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    Feeding Wild Birds

    In New England I’ve always found late July through mid August to be an extremely slow time at the feeder. Dutiful pairs of blackbirds, grackles, blue jays making trips back and forth from the suet feeder now bring their fledglings just once or twice a day. Even the greedy doves that spend a...
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    Pigeon Talk

    He is now a father, 57 days after first appearing here.
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    Feeding Wild Birds

    I’ve been feeding wild birds since I was about 5 years old, just recently invested in some of the feeder cameras. 110% worth it
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    Pigeon Talk

    He is still enjoying his time here! My giant runt/tumbler hen (I’m not sure what to call her at this point) has paired up with one of my bachelorette homers. After well over a year since I lost the male giant runt and she’s been in the homer loft, her flight performance has improved tenfold...
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    Pigeon Talk

    I agree! I did toss out the first set of eggs he produced with one of my hens because I didn’t want them to hatch while I was on vacation, but now that I’m back, I’m eager to breed from him. “Rocket” is settling in nicely. I banded him with my own bands as well, he’s here to stay :)
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    Pigeon friends for a disabled chicken?

    You’re definitely correct. I think a lot of small-time racers have their pigeons’ best interests at heart but when you get in the big leagues and big sums of money for the winner become involved, there is always unethical behavior. The same can be said about practically all animal racing, sadly...
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    Commercial pigeon feed?

    Pellets are okay. I find that they make the droppings looser and messier if they constitute most of the diet though. I will mix pellets into the seed mix whenever I am breeding birds to provide easy nutrition to the babies and feeding parents. I feed Versele Laga or Brown’s brand pigeon feed...
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    Pigeon Talk

    I’m always impressed by the power of a bird’s gizzard to process such foods. Once in a while I will have wood ducks walk up from the water to gorge on acorns in the yard. The girls aren’t letting him leave:
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    Pigeon Talk

    I’m glad he was okay! I still remember a few years ago I had to grab one of my young birds and hold him upside down with his beak open after he swallowed the biggest acorn I’ve ever seen and was stumbling around trying and failing to get it up. That was the only time I’ve had anything like that...
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    Pigeon Talk

    New blue bar showed up bright and early after my flock did a loft fly today, trapped inside, flew out again with them later in the day and came back in again tonight. Really weird band on this guy though, I can see he has a racing chip but there is absolutely no information on it. He is...
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    (More urgent! ) Young Rock Pigeon, skinny not very active!!!

    The canker was mentioned because the pigeon was presenting a lump (pictured in the other thread) that was definitely under the skin and below the beak/nostrils.
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    Pigeon Talk

    I haven’t had so much as a mouse get into this loft since it was built... I guess he went in through the trap door yesterday and I didn’t notice and locked him in all night, poor guy. At least he was a really polite cat and there’s not a feather out of place. It could’ve been a total massacre...
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    Pigeon Talk

    Typo on my end, but still 17 is pretty old. I am still on the hunt for a similarly elderly male pigeon that I can try to pair her up with. Her old mate was just a random young bird that unfortunately got taken by a hawk and she has been a widow since. That’s interesting! I have lost more males...
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    is strombergs legit ?

    Sorry to hear you are having difficulty. I communicated with him through call/text.
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    Pigeon Talk

    My loft maxes out around 10-12 birds so I am typically only adding 1-2 young birds each year to the flock to offset any losses to predators. There’s definitely different schools of thought as far as flying these birds goes, having separate lofts for old and young birds, etc. I’ve been doing...
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