Help! I found a baby pigeon!

[Jessica Thompson]

so here's the story I was taking care of my birds and I hear squeaking and there's this baby pigeon running around so I had to go through a lot of trouble to get him/her but here we are now he/she is not eating unless I make him/her. he/she likes to be in the shade and has very watery poo my chickens are very interested in him/her I have a few questions like...

1. What should I feed it?
2.how old is it?
3. Should I raise it? or bring it to a rehabilitator?


Anything helps thanks!

 

[casportpony]

so here's the story I was taking care of my birds and I hear squeaking and there's this baby pigeon running around so I had to go through a lot of trouble to get him/her but here we are now he/she is not eating unless I make him/her. he/she likes to be in the shade and has very watery poo my chickens are very interested in him/her I have a few questions like...

1. What should I feed it?
2.how old is it?
3. Should I raise it? or bring it to a rehabilitator?


Anything helps thanks!

Can you post a picture of it?

 

[Jessica Thompson]

Here you go!

 

[omlet the chicken]

Don’t handle it or worry about it two much it will die of stress. It’s probably just a fledgling leaving the nest and it is doing just what nature intends. If you continue to force feed it it will die of stress.

 

[Jessica Thompson]

This is his/her poo

 

[Jessica Thompson]

Don’t handle it or worry about it two much it will die of stress. It’s probably just a fledgling leaving the nest and it is doing just what nature intends. If you continue to force feed it it will die of stress.

The thing is... it's not scared of me or running away that why I'm worried about it that's all

 

[casportpony]

Are the parents nearby? Feel it's crop, if there's food in it's crop the parents are feeding it.

 

[sylviethecochin]

It's either sick or tame. Either way, it probably needs taken care of—If, as @casportpony said, it's definitely abandoned. Any idea of its origin? At that age, you can feed straight scratch—pigeons don't need a high-protein diet as, unlike chickens, they are herbivores. When I was a kid, we had a few, and they got very fat and happy on just corn and oats.

EDT'd because not accurate.

 

[casportpony]

Call a wildlife rescue and see if they will take it, that would probably be best.

 

[Jessica Thompson]

Are the parents nearby? Feel it's crop, if there's food in it's crop the parents are feeding it.

there is some not a lot