Pigeon Talk

[backyard pigeons]

Cage upgrade, twice as tall, with new wooden shelves, and a fleece pet bed instead of a nest bowl - she loves to lay in it during the evening.

Very nice!

 

[biophiliac]

Cage upgrade, twice as tall, with new wooden shelves, and a fleece pet bed instead of a nest bowl - she loves to lay in it during the evening.

Great upgrade! That mini fleece bed is too cute! Since she is so clean in her cage she gets to have nice things?

 

[Serin]

Only the best for her! A double decker house with a comfy bed. I'm using fleece on the cage floor too now so it's all comfy for her. I'm hoping the rough wood shelves help keep her claws worn though. They are actually meant for art projects, but they are the exact dimension of the cage and I was able to rest them on dowel perches to hang them in the cage. She loves them since I found she doesn't like to perch on anything round, as other birds do.

But seriously, other than feathers (so many feathers) she is the cleanest bird I've had indoors because she is so particular about where she does her business. My finches, canaries and parakeets have much smaller messes but they just go wherever when they are let out. At the end of the day Olive is a lot less messy! She's more like a cat than a bird, as far as the type of care she requires. She mostly does her own thing, and comes and goes from the cage as she wants. It's definitely her "loft", and I've attached a wooden ledge to the outside near the top where she can enter through a small door onto the top platform, because she otherwise had a tough time landing on the bigger front door as she's so large.

Oh, the redness in her eye is going down too!

I love this community, everyone is so nice. I know that for the most part my "poultry-keeping" is a bit more... interior than the rest of you but I love seeing what everyone posts about their birds.

 

[backyard pigeons]

Only the best for her! A double decker house with a comfy bed. I'm using fleece on the cage floor too now so it's all comfy for her. I'm hoping the rough wood shelves help keep her claws worn though. They are actually meant for art projects, but they are the exact dimension of the cage and I was able to rest them on dowel perches to hang them in the cage. She loves them since I found she doesn't like to perch on anything round, as other birds do.

But seriously, other than feathers (so many feathers) she is the cleanest bird I've had indoors because she is so particular about where she does her business. My finches, canaries and parakeets have much smaller messes but they just go wherever when they are let out. At the end of the day Olive is a lot less messy! She's more like a cat than a bird, as far as the type of care she requires. She mostly does her own thing, and comes and goes from the cage as she wants. It's definitely her "loft", and I've attached a wooden ledge to the outside near the top where she can enter through a small door onto the top platform, because she otherwise had a tough time landing on the bigger front door as she's so large.

Oh, the redness in her eye is going down too!

I love this community, everyone is so nice. I know that for the most part my "poultry-keeping" is a bit more... interior than the rest of you but I love seeing what everyone posts about their birds.

You really need to stop... Lol. But I want a house pigeon really bad! So just that one time scaring her when she was about to go has trained her?

Good news about the redness!

 

[Serin]

It has kept her from going again on the couches.

I can't say she is house trained like a cat or a dog would be because there are definitely little spots to pick up with a tissue especially on the porch. But for a bird, she's great and way more tidy than my budgies, canaries or finches even though she's ten times the size. The messes I do find off the newspaper are tiny and pretty solid and they are never on the furniture. The occasional big "splashes" are 100% on the newspapers, and she doesn't want those in her cage either. If her cage is open, she will not soil it, she'll jump up through the levels to the door in the upper right corner and fly to the door above the newspapers.

She is tidy enough that she can free roam the front room, my bedroom and the front porch for ten hours a day and all the mess she makes takes less than a minute to pick up. But I am picking up feathers every time I get up. But those really don't hurt anything! Dogs shed too, and hair is a lot harder to remove from things.

 

[cavemanrich]

Olive started molting, from the increased indoor day length I'm sure - I guess I figured pigeons molt a few feathers all the time like parakeets but clearly that is not the case because she is dropping enough every day to make a new pigeon. How long does the molt period last?

Can I suggest you make a (small) pillow with those feathers,,

 

[backyard pigeons]

It has kept her from going again on the couches.

I can't say she is house trained like a cat or a dog would be because there are definitely little spots to pick up with a tissue especially on the porch. But for a bird, she's great and way more tidy than my budgies, canaries or finches even though she's ten times the size. The messes I do find off the newspaper are tiny and pretty solid and they are never on the furniture. The occasional big "splashes" are 100% on the newspapers, and she doesn't want those in her cage either. If her cage is open, she will not soil it, she'll jump up through the levels to the door in the upper right corner and fly to the door above the newspapers.

She is tidy enough that she can free roam the front room, my bedroom and the front porch for ten hours a day and all the mess she makes takes less than a minute to pick up. But I am picking up feathers every time I get up. But those really don't hurt anything! Dogs shed too, and hair is a lot harder to remove from things.

Ok. someday I will get a indoor pigeon! Or two

 

[CCUK]

I'm enjoying having two indoor chickens but they will be going out soon. We let millie in the garden most of the day so she is fairly clean inside. Speckle does a poo once a day or every other day and it stinks being broody! I had two remove two 'maraucuana' eggs yesterday as they weren't fertile. She still has 4 araucana eggs though that look good! 1 week today! Boomer and Beau's eggs have about another 10 days!

 

[cavemanrich]

I just answered to this thread short time ago. Maybe info there can be beneficial to your indoor chicken situation.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/electric-air-purifier.1294182/

 

[CCUK]

Or you could take out shares in this!!