How to Create a Professional 4-Generation Pigeon Pedigree Online

For competitive racing fanciers and breeders, the pedigree is the report card of a bloodline. Whether you sell young birds, enter auctions or judge foundation stock, a clean, verifiable pedigree matters.

Sample 4-generation racing pigeon pedigree for BAN 26-474414 H, with sire and dam lines, ring numbers and loft branding — A 4-generation pedigree made with MyPigeonPedigree.

Why Desktop-Only Pedigree Software Falls Short

For years, most pedigree programs lived on a single Windows computer. To check a sire’s record or print a sheet for a buyer at your loft, you had to be at that desk. Mac users were left out and ended up with spreadsheets or hand-drawn charts.

An online tool like MyPigeonPedigree puts your whole breeding book in the browser, on any laptop, tablet or phone.

Step 1: Build Your Digital Loft Database

A pedigree is only as accurate as the records behind it. Before you generate a certificate, enter your birds with:

The official ring number. For example BE 22-6145032 or NL 2023-1740218, exactly as printed on the ring.
Name, sex, breed and colour. Note the bloodline and the feather colour so the sheet tells the full story.
Status. Mark whether a bird is active, a breeder, sold, deceased or lost.

Step 2: Link Sires and Dams

Instead of retyping ancestors every time you print, link each bird to its parents once. When a young bird has its sire and dam, the grandparents and great-grandparents are filled in from the birds you have already saved.

Step 3: Export a Clean, Print-Ready A4 Certificate

A professional pedigree should include:

Your loft name, logo and contact details in the header.
A clear grid for 3, 4 or 5 generations of ancestors.
Repeated ancestors marked, so inbreeding is easy to see.

With MyPigeonPedigree you can export the sheet as a high-resolution PDF or JPEG, ready to print or to send to a buyer on WhatsApp. Read more on the pedigree builder page, or see how it fits into loft management.