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Making Pigeons Pay: A Manual of Practical Information on the Management, Selection, Breeding, Feeding, and Marketing of Pigeons

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I have a library of squab-raising books that includes several versions by Elmer Rice. I enjoy all of them, but Making Pigeons Pay is the CLASSIC.

I recently purchased it with two other great pigeon books by the late Wendell Levi - THE PIGEON, and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIGEON BREEDS.

Yes, in some areas MPP is outdated - the miracle he supposed DDT to be turned out not to be the success envisioned. Yet, most of the other salient points remain as valid today as when the first edition was published in 1946.

If you are interested in squab raising on a commercial scale you will need Making Pigeons Pay (MPP).

If, though, your interest is in raising breeds primarily for show or exhibition buy Encyclopedia of Pigeon Breeds.

If you are interested in exhibition breeds with the ambition to sell breeders, you of course will want to at least buy The Pigeon and Encyclopedia of Pigeon Breeds.

A good more than basic text on commercial squab production by a man who bred more than 20,000 pair of them a year for many decades. A tad dated now in certain spots, but still the best overall, in fact about the only, book on the subject. Includes such things as stock selection, dressing, sales ideas, and more. Wendell Levi was the acknowledged American pigeon expert for most of the 20th century and his material will live on for centuries more.

I wish to buy Making Pigeon Pay. Can you tell me when it will be possible to get it. Thank you. saca@birdlover.com.