giant hungarian house pigeons

[CatWhisperer]

I am looking for a quiet bird (s) for a jousepet. I have had canarys,finches,parakeets,cockatiels , orange winged amazon, and the best little pionus ever. We have 15 layers outside. I saw an add for giant Hungarian house pigeons and cant find any info on them other than pictures. Can they be in the house cage birds? Any info would be welcome.

 

[Lozuufy]

Never heard of them before, had to look them up, they look cool! I just have rollers and some mixed breed pigeons. My first few pigeons I kept in my room and they are VERY dusty, their feathers produce a dust to keep them shiny and healthy but it gets on EVERYTHING. Now I keep them outside and have 15 pigeons plus 2 babies that hatched a couple days ago. My first pigeon (named Nutty) I hand raised from 2 weeks old and she will come and land on me when I go in the cage. The rest have gotten used to me but still don't like to be held.
These are my big and small cage, I also have quails in the big cage. The small cage is where a pair is raising the two babies.

The two babies with mama.


Nutty my hand raised pigeon.

 

[CatWhisperer]

Thank you for your reply, it was very helpful. Do you have to do anything in the winter to keep your birds warm enough. Would just 1 pair of pigeons make that much mess indoors?

 

[Lozuufy]

In the winter I just make sure they have shelter from the wind, I also feed extra whole corn kernels because it helps them stay warm. As for messyness some pigeons are dustier than others, but they all can be pretty dusty when they're molting. Some people do keep pigeons inside though and they are fine so it could work, I just happened to have a really dusty one. In my experience white pigeons are extra dusty but could just be the ones I had... Nutty isn't super dusty, it was mostly my second pigeon Buggie who could fill a room with dust just by flying through!

 

[Lozuufy]

Oh yeah, and it got down to -20 degrees F one night last winter and they did fine in the windproof part of the cage.

 

[laughingdog]

Dust depends on breed, line, health, diet, exercise, and bathing/dust rolling/misting.
I've easily kept six to eight inside with no probs (rollers) from dust, course more from dozen to thirty need daily hot water misting, poop scraping (their poop actually creates most of dust as they flap when its dry and sticks to them etc), and a cheap decent air purifier (or fan with floss/wool etc filter on intake side) can stop any and all prob from up to forty in inside aviary. id suggest only six pigeons of rollers, as they've worked best as indoor birds for me. They'll be extremely social and no mess or noise etc compared to hookbills and other dove species and breeds.
i flew my rollers of four or best six to eight rollers, from inside, every week to day, all day at times, from condo, no trouble. lol
you could also fly your hookbills etc same as pigeons and they'll come back as well.. my rescues budgies and tiels etc always had.

 

[laughingdog]

Some breeds, like rollers do crowding great and always mated n raised young, from bottom of floor or wire bare small cage floor on own feather nests, before i started tossing eggs and seperating sexes.. extremely easy n best keepers. gotta looove those homers next best though! then flights. parlors are fourth on list in experience that's just mine.

 

[laughingdog]

Giant homers supposed to be extremely tame quiet etc, but I've yet to get them.
Hungarian house pigeons, and giant runts, are all big meaty show type etc.. "pigeons".. word originally used to describe eating or "squabing"rock dove breeds/species, then homers, as relates to size generally over or eight ounces.
"squabs", are eating pigeons raised to just before start trying to fly, and squeakers just general baby pigeons. so many keep starting out told baby pigeons are aquabs.. that gets to me for no reason. these have been your allotted dose of useless facts. hahaha
have fun and keep us updated, n get pix, we looove them.