Can I keep Pigeons with chickens ??

[kandoos]

Can I keep some Domesticated Pigeons with my chicken flock ??

 

[M To The Maxx]

You probably can. The farm right next to me has pigeons and chickens together.

 

[kandoos]

Ok, but the question is , is this ( keeping pigeons withe chickens ) can cause any disease to them, because I want to keep them in the same coop.

 

[dlhunicorn]

Please read the following article which deals with that question of mainly feral pigeons but I have excerpted that which I have seen in other articles which also advise for nonferal pigeons not to be kept in the same bulding and area with chickens
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW117
"....Pigeons have been long associated with disease organisms transmissible to humans and livestock. These include: 13 bacterial diseases including salmonellosis ( Salmonella food poisoning), fowl typhoid, paratyphoid, pasteurellosis , streptococcosis , and tuberculosis ; five fungal diseases including aspergillosis, blastomycosis and histoplasmosis ; six protozoan diseases including toxoplasmosis and coccidiosis; chlamydiosis ; the rickettsial disease Q Fever; eight viral diseases including eastern equine and St. Louis encephalitis, Newcastle disease and fowl pox of poultry; the tapeworms in the genus Taenia, Davainea proglottina, and Railletina tetragona ; four genera of parasitic nematodes of poultry including Tetramares (2 sp.), Capillaria (5 sp.), and Acuaria spiralis ; and 14 parasitic flukes of poultry, livestock, and humans. ..."

 

[Serrin]

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That right there would spell a huge NO for me!!

My father and I kept domestic pigeons years and years ago. We were always on the lookout for disease in our coop. Especially in light of the fact that we let our birds fly free every day. They were always coming into contact with feral birds. I had no idea that they (pigeons) were subject to so many nasty diseases!!

I've toyed with the idea of getting back into pigeons again, kind of as an "in honor" thing of my father who passed away in 2002. Now that I read that, nope! NO WAY!!!

We have a flock of feral birds that lives less than a quarter mile away as the crow flies from our place. I'm starting to think that even they are too close to my girls!!

 

[Bergere]

Hate to tell you this, but chickens have just as many diseases as chickens.

Most of the pigeon breeders I know, vaccinate for everything. I am getting into pigeons too, and they will be vaccinated.

As for tapeworms and so on. All my birds are on a de-worming program. Valbazen will kill tapeworms.