Found a pigeon and 2 eggs..please help

[BirdDogg10]

Wow, you're pretty bold last time I tried to pick up a baby from one under one of my friend's birds I got greeted by a watch dog with feathers.

[maryjane]

Thank you for taking the time to watch over these pigeons and their eggs. It is very kind of you. They do nest in some unusual--and inconvenient!!--places sometimes.

They should be hatching any day now. It usually takes them about three weeks (give or take a few days) to learn to fly and start eating on their own.

If you truly can't wait that long, you might be able to find a member on here who will take them and raise them. We would need to know your general location to see if anyone is nearby you.

It's always best for their parents to do so, but they would have a better chance being hand-raised than being up on the roof, just because I don't think the parents would find them up there. Pigeons are like us humans about real estate....location, location, location.

When they do lay new eggs, you don't have to feel badly about killing the baby; when the first egg is laid it doesn't begin to develop until it has been incubated for a bit. So the first 24 hours or so (someone will correct me if I'm wrong on that time frame) is a guilt-free time to take the egg. Same with the second one.

The worst the pigeon will do to you if you check for eggs is to slap you with its wing, or possibly swipe at you with it's head. Their beaks aren't very sharp. If you have a pair of simple gardening gloves, that should be more than enough protection.

As for the babies falling off, you can always temporarily tape a piece of cardboard or similar around the edge.

Hope some of this helps. Thanks again for helping them, I know it's a pain (laundromats are such a hassle!) but it is a really nice thing for you to do and we appreciate it.

[roohi_kohli]

hi,

the eggs hatched and there are two pigeon babies growing everyday..they are almost 3 weeks old...when do u think they will fly..they have spoilt the entire plsce..its dirty with the **** alll around...and the area smells so bad , i have to spray room freshner always...its my washing machine

[Trees Gray]

Originally Posted by roohi_kohli

hi,

the eggs hatched and there are two pigeon babies growing everyday..they are almost 3 weeks old...when do u think they will fly..they have spoilt the entire plsce..its dirty with the **** alll around...and the area smells so bad , i have to spray room freshner always...its my washing machine

Thank you for allowing them to room and board. PLEASE do not spray around the babies, at it may be quite toxic to their little lungs.

They should be flying in a week or two and ready to go within a week later, if they are actually 3 weeks old...they just need to practice. Thank you for your patience. How about a picture of the two?

[xxmoxiexx]

try to look at this as something not many people get to witness so closely, the amazing way pigeons raise their babies, i can see you already have commited to this, and that is very admirable of you, most people would be mean and just kill them or throw the babies out, so you are a very kind person.
I think as someone said, this is all too much info for you. I agree to wait for the babies to start flying well before you totally evict the family. moving the nest and the babies might be certain death for them, and all your work and kindness would be for nothing.
As everyone said, get some craft eggs, and when they lay more eggs, switch the real eggs for the craft eggs very quickly, use garden gloves as someone mentioned if you are worried about them biting or slapping you, which wouldnt hurt much at all anyways.
When the parents figure out the eggs are bad they babies will be old enogh and you can wait until they are all out foraging and block off the way they get in with a sheet or something and they will find elsewhere to roost, correct me if i'm wrong here members!
Also, as soon as they go, you can clean everything up like they were never there to begin with. I know its messy and it smells bad, but, thats the way nature works! Hey, i mean, the oceans are dirty and smell bad because of OUR waste! LOL!
Thanks again for being such a kind person about this, and you're witnessing something i wish I could witness, but i dont have a deck or porch for them to nest in.
Keep us updated, have the parents laid new eggs yet? Do you have some craft fake eggs yet?

[roohi_kohli]

No..the pigeons havent laid any more eggs here yet..though every morning and evening she comes to feed them..and they open their wings fully and chirp a lot.. at times i see hem standing at the edge os the washing machine as if they are ready to fly but they dont...when they have a sight of me they go back like they are scared and they just cuddle up

also i find them sittting over each other..or their beaks are touching each others.. i fear they only will produce more eggs....

[abbysian]

Hey, I know exactly how you feel. Pigeons laid eggs on my terrace and they hatched about three weeks ago too. Workers are working around the outside of the terraces, they see the baby and carefully move it out of their way, while they are working. As soon as they go to lunch, I sneak out to the terrace and make sure the baby is covered adequately. You see, a hawk swooped down on my terrace last friday and took one of the babies because I did not get a chance to completely cover them back up after the maintenance workers left. While it is a marvel to see this whole thing unfold, I too am anxious for the baby to learn how to fly so I can get my terrace back. I am also afraid that the hawk will try to come back and take this baby too. There's a lot of poop from my one little birdie, I can imagine how much two babies leave. I try to scoop as much of it up as I can, i don't want the baby getting sick from laying in its poop. I truly believe that we are doing a good thing by trying to help these pieeons survive. Hang in there...

[roohi_kohli]

I know we are doing good things.. But they are making it a mess.. I cant scoop it out as most of it is on the washing machine..and if i try and do anything there the babies get scared..I go out of town for 2 weeks next week and I want to clear this mess before I go...The babies stand independently at the edge of the washing machine nowadays as they are just abt to take off but they dont..the wings seem developed entirely and the yellow fur is also gone..do u think they will fly soon??

Its too messy and smelly I must say