Pigeon Talk

[CCUK]

My loft is 6'wide x 5'high x 3'deep. The doors are off to one side so I have the nest areas on one side. Boomer decided to nest on the floor so I had to hastily erect a box for them! My doninat cock has unsurprisingly took the top nest box adjacent to the entry trap. He does chase the others off when they come into land but so long as they get through the wires they are fine. None of mine are overtly dominant so there doesn't tend to be any fighting over food or girls. I'd probably separate your dominant cock if he is preventing the other one from eating. If you can extend one side of the loft it may work better for you.

Forgot to add pics!

 

[biophiliac]

Wonder what’s got him so riled up? Maybe try the new extra space first and see how it goes. Then decide if he still needs separating.

Some of my cockbirds have been such bullies I have grabbed him and put him in a wire dog kennel for the day as a time out. May or may not change behavior but at least the rest get a freakin break from the nonsense.

 

[biophiliac]

Forgot to add pics!
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Great pics! Is that Boomer sitting in the second one, with beau on top?

 

[WVduckchick]

Great pics! Is that Boomer sitting in the second one, with beau on top?

X2! And who’s in the 3rd pic in the bowl?

 

[CCUK]

Great pics! Is that Boomer sitting in the second one, with beau on top?

Beau is on the nest, boomer is the Barred by the feed tray. You can see one of the squidgies in the bowl!

 

[WVduckchick]

Here’s mine. Remember it was for chickens first.
The 2 sections were 8x8x8, so taking the fence in the center down, they now have 8x16’. I saw one fly the full length yesterday.

And my Wyze camera view I mounted in the upper corner.

 

[WVduckchick]

Oh see the 2 in the box on the ground in the last pic? Just below where the white pvc pipe goes under the box? That’s Duff and Breezy. Should I go ahead and move that box, or wait till she lays an egg in it and try to move them at one time? I don’t think the ground is a good idea??

 

[CacklingRanch]

Nice coop loft!

 

[CCUK]

Here’s mine. Remember it was for chickens first.
The 2 sections were 8x8x8, so taking the fence in the center down, they now have 8x16’. I saw one fly the full length yesterday.
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And my Wyze camera view I mounted in the upper corner.
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That looks pretty Awsome! There's not much more to go until they have completely taken the whole barn!
If your not too worried about the eggs in the nest I'd move it. I'd be 50/50 they would follow it. I moved another nest from the floor of my loft and they abandoned it. It only had plastic eggs in so it didn't matter.

 

[backyard pigeons]

I'm thinking that would be my best bet. I'm planning on putting new box perches in anyhow in hopes they'll quell some of the fighting and I want to redo the floor also so that won't be a huge issue.
Does anyone else have a small loft like mine? I'm still unsure if I should let the aggressive cock nest inside the loft and continue beating up the other cock or separate the pair and let them do their thing.

Yes I do. It has ten birds in it... I'm building another though