well pigeons got into my blood when i was around ten.myself and a few mates used to go around the old deralic buildings and catch old commons most the time the birds we got were just young still in nests but we hand fed these birds with wheat and corn that we saved with pocket money.sometimes we would catc ha couple older birds and when we caught an old racer with a ring on it's leg we thought it was pure gold hahahaha we played around with these birds for a couple years i think and we managed to find a old man that had racing pigeons that lived a block away from us.we went around and saw him and he saw how keen we were on these birds.we used to clean his loft ect nearly every couple days.just so we could watch the birds.turned out one day he turned up with his ute piled up with timber ect and built us a loft.it wasn't flash but it held our birds.he then agreed to breed us some race birds if we gave him the commons in return wich we agreed.i know now what he done with those old comswe had haha.ever since i havn't looked back,i am now a maried man with 3 childre nof my own and hopefully the ywill continue to breed and fly the birds i love