yeh you can eat em. I had one breed called Mondain. They're real big birds, about twice the size of a wild pigeon you see around town. They taste like a cross between a chicken and a dove and about the size of a cornish hen.. I raised mine to fly though. I could take the homers off 300-400 miles and they'd be back home before you knew it. I remember one time I let them loose and I lined one up with a spot on my windshield and it was flying at 55 MPH. The Rollers would just fly real high, almost out of sight and make big circles around the house