What is the ruling on raising pigeons that consume most of their food from people's crops and leftover sheep fodder, while being provided with a small amount of food to prevent them from escaping, with the intention of reducing expenses, and given their resistance to diseases, alongside societal leniency regarding the crops that pigeons eat?
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Keeping pigeons is not free of reprehensibility [karahah], and the ruling may reach the level of prohibition [tahrim] if their harm to crops exceeds what is customary. Imam Ahmad disliked keeping homing pigeons because they eat people's crops.
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