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I am reluctant to mess with the wound and risk messing up the healing process/stressing the bird out, so I think I'm going to give her a course of antibiotics in case there is an infection. I've heard doxycycline and amoxicillin are both viable for treating wounds in birds, and I have both—any...

OK, update! I don't think my resident females are completely at fault for the all the blood. I took a closer look at the male and it looks like the source of the blood is actually one of his claws, which I'm guessing got caught in the wire of the cage walls or something while he was scuffling...

Pigeons! Sorry, I forgot to specify. The injured female is already being kept separately, I don't really have anywhere I can put the male who is being picked on, but I will see what I can put together.

I just picked up two new birds from a friend—an injured female, who has a nasty but healing shoulder wound, and a male who is a known trouble maker. Previously, I had two birds in my loft, two females who are paired off with each other, primarily, I had assumed, because of the lack of male...

Hi, I just picked up a young injured pigeon from a friend. The source of the injury is unknown, and I don't have much information on behavior, eating habits, etc. because the friend who gave me the bird keeps a lot of pigeons and doesn't have time to monitor them individually. Poor thing does...

Ah, I may have been a bit unclear about this in my first reply. My loft is pretty small, and currently at capacity with just the four of them, (Irene, Gen, Hector, and Eugenia) so if I was introducing another bird I would have to a. expand the loft, which I really have neither the space nor time...

I'm sad to say that I am a sucker and Quite attached to him. He is an asshole but he is mine. I thought about separating him out from the rest of the crew but I really have nowhere to put him, and I'm reluctant to separate him from his sister, I've heard keeping lone pigeons is a big no. I could...

Last year I bought a bigass bird cage and modified it into a nice loft, and obtained two pretty pigeons from Strombergs which got along well and decided to start a little pigeon family. Fantastic. So they had two little pigeon children and raised them up all nice and dedicated, as you do. I left...

I have a two squabs a little over 4 weeks old, when I let them out this morning to peck around in the garden I noticed one of them had a pretty bad limp, avoiding putting too much weight on one leg, kind of hopping around. Was wondering if I should try to get him to the vet or just monitor it...

No, everything's perfectly normal other than the droppings. The eggs did hatch a few weeks ago though, so she isn't really sitting on the nest anymore. I'm just going to continue monitoring her, I'll take her to the vet if she starts showing other signs of illness.

Momma's still having tummy trouble--any suggestions?

Thanks! About how much grit per day would you recommend?

I've had a mated pair of pigeons since February that just hatched out their first brood about two weeks ago. The babies look great, parents are a little worn down but seem to be holding up, but my female, Irene, has a little bit of diarrhea. She had this once before, right around the time she...

As of a couple of weeks ago, I have (my very first) pair of pigeons settled into their loft and doing well. They're a bit skittish, and as they'll be mostly pets, I've been trying to make friends. I thought I'd make a thread to ask for tips and share my progress. My first question is: how many...

Yeah, it's something like that. I guess I expected their cooing to sound more like the white winged doves we have around these parts. Also, unsurprisingly, I have another question. Sorry, sorry, I'm just super new to this and don't want to mess anything up! Both of my birds are kind of...