raising a short faced pigeon from hatch?

[biophiliac]

@Serin ok I may or may not try this evening, I put a fake egg in to thier nest and they eyed it but didn't seem interested so I may wait. If I still had my original male Homer FJ, I would hand the baby over to him! He'd brood anything, mate or not! Also up to 4 grams of feed in our tiny body now as we wieghed 10grams post this feeding, I'm sure he could take around a ml more but I don't have the proper hose size for a syringe feeding. Still haven't seen any huge size difference although we are bigger than when hatched and our legs are now pretty proportional, and we show signs of grooming mannerisms post meals. But eyes are mostly still closed and we're about 2 inches long from crop to tail when sitting vs little bigger than penny at hatch. Still don't know if this is normal Figuritas growth or not, in comparison to a homer, but I suspect not.

Don't worry too much if this 'wee one' doesn't reach the expected development stage at a certain time. The hand fed from hatch babies are slower at each step.

 

[tacothechicken]

Wallace was on the nest so I slipped the baby under him. Not sure if he's caught on but Soup seems to know. Not sure if she knows it's a "unrelated" chick though. But she definitely saw it moving under Wallace and is curious. I need to run errands in an HR but gonna watch for now and remove when I leave to try again when I come back unless I see them attempting to feed.

 

[tacothechicken]

Wallace sitting on eggs/baby

 

[tacothechicken]

Soup wanting to kick him off the nest so she can figure out what up

 

[tacothechicken]

She knows I did something... And is highly frustrated Wallace won't move

 

[tacothechicken]

They laid their 2nd egg just last night so I removed it from the nest in case they caught on. So far Wallace is just focusing on keeping the nest warm

 

[tacothechicken]

Woohoo! Wallace fed the baby!!! I may still remove him before I go and place him back this afternoon when I can supervise again

 

[tacothechicken]

 

[Serin]

Told you!

 

[tacothechicken]

Well he tried feeding but either he didn't produced enough or at all he did spit up seeds though so I think non producing.Took baby and fed him, gonna run errands and try again when I'm home in a HR or 2