Is Raising Pigeons Profitable?

Is Raising Pigeons Profitable?

It depends on how you do it.

In general, raising pigeons for meat (or for any other purpose) is not profitable. There are too many ways to make money from pigeons, and none of them produce enough to be worth the risk or trouble to the pigeon raisers.

Pigeons are the most widely kept pet in the world. They have a rich cultural history and have been a source of food, clothing, and entertainment for centuries. Pigeons have also been a convenient source of fertilizer. They have no natural predators and don't require much food or space. There's nothing wrong with them.

But, from an economic perspective, they're all wrong. Raising pigeons is not profitable. The money you make from raising pigeons consists entirely of the value of the food your pigeons give you when you buy it at the market; it has nothing to do with your labor. And that's true even if your labor is cheap: you could raise pigeons even if it cost you nothing, as long as someone else was willing to pay you for what they got out of them when they bought them at the market.

It's probably not worth trying anyway; pigeons are already popular enough that there is little chance you'll be able to find people who will pay you to raise them.

Many people think that raising pigeons is a great investment, and some of them have been successful. But because pigeon keeping is such an unpredictable business, it's hard to know whether you are really making money from it.