Nebraska Pigeon: is he tame?

[Victor]

When you get home from work, re-check him please, and monitor his food and water intake. If you can stop at the store and buy some unflavored Pedyilite drink, that would be great. Replace it with the water he has now. It will help restore some of the electrolytes he/she probably lost. If you can't a cup of water, with a pinch of salt, and a pinch of water will substitute. Check the droppings when you can.

[Pidgey]

Well, let's say that he was a 300 gram bird, then he'd drink about a tablespoon's worth a day unless something is wrong. When will you physically see the bird again?

Pidgey

[Pidgey]

I guess with my imagination flying full bore at the moment, the biggest worry that I'd have right now is that he has a canker lesion (that's not cancer) that has penetrated the chest and liquid is oozing out. I say that as there's no evidence of blood noticed by the rescuer.

Pidgey

[Victor]

Originally Posted by Love2everyone

How much would you expect him to drink?
And I put a lot of seed so I don't knw if any is gone. When I get home I'll take some out so it becomes apparent if he eats.

They will only drink what they can readily consume...not too much as a general rule.

For one pigeon, two tablespoons maximum of seed should be more than ample.

I have to sign off for a while, but I see Pidgey, and Lovebirds is still available, and I am sure there will be others along as well. Thank you for your interest in helping this pigeon in distress. It was lucky to find you.

[Love2everyone]

I'll get home at 12am(midnight). And I'll take a flash picture, unless thats a bad idea, or unless that won't offer any help. Otherwise I'll take some pictures tonight and post them tonight.

[Pidgey]

How long ago did you last see the bird?

Pidgey

[Pidgey]

You don't work at a pharmacy by any chance, do you?

[bevslape]

A flash picture will be fine. Usually there is someone on here through out the night to see the pictures. Thanks for taking care of this pigeon.

[Love2everyone]

Victor mentioned it finding me. I read a few posts today about a Pigeon seeming to find someone to help. That doesn't seem far off in this instance as the pigeon was right sitting right in front of my truck.

From what I've read and what you've said about canker it seems rather serious, but other then being docile he doesn't seem inhibited. When I would hold him ackwardly that he didn't like he would flap to move my hands from covering around him, but would stay perched on my finger. As if to say you can hold me but don't do it that way. Is it normal that he didn't want me to hold around him. Does he maybe have a bruised wing.

I'm also asking if he could have canker with the amount of livelyness he displays.

[Love2everyone]

no i don't work at a pharmacy, and I came to work at 9am today, I checked on him right before I left.

[Pidgey]

Canker can be widely disseminated and not very bad and it can be very concentrated and horrible. It's always hard to say. I just don't like that it had fluid on its chest for no real reason. I suppose that we can hope that it coughed something up but that's not really that good, either.

And, yes, birds can really try to fool you and behave like there's nothing wrong and then fall dead the next instant. Personally, I'd like to see the bird on a few different medications all on once as soon as possible but the one that I'd like to see the most is Metronidazole, or "Flagyl". If you personally know a pharmacist, it'd be nice if you could pick up just one 250 milligram pill.

Pidgey

[Love2everyone]

I don't know a pharmacist, is there another way to get this

[Pidgey]

At this time of day? There is a medication for fish tanks called "FishZole" that used to be prevalently used and it was Metronidazole. It's getting harder and harder to find but occasionally you can still find it. I don't think that the larger pet stores (like Petco or Petsmart) carry it anymore. All you can do is start looking in your local phone book for aquarium supplies and start calling.

Pidgey

[Pidgey]

What you need to do when you get back to the little fellow is open his beak up and look inside to see if you can find any little yellow bits of cheesy looking stuff. Kinda' like Velveeta. Another thing is to go looking through the feathers where you saw the liquid at. You can probably blow on them while you're looking to help part them. Pigeon skin is kinda' funny but you should be able to see if there's a real problem brewing.

Pidgey

[Love2everyone]

I'll do that tomorrow when places starting opening for the day. What is Metronidazole used for?