Domesticating a flock of pigeons thus gives you a good stock with which to train bird dogs. They are easy to plant in the field (just tuck their head under their wing, hold them at arm's length, and spin your arm around a few times like a propeller. Puts em right to sleep). They will lay their till the pooch gets up on them with his nose, then they roust and flush.

Grandad used to put me after hunting squab with a slingshot in the grain barn out at the feedlot when I was young. I never did get one, but did get a lot of practice.