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Practical guides, articles and news from the Ghuzar team — Arabic first.
Your first 10 minutes on Ghuzar — open and set up your account properly
Signing up by email or Google, verifying your email, your username and membership number, your governorate and profile — and why logging in from a second phone signs the first one out.
17 September 2026Your loft — register your birds the right way
What is required when adding a bird, why a live photo beats a gallery photo, the breed from the encyclopedia, ring number vs registration number, private birds, and deleting and restoring.
17 September 2026Ghuzar on Google Play — version 1.0.1 in closed testing
The app is now available to testers on Google Play as version 1.0.1, and the official website ghuzar.com is live with the full encyclopedia.
15 September 2026Before your first pair: what a beginner really needs
Enthusiasm buys the birds first and finds them a place later — the most common reason a first season is lost. The right order: the decision, the place, the budget, the breed, then the source.
15 September 2026Setting up the loft: space, ventilation, nest boxes and equipment
A good loft is dry, ventilated and protected — the rest is detail. Practical specifications with numbers for a rooftop room or a small room in Egypt.
15 September 2026Basic feeding: grains, mixes, grit and water
Pigeons do not need expensive food — they need balanced, regular, clean food. A basic mix with percentages, and how to adjust it for breeding and the moult.
15 September 2026The first 90 days: quarantine, settling in and the first vaccination programme
The most dangerous period for any new loft is the first three months — birds arrive from different sources carrying different diseases. A week-by-week plan from arrival day to the first egg.
15 September 2026Base pigeon colours: blue, ash-red, black and how they are inherited
However many pigeon colours there seem to be, they all come back to three base pigments and two genes that modify them. Understand those three and most colour surprises in the loft explain themselves.
15 September 2026Patterns and markings: bar, checker, ablaq and masood in Egyptian fancier terms
Colour is one thing and pattern is another. The wing is patterned in four grades, and colour is distributed over the body in patterns whose Egyptian names are decades old.
15 September 2026Planned pairing: how to plan a pair for the colour you want
Genetics is not luck once you keep records. With four rules and a simple table you can predict the squabs' colours before the eggs hatch — and know when to break the rules.
15 September 2026Reading the judging criteria: kantara, wing butts and eye — how Ghuzar is judged
The judging criteria are no secret — they are published on every breed's page with their weights. Here is a guide to the main points and how to see your bird through a judge's eyes before the show.
15 September 2026The basic vaccination programme for pigeons in Egypt
The three vaccinations most breeders start with — paramyxo, pox and salmonella — with ages, doses and intervals as listed in the Ghuzar encyclopedia.
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