Businessman buys dove to $ 400 thousand

Chinese businessman bought Belgian pigeon in the amount of 310 thousand euros (398 500 dollars), and this figure is a record, and highlights the large and growing interest in Asia race birds.

And dove at the age of one year, he sold Belgian breeders bathroom Liu Hermans - a well-known name to the bathroom fanciers - within a complete set comprises 530 birds at an auction on the weekend, where the group sold 4.3 million euros.

He described Nicholas Zdzislbrecht of the site (BIPA) Auctions bathroom, as a "work of art", and likened the board of the painter Picasso.

"The dove is still small and then can the Chinese New owner be used for breeding for another eight years at least."

The Web site said that although the auction attracted interest from 27 countries, but nine of the most expensive pools ten bathrooms race in the auction bought by customers from China and Taiwan.