Pigeons raised with chickens?

[Gazinga]

I have chooks, my wife has pigeons. I am building a new coop, can i build an area for teh pigeons within the chook coop? Health issues? they would be sepereated but expose to the same area a and sharing shelter, (air , etc.....) Seperated by screens.

Can this be done healthy?

ideas?

 

[Gazinga]

bump

 

[65bellett]

A few years ago when I was still living at home in the country I kept about a dozen homing pigeons in my mums chicken house. I never encountered any problems except that the racers bred at such a rate that it soon became a pigeon loft with a few chickens

 

[Gazinga]

thanx bellett, and welcome to BYC!

 

[Gazinga]

sigh....bump agian

 

[nzpouter]

they share some of the same problems.. lice, mites, cocci, canker, etc...

We use the floor space of each loft for 1 chicken with newly hatch chicks.

 

[lindamass15]

mine are not within eachother but the chiken run are just seperated by chicken wire and on the otherside is the pigeon loft, hadn't have a problem, what I do to the chicken I do to the pigeon like deworming.

 

[Mahonri]

I know a fellow who raised both. He suggested against mixing habitat... pigeons can pick up some diseases (or carry them) that you don't want your chickens to get.

That said, when I feed my chickens scratch, I have to stay outside until I can see they've cleaned it up, otherwise pigeons and doves show up and then I have the same problem.