Pigeon traps

I remember eating squab as a child, how 'cute' the little birds looked on the dinner table, but for some reason Mom stopped preparing them, probably because Dad was able to provide better eating by that time.

I've read that pigeon towers in Europe provide mostly free meat because the pigeons will feed off the neighboring farms.

 

What's PNG?

Interesting. Got pictures?

 

pigeon tower - Bing images

 

GREAT….And with a side order of crickets we can reduce the carbon footprint and that will make the oligarchs happy

 

We've got dove season here. Lotta folks breast them instead of cooking them whole. I imagine dove is similar to pigeon? I know with critters like possum the taste of their meat is dependent on what they been feeding on. So a possum eating trash will taste like trash. Is it is the same with pigeon?

I knew a fellow down in the piedmont that used to eat possum. I've "cooked" one before, but never ate it. There was a mean old possum that used to break into my brooder each night and kill some young biddies. Well I sat out there with my semi-auto .22 one night, and up come this big, fat possum coming into the coop for another meal. I nailed him with the 22 and gutted him. Next morning I took an old stock pot and boiled him up then threw him in the chicken run. Them chickens ain't never ate so good since then!

Nowadays I don't bother cooking possum, I just bury them, or throw them in the woods for coyotes to get. I had an aggressive one on my porch the other day. It was trying to live in my grill. My daughter plays near the grill and the possum would scare her whenever she was out there around dusk, but it would run away when I'd come out. Well, one night I come home and I seen him at the grill again. I tackled that sucker and broke his neck. No more possums scaring my daughter.

Now that second possum story is what I plan to tell any young men that come a-courting for my daughter, less'n I wind up having some more pertinent encounter between now and when she starts dating.

 

I've been to many dove shoots and eaten many a breast from 'breasted' doves, they're delicious. But I'd have to be hungry now to kill one. We feed the birds year around and have a flock that easily exceeds 100. They mate for life.

 

I've never taken any as I just can't fathom plucking, and then cutting off two little silver dollar breasts. I've heard they're absolutely delicious, or as a friend of mine put it who dove hunts, "filet mignon of the sky", but there's so little usable meat on them.

That's quite a flock y'all got!

 

It can be done in seconds, you need only strong thumbs.

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Breast+a+dove

 

Woodcock… fun to hunt but not much to eat.

 

Ah, the tropics. Is that where you're from?

Excellent info on sling shots, wish someone would've taught me this sixty years ago: "The shanghai is not held in a power grip on the handle. You place your thumb on the right fork and grip the left fork with middle joint of your pointer finger. Basically you shoot over your thumb webbing."

 

Lol… my mothers people raised, slaughtered and sold them in their butcher shops… so they hated chickens. Mom never cooked chicken but beef and pork were commonly eaten. Also I never liked lamb so she didn’t bother with it. Mom would have laughed to see me raising chickens but that’s mostly for eggs.

 

I sure wish the black crow could be made to be tasty, as they are found near trash barrels almost everywhere in California.

 

Dad grew up in depression era Appalachia, he says Meadowlarks and Robins are good eating.