Need help with malpositioned pigeon chick!!

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick yer no help!
Thay are GORGEOUS! and so many different colors!
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Right??!?!
With your big bay door, I could easily see you with a loft inside the dome for them!
I’ve also considered doves. Almost got some when I got my parakeets.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Right??!?!
With your big bay door, I could easily see you with a loft inside the dome for them!
I’ve also considered doves. Almost got some when I got my parakeets.

True that!
Dh says birds are just to care free with their poop..
Doves are beautiful too... omg.. you gotta stop!

 

[LauraMunro]

@WVduckchick haha of course not
Im glad you all want pigeons now lol!

 

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick haha of course not
Im glad you all want pigeons now lol!

Oh my goodness. I’m searching craigslist around me and there are some beautiful ones available. My hubby would kill me.
Actually he wouldn’t, but I seriously have too many chickens now as it is.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

@WVduckchick haha of course not
Im glad you all want pigeons now lol!

You're as bad of an enabler as the restof us...

Oh my goodness. I’m searching craigslist around me and there are some beautiful ones available. My hubby would kill me.
Actually he wouldn’t, but I seriously have too many chickens now as it is.

But, but.. you NEEEED some!

bite yer tounge There's no such thing as too many chickens..

 

[LauraMunro]

@Fields Mountain Farm haha true! You are all making me want chickens lol! Just need to get my back garden done up and that will be me

@WVduckchick lol how many chickens do you have ?

 

[CCUK]

Chickens and pigeons compliment each other perfectly! And pigeons don't need a great amount of space, their run is in the sky!

 

[WVduckchick]

@Fields Mountain Farm haha true! You are all making me want chickens lol! Just need to get my back garden done up and that will be me

@WVduckchick lol how many chickens do you have ?

Oh dear, I did a semi-count a while back, I’m probably at a little over 100. My girls have been very broody this year. I try to limit them to 3-6 chicks each, but multiplied by 20 or more hens/pullets.... well.....

 

[biophiliac]

I know ha! Yes he has had a good feed, his wee crop is nicely full and hes sleeping away hes doing really well, putting on weight each day and very lively, i think he'll be a wee crazy one as he gets older lol!! I want to name him but need to wait until i can tell if hes male or female, even though i keep calling him a he haha!

I hope you will choose a name sooner - it's hard to be sure of gender when they are young.

So, could you build a small loft, like four by four, if you only wanted to keep a couple pairs?

Because now I want a couple pairs, lol.

In theory you could do this, its just that a couple of pairs can become 16 birds in the blink of an eye. Pigeon math proceedes on a whole other level vs chickens. Every pigeon hen is a broody and all the cockbirds share incubating duties.

My loft didn't take much to build. It was well worth it. The feeling you get when you first let them out and they return is priceless!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/pigeon-loft-build.74119/

What a great article! Boomer is such an incredible bird she pushed you up that 'learning curve' in record time! Your thread shows how its done.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/uk-pigeon-owners.1244157/

 

[LauraMunro]

@WVduckchick holy moly that is alot lol! Sounds amazing!

@biophiliac yeah i suppose i should! Im so picky with names lol will have a good think tonight