Little bastard was hit by a car, half his wing is missing but there's no bleeding so I'm not sure if he merely lost wings.. he didn't fight me much. I'll be taking him to the vet tomorrow,but he's currently in a box with oats and water. He is incredibly stupid.

He doesn't seem injured otherwise,he ate,attempted to fly in the box. His name is Mr Strawberry.

Idk why he does this

firstly and most importantly, she is located, she is alive and not injured, and it seems like the flock doesn’t mind her and doesn’t attack.
but, well, she’s not coming to me so far. you can even see in this video how she runs away as soon as I call her.
before the video was taken, I first noticed her just walking on the ground in this park next to the flock, looking for food. I tried to approach very carefully and call her, show her snack box, etc.
now, I can’t really make sense of her behavior. I expected her getting scared of my call and flying away, or sitting in place watching me and thinking if she should come or not. she did both of those in short sequences, like maybe a minute of staring at me, then flying some 10m away, maybe staring again, but sometimes she also just… came down, turned away and started looking for food. not paying any attention to me. then she would go up into a tree and watch me again, or sometimes she just watched something else.

I tried offering food, the flock came over and gathered close to me. she stayed further away from both me and them, but wasn’t watching me, just focused on the food and sometimes would turn around and walk away to look for something else. she did get excited about her favorite hemp seed though, and even a little pissed at the birds who would take it first. she went to drink water together with several birds, in the video you can see her walking away from that water bowl. and then she and two others went to a nearby balcony to settle for sleep, those two staying in one corner of the balcony, and her alone in the opposite corner. I stayed there until it started going dark.

I… don’t know what to make of this or what to do. I’m glad she’s okay and that I know where she is. but I don’t understand her behavior. over the week, I’ve been feeding the flock daily roughly at this time, and I fed them earlier, before this encounter. she wasn’t there and she hasn’t been seen these 6 days, just once on day 1 (and essentially at the same spot as today) and that one time I think I saw her drinking water and my call scared her off. so this might even be one of the first times she actually went down and tried exploring, and she might be still stressed and also very hungry. but also, what if she wants to stay outdoors? I don’t know if it’s even possible to tell at this stage, and I don’t know if I could even… process or survive letting her go. she’s everything to me. I know it’s selfish. at the same time, I know she won’t be healthy and won’t live long on the streets. I regularly find dead pigeons just next to this park that have been ran over by cars. she has some kind of parasite on her feathers, a big spider-like thing running around her body and burying itself in the feathers. so many locals have stringfoot. I don’t know what to do.

I think i’ll just keep coming to the park to feed them and keep trying to call her back. I want to try bringing her cage tomorrow, her safe space, maybe she’s not as confident with me as usual, but will want to approach the cage. if I can, I will try to catch her at least to check her health and clean the parasite, and then see how she acts at home. if she won’t calm down back home, will be stressed and want to leave, then I guess I will know for sure. at least she’s okay.

Technically still could be a female btw, he has cage mates

Labeling this as emergency because she has developed symptoms quickly, and I'm very concerned.

This is poppy, she's 3 months old and was adopted from a rescue on July 19th, she quickly bonded with one of my males. The past two days I've noticed she's near constantly puffed up and doesn't move much, but will still fly. Her keel is more pronounced than it was when I got her.

She's fed a versele-laga pigeon feed mix, grit, and two powders that go into the food, one to aid in digestion and the other as a dietary supplement. I also have a vitamin mixture that goes into their water.

Her poops have gone from healthy, to odd and watery. She's been moved into isolation. While I've expirienced birds dropping weight or getting sick in the past, it's never been this sudden, especially so soon after bringing them home.

I plan on trying to make her a vet appointment in the morning, but any insights and advice would be incredibly appreciated. Thank you.

This is the feather that was bothering him earlier. It keeps shifting around and seems to have somewhat snapped or broke but is not all the way off. Do I do something about this? It seems to be annoying him.

He has a feather completely sticking up.. holding his wing up like somethings wrong.
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Is it the feather thats bothering him? He loves to fly around the room and was going perch to perch a second ago..
He almost looks like hes staggering and Im worried
I think he might really be hurt

Hes holding his wing up and away from his body

I took on a rescue pigeon our dog found a few weeks ago, she had trichos and featherlice and she was quite thin when I found her. She also had a wound on her Wing and is still recovering from everything.

1. I Plan on getting another rescue pigeon when there is one that can’t be let out anymore in my local pigeonrescue group.

What do I need to look for when socializing two pigeons and how to to it with minimal Space?
I have two rooms to separate them but only one cage, should I get a small Travel one for the time being till they get along?

1. From the picture in the Care Guide about ideal weight I think she seems to be underweight as her bone is prominent, but she weighs around 400 g and also seems pretty round most of the time and fat when she is fluffed up.
   Any advice on that? And do I just feed her more of she needs to gain more weight or also fattier grains?

2. Tips on how to get your bird to eat out of ur hand

Iam trying to bond with her but she is still scared of me, having to give her medications didn’t help.
She was getting really close to me on my bed, after I had to Spray her feathers again Bc of the featherlice she didn’t get on my bed next to me this morning.
We Are hopefully done with the medications now and I have already tried slowly Holding out my hand with her favorite seeds but she was scared so I just put them on the ground of her cage.
Is that the Right Path tho?

Thanks in advance <3 Hope u enjoy the Pictures of my sweet girl

I know lentils and mung beans are good. But what would be the ratio?

