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Iranian Hamedan Pigeon.
Iran is a country full of Pigeon Fanciers. In every city, town or village, on every street corner or alley you can find at least a fancier. Sometimes you find three or four neighbours with houses attached to each other, keeping pigeons on the rooftops. Some of these fanciers are friends with each other and some are rivals. I believe this is what makes the sport exciting and so popular. Most of these fanciers keep “Iranian High Flying Tumblers”. There are some breeders in different cities, who keep homers or Iranian Low Flyers.
As a little child growing up in Iran, I always kept IHFTs either on the rooftop or in the back yard. My uncle was my motivation. He was the one who got me hooked on this sport and introduced me to one of the most beautiful pigeon breeds on the earth. This breed is called “Hamedan High Flying Tumbler”, named after the city “Hamedan”, about 300 kilometer west of Tehran, the country’s capital.
When I left the country about 20 years ago, there were some rumours that some animal smugglers were buying these birds from the people, mostly with low incomes and shipped them to the neighbouring countries around and about the Persian Gulf. Some of these pure bred birds were sold for $20,000 a pair when they were bought for as little as $10 each from a poor villager. This had continued until there was no Hamedan Tumblers left in the region, except for a few fanciers who refused to sell their birds due to their wealth.
For about 20 years I didn’t know what had happened to this breed and nobody had enough information on them, until last year that accidentally I found some pictures of them on Mr. Tony Mirseidi website. I got the E-mail address and contacted the owner of them. It made me so happy seeing some one still keeping and breeding them.
His name is Bahman Hamedani. He was born and raised in Bahar, province of Hamedan. He is a great man with a great personality. We kept in touch and enjoyed talking about birds. What you read below is an interview with him in order to properly introduce this breed to fanciers around the world.
Q: Bahman, would you please introduce yourself to our readers?
A: I was born and raised in Bahar, Hamedan and been keeping and breeding Hamedan High flying Tumblers since I was a little kid. Actually, when I was born my father was keeping them. We can trace this breed 500 years back in my family.
Q: is there anybody else who takes care of this breed?
A: As far as I know there are 2 other breeders living in Hamedan who keep them. I’m not sure about the other towns or villages, but I doubt it. Most of the people sold their birds to a Bird Smuggler named Bushehry or his men for really cheap price comparing to what they were sold across the world.
Q: Have they ever approached you? I mean the smugglers.
A: Yes, of course they did. They approached my father so many times but since my father was a wealthy man, he never accepted their offers. After my father, they came to me with some great offers as well, which I refused them all. Love for this breed of pigeons and my own pride were the main reasons that I refused the offers. Now I am very happy and satisfied that I am one of the few ones that saved this breed.
Q: Can you please tell us about the characteristics of this breed? Flying style, colours and type of them.
A: These birds are highflying tumblers. They are able to fly 6 to 12 hours straight. They shoot up about 10 to 15 meters and then they tumble, usually more than once in one shooting. I have birds that can tumblen11 times in one shooting. When you think they are done flying and coming down for landing -right a few meters above your coop- they start over and shoot-up and tumble until they get out of the sight. This scene is one of the most beautiful flying scenes I have ever seen. It’s priceless. They are such great performers that you can watch them for hours and hours without getting tired or bored. They come in any colours and patterns that pigeons can have. Like blue bar, ash red, brown, recessive red, dilute, faded, almond, indigo, opal and etc.
Q: Bahman, do you have any goals that you’d like to achieve regarding these beautiful birds? And any success?
A: There is one thing that has been keeping my mind occupied for years. I always wanted to breed birds with two different colours on their saddles, like combination of black and ash-red. I know this matter is a sort of genetic disorder, but I am crossing my fingers and trying to make it happen and if it works, I will publish the recipe…
Q: Is there anything else that you’d like to add to our interview today?
A: I just want to thank you for this interview, which means a lot to me. I hope that some national pigeon associations or clubs will recognize this old breed of pigeons as one of the standard breeds and treat them the way the deserve. I’d like to see them everywhere in the world in the hands of the true fanciers who would care about them like the way I do. Thank you very much.
