Abstract:The content of nutrients in the blood from different breeds of meat pigeons was compared. Blood samples were collected from White King pigeons，Silver King pigeons，Texan pigeons，Red Carneau pigeons，and Shiqi pigeons，and they were compared in terms of proteins，moisture，ash，crude fat，amino acids，miner‐als，and protein subunit bands. The results showed that the protein content of the five pigeon breeds was in a descending order of Red Carneau pigeons>White King pigeons>Silver King pigeons>Texan pigeons>Shiqi pi‐geons（P>0.05）. The content of moisture，ash，and crude fat showed no significant differences among different breeds，which indicated that the basic nutrients in the blood samples did not vary significantly among different pigeon breeds. The content of the trace element iron in pigeon blood was about twice of that in chicken blood and close to that in duck blood，suggesting the use of pigeon blood as a source of iron supplements.The content of Cu/Zn ratio of pigeon blood was only 0.02-0.03，lower than that of chicken blood and duck blood，which manifested the use of pigeon blood as a raw material to ameliorate the related diseases such as tumors and leu‐kemia.All the three kinds of poultry blood contained 17 essential amino acids required by the human body，serv‐ing as high‐quality protein resources. The antioxidant amino acids and hydrophobic amino acids in pigeon blood accounted for 33.49% and 31.69% of the total amino acid content，respectively，and the crude protein content in pigeon blood was about 1.62 and 2.82 times of that in chicken blood and duck blood，respectively，which demonstrated the antioxidant potential of pigeon blood. All these findings indicated that pigeon blood had potential antioxidant effect，a high nutritional value，and broad development and utilization prospects.