Domestic Pigeon Food. Domestication involves intensive directional selection for particular phenotypes, followed by stabilizing or purifying selection; The meat is widely described as tasting like dark chicken.

The pigeons can get by with very little nesting material. The frequency of breeding is dictated by the abundance of food available to the parents. The domestic pigeon (columba livia domestica) is a pigeon subspecies that was derived from the rock dove (also called the rock pigeon).