Baby Feral Pigeon Unable to Stand Up

[Lady Tarheel]

Hi Ante, welcome to the forum.

I don't know what type container you use for a seed bowl but any kind you use will not keep his legs properly aligned. The seeds themselves will make him slide around. We use ceramic containers and they are very slick. After ours get a little age they too love to pile up in their seed bowls but the danger of splayed legs is past for them.

[pdpbison]

Hi Ante B,


I have yet to send off for some Calcium Syrup myself, but have been wanting to for ever, and I need to be reminded where to get it in fact..!

Otherwise, do make sure there is no more 'flying' or any other sort of stress on these Legs...events like the one you descrie can or will injure him further or at best, delay and compromise his recovery.

He needs a couple weeks for them to heal...with resting them, or testing them gently in his Cage.

Can you get a small Cage for him? It would be best, as a practical way to prevent further mis-haps, and, to be able to keep him up high enough for him to be happy with the view, since Birds do not like being low.

He needs to be kept safe from any more flying episodes for a while.

Lay a clean Wash Cloth or similar small Towell over and in the Bowl he likes to rest on/in...so the Bowl will be padded and not slippery.

Best wishes!

Phil
Las Vegas

[cyro51]

How is your pigeon, Ante? By a strange coincidence I was brought an adult white pigeon that is paralysed from the hock joints down, it also has little scabs on the back of its hock joints.

After warming and rehydration I put this one in a bowl lined with kitchen towels. I hope that what is wrong with it is temporary, have given it extra calcium and quiet...If its spine was damaged I don't think the legs would function at all.



Cynthia

[ante bozanich]

Cynthia, sorry to hear about the white pigeon.

Baby pigeon, September is doing really good. His legs are getting stronger each day. He is able to stand on them and walk, but still somewhat hesitantly and wobbly. I am taking Phil's advice and keeping him inside his milk crate for now, at least for another day or so. His upper beak is getting long and his fingernails perhaps need clipping, something I am going to have to figure out how to do. This is all new to me.

Now questions and dilemma come regarding his release. I have been studying the thread at the beginning of this forum To Release Or Not To Release?, while keeping in mind these few simple words: "Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me." by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

[pdpbison]

Hi Ante B,

Rather than 'clip', just use a regular people-nail type Emery Bord, and 'file' doen the very-most sharp tips a little...

Clipping can be dangerous and if you cut into the quick, they can bleed ferociously.

Didja line his sitting bowl with some Cloth, and set his small Seed Bowl in front of him?

You can use a lid from a small Jar for his Seeds Bowl for that matter...just elevate it on something for him to reach it okay from his laying-Bowl...

Best wishes!

Phil
Las Vegas