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I'd really be tempted to place him and his mate in an aviary until he is 100%. You know the old adage: "Only fly birds you can afford to lose." With my rollers I liked to wait until birds were 2 years old before moving them into the breeding loft. One day I was watching a standout bird in a...

New breed to me. Are they a performing breed or only for show?

The name 'runts' is an oxymoron.

Did it enter your loft? I once forgot and a GHO owl entered and killed two birds. My fault - I released the owl. The next night at dusk it was back, pacing on the aviary roof trying to get it.

Pigeons do love to fly. That's why when I could no longer justify flying them I gave them away. I was watching a family of crows yesterday as they were swooping and whirling around chasing one another and vocalizing. To me no question that they were doing it for genuine fun.

Cooper's hawks put me out of business. I lost a few to red tailed hawks - generally young birds that were 'tree sitting'. I did lose a few to peregrine falcons during the fall migration. Has anyone noticed 'hawking' behavior in their flocks? My Birmingham rollers - especially young birds...

Pigeon mantra : "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."

Many keep them in a loft/aviary setup. Aviary must be carefully constructed of hardware cloth as Cooper's hawks will try to attack through the cage.

Giant Runts

A realistic fear.

Almost looks like scar tissue from an old injury.

Welcome to BYC, and good luck with your pigeons. Are they 100 % indoor birds? Outdoors and free flown, fantails are extremely vulnerable to predation from hawks.

Sounds as if it may have had an umbilical infection. Sorry for the loss.

It always amazes me at how resilient and strong squabs can be while other times they give up readily. :idunno

Or egg shell and stuck baby also got stuck to parent and were inadvertently dragged from the nest. Glad that the squab is doing well.

Sadly, in my experience they become stealthier and more successful with practice. I even experienced one female Cooper's who would attack from beneath the flock as they were coming in to the landing platform. She would fly along a couple feet above the ground, flip over, and grab a bird from...

Man, do I know that feeling. If I still had them, I would be putting my pairs together in 5 days.

Hope he didn't open his mouth.

I was not aware of this. Realistically any animal doing what it was bred to do is not cruel in my estimation. Exceptions to this are bull fighting, cock fighting, and dog fighting.

It was still worth a try. :hugs