Tips on pigeon fostering?

Update: DD got another pair of pigeons in hopes they would pair up and hatch/foster the parlor rollers eggs. We shuttled eggs down from Elkton that had been started in an incubator and tucked them under the rollers. They decided to set and hatched one of the eggs. The pair from Paramount seem to be pairing up also. Looks like they just needed a little prompting to get the job done.

What new breeds n pairs did you get?

Are your parlours/parlors/ground rollers: actually etc. tumbler breed/type, that hop jump or fly up a couple feet and flip back down one two or ol school standard of three times quickly? Or are they regular parlour/parlor/ground rollers, that just roll around all around? Or are they parlour/parlor/ground rollers, that roll in straight line? I've had all three, finding the adults need deeper scuffed up nesting dog bowl on each back corner, cage being no more than 20" H otherwise parents seem more apt to try to fly, as the young can and should be flown until they completely ground when mature more or less, and can lay at three months, as young should build up good from free flying muscles that stabilze them when grounded. its just worked for me, and used them all for fosters for four young hatched and raised even. They and performance flying flights have best parenting instincts that have seen (flights have hatched and raised five young), even better than performance rollers and performance homers. performance birds best bet over show bred birds. Performance parlors tend to over feed young, pumping so to speak. and made my performance roller young portly. lol but get them rolling great with performance parlor young. performance flying flights work better to foster racers to to teach skills. n builds and evasion in small number, but mob in flock of more. just my personal and limited winning experience though, but don't compete (just back yard watching them be teases for hawks sad enough to try to take on flock of flying flights, as they swarm like insects). I have one FOR x old standard fantail hen, that excellent foster too (raises three to four young, hatching three though only), but not sure how to rate her.

there is only two types of parlors first are the tumblers that jump up and roll a couple times and land close to where they started the other are rollers they should roll on the ground in a straight line not around these are the only two type any other preformence is bad breeding crossing with flying type rollers or the ground they are rolling on is to tall of grass or to hard they do not need to be rolled on a hard surface grass is the best and is what is used in completion rolling

OR4-hmom said:

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These birds are unable to fly;

Have you considered paratyphoid, or other problems? maybe probiotics (probios used to be cheap..).

Er.. yes, the two competition "breeds", are actually three types, or maybe classes(?)..
parlor rollers should never be left to roll on anything but soft surfaces as carpet. even. they easy can get injuries from rolling head over feet n tail, causing concussion, abrasions, broken wings, etc. breaking blood feathers are bad also. so odd most keep them in wood floored etc hard surfaced cages.

parlors are as proper performance bred bird, supposed to not roll for nothing, and are kept in low cages etc to do this mainly.

parlor rollers-are startled to roll continuously on/along ground (seen judging based on how connects with ground as rolls), on soft low level fields (astro terf etc. as well..), in straight as perfect as possible, lines, for as far as can, all at a time continuously. record being three and something football fields of four maybe (that much level open area apparently hard to come by).

Parlor rollers are raced as well..

General non competition parlors roll all over, on ground also, and are distinct in shape size, etc etc etc.. and are not mixes of flying rollers. I've kept all and very distinct from other rollers. rollers being general name of origin, but many breeds of roller do not, or only roll as good as a tumbler, and/or like a parlor tumbler even. though mixes happen al lot to put more roll etc into competition n non competition performance Birmingham rollers, and to try to put more/some roll back in show only rollers.

Parlor tumblers-that are actually two classes of now for competition.. that are on wood or astroterf etc, were the bottom of feet are marked, and then the bird started to perform either a single, or double, backflip, and are judged mainly on how close they landed to were they started at, on feet, being tight low off ground tumble. Other factors come into play maybe as well,being form/control and tightness of flip.

Regular parlor tumblers just jump/fly up three or four feet and tumble back down.

some bad birm rollers, and cross breeds of birms and parlors in general, also act like that, but again if seen parlors, they are distinctive.