Pigeon Talk

[avjudge]

I guess he went in through the trap door yesterday and I didn’t notice and locked him in all night, poor guy. At least he was a really polite cat and there’s not a feather out of place. It could’ve been a total massacre.

Cats can be so different one to the other. Some years ago one of my cats, then a young adult, got in amongst the pigeons and though when I found him he was leaving them alone, I also found one female huddled in a corner with a laceration under each wing. But the fact she was still alive (and quickly recovered with antibiotics) makes me think Hogan, a smallish cat without a lot of hunting experience, had decided he had bitten off more than he could chew.

My barn cat, who was sadly murder to small wild birds, would lie on the lawn outside the barn with chickens and pigeons around her and show absolutely zero interest in them.

 

[Amer]

My pigeons are broken. One of them doesn't lay eggs at all, one lays one egg and then broods just the one, and the daughter of the one-egg-layer never goes broody and just lays eggs continuously!

Excuse the blurriness but open the video! All of those eggs except one are from her!

 

[cavemanrich]

the daughter of the one-egg-layer never goes broody and just lays eggs continuously!

That is hard on the pigeons' body. Pigeons are not equal to chicken. Nothing you can do about it,,,, except, don't expect a long lifespan.

 

[Qwerty3159]

New blue bar showed up bright and early after my flock did a loft fly today, trapped inside, flew out again with them later in the day and came back in again tonight.

Really weird band on this guy though, I can see he has a racing chip but there is absolutely no information on it. He is getting on very well with my mostly bachelorette flock so far.

 

[Amer]

New blue bar showed up bright and early after my flock did a loft fly today, trapped inside, flew out again with them later in the day and came back in again tonight.

Really weird band on this guy though, I can see he has a racing chip but there is absolutely no information on it. He is getting on very well with my mostly bachelorette flock so far.

A boy! That will even out the ratio!
Had a tense moment. Gideon the fluffy Baldhead Show Roller was choking like he had something in his throat and it looked like canker symptoms. I looked in his beak and near the back of his mouth almost in his throat there was a lesion or a wadded up white feather, I couldn't tell. There were no feathery parts to it though it was just a white mucusy blob.
I went in to tell my mom and admitted the lesion could be a feather though so we got a q tip to remove it and some trizole pills to give all our birds.
I removed it and yeah. He was choking on a wadded up saliva covered feather. In retrospect it was too white to be a lesion but when you see your bird coughing I guess you assume the worst. I haven't had pigeons too long and I suppose chickens don't really "choke."
It's a good thing it didn't get in his windpipe while I wasted all that time getting supplies.
The birds weren't sick at all but we decided to give them all trizole as a preventative since we had it out anyway.