I only want to keep them in a very small way but am worried that small ways may escalate!!
Eat the eggs and squabs, they soon replenish their numbers.
I have been eating a lot lately and numbers going down. I should give them a chance to restock, but we love eggs in the morning, and organic wild pigeon meat is great. We are eating too much, I need to build a bigger dovecote.
I would love to combine racing pigeons as well, what a grey hobby.
Our great grandparents time, lots of people ate pigeon. There are old dovecotes all over England and Wales.
I don't know why everyone love chickens so much, they are not as good as pigeons in my opinion.
Pigeons look after themselves, they feed themselves and don't need looking after like chickens.
You need about three pigeon eggs for one large chicken egg, but pigeons produce more and for 12 months of the year.
Also the pigeon manure is the best ever nutrition for your soil.
The only problem is your neighbours may not like your pigeons, but there will probably be wild ones and other birds anyway.