Conformity of working livestock

Jack Prescott
(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.

[Internet Published Oct 2001 at http://www.tipplers.com/jack/]