Pigeon Talk

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I thought it had been a bit quiet on here today...

What good news! And what a great picture! Your taller than I thought FMF! Jk
I like the names they look like good pigeons and will hopefully do you proud.
I think I can just about remember your first very brief post! I'm glad you both had a good day and now thanks to you, FMF is a fully fledged pidgy owner!
I haven't heard anything from the guy who's pigeon I released. I'm hoping she has got back OK but he did say there is a possibility she may come back here in a couple of days. We'll see.

The chatter boxes weren't on BYC..

Im a whopping 5'4, well, 5' 3 now..
I am! I am! Im a pidgy owner!

I hope you hear back soon..

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Its a small pen but they will be going out into the coop and aviary in a bit. Dh is finishing up a couple of things on it atm.
But they seem happy..

 

[backyard pigeons]

Its a small pen but they will be going out into the coop and aviary in a bit. Dh is finishing up a couple of things on it atm.
But they seem happy..
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Looks like a good mixture of food!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Looks like a good mixture of food!

WV told me what to get!

 

[biophiliac]

Its a small pen but they will be going out into the coop and aviary in a bit. Dh is finishing up a couple of things on it atm.
But they seem happy..
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They do look happy! Very handsome birds.

 

[Serin]

Well she needs time to habituate to new surroundings. Homers as you well know have different personalities than Olives breed but they appear to me to be great observational learners and do habituate readily to repeated features of their environment. Perhaps if she stayed in her cage most of the time for the first week or so where she can both see and hear what is going on while she becomes accustomed to the sounds, sights, smells and the daily routines of your HH. Thinking of it as an indoor settling cage.
I doubt I've added to what you already know. Patience is key.

Such may be necessary. I just wanted to let her stretch her wings for a bit after spending five days in a little box with her wing taped up. She came out after four hours and went to the cage on her own.

 

[biophiliac]

Such may be necessary. I just wanted to let her stretch her wings for a bit after spending five days in a little box with her wing taped up. She came out after four hours and went to the cage on her own.

You are in the best position to judge. I don't believe there is only one way.

I'm glad to hear every detail!

 

[biophiliac]

Its a small pen but they will be going out into the coop and aviary in a bit. Dh is finishing up a couple of things on it atm.
But they seem happy..
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I just had to like this one again!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I also have a 7 grain s

 

[Serin]

You are in the best position to judge. I don't believe there is only one way.

I'm glad to hear every detail!

I hope I am not boring anyone. You are my only audience who shares an interest in these birds!

Rosie is very different from Olive, but understandably so. Not only is she the product of tens of generations of very different selective process but she has also had a much harder life. Unlike Olive, she has lived through stressful circumstances, known starvation, probably seen predators. She gorges herself in the morning because she does not know if the food will be there later on. She is very suspicious of our cat and of humans. Her tameness now seems to me to be more learned helplessness than trust, as given the chance she runs like a mouse, but once held she goes limp and gives up all fight. She seems to enjoy gentle touch after a while, and calms and fluffs her feathers, but she is wary of the approach of the hand.

Olive's indifference toward Rosie at least makes me feel good that I was not depriving her of a life with other birds. But I am also glad they don't bicker at all. I have a suspicion that Rosie will probably eventually bond with Olive and that Olive will stay bonded to me and we will have a love triangle situation. I have had that before when we got a new budgie as a friend with our single tame one some years back. The new untamed bird bonded to the tame bird and the tame bird tolerated the other budgie but preferred to be with people so wherever we went, he'd go and his little one-bird fan club would follow him.