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Pigeons was originally bred in the area of Lahore and imported into Germany around 1880 and became famous at the beginning of the 1960s. Pigeons are quite a big bird with almost horizontal body with unique markings. People of Lahore are keeping and flying pigeons for a very long time and now flying pigeons is become the tradition of Lahore city. Majority of people like to keep high flying pigeons rather than keeping fancy pigeons. There are about 300,000 high flying pigeon's fanciers are present in Lahore. It's a very tough and time consuming job especially in the hot summer days. Pigeons has been kept in the cages built by the bricks. There are few clubs that organized the competition among the high flying pigeons. The pigeons from Lahore, kasur, Sialkot are the most popular pigeons because of their performances and flying abilities. These flying pigeon's fanciers got the guidance from their teacher normally an aged and experienced person known as ustad. Pigeon racing was introduced in Lahore about a decade and now there are three clubs that properly promote pigeon racing. There is only one club that breeds fancy pigeons in Pakistan. The most famous race of fancy pigeons are modena, king, pouters, trumpeter, runt, fantails, Indian fantails, racing romers and short face tumblers. It's very unfortunate that pigeon fanciers don't have budget to buy proper medicines for pigeons. Most of the pigeons are imported from Holland, England and now from Sharjah, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The shop keepers who deals in fancy pigeons sells pigeons at a very high rate and buy at a very low rates that why the sale of fancy pigeons in Pakistan is very poor.
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