Shumen Tumbler
The Shumen tumbler is a Bulgarian tumbler associated with the city of Shumen. It belongs to the Balkan tradition of local tumbling and flying pigeons, where city names often mark a particular style, outline, or breeder community. The breed is best understood as a regional performance fancy pigeon: not a homer, not a cropper, and not merely a color variety, but a bird whose identity comes from local type and aerial behavior.
If a Shumen tumbler line is still flown, young birds should be trained patiently in small groups, with attention to trapping and weather. Tumbling pigeons can be spoiled by careless overfeeding, hard releases, or selection only for looks. Show-oriented keepers still need to preserve sound wings, balance, and reproductive strength. Buyers should ask what the breeder means by Shumen type and whether the birds have been evaluated in the air, in the pen, or both.
Colors: Almond, Ash Red, Bar, Barless, Black, Blue, Brown, Checker, Dilute, Dun, Grizzle, Indigo, Mottle, Opal, Pied, Recessive Red, Red, Silver, Splash, Spread, White, Yellow
