Yeah, pigeons (and doves) make it in their crops while sitting on eggs. It's partially digested seeds and is super digestible for the babies with allot of protein and fat. The babies need it for the first few days or they cannot grow correctly, I've tried raising pigeons from day 1 and had no...
Pigeons produce a dust that keeps their feathers in good condition because they don't have an oil gland like some other birds. She is usually pretty smart although right now she's paired up with another female pigeon and doesn't seem to understand why their eggs never hatch!
Yes I can hold her, although she prefers to think that she owns me and will try to defend my head from my hand. She lived in my room for half a year - bad idea, she was VERY dusty - so she still wants to get back inside sometimes, once when a hawk chased her I found her trying to get into the...
Here are my 2 submissions. The first one is of my pigeon Nutty outside in the snow for the first time and the second is of some welsh harlequin ducklings I hatched this past spring.