Thank you Bahman. Hamid Zia-ej, Toronto, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1577973756
Pa-pary=feathered leggs;Malaghy=tumbler;”hamedan” z mest Yazd,Tabris maji kratsi rousy
HAMEDAN HIGH FLYING TUMBLER.
Origin: Iran, province of Hamedan.
Breed Characteristic: performing highflying crack tumbler with 6-12 hours of flying, some are solo some are kit flyers with a very good homing instinct.
Overall Impression: strong, elegant saddled marked pigeon with proud carriage and head up, chest forward and wings on the tail.
Head: slightly larger, longish, curved, forehead reasonably high. Crest is placed slightly lower and has to be in the center of the back of the head and should be pointy with a length of 1 cm to 3 cm (. ½ -1 ¼ “). Longer is preferred.
Eyes: black only. Eye ceres are light, narrow and smooth.
Beak: medium to long, flesh light colour preferred, small black dots are allowed; wattles small and smooth.
Neck: longer, minimum length allowed 5cm (2”), full where the neck joins the body.
Tail: long, closed, held clear of the floor.
Legs: rather longer, set wide; muffs 12-15cm (5-6”) long, thick and spread regularly; hock feathers well developed, not shorter then 7cm (2 ¾”) long; slightly bent to give proper stance.
Body, carriage & conformation: medium size-about 40 cm (16”) with full breast, wedge shape, calm upstanding appearance, showing a capability of a great activity.
Marking: only saddled marking allowed, regular or irregular (one sided); ideal is coloured shield with 10 white primary flights, 10 coloured secondary flights and 3 coloured coverts under primaries. Bars parallel and narrow going across the entire shield; checkering regular.
Colour: should be clear and rich as possible. All colours are allowed.
Feathering: richly developed, tight and smooth.
Faults: weak body, too short, sparse or badly damaged muffs, small or distorted crest, dull or impure colour, irregular marking, large coloured spots on the body, other colour of eyes then black. Smaller coloured spots then a dime on the head and neck are minor faults.
Order of Evaluation: overall impression-carriage-body strength-feathering-muffs-marking-colour-crest-eyes.
Description: Hamid R. Zia-ei
Standard: Jerry Sindelar
Ontario, July, 2011.
Interview.
Iranian Hamedan Pigeon.
Iran is a country full of Pigeon Fanciers. In every city, town or village, on every street corner or alley you can find at least a fancier. Sometimes you find three or four neighbours with houses attached to each other, keeping pigeons on the rooftops. Some of these fanciers are friends with each other and some are rivals. I believe this is what makes the sport exciting and so popular. Most of these fanciers keep “Iranian High Flying Tumblers”. There are some breeders in different cities, who keep homers or Iranian Low Flyers.
As a little child growing up in Iran, I always kept IHFTs either on the rooftop or in the back yard. My uncle was my motivation. He was the one who got me hooked on this sport and introduced me to one of the most beautiful pigeon breeds on the earth. This breed is called “Hamedan High Flying Tumbler”, named after the city “Hamedan”, about 300 kilometer west of Tehran, the country’s capital.
When I left the country about 20 years ago, there were some rumours that some animal smugglers were buying these birds from the people, mostly with low incomes and shipped them to the neighbouring countries around and about the Persian Gulf. Some of these pure bred birds were sold for $20,000 a pair when they were bought for as little as $10 each from a poor villager. This had continued until there was no Hamedan Tumblers left in the region, except for a few fanciers who refused to sell their birds due to their wealth.
For about 20 years I didn’t know what had happened to this breed and nobody had enough information on them, until last year that accidentally I found some pictures of them on Mr. Tony Mirseidi website. I got the E-mail address and contacted the owner of them. It made me so happy seeing some one still keeping and breeding them.
His name is Bahman Hamedani. He was born and raised in Bahar, province of Hamedan. He is a great man with a great personality. We kept in touch and enjoyed talking about birds. What you read below is an interview with him in order to properly introduce this breed to fanciers around the world.
Q: Bahman, would you please introduce yourself to our readers?
A: I was born and raised in Bahar, Hamedan and been keeping and breeding Hamedan High flying Tumblers since I was a little kid. Actually, when I was born my father was keeping them. We can trace this breed 500 years back in my family.
Q: is there anybody else who takes care of this breed?
