Help! Found a dove

[LuckyCluckyCA]

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[LuckyCluckyCA]

So the pic with it upside down is it TODAY showing off it's new trick. my friends husband is clicker training it. so it knows play dead. the next pic under it is today too. looking great on the beak.

3rd pic is day 1 - a week ago sunday. 4th pic today. others are mix and match of progress of healing.

vet report said severely underweight, mites, lice, pox, broken wing. Its a very snuggly bird, she said it was in too much pain to argue about being held. anyway we hold it 3x a day and my friend liked it so much over the weekend while they were birdsitting for me they might finish out rehab and likely keep it. the bird has some dark feathers on it's tail.

i dont know breed/ boy/ girl.

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

View attachment 1725521 View attachment 1725520 View attachment 1725516 View attachment 1722037 My mother in law found a dove in her yard. She lives a couple miles from me. She brought it to me. I flipped out because we are in la county and under quarantine.

I put it on a dog crate in an area no where near my birds. It is a very calm dove. One eye is injured. There are crusty barnacle like growths on it’s beak.

It is not having any respitory issues and appears healthy other than the eye.

Is there anyone who can tell me if the stuff on his beak is unusual? I posted a notice on next door in case it’s a pet, otherwise I’ll find a wildlife expert.im not sure what to do with it due to the quarantine.

Thank you!

It’s lookimg much better today _ took bird to vet it’s underweight had mites and live one bone in its wing may be broken but the other is stabilizing it however it’s bruised- vet gave it pain shot and revolution but didn’t tell me male female or what kind it is pics above are from today Sunday and today

and yes, that first pic is of me kissing a bird that was full of lice mites and pox. I was so paranoid about newcastles, bio safety that it lived in the employee bathroom in a dog crate for 3 days. LOL

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

vet said the eye might get better or might not. a POX on the POX>

 

[biophiliac]

So the pic with it upside down is it TODAY showing off it's new trick. my friends husband is clicker training it. so it knows play dead. the next pic under it is today too. looking great on the beak.

3rd pic is day 1 - a week ago sunday. 4th pic today. others are mix and match of progress of healing.

vet report said severely underweight, mites, lice, pox, broken wing. Its a very snuggly bird, she said it was in too much pain to argue about being held. anyway we hold it 3x a day and my friend liked it so much over the weekend while they were birdsitting for me they might finish out rehab and likely keep it. the bird has some dark feathers on it's tail.

i dont know breed/ boy/ girl.

vet said the eye might get better or might not. a POX on the POX>

Great news! Looks like a sweet and happy bird. I did think about pox when I saw your first pics. It should recover from the pox virus in 10 -14 days.

 

[backyard pigeons]

Well when I checked here there was nothing and now today a lot of stuff that was apparently there the whole time. How weird. So here's the scoop.

I kept it in a dog crate in our employee restroom for 3 days until I had a vet appt. Til then I used the eye antibiotic I had on hand (checked w a vet online first) and used the mite spray I had made for my chickens diluted on a wet rag twice a day. the eye drops are tobramycin.

the mite spray is fractionated coconut oil and tea tree oil which she diluted to a safe amount for birds. beak and crusties got dramatically better over the 3 days, eye still looked gross.

Went to the vet appt. It is a wild bird, no band. It had broken wing where 2 bones meet to make a V? you could see VERY large dark bruising there. I had never looked there because - well I'm not a vet and didn't know to look. It had mites and lice. they gave it revolution and a pain shot. yep it had pigeon pox. it looks a LOT better now. the eye is still yuck.

I had to judge a dog show this weekend so my bff (aka peeper mcnugget chicken brooder/ whelper) bird sat. her husband was a president of a local bird club. the bird that we now call Petey the pigeon even though it could be a girl likes him and has learned to play dead for him - click and treat.

I will load up pics from the iphone in the next post. TY somuch for responding. Wild life rescue said they WOULD help before I took the bird to the vet, but after I got vet info, and called them back they never called me back again. probably other 911s to deal with.

Good! Glad it's recovering. Even though it's not banded, that doesn't mean it's a wild bird. many pigeon fanciers don't band their birds, and since it appears to be a high flying breed, it was likely flying and got lost. So please don't release the bird. good job taking it to the vet

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

Can you post a picture of the injured eye?
I can see in one of the pictures it looks like it has very long wings, maybe some kind of high flying breed?

I never pulled out the wings but it did look long when the vet did. I have no clue what kind it is

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

It’s a very friendly bird

 

[BreanneRN]

You should keep him (or her)... I can't believe that is in anyway a wild bird. It acts pretty tame, might be someone's escaped pet, but chances of finding out whose not good, as they can fly a long ways. Anyway, pigeons make good pets, and this one looks very grateful and happy! We raised a Mourning Dove when I was growing up (Mom did most of it) after it blew out of a nest in a windstorm. It loved to eat millet and we used to give it round seeds from a plant called Snow On the Mountain as a special treat. It is easy to grow, being a member of the Spurge family. It really loved those millet sprays they have in the pet stores... We kept it in a bird cage at night, but during the day, it lived in the kitchen, we had a tray on top of the refrigerator, and it also sat a lot in the window on the curtain rod, looking out at the tree it fell out of. Right now, I wouldn't talk about it to any county people, keep a low profile... Our bird was a female, and we had it for 3 or 4 years before it accidentally flew outside, where I believe it survived and led a normal life. I used to see it on the driveway and it would run over to eat the Snow On the Mountain seeds I saved for it.