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You can let pigeons that you have trained fly around I havn't had a problem with hawks. Although keepo an eye out and fly your rollers at different times, crows supposodly help and I have heard from some people that dark colored pigeons help as well.
They can be kept with small bantamn chickens although their may be some problems like the young squabs falling out of the nests and getting pecked.
They should be feed a well-balenced diet, I feed the Breeders mix before I used to feed them pellets. Acording to some corn should be added to the mix during the winter, black oil sunflowers are rich in protein and my Birmingham Rollers love them.
The information below is for pigeons in gerneral [mainly Birmingham Rollers], depending upon the breed adjustments might have to be made for fany breeds. I think I spend to much time with my pigeons.
With the housing it should be like chickens, damp and pest free, well venalaited and space to spread their wings and sunlight. However pigeons should have perches the perches that you chickens use might be fine as long as the birds don't get to agressisve however box perches [ box shaped] or V- shaped perchs are suggested.
Also with chickens and pigeons they should be parisite free, with lice I give them a bath using human lice shampoo and some people worm their pigeons.
IF you are going to put a shallow bathing dish in the pigeons pen during the summer change it daily, and make sure no squabs fall in and drown.
Baby Pigeons are called squabs or squeakers [it depend if their going to get eatenin that case to some people their squabs] and should be feed by their parents, it is sometimes rather diffucult to hand raise the squabs because of the special nutrition they get when feed by their parents, Of all the 8 squabs I hand raised only one lived to breeding age. If you do decide to hand feed them if the parents were to die you could use Exact a formula ment for baby birds.
You can let pigeons that you have trained fly around I havn't had a problem with hawks. Although keepo an eye out and fly your rollers at different times, crows supposodly help and I have heard from some people that dark colored pigeons help as well.
They can be kept with small bantamn chickens although their may be some problems like the young squabs falling out of the nests and getting pecked.
They should be feed a well-balenced diet, I feed the Breeders mix before I used to feed them pellets. Acording to some corn should be added to the mix during the winter, black oil sunflowers are rich in protein and my Birmingham Rollers love them.
The information below is for pigeons in gerneral [mainly Birmingham Rollers], depending upon the breed adjustments might have to be made for fany breeds. I think I spend to much time with my pigeons.
With the housing it should be like chickens, damp and pest free, well venalaited and space to spread their wings and sunlight. However pigeons should have perches the perches that you chickens use might be fine as long as the birds don't get to agressisve however box perches [ box shaped] or V- shaped perchs are suggested.
Also with chickens and pigeons they should be parisite free, with lice I give them a bath using human lice shampoo and some people worm their pigeons.
IF you are going to put a shallow bathing dish in the pigeons pen during the summer change it daily, and make sure no squabs fall in and drown.
Baby Pigeons are called squabs or squeakers [it depend if their going to get eatenin that case to some people their squabs] and should be feed by their parents, it is sometimes rather diffucult to hand raise the squabs because of the special nutrition they get when feed by their parents, Of all the 8 squabs I hand raised only one lived to breeding age. If you do decide to hand feed them if the parents were to die you could use Exact a formula ment for baby birds.
