Everyone Post Your Pigeon Pics!!!!!

[OTTB228]

@OTTB228 your piggys are great!! Of course the 5th one down looks like that kid in school whose mom gave him a bowl cut!!!
How friendly/handleable are they? (If handled daily)
And I gotta say, lovin the fluffy ankles!

They are pretty friendly. The squab are handled daily and the older breeders tolerate being held. I've got a couple that will eat out of my hand but that's about it. They are pretty content to focus on their mate and offspring. I just think they are the most beautiful breed of pigeon. I've got mostly reds in the flock. I only have one blue hen and one yellow hen. I desperately want to add some white and black to the flock!

 

[caesargirl]

They are pretty friendly. The squab are handled daily and the older breeders tolerate being held. I've got a couple that will eat out of my hand but that's about it. They are pretty content to focus on their mate and offspring. I just think they are the most beautiful breed of pigeon. I've got mostly reds in the flock. I only have one blue hen and one yellow hen. I desperately want to add some white and black to the flock!

I'm very new to having pigeons, my first (and only) pair I hatched and are just over a month old. I am completely smitten.
As far as being hardy, which you mentioned, how would frillbacks fare in a cold winter environment? I have a 3 season glassed in front mud room that my pair live in now, but they are ferals. And they spend most of their time in the house.

 

[OTTB228]

I'm very new to having pigeons, my first (and only) pair I hatched and are just over a month old. I am completely smitten.
As far as being hardy, which you mentioned, how would frillbacks fare in a cold winter environment? I have a 3 season glassed in front mud room that my pair live in now, but they are ferals. And they spend most of their time in the house.

Mine have done very well. My frillbacks live in an unheated chicken house. As long as they can cover their feet, they don't usually have any issues. I've had some even try to raise chicks in the dead of winter!

 

[silkiecuddles]

Not particularly. They are really hardy and self reliant. They are also great parents. I really don't have anything negative to say about them except I hate their muffs, which is just a personal thing because I hate all muffs on poultry. Cleaned legged birds are my preference but I love the frillback breed enough that I tolerate it lol

Awesome. I assume they're harder/pricier to get than homers or rollers?

 

[OTTB228]

Awesome. I assume they're harder/pricier to get than homers or rollers?

Not really! I actually got my best 3 birds for $2 each at a Poultry auction. The rest have either been given to me or I've paid between $7-10 each. It seems like a lot of breeders around here have one or two frillbacks just because and then end up realizing they aren't going to do anything with them so they give them to me.

 

[313759]

Sadly my pigeon babies both died. Other crops weren't emptying as they were supposed to and they would roll their head around oddly. I guess I wasn't much cut out for pigeon raising, I've only had bad luck since I got them. Perhaps I should restart with pigeons in a better year.

 

[caesargirl]

Some of my frillbacks

@Debs Flock

 

[Lozuufy]

Sadly my pigeon babies both died. Other crops weren't emptying as they were supposed to and they would roll their head around oddly. I guess I wasn't much cut out for pigeon raising, I've only had bad luck since I got them. Perhaps I should restart with pigeons in a better year.

So sorry! Baby pigeons are extremely hard to raise from an egg, I've had no luck either. They seem to really need crop milk for the first few days maybe to get the right culture from the parents.

 

[Lozuufy]

@OTTB228 those frillbacks are beautiful!

 

[casportpony]

@OTTB228 your piggys are great!! Of course the 5th one down looks like that kid in school whose mom gave him a bowl cut!!!
How friendly/handleable are they? (If handled daily)
And I gotta say, lovin the fluffy ankles!

They sure are cute!

-Kathy