Dan Logcher > wrote:
> 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?

I grew up in da Bronx. Gramma's farm on the weekends and summers.

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