Pair of black Homers

[Kannan1984]

Hi all,

Last week i have brought a pair of pure black homers.
One is pure homer and hen is having leg feathers and eyes are orange like male.

Both are running like anything if i released from my loft.

How do i train them for my place.
Feather were cut off , they can't fly.

[Kal-El]

If you purchased them as old birds, then it will be an ill-advised move to try and settle them at your loft. Old birds will almost certainly not settle, and you risk a big chance of losing them if you try. I'm not saying you can't, but the chances are slim at best.

[Kannan1984]

What should i do now.

Male bird is some what ok now .
Female always moving away and not settle.

Will this be resloved after 3 weeks or some days.?

[Marcs]

Some birds can never be released after rehoming. That's probably why they are clipped. I tried to move my pigeons once. They all stayed but they were oriental rollers and Turkish Tumblers. Known for their ability to get used to new locations. I also had a feral pigeon and after 3 months in my aviary it still took off and never came back. Racing pigeons are bred to allways return home. So they mostly do so, even if kept in an aviary for months before releasing them on a new site.
I do think you will loose both if released and able to fly.

[Grim]

Having there wings clipped is very stressful. It will probably make them more nervous. Why not breed them and train the babies. I do not think clipping is a good idea.

[Trees Gray]

Originally Posted by Grim

Having there wings clipped is very stressful. It will probably make them more nervous. Why not breed them and train the babies. I do not think clipping is a good idea.

I agree 100 percent!

[Kannan1984]

Ok then,

Actully i don't have a plan to release them.
I thought of making them settle and nest my place.
Is that possible?
Will they nest in my place?

[Kannan1984]

I didn't clip their wings.

I just cut off half the wing feathers..
So that it can't fly.

[Grim]

Cutting the wing feathers preventing flight would be clipping the wings. I would recommend letting them grow the flights and keeping them in a loft or coop where they can fly and provide them with a nice dark nest box and nesting bowl. Once they settle in and can find nice privacy they should nest. Stressed scared birds are not going to breed.

[Kal-El]

Just breed 3 or 4 rounds of young and stock the best brother and sister combination out of that pair and sell the prisoner parents.

[conditionfreak]

Your English is not good enough for me to understand exactly what you have and what you have done with them.

If you are saying that they are homing pigeons, then you are not going to be able to re-home them unless a small miracle happens. That is why they are called homing pigeons. They are supposed to go home to where they were born and raised. Unless you got them at about one month of age.

You seem to say that one or both are only part homing pigeon, as you mention the "feathers on the legs" of the hen. If they are only part homer, then you might be able to re-home them to your home.

As far as "clipping" or "cutting" their wings, it is probably not going to help and will just allow ground predators easier ability to kill them.

If you get adult homing pigeons from someone else, you pretty much must keep them captive (prisoners).

I do not understand the "running" word you are using. Do you mean "flying"?

There are occasionally homing pigeons that have feathers on their legs, but it is rare. Additonally, sometimes an adult homer can be re-homed but at the very least, you must have kept it with a mate and they must be on eggs or with babies, for this to have a chance. This is not a good time of year to breed them though. Depending on where you are.

Do they have bands on them and if so, what year were they banded?

Good luck.

[Kannan1984]

Running means its running away from me to the other extreme of my upstair.

I have my loft in my upstair only and its an open place.
Mine is very small loft. I use to feed them by releasing the birds into my open vast area of my upstair.

When i brought a new rollers , it use to came near to me and eat well..

But these fellows( Black pair) were moving to the other end from my end.
and not even eating well.. Always trying to escape ..

Today ther is some improvement..
It ate well and trying to settle down i hope.
Let me wait and see