Thinking about raising a utility breed pigeon for squab. does anyone here have any advice? Kent
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As a business or for personal use?
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personal use, another food source on the homestead.
kent
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What else do you have?
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I don’t see that it would be difficult they keep breeding like rabbits on my farm i can’t get rid of them. They moved in probably over 30 years ago when something drove the rats out of the cow barn and have been a nuances ever since.
Personally i would look at chickens or guinea hens first. Then rabbits if i wanted to raise something for small scale meat. Chickens will help control flies and give you eggs. Guinea will help keep ticks under control i need to get more of them because the Chickens don’t get the job done but Guinea don’t lay eggs where you can find them and are loud. Rabbits while i have not raised them are supposed to be one of the easiest to keep for food.
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we have both laying hens and meat birds, also turkeys, and geese in the bird department. Dan, once pigeons fledge they will always return to where they were raised. I agree that they can be a barn problem. kent
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