Training elite racing birds offers Iraqis an escape from years of conflict and chaos.
window.havePowaBoot=true; By Tamer El-Ghobashy and Tamer El-Ghobashy Baghdad bureau chief focusing on Iraq's politics, security and the fight against the Islamic State Email Bio Follow Mustafa Salim February 26 at 1:54 PM ZUBAYDIYA, Iraq — On a muddy berm on the edge of a wheat farm about 100 miles south of Baghdad, a dozen flatbed trucks carrying some $14 million in precious cargo slowly line up before dawn.
A pigeon club in Baghdad displays feed, vitamins, supplements and even herbal teas imported from Belgium that are designed to keep racing pigeons in peak form. What started as an obsession has now turned into a career. He runs Baghdad’s best-known pigeon club — a place that sells antifungal and anti-worm solutions, vitamins and other imported products needed to raise the fastest, strongest and smartest pigeons.
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The Hot Duck has nothing on these fancy pigeonsFrom Jacobins to short faced tumblers, these highly bred birds compete at the National Pigeon Associationâs annual show in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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The Hot Duck has nothing on these fancy pigeonsFrom Jacobins to short faced tumblers, these highly bred birds compete at the National Pigeon Associationâs annual show in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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