What are your pigeons for?

[Curtiejlee]

Pigeon eggs taste and look disgusting! I tried cooking ad eating some when my birds were overproducing! Im sure most of it was the fact that the whites stay clear! Do you have chickens? My pigeons cost me about $5-10/month in upkeep... and i have 25! Yes there will be a surplus! Thats when you pick the culls that you butcher and the breeding stock for the next year. My birds just started laying this week... its 10° right now...theyllprobably keep breeding through november!

 

[nayeli]

Pigeon eggs taste and look disgusting! I tried cooking ad eating some when my birds were overproducing! Im sure most of it was the fact that the whites stay clear! Do you have chickens? My pigeons cost me about $5-10/month in upkeep... and i have 25! Yes there will be a surplus! Thats when you pick the culls that you butcher and the breeding stock for the next year. My birds just started laying this week... its 10° right now...theyllprobably keep breeding through november!

It seems to bother a lot of people that the whites stay clear =) I don't have chickens, or any poultry yet. $5-$10? What do you feed them? That seems really cheap!

 

[Curtiejlee]

I feed cracked corn and poultry layer pellts in the winter, and a layer pellet/red wheat mix in the spring and summer. We get the grain in bulk and the pellets $10/bag. One bag lasts a month and a half. The bulk grains are stored in large garbage cans and last about 8-10 months and cost $45each.

 

[nayeli]

How big are the $10 bags?

 

[Curtiejlee]

Im pretty sure theyre 28lbs

 

[rickerra]

Curtiejlee,

What kind/breed of pigeons are you raising?

Where abouts in E.WA are you? I'm outside Spokane by the ID line.

Cheers!

 

[Curtiejlee]

I colony breed fairly random breeds, other than my homers. I have a roller paired to a king, an owl mix paired to a king, a king to a king, a black feral to a king. I have lots of homer x ferals and a couple owl mix x Turkish tumbler. We live right on the Spokane county line closer to Reardan.

 

[Hokum Coco]

We get the grain in bulk and the pellets $10/bag. One bag lasts a month and a half. The bulk grains are stored in large garbage cans and last about 8-10 months and cost $45each.

Just wondering how much grain would I have to buy at one time to be able to take advantage of bulk buying?? Is it delivered??

 

[rickerra]

Last evening I went by our local Big-R store (similar to Tractor Supply Co.) and saw 50# bags of Fancier Pigeon feed (14% protein, etc.)... for $30. That's twice the cost of a similar bag of chicken feed. Guess it's a good thing they're smaller and eat less!

Curtiejlee... do you breed them to sell? Know of any local breeders of utility Kings?

Cheers!

 

[Curtiejlee]

I probably be selling birds in late summer, when the breeding season is highest. The breeder I got my kings from moved to Oklahoma .