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post #11 of 32
12/8/11 at 3:31pm
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Originally Posted by laughingdog 

its actually good to take in feral pigeons, as all "wild" pigeons mostly u would notice nesting or even letting people moderately close are descendants of ones released, or escaped.  saying not to make pets out of feral pigeons, is like telling someone not to take in a feral cur over buying an expensive designer dog, as they can survive, but not thrive like ferals taken in and just mixed with "pet" pigeons.  many nowadays are from mixes of homers and other types only maybe generations wild.   you can see the domesticated genes as alot hav more than just wild rock dove grey, mixes of barring to checkering, black, white, ect.  i have a mix of two differant types of performers, that there loft was burned out and them abandoned, that i am trying to catch and got a baby from, but though tha parents were banded and very domestic in colors shape and pattern, the baby looks pretty, feral sorta though.


It depends if you want to show or just want them to look at as in order to be shown pigeons have to have a band.

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post #12 of 32
12/8/11 at 4:34pm
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Originally Posted by Lofty Dreams 
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Originally Posted by laughingdog 

its actually good to take in feral pigeons, as all "wild" pigeons mostly u would notice nesting or even letting people moderately close are descendants of ones released, or escaped.  saying not to make pets out of feral pigeons, is like telling someone not to take in a feral cur over buying an expensive designer dog, as they can survive, but not thrive like ferals taken in and just mixed with "pet" pigeons.  many nowadays are from mixes of homers and other types only maybe generations wild.   you can see the domesticated genes as alot hav more than just wild rock dove grey, mixes of barring to checkering, black, white, ect.  i have a mix of two differant types of performers, that there loft was burned out and them abandoned, that i am trying to catch and got a baby from, but though tha parents were banded and very domestic in colors shape and pattern, the baby looks pretty, feral sorta though.


It depends if you want to show or just want them to look at as in order to be shown pigeons have to have a band.


most shows will allow temporary bands for older pigeons. at least, the ones around here.

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post #13 of 32
12/8/11 at 5:09pm
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Im going to tommorw post pics of the Pigeons in  the barn. There is tons of different colored pigeons around .big_smile

This was my 2010 flock :  3 Silkies, 2 Japenease bantams,2 Black sex link hens , 1 Hamburg Hen , 1 White  cochin Hen , 1 Japenease bantam chick ,  1 Red Silkie chick,1 Dark grey Silkie chick,  japxserights   2011  flock : 2 Rabbits  2 polish 3 Silkie chicks 2 d'Uccle  1 is a cross and the other isnt
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This was my 2010 flock :  3 Silkies, 2 Japenease bantams,2 Black sex link hens , 1 Hamburg Hen , 1 White  cochin Hen , 1 Japenease bantam chick ,  1 Red Silkie chick,1 Dark grey Silkie chick,  japxserights   2011  flock : 2 Rabbits  2 polish 3 Silkie chicks 2 d'Uccle  1 is a cross and the other isnt
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post #14 of 32
12/8/11 at 10:22pm

oh i was more ranting as many cities and towns, this one in in also, has a program were they annually poison and/or shoot all the ferals ect (a lot of stray homers and other breeds gone wild, and mixed in the blood),  in town.. if they just cleaned up the slummy crude hole, the pigeons wouldnt be so prevalent (ive seen pigeons eating flies and roaches, so know theyre more than seed eaters).  one year they did the poisoning right before a parade.. it was great!  just not for the pigeons.

assorted bantam mixes..    pigeon types for now: "white dove release" racing homers, flying flights, flying birmingham rollers, parlor rollers, parlor tumblers, "coop tumblers", Chinease owls.

    Looking to talk to others who enjoy our pigeon/dove hobby.  Also looking to talk bantam chickens, especially black bantam true rosecombs i hope to have soon.

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assorted bantam mixes..    pigeon types for now: "white dove release" racing homers, flying flights, flying birmingham rollers, parlor rollers, parlor tumblers, "coop tumblers", Chinease owls.

    Looking to talk to others who enjoy our pigeon/dove hobby.  Also looking to talk bantam chickens, especially black bantam true rosecombs i hope to have soon.

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post #15 of 32
12/9/11 at 9:02am
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Originally Posted by laughingdog 

oh i was more ranting as many cities and towns, this one in in also, has a program were they annually poison and/or shoot all the ferals ect (a lot of stray homers and other breeds gone wild, and mixed in the blood),  in town.. if they just cleaned up the slummy crude hole, the pigeons wouldnt be so prevalent (ive seen pigeons eating flies and roaches, so know theyre more than seed eaters).  one year they did the poisoning right before a parade.. it was great!  just not for the pigeons.


Pigeons are usualy noninsectivourus.


