i do not think i have ever heard of someone saying bad things about people that raise birds for there table except for the folks like on p.t. you are very right about how breeders of birds that have put raiseing there own young to the back seat of raiseing a champion useing fosters...
all pigeons came from the feral pigeon man change them for his purpose to look at fly long distances back home or eat doves are not pigeons and pigeons are not doves there are sex linked mateings that you can no what sex they are when they get there color buy when older you have to know...
texas pioneers where devloped in the fifties by del james not a old breed first reconized by npa early sixties the reason they where developed a breed that could be sexed at day one fast produceing birds that had uniform size at the start there was just one color now there are...