When we need birds for speed, we must make an effort to get a loft full of pigeons from one to three years old if we race them the year of their birth; in other cases between one and four years. No exception to this rule will be allowed unless we have something really exceptional or unless we want a few old cocks to which we will apply the widowhood system at early spring.
Taken from The Practical Side of Pigeon Racing
by Leon Petit
May 1952