Edited by Lofty Dreams - 12/9/11 at 9:11am
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post #16 of 32
12/9/11 at 1:45pm
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Can Doves and pigeons get Coryza like Quail and Chickens

This was my 2010 flock :  3 Silkies, 2 Japenease bantams,2 Black sex link hens , 1 Hamburg Hen , 1 White  cochin Hen , 1 Japenease bantam chick ,  1 Red Silkie chick,1 Dark grey Silkie chick,  japxserights   2011  flock : 2 Rabbits  2 polish 3 Silkie chicks 2 d'Uccle  1 is a cross and the other isnt
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This was my 2010 flock :  3 Silkies, 2 Japenease bantams,2 Black sex link hens , 1 Hamburg Hen , 1 White  cochin Hen , 1 Japenease bantam chick ,  1 Red Silkie chick,1 Dark grey Silkie chick,  japxserights   2011  flock : 2 Rabbits  2 polish 3 Silkie chicks 2 d'Uccle  1 is a cross and the other isnt
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post #17 of 32
12/9/11 at 9:30pm

my neighbors rollers, left to free fly mostly, used to eat insects, chase mice, and eat a lot of road kill, till the female got hit by a car.  i originally assumed they were eating tiny bugs off the insides of carcasses but they turned out to be eating the meat.    as they were getting chick feed and laying pellets, parakeet food, wild bird seed, and corn, rice tortilla ect    does that inciates that something was till missing from diet for them to be eating animal protiens, esspecially when trying to nest it seemed?    id never noticed pigeons doing any of this before when worked with pigeons in non pet thing, besides bugs, but then even mostly ants ect.


Edited by laughingdog - 12/9/11 at 9:38pm

assorted bantam mixes..    pigeon types for now: "white dove release" racing homers, flying flights, flying birmingham rollers, parlor rollers, parlor tumblers, "coop tumblers", Chinease owls.

    Looking to talk to others who enjoy our pigeon/dove hobby.  Also looking to talk bantam chickens, especially black bantam true rosecombs i hope to have soon.

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assorted bantam mixes..    pigeon types for now: "white dove release" racing homers, flying flights, flying birmingham rollers, parlor rollers, parlor tumblers, "coop tumblers", Chinease owls.

    Looking to talk to others who enjoy our pigeon/dove hobby.  Also looking to talk bantam chickens, especially black bantam true rosecombs i hope to have soon.

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post #18 of 32
12/10/11 at 3:03pm
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Anyone ?

This was my 2010 flock :  3 Silkies, 2 Japenease bantams,2 Black sex link hens , 1 Hamburg Hen , 1 White  cochin Hen , 1 Japenease bantam chick ,  1 Red Silkie chick,1 Dark grey Silkie chick,  japxserights   2011  flock : 2 Rabbits  2 polish 3 Silkie chicks 2 d'Uccle  1 is a cross and the other isnt
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This was my 2010 flock :  3 Silkies, 2 Japenease bantams,2 Black sex link hens , 1 Hamburg Hen , 1 White  cochin Hen , 1 Japenease bantam chick ,  1 Red Silkie chick,1 Dark grey Silkie chick,  japxserights   2011  flock : 2 Rabbits  2 polish 3 Silkie chicks 2 d'Uccle  1 is a cross and the other isnt
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post #19 of 32
12/10/11 at 8:26pm

im not sure, but my pigeons and doves never caught coryza from my small one flock that they were with that had gotten it.  coulda just been lucky, as supposedly pigeons are horribly deadly suseptible to everything other birds get, that may not effect other birds as bad or as fast.    course i assume i was just lucky, as doves die supposedly if u sneeze on them.. lol

assorted bantam mixes..    pigeon types for now: "white dove release" racing homers, flying flights, flying birmingham rollers, parlor rollers, parlor tumblers, "coop tumblers", Chinease owls.

    Looking to talk to others who enjoy our pigeon/dove hobby.  Also looking to talk bantam chickens, especially black bantam true rosecombs i hope to have soon.

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assorted bantam mixes..    pigeon types for now: "white dove release" racing homers, flying flights, flying birmingham rollers, parlor rollers, parlor tumblers, "coop tumblers", Chinease owls.

    Looking to talk to others who enjoy our pigeon/dove hobby.  Also looking to talk bantam chickens, especially black bantam true rosecombs i hope to have soon.

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post #20 of 32
12/16/11 at 5:01pm
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Can  Doves get sick from drafts .

This was my 2010 flock :  3 Silkies, 2 Japenease bantams,2 Black sex link hens , 1 Hamburg Hen , 1 White  cochin Hen , 1 Japenease bantam chick ,  1 Red Silkie chick,1 Dark grey Silkie chick,  japxserights   2011  flock : 2 Rabbits  2 polish 3 Silkie chicks 2 d'Uccle  1 is a cross and the other isnt
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This was my 2010 flock :  3 Silkies, 2 Japenease bantams,2 Black sex link hens , 1 Hamburg Hen , 1 White  cochin Hen , 1 Japenease bantam chick ,  1 Red Silkie chick,1 Dark grey Silkie chick,  japxserights   2011  flock : 2 Rabbits  2 polish 3 Silkie chicks 2 d'Uccle  1 is a cross and the other isnt
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