Pigeon Talk

[biophiliac]

I think they manage! I'll soon see. Kiwi and coco are going in with florrie and Ruby on Saturday. I think there will be a little courting going on!

Please get some photos!

And where are your homers now?

 

[Qwerty3159]

Had the day off today but it poured up until an hour ago.
Anywho the goal for today was to finish putting the cement blocks around the botton edge to keep the thing level and discourage critters from digging under. I did one side in a few minutes with total ease.

Unfortunately when I got to the other two sides everything went wrong. After hacking through a number of roots the width of my arm at grass level I found numerous boulders hidden right under the surface. Since I had to dig all those out anyway to make room for the patio blocks to slide in I decided to just dig a trench along the long side. I'll just make a hardware cloth apron and bury it, I guess. Unfortunately now I have a ton of extra blocks. I'll either just put them along the inside edge like in the photo or if I can't level them I'll just scrap that idea all together and use a wire apron.

So what we learned today was:
If you're going to build a coop on patio blocks, best to put the blocks down BEFORE the frame itself
And don't do anything that requires digging in the rockiest and rootiest area possible.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Seeing his wild relatives fly through the sky I feel sad he will never know that freedom of movement but ultimately he will not miss what he's never known.

I wonder if they sell a prosthetic wing for birds like this sort of a how to train your dragon thing that would allow him to fly. What words does he say? I would love to see a video of the chatterbox

 

[CCUK]

I just spoke to one of the contacts regarding the archangels. Turns out he is an NPA judge and breeder. He specialises with archangels. He is going to bring me a pair to the NPA show at Newark in October!

 

[backyard pigeons]

I just spoke to one of the contacts regarding the archangels. Turns out he is an NPA judge and breeder. He specialises with archangels. He is going to bring me a pair to the NPA show at Newark in October!

Yay! That worked out great! They will be high-quality birds!

 

[Serin]

I wonder if they sell a prosthetic wing for birds like this sort of a how to train your dragon thing that would allow him to fly. What words does he say? I would love to see a video of the chatterbox

He can say "hello", very quiet and not very clear, but he practices all the time. If I tell him "Hello" he gets excited, runs over to my face (leaning toward the cage or wherever he's at), nuzzles my nose and mumbles "hello" back.

There's nothing sold like that. Vets can sometimes make prosthetic legs but nothing is really possible to repair a wing missing so much of the underlying bone and tissue.

He's having a bit of a bad day today because his parakeet kind of divorced him... decided it really wanted to be with those other parakeets it has been hearing, and started picking on the parrot, which incited him to try and bite back... and his bite is way worse so that could be bad. I opened the cage and the budgie went running into the other room with the other budgies. I let him in the big cage, and put Nemo next to them. I think he has lost his friend.. the budgie is totally ignoring him and busy with his own kind.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

He can say "hello", very quiet and not very clear, but he practices all the time. If I tell him "Hello" he gets excited, runs over to my face (leaning toward the cage or wherever he's at), nuzzles my nose and mumbles "hello" back.

There's nothing sold like that. Vets can sometimes make prosthetic legs but nothing is really possible to repair a wing missing so much of the underlying bone and tissue.

I love it when birds talk

 

[Qwerty3159]

Much more progress today.Finished the trench around the remaining two sides and made a hardware cloth apron. Hopefully all those giant roots and rocks work in my favor to further discourage anything from digging in. My back is broke!

I had to stop when it got dark because we're currently under an extreme "Triple E" threat (mosquito borne illness) and I don't want to take chances getting bit. The state has sprayed my area numerous times by plane the last few nights.
I got mostly everything done except the far side which I'm waiting to do until I have to loft butted up against it. I also need to buy another sheet of the plastic for the roof so I can make an overhang. The door needs some better hardware as well.

I also found out there's a vole living under the shed. Fearless little guy, he foraged in the grass just feet from me all day.

 

[CCUK]

Looking good @Qwerty3159
I managed to move the pigeons over today. It took a it more planning than I thought. I still have 5 sat on nests. All on plastic eggs though, so I moved the nest bowl with pigeon in situ, put it in the new nest box then caught its mate and put that in next to them. Took about half an hour all said and done. They seem quite happy now, a bit confused as they now have a good deal more space and the layout is completely different. So far only o epair has stayed on the nest. I have also put the fantails together and they seem OK, only I'm thinking that one of the first ones I got may be a male! There is now fighting but kiwi was being chased around a little bit. I'll see what happens, I may have to get a couple more girls if so!

they will all be staying in for a week or two to hopefully fully settle in before I let them out. Its no biggy though if they don't go back to this loft, I don't have far to go to retrieve them!

 

[backyard pigeons]

Hay everyone! Glad everybody birds are doing good.

This weekend, while driving, guess what I saw... A PURE WHITE fantail! On a wire, with ferals! That thing practically glowed! I wanted to go catch it some might sooooo bad... I yelled, "Dad! There's a fantail!" But. .. It's on the interstate, so too much traffic.

Under the bridge that I caught both ferals, I saw a beautiful grizzled bird there. On the wire. It was pretty. Haven't seen it before. So I am hoping to go, catch it, and return it to its owner if it has one... so in all, while driving on the interstate for about 50 miles, I saw: one grizzle, 1 pure white fantail, 3 almost pure whites (homers?), And two reds. I wonder how many are lost domestic birds. Do any of y'all see much color in your feral flocks?