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Title: Side line poultry keeping : "two dollars a day from poultry and eggs"
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Warren, Edgar, 1858-
Subjects: Poultry Eggs Production
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : C.C. DePuy
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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re than hens: theylook after themselves. In pigeon raising the most laboriousand unsatisfactory part of the hen business is eliminated: theincubation and care of the young. There is no incubator tomanage, no moisture problem to trouble one, no fussy sit-ting hen to bother with, no brooder to look after. Pigeonsbuild their own nests, hatch their own eggs, rear their ownyoung, and take care of them until they are ready to be sent to 23 market or start in to housekeeping for themselves. If neces-sary, one can leave his pigeons all day, while he attends toother work,, as there are no eggs to gather and the flock maybe automatically fed. A pair of good-working Homer pigeons will rear from sixto eight broods of young ones in the course of a year, and 1have known an unusually good pair to rear eleven broods.Squabs bring from 40 to 60 cents a pair in the Boston markets,according to the season. It is estimated that it costs 10 centsa month to feed a pair of Homers, and the old birds feed their
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Scene in the Pigeon Yard on a July morning—The Building where.250 pigeons are housed cost but S50. It wasoriginally a hen house. own young. Reckoning the price at which squabs may be^sold at the minimum, 40 cents a pair, and the increase eightpair a year, cost of feeding, $1.20, and we have a net profit oftwo dollars from each pair of working Homers. I know a.successful business man who draws $50 a week from his busi-ness for personal expenses. This man engages in pigeonraising as a side line. And he tells me that the money comeseasier from his pigeons than it does from his business. 24 Any house that is adapted to poultry is adapted to pigeons.It is generally safe to allow five square feet of floor space foreach pair, and not put over 25 pairs together in a pen. Be-sides the house space, pigeons need a flying pen, which shouldhe at least twice as large on the ground as the breeding pen.The flying pen should be eight or ten feet high, and should beroofed with poultry wire as well assidelinepoultryk00warr_0

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