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How old do we think this one is? He was found alone and the people grabbed him and gave him to me. Doesn't seem interested in offered food, wondering if he's young enough to still need hand feeding.

I picked up two male homers today to try to re-pair the white female with one and the half homer/half old frill with the other. No luck so far on finding an Old Frill hen. Might just order one from Stromberg's if I have to.

Well, I now have an Old Frill, what I believe is a white homer, and their daughter, apparently. Someone brought them to a bird swap I was at and was trying to sell them for $5 each. When they didn't sell, the guy put them in the end of swap raffle. People were putting tickets in that had no...

I keep a couple breeds. Some came from NY, so not very far. Some from Maryland. I think my Saints came from Texas, but I can't remember for sure now.

All my birds came to me shipped :) Well, all the ones that didn't hatch here, haha.

If you're thinking vent sexing like you can do with waterfowl, it wouldn't work, because pigeons don't have a phallus. They're more like chickens, and those are hard to vent sex. I'm not actually sure what you'd be looking for with pigeons, if you tried to vent them. I go by behavior. Males do...

I feed Blue Seal's pigeon feed, and the birds seem to like it. I've also used another brand from a different feed store when mine was out of Blue Seal, but I can't remember the name now. Right at the moment I'm feeding from a tiny bag of dove seed from Petco, because my feed store didn't have...

They can fly okay, but I'll probably never let them out of the aviary - I'd be worried they couldn't outmaneuver a hawk. They won't be going outdoors until after winter regardless - not building an aviary in the snow, lol! That and I don't really want them to get into temperatures below the...

New guys are settling in well. The Indigo cock has an irritated eye, think he probably poked it during shipping. So as of today I've started doing terramycin ointment. He's not going to be my biggest fan after this, lol. I've decided to name them after saints. Seemed appropriate, haha. So the...

Happy Christmas Eve pigeon people! I got myself a little Christmas gift this year. Two pairs of Saints! A 2021 pair of splash blacks, and a 2020 pair of a red hen and an indigo cock. The cock also carries dilute so he can throw other colors like yellow and dilute indigo, and he can throw blacks...

I know what site that screenshot was from, so I went looking and found the original article: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/pigeon-caught-smuggling-drugs-in-kuwait

The little feral passed :( He just couldn't seem to recover. His crop wouldn't process food and water fast enough for him to get back into shape.

We didn't go, because he's still not doing great and I didn't want to stress him out. His crop is still slow for whatever reason, so he's not getting a lot of food into him. He's also been dehydrated unless I get subcutaneous fluids into him, so I've been doing that. If he turns the corner...

Little guy is hanging in. Much perkier now, although he decided to have a crop slowdown that I was worried was going to be serious. Managed to get things moving again by feeding a lot of water to thin it all out. Sheesh. I've discovered what is almost definitely the cause of his issues. His...

I have a little feral squeaker as of tonight. Someone found it around one this afternoon, contacted my rehabber friend, and she contacted me. First to send me a picture to ask if it was even a pigeon, LOL. They do look a bit weird as babies. The little guy is not great. Very lethargic, and very...

Yes I did, lol. They scare me and I don't need it crawling around in there or on me when I'm doing bird chores, lol. They're HUGE too. Yes, both of them are like that. The parents sure are doing a good job keeping them fed, haha.

Ten days old! Banded them today. In the middle of trying to band the second chick I noticed a HUGE wolf spider lurking on the wall of the loft. So I panicked and tried to band the baby quickly so I could go get something to squish it...and I put the band on 'upside down' from the way I usually...

I have babies! Two babies in Rojo and Amarillo's nest :wee This is the first time I've had the tumblers successfully hatch both eggs in a nest.

Evening all! I am hosting the Other Poultry show for the BYC Summer Fair. Come show off your pigeons! Or geese, or turkeys, or anything that isn't a chicken :)

Got the second egg today and Amarillo is in the nest tonight with them. Chicks in 18 days!