What Do I Need To Know About Raising Pigeons

What Do I Need To Know About Raising Pigeons

You don't need to know anything about raising pigeons, but you do need to know about other things. It's useful to be able to recognize the difference between a good thing and a bad thing. But most of the time you won't know what is good and what is bad. Once in a while you will encounter something that seems like a bad thing, but turns out to be a good thing. So in general you should be prepared for the possibility that stepping into an unknown situation with nothing but experience is likely to make it worse.

It's useful to know how to recognize situations where you're headed in the wrong direction fast. If you want to raise pigeons, your first moves are not going to be very good ones, because they will tend to involve fancy-looking equipment and exotic ideas about nutrition and the management of diseases. That's because there is nothing that looks like a pigeon problem out there; so if you have no idea what you're doing, it will seem like pigeon problems are just around the corner.

But at some point you will encounter something that does look like a pigeon problem. You will have no idea what this thing is or whether it is supposed to work or not; and maybe it isn't even called "pigeon problem

What to know about raising pigeons? Well, you need to figure out what kind of pigeon you want. Pigeons breed in a very small number of different ways. To get the most out of your investment, you need to decide whether you want an early-maturing pigeon, a late-maturing pigeon, or a long-maturing pigeon. And then there are differences between male and female pigeons.