Help for pigeon with broken/injured wing?

[Hokum Coco]

It has been my experience that pigeons are even more diverse than chickens and are raised for even more reasons than chickens here is one prime example. These birds can not fly and this is what they do.

 

[cutechick2010]

Well, the pigeon is now eating and drinking well! Thanks for your help, I think he may be out of the woods.

 

[laughingdog]

congrats on your new buddy! they can be great pets, especially watching two to six interact and fly together, and that amount can easily be very comfortably kept in a rabbit cage measuring 36 x 30 x 16 standard size metal rabbit rackable cage, at any tractor supply co. or co-op. two to six can be easily fed half a cup of wild bird feed, "parakeet" feed, or layer chicken pellets. im currently using pigeon carb mix pellets, but they seemed to mostly do better on poultry conditioner and layer pellets. yours looks just like my "pidgy" (my avatar), i had, who was a great homer and rolled and dived and other performer abilities. she was mutt bird but not actually just typical feral, whoes babies oddly mostly came out white and rolled and dived greatest of all my birds i had at the time. good luck with it, and hope you find at least another rescue friend for it, as they do so much better in pairs at least to small flock of six, and can become addictive to train to watch fly and return home to you.

 

[cutechick2010]

congrats on your new buddy! they can be great pets, especially watching two to six interact and fly together, and that amount can easily be very comfortably kept in a rabbit cage measuring 36 x 30 x 16 standard size metal rabbit rackable cage, at any tractor supply co. or co-op. two to six can be easily fed half a cup of wild bird feed, "parakeet" feed, or layer chicken pellets. im currently using pigeon carb mix pellets, but they seemed to mostly do better on poultry conditioner and layer pellets. yours looks just like my "pidgy" (my avatar), i had, who was a great homer and rolled and dived and other performer abilities. she was mutt bird but not actually just typical feral, whoes babies oddly mostly came out white and rolled and dived greatest of all my birds i had at the time. good luck with it, and hope you find at least another rescue friend for it, as they do so much better in pairs at least to small flock of six, and can become addictive to train to watch fly and return home to you.

I would like to get my bird a buddy, but I am worried about getting one of the wrong gender? If I wound up with two males or two females, would they fight? I saw a beautiful frilled pigeon at the auction Monday night, but I didn't bid for fear it would be the same gender as mine.

 

[cutechick2010]

I would like to get my bird a buddy, but I am worried about getting one of the wrong gender? If I wound up with two males or two females, would they fight? I saw a beautiful frilled pigeon at the auction Monday night, but I didn't bid for fear it would be the same gender as mine.

Bump for any info? Thanks!

 

[laughingdog]

usually two of same gender do better than one alone, unless one alone for too long then the lone one develops aggression and/or other problems (had a male once that had been kept alone for year and half to two years or so as a bait and training bird for dogs and other things forget before person i got from had, and he was the most aggressive bird ive ever seen, as he woud attack people, any other birds, his reflection, his own feathers and feet, and any and everything that moved.