Pigeon Talk

[biophiliac]

I have a little baby bird in my garden. I first saw it yesterday morning. It is far to small to have fledged. There was its parents and another small bird with it which I thought may have been its sibling. It was bigger and can fly.
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It spent the night under my old quail run and it's been in my strawberry patch and shrubs! I have seen it being fed. It does the little wing flaps like a pigeon squab! I hope it will be OK another day and I think it will be flying properly.

Awww sweetie! Hope he makes it.

I mentioned we had an owl nest across the street. Sadly we found a fledgling dead in the street the day after we saw it leave the nest. Such a pretty bird and it could fly, but I think it might have run into one of many power lines in the area.

 

[CCUK]

Awww sweetie! Hope he makes it.

I mentioned we had an owl nest across the street. Sadly we found a fledgling dead in the street the day after we saw it leave the nest. Such a pretty bird and it could fly, but I think it might have run into one of many power lines in the area.

Oh no. That's really sad. I don't see alot of owls here. Mostly if I do they have been hit by cars.

 

[cavemanrich]

I remember some time ago, when I was sitting watching my chickens eating scratch off the ground. The chickens wondered off some, and a family sparrows flew in for dinner. I watched as parent sparrow would take a seed and husk it, then feed it into waiting juniors beak. It was soo nice and pleasant to watch. The young birds were able to fly at that stage, but the parent still fed them. I assume that the husk was removed by mama bird to make it more easily, digestible for junior and juniorette.

 

[cavemanrich]

Egg laying takes a large toll on the condition of the hen

It most certainly does,,, and that is why we place/switch with plastic eggs into nest to prevent pigeon laying a replacement egg. (when we want to control pigeon breeding)
I am writing this to inform NEW PIGEON KEEPERS to inform why its done.

 

[Hokum Coco]

that is why we place/switch with plastic eggs into nest to prevent pigeon laying a replacement egg.

That works dipping the pigeon eggs in corn oil works as well.

 

[Serin]

I have a little baby bird in my garden. I first saw it yesterday morning. It is far to small to have fledged. There was its parents and another small bird with it which I thought may have been its sibling. It was bigger and can fly.
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It spent the night under my old quail run and it's been in my strawberry patch and shrubs! I have seen it being fed. It does the little wing flaps like a pigeon squab! I hope it will be OK another day and I think it will be flying properly.

That's a little house sparrow, and it's plenty old enough to be out of the nest. They leave very young, once their feathers are in, often before they fly well.

 

[biophiliac]

That's a little house sparrow, and it's plenty old enough to be out of the nest. They leave very young, once their feathers are in, often before they fly well.

How are your canaries doing? Youngsters must be grown by now.

 

[Serin]

They're grown up. I'm socializing them now to trust people. They will sit on my hand for their favorite treats, lettuce and apples. The parents hatched another clutch of 4 last week!

 

[biophiliac]

They're grown up. I'm socializing them now to trust people. They will sit on my hand for their favorite treats, lettuce and apples. The parents hatched another clutch of 4 last week!

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Very nice!

 

[Serin]

Olive is always on their cage because she can see out the front window from there and the little canaries have no fear, since she's been around since they opened their eyes. The little yellow one, Lightning, likes to hang on the top of the cage and will nibble on her toes, and she'll look down and they'll go eye to eye for a second, as if she cannot believe this tiny creature has such nerve!