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3rd December 2007, 01:53 PM
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found 2 baby pigeons...about 3 days ago i found 2 baby pigeons (i think they are 10- days old, but thats just a guess) and i was wondering how i should take care of them, food wise, every how long should i feed them, and how much.
iv taken care of an older baby pigeon, witch was about the age where you could start to give it just seeds, with him i just made this formula for the first week i had him, i put in it corn grits (flour) and whole wheat flour, i added water and heated it up so it made this mushy stuff, and hand fed him with a syringe. i was doing the same thing with these baby pigeons (gave them every 2-3 hours 5-10 mil's of the food) but i was wondering if i should add more stuff to there food or do something else, iv read in some places that you can add milk to give them calcium, but i had a quite bad experience with milk and my other pigeon, he got at my cereal bowl and drank some of the milk so the rest of the day he had diarrhea. and that they should get vitamins but what should i give them so they get there vitamins? iv bin looking in the internet for info about this topic but cant fined any information, so any real info would help. Last edited by shelory; 3rd December 2007 at 02:09 PM. 
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3rd December 2007, 02:42 PM
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Thank you for rescuing these babies.
PLEASE READ our rersources section in the daily forum, you will find alot of threads about feeding baby pigeons. You can buy the Kaytee baby bird formula and follow instructions on that.They should be fed about every three hours until their crops are round and squishy full, not too full. You don't have to feed thru the night. Milk is a NO-NO, but you can give them a tiny bit of organic plain yogurt and mix with formula fr some added gut bacteria, they will thrive with it. As far as vitamins go, I think the Kaytee has enough until you get them on their seed diet. You can also feed them tiny bits of a good organic dog food, soaked,drained and cut up in tiny bits when they get a little older.
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3rd December 2007, 03:20 PM
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3rd December 2007, 03:28 PM
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At that age, you might just give them puppy chow for a few days. That comes in little pellets that you can break up, dip in water and then feed to them. You might not even have to break them up, for that matter. However, if you feed them somewhat dry, you're going to have to give supplemental water to the tune of 5 to 8% of their weight per day. If the bird weighs 100 grams, then that would be 5 to 8 milliliters of water per day. Do you have a way to weigh them?
Pidgey
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#6
3rd December 2007, 04:16 PM
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i weighed them and they are about 9.5 grams after they where fed.
iv got a pic of one of them. (its taking to long to upload the rest) http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscn0895lq5.jpg i was wondering what they where doing? if they are fighting or just pecking each other to get food, and should i let them continue? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IisuYilQQdI
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#7
3rd December 2007, 04:23 PM
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They're hungry. They won't hurt each other.
Very cute little bugs. 
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Charis If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. Seattle 1736-1866  Another Life, Gone To The Birds!
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3rd December 2007, 04:30 PM
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Well, I'd say from the picture that they're more in the neighborhood of 95 grams but certainly not 9.5 grams--they typically weigh more than that when they hatch. If you have either a styrofoam or paper cup, you can weigh a quantity of water to check the scale and calibration of your scale. 100 milliliters of water will weigh 100 grams. Try that.
Pidgey
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3rd December 2007, 04:36 PM
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Well, I'd keep feeding them as you are and maybe supplement that with just a tiny bit of puppy chow per day. Can you get that stuff in little sample bags? I ask because I finished raising a sparrow a couple of years ago with puppy chow and they had these small bags at the store that were 250 grams at the most.
Pidgey
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3rd December 2007, 04:42 PM
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i was wondering if my housing is ok. i have them in a box to keep them safe because i have 3 cats and 2 of them tryed but failed to "play" with my last pigeon (hes not dead i just released him\her) do you guys think itll keep them warm enough?
http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?i...scn0900tg0.jpg
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