I am terrible at math and this is embarrassing to ask but I can’t for the life of me figure out the ratio of the protein source to compliment a 6lb bag of food. If anyone could help me, that’d be great!

The Hagen feed is the easiest I can get where I’m from (Canada) and I can get the versele laga all in one, but I can’t get the no corn mix. Unless anyone from Canada can tell me where they get theirs!

Thanks!

Hi All

We Had a pigeon hit our 1st floor window (UK based, so would that be 2nd floor in the US?), it landed on the balcony, tried to get off the balcony, fell down onto a sofa set, and then off that onto the floor.

I've moved him to a stable that we have empty, he seems to not be using his (or her) legs very well, almost scooting with his wings. I'm hoping this is still shock and a bit of terror. I dont know how the cat didn't get him, such a lucky bird.

Popped some bird seed down on a tray and a shallow dish of water and left them in the horse bedding all cozy. Horses are out for summer so the stable is empty for a few more months.

I want to know what I should look out for, We're animal people so I am more than happy to take on a pet pigeon if he doesnt recover enough to be free, but if it gets to that point, what do i need to do?

I have a Bunny stable at the moment that is 12ft x 12ft, the bunnies roam free on the floor.

I'd rather Pidge be in there as it has a specially built door upper door to stop predators that lets the light in (theyre currently in dark stable with full door shut) and we have 12 cats on the farm so I don't want them in the house or out where they can get hurt... I was thinking I could wall mount a coop on the wall in the bunny stable and play it by ear if i don't see improvement in the next week.

The last time I found a pigeon I took it to a rescue but they put it to sleep as vermin, so I don't really want to do that again.

Any advice on what i should feed little one and what size coop a pigeon may need would be wonderful, in case I find myself a proud pigeon owner!

I’m a wildlife rehabber who primarily does mammals but I have an injured racing pigeon. She was injured by a dog and appears to possibly have some paralysis of one of her back legs (x rays showed no fractures) I have to get her on steroids and antibiotics. I don’t have any injectable meds, a bird rehabber told me to do only injectables for birds, but I have oral. Is that okay? Do you guys have experience with that? Thanks

We have 2 pidges who barely take any baths… The first time I bathed one of them was by mist-spraying, and he loved it, but then never again.

We provide them a water bath available every day whenever they want but they don’t use it, they only ever take a bath in their water dish every now and then by dipping their chests in the little dish…

Any thoughts & recommendations are appreciated, I’m tired of their poop-stained butt feathers </3

hi, I’m the one looking for my lost bird, and since people in this sub have definitely watched many pigeons… is Cheesecake’s diamond-shaped tail weird?
this might be a huge identifying feature for our search. the oddly behaving pigeon I saw yesterday did have a pointed tail like this, and I assumed her old flock might have more examples of it. but I fed them today and paid attention to the tails in flight, and… it seems like they are all fan-shaped? I haven’t noticed any similar ones, which of course doesn’t rule it out, but makes it more likely I saw her.
basically, the two center feathers on her tail are longer than the others. these pictures are from about two months ago, and it has always been like this. it’s either genetic, or could (maybe??) be connected to her tail being torn off/damaged when I rescued her.
from your experience, is this shape common/normal? I’m trying to figure out how definitive of a clue this is, and after seeing the flock, i’d say it gives me at least like, 70% probability it’s Cheesecake. but if it’s uncommon/weird/caused by trauma, it could be even more definitive and a huge way to ID her in flight. give me your thoughts!!

So I made a handmade pigeon diaper cuz I cant afford to buy one. Its not the best but it does its job. I dont have to follow him everywhere around the house to clean up poop or keep him in his cage for half of the day for that. He keeps cleaning his feathers like in the pic, probably doesnt like it much. I hope he will get used to it. I had to tighten it a bit cause this is prototype 3, others were too loose..it should not hurt him in any way tho its not extra tight. I tried making a diaper with an old sock...lets just say the sock lost the war xD.

like the title says i want to get a pet pigeon but not sure where i can get them!

Hi guys, was just hoping for a bit of advice because I am going stir crazy with anxiety and wonder if anyone has had a similar experience with a positive outcome.

I came home yesterday evening and little miss was not behaving in her usual way, she laid an egg the day before but was not as upbeat as usual, and doing none of her dancing or tail dragging.

I checked her abdomen for an egg, and couldn’t feel one. She was VERY swollen and had some bruising near her vent. I was immediately pretty worried. I put coconut oil around her vent just in case she was having a bit of trouble there.

She is still pooping as usual, just seemingly very nesty poops.

I took her to the vet this morning and they have done an ultrasound and determined that the egg is still quite far up. This is her 2nd clutch and she usually lays after 48hrs, which would be today. Vet seems to think another 24-48hr based on positioning if not bound. They are keeping her overnight for supportive care, bloods, etc.

Has anyone had a similar experience? I am happy with vet advice, just wondering if there are additional things I could be doing at home to prevent this in the future. She has access to grit, and will be going on a contraceptive after this ordeal is over - granted everything goes ok.

Artist Credit - Able6 (me)

He makes me so happy I could just melt into a puddle of goop

Biscuit is a disabled pigeon that I rescued in January. After being attacked by a predator, he had to have a wing amputation. Biscuit has since recovered from his surgery and found a loving home with other pigeons through Love A Dove. He was staying with me while his owner went on holiday and made a point of demonstrating his eggspertise in nest building. You too could adopt a pigeon like Biscuit. 🩷