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I’ll place my guess on Brahma too

Either call them exactly what they are, or shorten it a bit and say “barred rock mixes” or “Easter egger mixes”

I’ve taken pigeons to an exotic vet (no avian vets around here) twice now. They’re good for diagnosing things that I can’t figure out, and, fortunately, I can usually treat the issue on my own once I know what it is.

Thank you for this useful info, I can get the other type of ivermectin, it’s just annoying that I have these bottles around I can’t really use (I started to treat mites with permethrin instead in case of feather lice). For the pigeons, I usually treat worms with Moxi+ (moxidectin +...

I’m treating worms, unfortunately fenbendazole is toxic to pigeons

Hello, I have topical liquid “pour-on” ivermectin, and I was wondering if it could be used orally to treat parasites? I have chickens and pigeons I’m wanting to treat. I have two bottles of topical ivermectin but no injectable or oral.

Pair #1 looks like a pied blue t-check and a blue grizzle, possibly a pied blue grizzle. That could explain the varying amounts of white in the offspring. I believe grizzle is often recessive? So the white flighted babies could be from the less white pied parent. I’m not an expert on pigeon...

What varieties do you have available?

He was a domestic pigeon, which explains why he disappeared. Domestic pigeons can’t escape from predators for long without a flock.

I wouldn’t call getting the testicles removed from inside the body a little cut. Just because birds are very good at hiding pain (they are prey animals, after all), doesn’t mean they don’t feel it.

Yeah, I’ve had rooster flocks of two that worked out fine, it just seems that it’s a bit more likely for problems to happen with smaller flocks if you have two roosters with dominant personalities.

Free flying has many of the same dangers as free ranging, so be prepared to lose pigeons if you decide to go this route. Also, pigeons outfly predators rather than trying to hide from them, so they need a larger flock than free ranging chickens do to have the same level of safety.

Interesting that feral chickens are adapting and living in places outside of their native range. That, by itself, is unnatural, but really shows that chickens can thrive in a variety of conditions, even ones that aren’t identical to their “natural” state.

Roosters generally get more leakage than hens. Plus, pure barred rock roosters have two copies of the barring gene, while your cockerels probably only have one, which already makes them look a lot different.

From what I’ve read, adult male junglefowl can still be found in all-male flocks. And, if what you’re saying is true, there’s no “old men” junglefowl, because they just get killed by younger males once they’re past their prime. Having everything perfectly identical to nature is impossible...

Barring is dominant, and barred rocks are extended black under their barring, which is another gene that’s usually pretty dominant. Barring also hides leakage pretty well.

You said yourself that junglefowl gather in all-male flocks. So I wouldn’t say they’re “as opposite nature as one can get”.

Most people on this site keep female-only flocks, many of them in large runs rather than free range. Would you view that as a female prison? If so, I think it’s unfair to target rooster-only flocks in particular when you’re against same-sex flocks in general. Once, my rooster flock and my mixed...

I’ve had experience with rooster-only flocks of many different sizes, and what I’ve seen a lot is that rooster flocks of only two roosters can result in more fights than larger flocks. This is because, if they both have a dominant personality, they’re just going to keep testing each other and...

It’s very cute! It could be domestic, especially if it’s all alone. Here’s a good article on catching pigeons if you want to try: https://www.pigeonrescue.org/faqs-2/how-to-catch-a-pigeon-or-dove-in-need-of-rescue/.