Pigeon Adventures

[Amer]

What is your favorite pigeon color?
Mine are ash red bar

(Not sure I picked Russet’s coloring because I liked the coloring or if I like the coloring because it is the coloring of Russet, probably both, lol. Ginger pigeon.)
and Andalusian Egyptian swifts
https://www.pigeontype.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/otati-pigeons-egyptian-swift.jpg
Red startails!

Black grizzles
Nuremburg Larks
Certain yellow atlas
And possible most of all copper black wing gimple!

 

[Amer]

That said I love a lot of color breeds.
I really love field (basic/slim) pigeon+pretty color
and small+big eyes+moderately small beak+long wings and tail

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

What is your favorite pigeon color?
Mine are ash red bar
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(Not sure I picked Russet’s coloring because I liked the coloring or if I like the coloring because it is the coloring of Russet, probably both, lol. Ginger pigeon.)
and Andalusian Egyptian swifts
https://www.pigeontype.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/otati-pigeons-egyptian-swift.jpg
Red startails!View attachment 3370617
Black grizzles
Nuremburg Larks
Certain yellow atlas
And possible most of all copper black wing gimple!View attachment 3370621

I like mixed colors, like those ferals with grizzling and bronzing all mixed together. Also, almonds! But I love that archangel color too.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Neet Neet is mad at me because I brought him inside to wash off/dry his soggy tail feathers. How can I tell that he’s mad? He’s actually putting effort into his pecking attacks.

I don’t know how he gets so wet, he’s the only one with such a drenched tail. There’s a whole covered section of the aviary where he could stay dry too.

 

[Amer]

Neet Neet is mad at me because I brought him inside to wash off/dry his soggy tail feathers. How can I tell that he’s mad? He’s actually putting effort into his pecking attacks. View attachment 3375404I don’t know how he gets so wet, he’s the only one with such a drenched tail. There’s a whole covered section of the aviary where he could stay dry too.

Biff was upset when I washed him for the show. It was the only way to clean him, though, by then I had just finished their pen so they actually had space for a bath but didn’t put one in because by then it was way too cold to bathe.
Funny though because my chickens who want nothing to do with water don’t try to fight it when I bathe them.
Nice stuffie. It has some real legs.
Neet is built how I picture Russet. Round. The rounder the pigeon, the angrier it is. Which is why baldhead show rollers are in a constant state of rage.

 

[Amer]

Most of the pigeons I see are the typical gray ones (I’ve only actually saw a red one once and that was years ago). XD That pied one I posted is one of the two heavily pieds I've seen, most of the other pied pigeons around here have just a few white feathers.
In big cities, though, there’s so much genetic variation, which means you get all kinds of colors and traits in the ferals.

Also, I will gladly teach you how to differentiate specific gray ones. Here are the three most common patterns:

Blue bar
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Blue check/checker (this is what my fantail mix and Rubber Band are)
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Blue t-checkView attachment 2893074

You got all three basic pigeon eye colors in this post.
Pearl, black (is it called bull if it is a solid-colored bird), orange.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

You got all three basic pigeon eye colors in this post.
Pearl, black (is it called bull if it is a solid-colored bird), orange.

I wish I still had a pigeon with pearl eyes, then I could have all three eye colors in my aviary

 

[Amer]

I wish I still had a pigeon with pearl eyes, then I could have all three eye colors in my aviary

Lol
Collect them all! Comes in three colors!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I treated all my pigeons and my chickens for feather lice (I haven’t seen any, but I’m afraid that they’re the reason for Neet Neet’s scruffy looking shoulder feathers). Most of them were content to sit in the warm permethrin bath and glare at me while I held them still… except the white pigeons. Both of them didn’t stop squirming until I took them out of the bath. Neet Neet was also very dramatic. Since he is very small and has short little legs, his only way to rebel is to stretch his neck out then pull it back in. And, funnily enough, my chickens were even worst than the pigeons— they were acting like I was trying to waterboard them.

In the past I’ve just used the spray bottle for permethrin, but then there were mites left over (after the 2nd treatment) so now I use the bath and if it’s a cold night I bring the pigeons and chickens inside.

Mugshots:

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Neet Neet is mad at me because I brought him inside to wash off/dry his soggy tail feathers. How can I tell that he’s mad? He’s actually putting effort into his pecking attacks. View attachment 3375404I don’t know how he gets so wet, he’s the only one with such a drenched tail. There’s a whole covered section of the aviary where he could stay dry too.

Oh, also, that pigeon stuffie is one of Neet Neet’s “wives”