When I go downtown I see these beautiful pigeons with iridescent colors pecking along Wabash, or I used to, maybe they killed them all by now, but they were all different and I thought to myself some day I should like to breed pigeons and see all the different kinds that would come out, some even brown. However, they say they are dirty and what about in winter, in Chicago suburb unincorporated, where do they shelter in the vinter cold?
Also where can I get attack birds that would chase off raccoons, which are ruining the garden every year and are a nuisance ruining the garbage and lying dead in the middle of the road?
But specifically, what do you feed pigeons? Or where do I get pigeon feed? Do they lay their eggs naturally in little nests or do they really have to have one of those messy chichen coops.
I also would like to keep colorful chickens not for eggs but for the different kinds that are all various spectacular breeds, but my neighbors once kept chickens and they were always being killed even though they had their own chicken coop at night by raccoons, foxes, dogs, coyotes, and all the other animals that lurk in the woods waiting for and unguarded moment. The neighbors got some geese and they chased away the other animals so as to keep the chickens safe but then they had to move to Connecticut.
So if I got pigeons and chickens would some geese protect them or just fly away with the other geese. We have millions of geese here that crowd the sky every day and never fly south but foul all the real estate lakes 365 days a year and I wouldn’t want that kind of goose but the ones that stay around, protect your property, don’t get killed, and don’t need any care.I better stop before I start asking about buying a border collie to herd the geese that protect the chickens…