Pigeon Talk

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Oh how sweet! Congratulations!

 

[WVduckchick]

Can you put their parents in with them? So they get fed. I'm sorry your having so much trouble!

I went ahead and fed them a little. It actually felt like they had eaten some on their own too. Crops weren’t totally empty, but still small.

 

[biophiliac]

I went ahead and fed them a little. It actually felt like they had eaten some on their own too. Crops weren’t totally empty, but still small.

Once they get to that age their crops don't take up so much space compared to the rest of the body and its harder to tell if they've eaten. They certainly should be eating by 5 weeks.

 

[CCUK]

Sweet! How long until they fledge?

 

[CCUK]

#41 & #42 are venturing out the nest now. When I put the feed in they are wing slapping and pecking like the rest! It's funny to watch, they are just like a small grumpy child! It looks like boomer and Beau are getting prepared for the next round of eggs! These will be switcherood! Boomer seems to have grown a pair and is standing his ground with the others now. The two nest bandits seem to have settled in to there new accommodation! The male next to them keep trying to assert authoritah but can get around the front do gives in!

 

[h2oratt]

The first canary baby hatched today. He's very dark and will probably look like his father. Mom is being perfect caring for him.
Four more eggs to go.

Congrats!

 

[Serin]

Sweet! How long until they fledge?

Three weeks, and two more hatched this morning.

 

[WVduckchick]

#41 & #42 are venturing out the nest now. When I put the feed in they are wing slapping and pecking like the rest! It's funny to watch, they are just like a small grumpy child! It looks like boomer and Beau are getting prepared for the next round of eggs! These will be switcherood! Boomer seems to have grown a pair and is standing his ground with the others now. The two nest bandits seem to have settled in to there new accommodation! The male next to them keep trying to assert authoritah but can get around the front do gives in!

They sure don't take much time off, do they?

Three weeks, and two more hatched this morning.

How quickly will they do another nest?

 

[Serin]

They sure don't take much time off, do they?



How quickly will they do another nest?

When the first clutch is two to three weeks old, they begin to leave the nest and dad takes over feeding. Mom moves to a new basket and starts clutch two. They do two to three broods, all back to back, a year in the spring time.

 

[Serin]

Olive wore her harness for the first time today, and after some initial confusion as to what it was, she has been just great with it, and no longer is paying attention to it. We went on a short twenty minute outing in the garden, and will work up to longer outings as long as she seems to enjoy them. She was very calm, and sunned herself. I set her on the grass, but she climbed right back up onto the bricks and then to my shoulder for today. She has, I am sure, never stood on grass and apparently found the texture strange!