A: As far as I know there are 2 other breeders living in Hamedan who keep them. I’m not sure about the other towns or villages, but I doubt it. Most of the people sold their birds to a Bird Smuggler named Bushehry or his men for really cheap price comparing to what they were sold across the world.
Q: Have they ever approached you? I mean the smugglers.
A: Yes, of course they did. They approached my father so many times but since my father was a wealthy man, he never accepted their offers. After my father, they came to me with some great offers as well, which I refused them all. Love for this breed of pigeons and my own pride were the main reasons that I refused the offers. Now I am very happy and satisfied that I am one of the few ones that saved this breed.
Q: Can you please tell us about the characteristics of this breed? Flying style, colours and type of them.
A: These birds are highflying tumblers. They are able to fly 6 to 12 hours straight. They shoot up about 10 to 15 meters and then they tumble, usually more than once in one shooting. I have birds that can tumblen11 times in one shooting. When you think they are done flying and coming down for landing -right a few meters above your coop- they start over and shoot-up and tumble until they get out of the sight. This scene is one of the most beautiful flying scenes I have ever seen. It’s priceless. They are such great performers that you can watch them for hours and hours without getting tired or bored. They come in any colours and patterns that pigeons can have. Like blue bar, ash red, brown, recessive red, dilute, faded, almond, indigo, opal and etc.
Q: Bahman, do you have any goals that you’d like to achieve regarding these beautiful birds? And any success?
A: There is one thing that has been keeping my mind occupied for years. I always wanted to breed birds with two different colours on their saddles, like combination of black and ash-red. I know this matter is a sort of genetic disorder, but I am crossing my fingers and trying to make it happen and if it works, I will publish the recipe…
Q: Is there anything else that you’d like to add to our interview today?
A: I just want to thank you for this interview, which means a lot to me. I hope that some national pigeon associations or clubs will recognize this old breed of pigeons as one of the standard breeds and treat them the way the deserve. I’d like to see them everywhere in the world in the hands of the true fanciers who would care about them like the way I do. Thank you very much.
Thank you Bahman. Hamid Zia-ej, Toronto, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1577973756
Pa-pary=feathered leggs;Malaghy=tumbler;”hamedan” z mest Yazd,Tabris maji kratsi rousy
HAMEDAN HIGH FLYING TUMBLER.
Origin: Iran, province of Hamedan.
Breed Characteristic: performing highflying crack tumbler with 6-12 hours of flying, some are solo some are kit flyers with a very good homing instinct.
Overall Impression: strong, elegant saddled marked pigeon with proud carriage and head up, chest forward and wings on the tail.
Head: slightly larger, longish, curved, forehead reasonably high. Crest is placed slightly lower and has to be in the center of the back of the head and should be pointy with a length of 1 cm to 3 cm (. ½ -1 ¼ “). Longer is preferred.
Eyes: black only. Eye ceres are light, narrow and smooth.
Beak: medium to long, flesh light colour preferred, small black dots are allowed; wattles small and smooth.
Neck: longer, minimum length allowed 5cm (2”), full where the neck joins the body.
Tail: long, closed, held clear of the floor.
Legs: rather longer, set wide; muffs 12-15cm (5-6”) long, thick and spread regularly; hock feathers well developed, not shorter then 7cm (2 ¾”) long; slightly bent to give proper stance.
Body, carriage & conformation: medium size-about 40 cm (16”) with full breast, wedge shape, calm upstanding appearance, showing a capability of a great activity.
Marking: only saddled marking allowed, regular or irregular (one sided); ideal is coloured shield with 10 white primary flights, 10 coloured secondary flights and 3 coloured coverts under primaries. Bars parallel and narrow going across the entire shield; checkering regular.
Colour: should be clear and rich as possible. All colours are allowed.
Feathering: richly developed, tight and smooth.
Faults: weak body, too short, sparse or badly damaged muffs, small or distorted crest, dull or impure colour, irregular marking, large coloured spots on the body, other colour of eyes then black. Smaller coloured spots then a dime on the head and neck are minor faults.
Order of Evaluation: overall impression-carriage-body strength-feathering-muffs-marking-colour-crest-eyes.
Description: Hamid R. Zia-ei
Standard: Jerry Sindelar
Ontario, July, 2011.
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