance high flying with tipplers is becoming obsolete day by day, because of PEREGRINE FALCON attacks on enduring tipplers. Myself had 70, 45 were consumed by P.Fs.

@user-ru8to8bh7m 4 года назад

I Love pigeons very much😍

@soulcrusher0357 3 года назад

I'm clueless about this topic, however I'm interested in how this works. When the bird is released how does it know the course of the race? Also how in the heck does it go so far away and find its way back so easily?

@death5913 3 года назад

Magnetic waves of the earth they can detect it

@johnhalchishick7094 2 года назад

Just a hint look at the nose or beak of the bird. Just like a race car the more sleek and aerodynamic it looks the more expensive the bird. Those pigeons you see on billboards, will not have that aerodynamic look. I know you think it's crazy but it's true the wild ones their head will come down and make a sharp turn towards the beak. The racing pigeons of good stock the head will blend right in to the beak in a very streamlined form