How old are they now?
Maybe show us a picture?
Maybe show us a picture?
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Recently, i read about a pigeon breeder who was starting to suspect that the 'pebbles' from roof shingles might be poisoning his birds. What was noticed with the pigeons was a purple color on the skin of the breast. Evidently, the birds would probably never be good racers, afterward. We had a house that would shed these pebbles after a rain...looked like birds would love to gobble it as 'grit'.
Just wondering...
Actually, we're hoping for nice quality from the hatchery, especially with the hatchery's 'selection' consultation. We're especially watching the smaller chicks, hoping that the mothers were from more recent selection. It's just easier to find 'complimentary' physical characteristics from "older"(than just hatched) breeding stock from breeders. Not that i know what i'm doing, at all...
1 month old,taken after a cold night in their final home,i hope. They must think that they are gypsy chicks,by this time. It is fun to watch their tails grow in. Not the best photo, but was busy scavenging freebies for the coop, yesterday. Also putting in the corner posts for the run. Coyotes have been checking out the place. I've seen them twice in the last couple of days...just out of range...with their noses sniffing the wind. Birds of prey have been swooping through the farmyard, within twenty feet or so of the coop. Owl was on roof of our house night before last, hoot-hooting. So, i'm very nervous about security. We are going to put electric fence around the run, but the plan for the top is bird netting, like for covering fruit trees. Hubby thinks that i'm obsessing, but i told him that i know what a German Shepherd Dog can do. When i was little, i watched my mom have to go through three attempts to get chicks raised. (We raised GSD's...and they can climb like cats AND weasel their snouts through overlapping wire at the top)
have lost two of my racing pigeons this past week.
Well, i feel like a thread-hog, so this will probably be the last pic for a while, unless i have some dire questions...
Sounds good.
And I am with you about panicking over possible predators. I have lots a number of birds to raptors and to dogs. I gad one great horned owl try to pry the coop door ooen one night, he left big claw marks.
Every night before I go to bed I look out over all of my coops and my barn, and I just stare out the window and listen quietly, and try to look into all of the moving shadows..... It keeps me up some nights.