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Baby (hatched 4/18) is going to be mostly white with some dark feathers on the top of the head & in the tail. I looked in for a quick check and got this picture of Dad, Mom, and Baby! They were not happy with the home invasion. If all goes well my other pair will hatch one next week.

Dry & uncooked as they come out of the bag (from the dried peas and beans area in your supermarket). If she’s loving chicken feed then that would boost the protein so you don’t need the peas! You want all-flock or similar, not layer feed, since long-term the extra calcium in layer feed would...

I think rather than corn and rice, the thing to add to this would be dry peas or lentils. My memory is that pigeons should have about 14% protein so you want to boost that a little, which peas or lentils will do with their higher protein content (20+%). (Edit to add that the linked seed mix...

There are pigeon & dove seed blends that come in 5 pound bags, one by Brown and one by Kaylee, that are stocked in many Petsmart and Petco stores. The first is also available via Chewy. They are a little low in protein, but you could pick up a bag of dry peas at your local grocery store and add...

Who doesn’t love baby pictures? I tossed my pigeons some peanuts and Dad left the nest to indulge, giving me the perfect opportunity. Probably three days old (but I didn’t check until two days ago)…

I posted a while ago (last fall/early winter?) about losing 2 of my 8 pigeons, one found dead and one to a hawk. A month or so ago I lost another, my favorite female. (Poor Miraboo has now been widowed twice in 6 months, with no one left to pair up with.) So I’m hatching some babies from my two...

I just had a talk with some neighbors, and followed that up with some Googling, and my suspicion is that it was a red-tailed hawk. I saw one this summer about a mile east as I was riding my horse, and the neighbor about a half mile west was telling me just now that she frequently sees them above...

Well, that was fast! I went out to serve breakfast and Binnie was on the perch outside Miraboo’s nest box. Seems like she doesn’t intend to remain single for any time at all. After flying down for food she returned to her own nest box, but an hour later I found her with Miraboo inside his again.

Yes, that sounds like a good idea. It also seems to be the season for it; the only thing until now that seemed like a hawk attack was the day a couple falls ago (I believe it was also October, two or three years ago) when I was sitting at my desk and heard a *thwang* like something hitting a...

Well this is pretty definitive. Across the road from the barn & aviary, in the llama pasture - hard to see in the picture but there are drops of blood here and there all over them. There’s another similar pile a few feet over.

Well my lone pigeon quandary from two weeks ago may have solved itself. I just may have lost another pigeon, male this time. I was away yesterday afternoon and when I came home and closed up the aviary I found my original pigeon, Milou, was not there. I have had my homers stay out overnight —...

Thanks for confirming my thoughts. I did get girls two years ago for my younger males, as they were strutting their stuff and it has in fact seemed to make them happier. But so far this guy seems to have a new lease on life. He is definitely in a different place in his life than the youngsters...

Well, I lost my first pigeon a couple weeks ago. At least, the first one I found dead in the aviary – in her nesting box. (I did lose one of my first “oops“ babies when they went off on their first flight and only one returned.) She was one of a pair I got from the Animal Rescue League outside...

Interesting! I hadn’t noticed that before, but then I don’t see a lot of pigeons besides my own few - we don’t have many ferals here (just a small flock on a local old hydro powerhouse, that I see at speed as I drive across the bridge) and I didn’t pay attention when I lived in metro Boston.

Which is the bronzing? (The blue or the brown or the grizzle effect?) I don’t remember seeing that term before. I love this boy’s colors, and they were such a surprise to me since he was only the third baby I had, and the first two, from a different but similar-looking pair (one white, one...

This is the first one I’ve seen that has the combination of gray and brown that my grizzle has. When I look at web pages on pigeon colors I see gray (blue) and brown (red) variations shown, but this and the pigeon color video someone posted a few days ago are the only ones with both. Here is my...

I get jealous when I see fancy pigeons. I considered getting them as mates for the two boys, but the ATM on the way to pick out the girls didn’t work for me so I barely had enough cash for a couple of plain Jane homers. But Barbara and Checkers, like Binnie before them, turned out to be...

I just posted about my pigeon Barbara's injury, and promised there that I'd finally post pictures of my 4 pairs! I came home one day in June 2017 and as I crossed a bridge on our road there was a white bird sitting on the railing - who definitely didn't belong, and clearly wasn't feeding...

So nice to hear a happy ending for that sort of story! My first pigeon was presumably a release - white, appeared from nowhere one day in June 2017. I was driving home and as I crossed a bridge there was a white bird sitting on the railing who obviously didn’t belong there. He just walked away...

AAARRRGH!!!! I adjusted my Chewy autoship order - lots of cat food - and hit "ship now" today - and only just now that I came back to BYC did I remember that I WAS SUPPOSED TO ADD PIGEON FOOD!!! Grrrr. (I think I still have a couple weeks' worth of food left so will try again next week, &...