# Is anyone here raising pigeons?
**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/is-anyone-here-raising-pigeons/8260
**Category:** Off Topic
**Tags:** off-grid
**Created:** [July 7, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/is-anyone-here-raising-pigeons/8260 "2025-07-07T22:36:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@machinemaker](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/machinemaker)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/is-anyone-here-raising-pigeons/8260/1 "2025-07-07T22:36:54Z")
Thinking about raising a utility breed pigeon for squab. does anyone here have any advice? Kent
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### Author:  [@don\_mannes](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/don_mannes)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 12:33am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/is-anyone-here-raising-pigeons/8260/2 "2025-07-08T00:33:46Z")
As a business or for personal use?
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### Author:  [@machinemaker](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/machinemaker)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 11:36am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/is-anyone-here-raising-pigeons/8260/3 "2025-07-08T11:36:53Z")
personal use, another food source on the homestead.
kent
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### Author:  [@don\_mannes](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/don_mannes)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 11:54am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/is-anyone-here-raising-pigeons/8260/4 "2025-07-08T11:54:22Z")
> [@machinemaker](#):
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> another food source on the homestead
What else do you have?
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### Author:  [@DanNH](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/DanNH)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/is-anyone-here-raising-pigeons/8260/5 "2025-07-08T12:17:50Z")
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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### Author:  [@machinemaker](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/machinemaker)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/is-anyone-here-raising-pigeons/8260/6 "2025-07-08T15:52:16Z")
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