[jackyinger]

They were also popular as food, and for use of their excrement as agricultural fertilizer. Probably more so than letter delivery.

[ahazred8ta]

My father's family raised pigeons for local restaurants in 1930s California. They were cost-competitive with chicken back before the 1950s-60s chicken breeders shifted the dollars-per-pound growth curve.

[tanseydavid]

Minced-squab (pigeon) with pine-nuts, wrapped in lettuce leaves with plum sauce.

Absolutely delicious when properly prepared.

[Spastche]

one of my tomatoes grew almost 20 feet this year entirely off a little bit of pigeon guano, that stuff is crazy as a fertilizer