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    Stromberg hatchery pigeons??

    I have not but they do not raise the birds themselves. They work with breeders and have the drop shipped tom your door. The prices are rather high. I have ordered chicks and thought they had great customer service though.
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    Texan pioneers

    http://www.countryhatchery.net/pigeons.htm
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    Any Idea what breed these might be?

    Look like West of England tumblers to me.
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    When should I take this squab?

    Leave him the parents, pigeons have been rearing their babies for thousands of years with out humans weaning their young.
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    Building new pheasant pens

    8x8 would be on the small size, especially if you wanted it planted. I would recommend the 8x16 and keep trios vs pairs.
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    My poor lazy (or stupid) homing pigeons

    All of the problems your encountering are from training or lack of, not the birds themselves. Get them on a diet and a training regime, they sound out of shape and over fed. Once you have them in condition and they are routing, then you start tossing them.
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    how to sex homing pigeons? how to care for them?

    You should have 2 nests per pair because they will start renesting before the young leave the nest.
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    cropper pigeon

    I second Hollie Cropper
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    Quest for TEXAN PIONEERS.....

    Here is where we are different, one of us has real life experience, one doesn't with pigeons. I get your first sentence quite clearly, you want to raise pigeons for meat which is great. However, the rest of the rant, ideas and opinions are pretty off base from facts and reality. What the heck is...
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    when do homing pigeon squabs learn to walk around and start to go out of the nest.

    He is courting her and they are getting ready to nest again. I wouldn't add food or water to the nest box with the babies most likely it's just going to get soiled. The parents will continue to feed the babies and when they leave the nest box they will teach them where the food and water is.
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    Quest for TEXAN PIONEERS.....

    Quote: Chickens produce way more meat then any of those animals. Yeah a cow or pig weights more but when you look at the feed conversation ratio none of them even come close to the chicken. It takes about 3.5 lbs of feed to produce 1 lb of weight gain in pigs, broiler chickens on the average...
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    west of England or homing pigeons?

    Do you plan on flying them or not? One thing to consider is homers cannot be let loose or they will fly back to their owners. If I were to go with the homers I would sell all of them except 3-4 pairs to breed from, then the babies can be let out to fly. The Woe tumblers are pretty but they are...
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    Quest for TEXAN PIONEERS.....

    Well I certainly "learned" more from this post then I have in the past 25 years of raising pigeons. Quote: I have a hard time accepting Texas Pioneers as a heritage breed seeing as the are a relatively new modern breed. They weren't even recognized till the 60's as a breed, they have...
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    Swiss Mondaines

    I see your Swiss modaine post got deleted on pigeontalk even after you edited it. It's funny how a forum that claims to be so "pro" pigeon can be so narrow minded and ignorant. The pigeon hobby as a whole is declining rapidly and some how they believe treating these birds as lil feathered people...
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    Homing Pigeon in Backyard

    A leg band doesn't necessarily mean homing pigeon. Any way to get a pic? If it is a homer it should take off and head for home after it rests. If its a fancy, roller, etc it is probably lost.
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