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Caden Jessing

Passerine Research Technician at Black Swamp Bird Observatory and Master Breeder of Damascene pigeons with the Rare Breeds Pigeon Club

Jul 29, 2026

111:27
How far back does that go?
111:29
It was noted that they went as far back as the 1600s.
111:34
I'm sure the breed is a lot older than that because there's so many breeds that exhibit the white ice coloration and it took a long time for those birds to be created to put those colors on top of them.
111:51
So you've got multiple breeds with ice, the ice modifier, which are like The Italian owls, there's the Rodani.
112:02
I don't know if I'm saying that right, but it's basically an ice Italian owl.
112:07
And it's interesting because they judge the Italian owl if they separate them overseas.
112:15
And they kind of judge them as their own breed.
113:07
it's always been used as like a way to move colors around and it's always been more of a show a show bird in that way

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