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Good, still keep them captive for awhile yet but you probably won't have to raise 3 clutches to home set them. What kind of predators do you have besides raptors. I.e. raccoons, fox, coyote, snakes ,rats.? Usually pigeons are not hit by cars but 2 of mine were bx they found a source of grit in the cracks of the road and got used to the cars stopping to wait for them to move. My pigeons can easily out fly the red tail hawk most common around here. Still 2 were lost to ambush on the ground..so I just checked, turns out Afghans are high flyers.