wild pigeon is a great food to eat. check is the pigeon does not look wet or have yellow spots. If so, it means the pigeon is sick. Don"t eat a sick pigeon.
Since there are laws on how you must handle wild life I suggest that you go to www.pigeoncontrol.com. They give you advice on how to handle pigeon control and let you in on the best devices to better handle the job at hand.
the passenger pigeon
What the using pigeon in black magic
First you have to know to handle pigeons and then you can each pigeon in your loft.
of couse it is safe toeat pigeon. It is not like it is poisionious or any thing. in fact, the main reason the passenger pigeon went extinct is that people saw it as a cheap source of meat.
Only homing pigeons have the homing ability. Wild pigeons are not homing pigeons, as this is a special breed. If a wild pigeon were taken farther than it would normally fly around its nest (to an area it did not recognize) the pigeon would have a VERY slim chance of making it back.
the rock dove.
A homing pigeon is just a variety of rock pigeon. A rock pigeon lives for 3 to 5 years in the wild, but for around 15 years in captivity.
100 miles in a race for a homing pigeon but a wild pigeon that has been tamed is 1,000 miles
is neon safe to handle
If you don't mind potential bites and disease.