Who has already been compared machinery, household appliances and cars from the USA with european models understand very quickly why I have chosen title (translated as "think big") this blog post could only have come from poor Rika .
Consider we develop the size of our winter stocks of pigeons, one could assume we would have made the Americans as a model. During 1982, the average stock size in the Dortmund still at about 44 animals were (Source: "Living with pigeons," p.226, Westfalen Verlag), then exceed today only the travel teams of many breeders that number is not in the team related females and breeding pigeons are not even counted here. Probably an average herd size is now about twice as high as thirty years ago, has increased in particular the number of very large stocks.
I personally Opinion that this development is in itself not a problem as long as each and every breeder of it like to be free to decide what the size should be his own existence and that he can be happy and content in the pigeon sport. Because then go to the breeder of this sport is, at least not before is not lost for this reason.
ofmals It is a way that kept many farmers (and especially potential buyers for our hobby!) A large population could not, even if they wanted to. This does not include the limitation of the financial resources should be mentioned first. Especially for people who do not live in the country (and these are 85% of German population!), The spatial characteristics woks often limited and in mixed residential areas conceded by most municipalities herd size is only 50 animals! Also, older sports fans have at some point provide no strength and physical condition a large inventory and must reduce their herd size as a result of these circumstances.
When I attended last weekend in a panel discussion on the future of the German pigeon racing, the Sports Commission said a member of the Association with regard to the current proposals for this year's General Assembly to the effect that you like to set speed limits included in the championship tenders would have to in future, smaller stocks again more to pave the road. This did not, however, after examining the legal framework can be implemented.
I personally irritert about this whole train of thought. If you want to counter the ever-growing stock sizes to keep the pigeon racing for a wide range of interested parties would be attractive, in my view the first look at the reasons for the growth announced. Eliminated one of the driving forces behind this development, we reach a lot more sustainable and this above all. A dictate of the stocks by the association and thus a massive intervention in the breeding this freedom would not be necessary.
who reads often, what I write so obviously knows what I'm getting at: In all championships, which have the x best pigeons without regard to team size of a breeder as a condition, a greater travel products leads to significantly better chances, so a championship would win! And since the vast majority of championships in the Rven, flight Communities and knit even in the regional associations still according to this model, they have had a massive influence on the above development, because it is these championships, which realistically than any breeder target targeted can be, and not the Association Championship.
Today I would like these always rely on my thesis put forward with concrete numbers. For still be heard in conversations and discussions on this question, arguments like "You can be with little pigeon champion. For us, the breeder XY with very little pigeons always with the front runners." "It is but in any case always same forward as it changes the championship mode, turn it. " Such discussions, however, can be forgotten, that you can not argue with individual cases of a general trend.
One has instead to be a large number of breeders in a situation of "x Cup best" view in order to clarify the effect of such a championship mode. In my regional association, we had this year seven regional flights from their results on a "five-best-deaf" mode, a regional association champion was determined. If we take the figures of the first regional flight basis, this 630 beats were traveling with 18 179 pigeons to start competing. This database is more than sufficient to make statistically reliable statements. The derived statements are wholeheartedly for smaller organizations, even if there such an evaluation because of a much smaller statistical sample even less clear Statement should arise.
For evaluation, I considered the top ranked 53 in the Breeders Cup regional association, and thus only 8.4% of all the best breeders of the entire regional association. These are all so breeders, in which we can assume that they can deal with pigeons, they do not all belong to the bad suppliers that they have all brought fittest pigeons used and that they all have good and sufficient pigeons on the beat in order to place well. Now they have
best shots of the regional association, of course, but placed differently in the Regional Association championship. And certainly a reason for it be to that there are also among the good still better. Also like the one breeders have had better luck with his counters, as the other breeders. And so we see this best-placed a certain scatter in the growers of these services on regional flights travel service. It is interesting to note, however, that the travel services provided no dependence on the size of the travel team shows
This is shown in Figure 1 (click to enlarge). Here, the travel services provided to the team sizes compared with each beat and fill with a period. For shocks with a great team it is at a point right of the graph. In shock with a smaller travel service, the point is then below. If now a connection between the travel service and the size of the team were, for example in the form, that larger impacts would be better, the plotted points would have to rise in the trend from bottom left to top right. They do, however, is how easily you can not form and instead a bunch of points without rising or falling trend.
(for those interested: the plotted line is to follow the trend of these points, it was calculated using the accepted statistical method of linear regression, the resulting linear equation is also shown) .
