Next week dove season opens in VA. A dove is just a pigeon without the stigmatism people have towards pigeons. The problem with dove is that there is a season for them and outside of that season you can't hunt them. Being a bird on the migratory list they are also really hard to get a nuisance permit for, meaning you really are locked into their season.
While watching a Geoff Lawton video about greening the desert he showed how they were using pigeons to create manure for
compost. I thought, "hey that's great. I wonder if I could do that and eat the pigeons." What makes pigeons really cool is that they'll fly all over the city eating this and that and then return to their home at night. I would only need to provide them with a home and then come up with the initial batch of pigeons, theoretically. Once this is done the pigeons ought to go out daily and eat for free and then come home at night.
Is anyone else doing this already? One concern I definitely see coming up would be "what is the 'this and that' that they are consuming?" That could/would be a concern, but then again I eat the wild dove that spends all year eating the same "this and that". Additionally, we live on very little income and so meat is something we rarely see. I don't know I'd be so opposed to eating a pigeon that has been dining on McDonald's leftovers.