Raising Pigeons

Concrete is gonna be really hard to clean unless completely smooth n you don't mind scraping n hosing off a lot. just put one inch mesh on bottom of coop (helps let poop etc fall through and keeps pigeons cleaner n dryer), n keep pen one n a half to four feet off ground. Homing Pigeons are great partly because they were such good heroes/tools in wars etc. they are delicious eating if needing to cull (waste not want not, n better end than many have..). that poop n those feathers are best natural fertilizer there is supposedly (worms looove the feathers). the poop can also be used to make boom booms, and was in ol days by some before black powder (I've seen used to make lil fireworks with copper sulpate i think was..), pigeons were farmed by some specifically for poop for various things, and still are in developing places in communities that value them for that and ability to come home after foraging for own food and water, and harvest meat and feathers etc also (gotta love discovery channels), and eggs valued for ceremonial dishes in some cultures.
 
Concrete is gonna be really hard to clean unless completely smooth n you don't mind scraping n hosing off a lot. just put one inch mesh on bottom of coop (helps let poop etc fall through and keeps pigeons cleaner n dryer), n keep pen one n a half to four feet off ground. Homing Pigeons are great partly because they were such good heroes/tools in wars etc. they are delicious eating if needing to cull (waste not want not, n better end than many have..). that poop n those feathers are best natural fertilizer there is supposedly (worms looove the feathers). the poop can also be used to make boom booms, and was in ol days by some before black powder (I've seen used to make lil fireworks with copper sulpate i think was..), pigeons were farmed by some specifically for poop for various things, and still are in developing places in communities that value them for that and ability to come home after foraging for own food and water, and harvest meat and feathers etc also (gotta love discovery channels), and eggs valued for ceremonial dishes in some cultures.
would a dirt floor word better
 
A dirt floor would work better, than concrete, for outside. cement (smooth) may work, but gonna need lot more work to keep up. key is dryness usually, but the rain washes poop into soil, and sun dries quick so can be tossed on or mixed into compost pile. some use pea gravel or wood chips/mulch. I'm using gravel wood chips and garden mulch in one, n they prefer the pea gravel n garden mulch. garden mulch working over pea gravel seeming best results so far.
 
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I am a little new to this addiction too! I got 6 young white homers (hoping to do "dove" release) and two just for fun pretty colored young Utility Kings for pets. I have been feeding them by hand a lot to get them tamer and now almost all of them will let me touch them and eat from my hands, and the two Utility Kings and one homer are downright tame, sitting on me, rushing to check for food when I come, letting me scratch their necks. Especially the smaller of the two Kings, Freckles, is my baby! They seem to like me talking to them in a "hoo"y voice too.

Bu my question is about pairing up. How early will they start pairing up, and is there anyway to influence it short of separating them into different pens? I would really like the Kings to pair if they turn out to be M&F, and I want the homers pair with each other. When can I tell what sexes I have, or who "likes" whom?
 

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