Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[Sassysouth]

I think they are on the larger side of a bantam???

Are Brahma bantams larger bantams or are they very small? My standard brahmas were enormous.


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[pitbullmomma]

Maybe next time I have someone update the thread name we should change it to "Definitely Not About A Feral Chicken Anymore!" Or "Squatch Watchers Unite!"

How bout "The Completely-Off-Topic,Totally-Random, Not-About-a-Feral-Sasquatch-Chicken Thread"? lol

 

[pitbullmomma]

Maybe next time I have someone update the thread name we should change it to "Definitely Not About A Feral Chicken Anymore!" Or "Squatch Watchers Unite!"

....and I'm so late to the party cuz I didn't see this (so many pages, so little time!) and just posted almost the same thing. Doh!!

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Do you have pigeons?
eta How come the links in your signature line dont work for me?

Someone has them on the property. I sometimes look in on them. And what KikisGirls said

I believe only premium members can post working links in their signature.

They get fed for a long time, like parrots. Just eating machines, you can see them growing! I used to hand feed parrots, every 2 hours!

I'm not sure you can hand feed a pigeon. They don't get for food like a regular bird. Not sure you would know of it needed it or not....hhhhmmm

 

[Parront]

I'm not sure you can hand feed a pigeon. They don't get for food like a regular bird. Not sure you would know of it needed it or not....hhhhmmm

No, I never tried to hand feed a pigeon, the parents feed them. Parrots feed their young, and we can hand feed them with a spoon or a syringe. They eat every 2 hours, and you can tell when they are hungry! You can see the crop fill, to not over-feed.

 

[biophiliac]

Someone has them on the property. I sometimes look in on them. And what KikisGirls said



I'm not sure you can hand feed a pigeon. They don't get for food like a regular bird. Not sure you would know of it needed it or not....hhhhmmm

The problem with hand

No, I never tried to hand feed a pigeon, the parents feed them. Parrots feed their young, and we can hand feed them with a spoon or a syringe. They eat every 2 hours, and you can tell when they are hungry! You can see the crop fill, to not over-feed.

feeding baby pigeons is that the parents produce 'crop milk' the first week or so for which there is really no substitute. It is possible but hand raised squabs are much slower to develop. Only 3 avian species are known to produce crop milk, a special secretion of the cells lining the crop. They are flamingos, penguins and pigeons.

eta Aside from that, orphans will take food readily and you can monitor the crop same as other species.

 

[Parront]

....and I'm so late to the party cuz I didn't see this (so many pages, so little time!) and just posted almost the same thing. Doh!!

We are nice and lax here enforcing the "Read before Replying Rule"! LOL Very nice here!

 

[biophiliac]

We are nice and lax here enforcing the "Read before Replying Rule"! LOL Very nice here!

 

[21hens-incharge]

The problem with hand


feeding baby pigeons is that the parents produce 'crop milk' the first week or so for which there is really no substitute. It is possible but hand raised squabs are much slower to develop. Only 3 avian species are known to produce crop milk, a special secretion of the cells lining the crop. They are flamingos, penguins and pigeons.

eta Aside from that, orphans will take food readily and you can monitor the crop same as other species.

Well there I went and learned something today! I would never have even guessed that.

 

[Parront]

The problem with hand


feeding baby pigeons is that the parents produce 'crop milk' the first week or so for which there is really no substitute. It is possible but hand raised squabs are much slower to develop. Only 3 avian species are known to produce crop milk, a special secretion of the cells lining the crop. They are flamingos, penguins and pigeons.

eta Aside from that, orphans will take food readily and you can monitor the crop same as other species.

I had to hand feed some chicks because the parents were such pets, and hand raised themselves, that they did not feed their babies. That is the problem with a hand-raised pet like Dylan, they think they are human, and don't like the ugly screaming chicks that came out of their beautiful eggs!