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Pigeons: Breeding and Shooting Questions
Posted on 4/16/16 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 4/16/16 at 6:23 pm
About half a mile behind my farm there's an old abandoned grain facility. Lots of old warehouses and all that. It's always been home to about 100-200 pigeons. But I've never been able to lure them to my fields (tried one year with a feeder).
Someone told me that the owls and hawks keep them beat down because they roost in those big open warehouses with no protection from avian predators.
He said that if I put in an area where they can safely nest -- like breeding cages, chicken coops -- and combined that with a feeder, the population would explode.
Anyone have any experience or advice breeding, raising, hunting pigeons??
Someone told me that the owls and hawks keep them beat down because they roost in those big open warehouses with no protection from avian predators.
He said that if I put in an area where they can safely nest -- like breeding cages, chicken coops -- and combined that with a feeder, the population would explode.
Anyone have any experience or advice breeding, raising, hunting pigeons??
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Posted on 4/16/16 at 6:27 pm to No Colors
You're lucky you can't lure them to you, I'd pay to get rid of the ones that have camped out here. Might have to spill blood.
Posted on 4/16/16 at 6:50 pm to QuietTiger
I need pigeonsfor dog training, where are you located?
Posted on 4/16/16 at 6:55 pm to No Colors
beware...if you are successful, you will be dealing with loads and loads of bird shite.
Posted on 4/16/16 at 7:13 pm to wickowick
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wickowick
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need pigeonsfor dog training, where are you located?
You've been there
Posted on 4/16/16 at 7:18 pm to wickowick
Uptown NOLA, but I thought you knew that.
How you gonna catch them?
How you gonna catch them?
Posted on 4/16/16 at 7:55 pm to No Colors
I was talking to Quiet, I know where you hang out.
This post was edited on 4/16/16 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 4/16/16 at 7:58 pm to QuietTiger
They on your property or just around? There are pigeon traps that work. BigHoss and I have talked about finding a non tourist area and feeding and cast netting them
Posted on 4/16/16 at 8:05 pm to wickowick
On two properties, one old, one not even completed. Bought to open a can of whoopazz on them.
I have a bird thats 34, I don't like killing if not needed.
I have a bird thats 34, I don't like killing if not needed.
Posted on 4/16/16 at 8:27 pm to Spankum
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beware...if you are successful, you will be dealing with loads and loads of bird shite.
I want to put the nesting boxes in the old grain facility 1/2 mile from my farm. That's where the shite will be.
I just want the population to boom so I can lure them to the farm for wingshooting.
Posted on 4/16/16 at 8:28 pm to QuietTiger
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On two properties, one old, one not even completed. Bought to open a can of whoopazz on them.
I have a bird thats 34, I don't like killing if not needed.
Can we put a trap out? Trap needs to be off the ground, like on a roof some something similar. Something like this?
Posted on 4/16/16 at 10:58 pm to wickowick
Cast net doesn't work so well wick, however a dip net and bread can do wonders
Posted on 4/17/16 at 7:29 am to wickowick
Do you need them alive? Or is dead just as good?
Posted on 4/17/16 at 7:45 am to No Colors
I need live birds, the dogs can tell when a bird is alive or dead and typically won't point a dead bird.
Posted on 4/17/16 at 10:11 am to wickowick
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Can we put a trap out? Trap needs to be off the ground, like on a roof some something similar
Roof won't work, too much pitch. There are porches but they are about to install rails and spindles along with anti pigeon boxes over the column tops. They would be in the way.
If anyone mentions a pigeon problem I'll hit you up. If they stay after that trim work is done the traps might be needed.
Posted on 4/17/16 at 10:16 am to QuietTiger
Sounds good. BigHoss works in the CBD, he tried to convince a homeless guy to gather live birds for us for a fixed rate. The homeless guy said "na" 
This post was edited on 4/17/16 at 10:19 am
Posted on 4/17/16 at 10:21 am to wickowick
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The homeless guy said "na"
He's homeless, but has standards.
Posted on 4/17/16 at 3:58 pm to No Colors
From what I understand squab are Damn good!
Posted on 4/17/16 at 4:17 pm to No Colors
True fact, Europeans brought Pigeons over here because they were a tasty staple of their diet. Pigeons are delicious if you can get past everyone's preconceived notion that they're rats with wings. They are in the same family as doves, actually were called Rock Doves, and they're a bit larger than our native doves. My advice, get rid of them by getting fat if you can. I've had them in France and it was a damn fine meal...
Posted on 4/17/16 at 4:50 pm to Canard Noir
I'm all for eating them. But there's a sequence: grow, shoot, eat....repeat. So, hoping someone on here knows someone who has some experience in breeding them.
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