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Chinese businessman pays record price for Belgian racing pigeon

May 21, 2013 08:02
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Chinese businessman has paid a world record 310,000 euros ($398,500) for a Belgian pigeon, highlighting Asia's huge and growing interest in racing birds. The one-year-old award-winning pigeon named Bolt was bred by Belgian pigeon fancier Leo Heremans, a well-known name to pigeon enthusiasts, who sold his entire collection of 530 birds for 4.3 million euros at an auction over the weekend.

Association of pigeon enthusiasts to vaccinate up to 90,000 birds in eastern China

April 11, 2013 03:02
An association of pigeon enthusiasts plans to vaccinate up to 90,000 of the birds in eastern China to help ward off the spread of the latest avian flu. Pigeons became a source of concern after one in Shanghai was found infected with the new H7N9 strain of bird flu.

China to vaccinate 90,000 pigeons against bird flu

April 10, 2013 15:45
An association of pigeon enthusiasts plans to vaccinate up to 90,000 of the birds in eastern China to help ward off the spread of the latest avian flu. Pigeons became a source of concern after one in Shanghai was found infected with the new H7N9 strain of bird flu.

CORRECTED-Hundreds of animals removed from Ohio man's house

January 19, 2013 18:30
(Corrects the number of animals in paragraphs 3, 4) By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Humane society members wearing protective masks removed nearly 300 animals including pigeons, chickens and rabbits from an Ohio man's reeking house this week. Most of the animals are expected to survive including some that were sick, Sheila Marquis, an officer with the Humane Society of Greater Dayton, Ohio, told Reuters on Saturday.
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