ACK!!!! Pigeons!

[seminolewind]

Thanks for all the advice. I guess I will put up another (clean) nest and exchange the eggs with dummy eggs. Right now, they live with the chickens, eat with the chickens, drink with the chickens, the chickens don't seem to bother them.

 

[laughingdog]

sounds like fun new hobby pets, maybe you should get into them. they seem to be into you! lol

 

[deerman]

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Yes homers note the band. first pic , blue check on left , blue bar on the right....squeaker is a blue check

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

The colors start over every 5 years. It also depends on the organization the band comes from. The one with the red band doesn't look too old. If it has an IF band, then it is a 2008 bird.

 

[laughingdog]

making me want diamond doves to hear and watch them... well still wanting and even more now.

 

[Sumatra503]

I raised a couple of homers for a short time. My hen died and the cock paired up with my roller/tumbler cross hen. Their children were amazing flyers, though I never flew them more than a mile.

My Roller/Tumbler cross does backflips instead of actually tumbling or rolling. She'll do one and then fly a ways and then do another. I love watching her fly. She is a magpie with white primary feathers and blue secondaries and the white really looks beautiful in flight because of the placement. She is a komorner cross, hence the magpie. She has a solid head and pearl eyes.

I had a blue bare homer with a crest. He flew nicely for me until the last time when he didn't come back. I see him occasionally, band, crest and all flying with the lacal flock of rock pigeons about a mile from the house. Stupid bird. There's no chance of me catching him with all that space and open air.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Sometimes birds will feel the need to go live somewhere else. Whether they found a feral mate, stopped for a break and decided they liked it there...was stressed out at home and wanted to leave...got lost and never quite made it back...you never know! May not have been the best for a homer anyway, with the crest. I have seen crested homers out of good birds, but most are the result of a mix somewhere close enough in their ancestry to taint the homing ability.

Your mix sounds like a very pretty bird!