My sister found a baby pigeon, need help!

[Henrik Petersson]

My sister just revealed through this Instagram image that she's found a young pigeon, has contacted local authorities, but that we may need to take care of it:




- Any guesses on how old it is?
- What does it eat? I know about crop milk, but is it old enough for us to only feed it solid food?
- Any other general tips on caring for it?

EDIT: Looks now like they're going to put it back where they found it. Will update thread of more info comes along!

 

[eggbert420]

Its best to put it back. They don't taste that good anyway.

 

[Henrik Petersson]

Update: They tried to put it back but it kept almost getting hit by cars, so we're taking care of it anyway! I've looked up ingredients to make fake crop milk on Wikipedia, off to buy that now.

 

[Henrik Petersson]

Last update: My sister managed to reach a taking-care-of-wildlife-person, and it was decided that said person should take care of the pigeon. So the story ended here!

 

[jak2002003]

Nice job helping the pigeon. I think it woudl have got run over by a car if you left it there.

 

[Hokum Coco]

My sister just found a young pigeon,
- Any guesses on how old it is? About 10 days old
- What does it eat?
Here is a link with numerous videos on this subject;

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=squab+hand+feeding

Is it old enough for us to only feed it solid food? Yes. I would supply it with a small container of seeds to let it practice foraging for it's self but continue to hand feed. This is what a good pigeon feed looks like (not available everywhere)



- Any other general tips on caring for it? It is still susceptible to cold try and keep it at least at room temperature and the food is best served warm until it's feathers are nearly all developed.

 

[Henrik Petersson]

An interesting read, even though we won't be taking care of that pigeon!

 

[alleycatt1560]

I have a baby mourning dove that I found 2 weeks ago and it loves cooked rice. you just open up the beak and place it in. It will swallow it. Mines doing great so far! its name is Doughnuts!!