As a consequence, this means that a large travel team does not improve travel service! A finding that also is not surprising but still important is to be noted in this context. Why? This, we shall see when we look at Figure 2 in more detail:
However, it is with the naked eye can clearly be seen that the points of "top left" move to the "right below". This trend means in concrete terms: the larger is a team here, the better it is placed in the section in the current "5 Best" Regional Association championship!
(ie the trend line, according to an animal a larger crew on average about one to two places better placement in this championship (2 x 0.49 = approximately 1))
have but as we saw in Figure 1 that the shock is not considered here can be said that the bigger teams also achieved by the better travel services and thus have superior athletic would this mean in direct consequence the better position of the blows with bigger teams go here on average, NOT to improve athletic performance back, but more alone on the team!
course we can also find single strokes, despite minor team who could place very well, but shows the clear Trend in Figure 2, these "outliers" are absolutely not suitable to maintain, large stocks had no systematic advantage for the "x-best-Meisterschaftsmodi.
the contrary: For example, consider the fourth-placed regional association, it provided 59%, by far the largest travel service considered here impacts on regional flights, but had evidence because of its small team size of only 22 pigeons but no chance of earned first place , for which brought him ranked 61, 96 and 65 animals at the start. It has thus won here not even the best, and a change in the Championship mode such as a mode would be taken at the set number in the credits, this list would have changed the winner clearly!
is even more clearly the systematic advantage of a large set number in the "x-best-mode" when we mean crew size of the spaces 1 to 10 and 11 to 20, 21 to 30, enter and so on in a diagram (Figure 3), since this reduces the spread of the case not so much weight falls, but the tendency of this averaging of ten-placed shots is not distorted:
If we now have the absolute numbers of team sizes 8.4% of these top ranked View Regional Association and to compare with the average of all farmers in the Regional Council, should hopefully have to admit, the last defenders of these modes, as well the systematic advantage of a greater effect on the team placement.
occurred in the Region of 18 179 birds of 630 shots against each other, was thus the average size of all team beats only 28.9 pigeons. The average team size considered here was best-placed blows, however 54.2 pigeons, was almost twice as big!
Only a mere 6 breeders with less 28.9 as these pigeons made it into the top 53, another breeder has had exactly 29 pigeons in the team but 46 breeders were the 53 best-placed their teams (in most cases significantly) than the average size of the teams in the regional association .
I hope there is now no one will seriously argue that there exist in the group of farmers with teams 20 to 30 pigeons, make up a large proportion of the 630 farmers in the Regional Association, containing only seven farmers who are really good! Here the size of gains on the sporting performance and this relationship is unique, it is significant and it is NOT explained away!
And of course, know the farmers long ago about all these things, because that is what is presented just the main engine, which has led to the growth of stocks in the last thirty years! Each breeder is motivated in a system in which they exist championships, eventually confronted with the question of whether to have realistic chances of the front seats, and must therefore increase its stock, or not!
A breeder has so indicate in a system where "x-best-mode" set the tone does not free to choose its stock size! And if he is subject to external restrictions that an extension prevent the herd, he could not even make a stock build, even if he wanted it! He would have to accept his systematic discrimination, bury his dream of a top ranking or just turn away from this hobby (or do not start!).
# ANY organization, whether RV, FG or RegV, the "x-best modes" retains for its major awards and championships is a strong incentive to larger stocks!
# ANY of these organizations is sporty unfair to the farmers who want to keep a smaller inventory, or even can not hold a larger stock, because these systematically less chance be given to based not on the true sports performance. In these modes it winning just always the better, but sometimes just the size!
# ANY organization could automatically, without the association's responsibility to act here would be, and to improve the situation by removing all of these modes. Each meeting provides an opportunity to. And if some requests to the MV go through this year, it would be decided anyway on RegV level championships before the new season (see RegV championship of the association request IV (7)). Alternatives to the "x-best modes" there are enough are set by speed-dependent metering systems, a limit of doves, the only counter in question, to aforementioned championships.
course, saves the abolition of the "x-best-modes alone is not the German pigeon racing. They, however, is an important piece of the jigsaw to improve the situation, the fact that small stocks are no longer discriminate systematically, and it is thus worth even pigeon racing again on a small scale to operate with the prospect of top rankings. Because pigeon racing is competition. Who it's all about the pigeon lofts, could indeed hold otherwise just as well race pigeons (whether at this point mentioned in passing that the number racial pigeon breeder has risen above many of the last thirty years and now currently at a high level shrinks considerably slower than that of pigeon breeders).
In a second part to this subject I write soon about the actual impact of the championships and their modification on RV level.
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