Pigeons

[Rowanm77]

Quote:
Ummm...with wire cutters? lol

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I think i might get out of pigeons for the most part this year. I will probably keep what I have, but I may just completely avoid getting any new ones this summer. They don't sell well around here at all!

 

[Nupine]

Sorry, I haven't looked here in a while. Pigeon King is a contract. You have to buy the bird's for $20,000. That is the only catch. Then for 10 years you care for them, and send all the squabs when they are about 6 months old to Pigeon King, well they pick them up at your house. Then they sell those birds to other people. Alot of people in our area do it, particulary Amish. You recieve between $25 and $50 for each squab, depending on what plan you do. They HAVE to be a certain age when you send them, if they are too young they will kill them and you don't get paid. The owner of Pigeon King is a multimillionare, he knows what he is doing. I don't quite understand what the real use of the pigeons are. After 10 years the pigeons go to slaughter and you paid for that too. The pigeons are lots of different colors, ranging from white to mottled. They are great flyers. They have a website, just punch in Pigeon King. Hope this helps.

 

[patandchickens]

Er, just making sure about this, Nupine, since i seem to recall you are a vegetarian...

...you are aware that depending on how you look at it and who you believe, either Pigeon King is a pyramid scheme (scam) or they're in the business of producing MEAT pigeons, that is, squab to be featured on the menu of fancy restaurants and so on?

(edited to expand on this: the company claims they're trying to set up a processing and sales network to sell squab meat, although they have not done so yet. Until then, the only use for the pigeons you breed will be to sell to more people to breed *more* pigeons to sell to *more* new people, etcetera. If the business is semipermanently just the latter arrangement, and the scam nature of thisr is unclear to you, try wikipedia's educational article on "Ponzi scheme" (a.k.a pyramid scheme)

)

For a semi-balanced summary try:
www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html%3Fid%3D524bcac1-4886-44a2-8bfe-092cb8b83ebb+pigeon+king&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=ca
and for a few more relevant comments:
http://betterfarming.com/2007/december/btl.html

Just making sure you know,


Pat

 

[SJMike]

Hey y'all,

I'm late on the uptake of this post.... when I first joined BYC I was a "chicken-guy"... but the city nipped my chicken habit in the bud (for now) & now I'm a "pigeon-guy". I have white racing homers and some fantails. Initially got them 'cause I'd thought of doing wedding releases, but discovered a wonderful hobby in the meantime.

I noticed several folks in here talking about the whole Pigeon King thing... I hope no one here got hurt by that whole thing, it was on the news here a couple of months ago and was very bad press for pigeon-folk. Saw a documentary and some people lost a great deal of money in the process.

Anyway, that's my story.
Mke

 

[NewHopePoultry]

I hope no one got hurt by it either

 

[gumbii]

these guys paired up by themselves, so i don't want to separate them...

and my pair of egyptian swifts... they're sitting on two eggs right now... gorgeous birdies...

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Keep us updated! That mix match pair should really be interesting! You couldn't have gotten a couple of more opposites!lol Nice birds ,all of them.

 

[NewHopePoultry]

Nice birds!

 

[franciscreek]

We have 50 or so Portuguese Tumblers. They are a cute little bird with a great personality and come in almost any color you can think of. They are solid performers, tumbling well and kitting nicely. We also have a few pairs of frillbacks, a large breed that always attracts a lot of attention at the shows.