Got my cock bird back--with a funny story

[LamarshFish]

I had a trouble maker cock bird of mine go missing. I had to separate him from the rest of my birds due to some aggressive behavior, probably because he doesn't have a mate. But I was still tossing him with the YBs for training. I did a silly 2 mile toss last Monday, and he never came home. I get a call 5 days later from a farmer 50 miles away telling me a bird with my phone number on his ankle band wouldn't stop flying on his head and arms while he was trying to harvest his pickling cucumbers. It was my missing bird, Frost. Who knows what took him 50 miles away from me over 5 days. The farmer was kind enough to put him in a kennel carrier for me, and COINCIDENTALLY ENOUGH, that farmer was headed 50 miles my way to the farmers' market 3 blocks from my house THE NEXT MORNING, so I got Frost back the next day LOL. He had lost quite a bit of weight, but was very happy to see me.

I isolated him for a few days, but now he's back in the loft and he hasn't caused any trouble yet. Maybe he's just happy to be home lol.

Turns out the farmer's wife is Belgian, and her family had pigeons, and she was so happy to see mine, and their granddaughter loved Frost, so they took my number down and might call me for squeakers to start their own loft lol.

To show my gratitiude, I bought a ton of pickling cucumbers and other vegetables from them that would go in an old recipe my grandmother taught me from the middle east, that I hadn't made in YEARS but have sort been thinking about in the past 6 months, but this incident forced me to do it, so now I have my Frost back, and a two GIANT barrels of my grandma's pickled vegetable recipe I spent that day making.

 

[staceyj]

Wow!
50 miles in 5 days is impressive.

Still waiting for you to post that recipe tho......

 

[KikiLeigh02]

Wow! That's a wonderful story! Your pickled vegetables look amazing!!!

 

[laughingdog]

Awesome!

 

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

Wow... 50 miles, incredible... does show things do happen for a reason

BTW... my mouth is watering just looking at these...

 

[Hokum Coco]

I had a trouble maker cock bird of mine go missing.

He must have went to a feral pigeon bar and got so intoxicated he could not find his way back or too ashamed to come home. It makes you wonder what took place to drive him so far off course. Some lusty hen or maybe an irate mate to the hen?

Happy for you BYC buddy.

Your pickle recipe reminds me of a woman in our community who would never divulge her recipe for her locally famous square. When asked for the recipe she would ALWAYS REPLY "OVER MY DEAD BODY".

In tune with the family's back woods humour

Inscribed on the back of her tombstone the recipe for her squares.

 

[LamarshFish]

Still waiting for you to post that recipe tho......

LOL, can't give out the family's recipe but I will say you could likely figure it out close enough by researching recipes for "torshi".

He must have went to a feral pigeon bar and got so intoxicated he could not find his way back or too ashamed to come home. It makes you wonder what took place to drive him so far off course. Some lusty hen or maybe an irate mate to the hen?

Funny thing about the whole thing is that this is that same cock bird that was causing problems in my loft, I had separated him but was still flying him, then he got lost, and now that he's back in the loft (after a few days quarantine) he has been on good behavior, and it even appears he has been bossed around by a few of the other birds since he's underweight. Serves him right to have a lesson like this, and have fallen down in the ranks!

When I first picked him up I grabbed him out of the carrier the farmer brought him in and he sort of scrambled about frightened, but you should have seen the look on his face the moment he realized it was me, there was no doubt he was absolutely relieved to see me. He stopped scrambling and just stared at my face for a while. Then after quarantining him for a few days, watching his reaction when I reintroduced him to the loft was also absolutely hilarious, he was visibly ECSTATIC.

This is the bird in my profile pic, Frost. Same bird hatched last winter in sub-zero temps, literally egg was brooded and he was raised during a huge cold snap, temps never went above 10 degree F highs, night time well below zero F.

 

[staceyj]

LOL, can't give out the family's recipe but I will say you could likely figure it out close enough by researching recipes for "torshi".



Funny thing about the whole thing is that this is that same cock bird that was causing problems in my loft, I had separated him but was still flying him, then he got lost, and now that he's back in the loft (after a few days quarantine) he has been on good behavior, and it even appears he has been bossed around by a few of the other birds since he's underweight. Serves him right to have a lesson like this, and have fallen down in the ranks!

When I first picked him up I grabbed him out of the carrier the farmer brought him in and he sort of scrambled about frightened, but you should have seen the look on his face the moment he realized it was me, there was no doubt he was absolutely relieved to see me. He stopped scrambling and just stared at my face for a while. Then after quarantining him for a few days, watching his reaction when I reintroduced him to the loft was also absolutely hilarious, he was visibly ECSTATIC.

This is the bird in my profile pic, Frost.

That’s a great ending to your story!

 

[LamarshFish]

Oh, and another funny development post-50 mile detour incident was that I let him out to loft fly last night with some of the other birds, and he usually loves loft flying, but he stomped around for about 5 seconds on the landing board, looked around, then went RIGHT BACK into the loft LOL.

 

[Hokum Coco]

should have seen the look on his face the moment he realized it was me,

I do not doubt it for a moment pigeons have excellent facial recognition skills. I have witnessed this many times.