Conformity of working livestock
(Internet Published) Oct 2001
When the day comes when every individual kit pigeon has to have it's own
separate form of management, we have created an intolerable task. At present
I have 55 high flying performing tumblers. It is absolutely essential that
they conform and respond to my own system of management.
They must fly as a compact kit. I do not want any free thinkers, bunch
quitters or any specimens that create a problem or require pampering. I
cannot hang about all day pandering to awkward individuals which don't want
to trap.
The slow peckers will become frail and I don't want these either. I allow
that I am not a sentimentalist. My loft is a kit-flying loft. I have no need
for pets. Pigeons make excellent servants, but very bad masters. My pigeons
are there to serve me.
To a degree, I am prepared to serve them also; nevertheless, I am not about
to have a situation where my pigeons make a fool out of me. When a hobby
starts to make a man miserable, then surely its high time that he quit and
tries something else.