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wrote:
> When I was in my early teens, my uncle raised homing pigeons. When he
> wanted to get a pair to breed, combining such traits as speed and
> endurance, he'd put them in a separately cooped area to um . . . you know.
> Our best results were with old '49 and a red-bar hen. Their kids won a lot.
>
> Sometimes the boy and girl birds in the general population would do what
> boys and girls do and a hen would hatch a chick whose father couldn't be
> determined. Those chicks would be raised to squab size, humanely
> slaughtered and eaten by us. They were tasty!

Didn't you grow up on a farm? Or am I thinking of someone else?

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Dan