i currently temp have to keep (about three dozen currently), mine inside my parlor, but then again vacume and clean cages at least once a week, having outside when home and decent, but cannot keep outside currently because of neighbors, some would eat, some would, poision, some steal to sell for drugs prob as suspect some have, and some just threw lit ciggs at or let their kids go after with sticks and throw stones.. im soon to be downsizing if i dont get this or a house for rent quick again, but either way to be downsizing greatly. i used to keep just some few, new, or sick ones inside, and worried about but never had any trouble with them, but did from only one to two pairs of ringneck doves, cockatiels, or courtnix quail (those three, cockatiels being in the cocatoo family, are the worse dust dander allergy and asthma producer ect birds). having a pair of rollers or tumblers especially something as small as they are, such as the smallest sized pigeon breed the pourtuguise tumbler (figuritas are lighter though, so where im sure others will disagree on which is smaller), would not cause this trouble, as unless your immune comprimised already, and have had hundreds inside for years. a pair kept inside and cage cleaned once a day, or two to three during moult at most, certainly wouldnt hurt you, think of all those who live and work around hundreds of huge parrots all day every day for many years. think of all those homeless people who live in derelect buildings and old churches for years that give blood and are tested frequently and never are reported to have health problems from living with feral sickly unkept or cleaned at all after pigeons. two to six (or can live fine in a 40" x 40" x 40" cage or converted tarped small closet or shed. they can be taught to fly only landing on certain places, and fed only at or after evening when they then will come back to cage to roost after eat and then do all pooping after dark as sleep then you can clean all up in morning. they really should only need half cup for half dozen, depending on quality, then adjust from there if want or feel need. homers i noticed as do some others ive had, do seem to produce a lot more dust than my rollers and tumblers do. course sometimes the "dust" given off is a sign of health and vigor in pigeons, and can easily be misted with warm water in warmest part of day to remove unwanted feather dander, or bath lightly. ridding and preventing feather mites and external parasites will go a long way to cut down on dust and allergies also. i never had probs with dusty pigeons inside, until had two pairs of fancy pigeons that had round worms and feather mites, and they were worse than the others combined, and it was like snow or powdered sugar all around their quarintine coop until delt with issues. health plays a large factor, and birds only always kept confined cruelly to cramped filthy cages with bad nutrition will show bad results.
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