Dove appeared sickly

[lchandra79]

Hi,

As we came back 3 days ago from our 2 weeks vacation, we were very happy to find out that our feral rescue mourning dove 'kevin' is still alive. He's about 5 months old. That's the good news. The bad news, he appears rather weak, and is standing lower than usual. He still stepped up, eats and poop. He even flies from time to time. but he just seems less active, he fluffs and sleeps more. I try to keep him warm, and just hold him more. He lost lots of tail feather. apparently there was an 'accident' when our roomate was trying to clean his cage during our absence, he lost most of his tail feathers, and some of his back feather too. sigh... anyway he's alive now. and he seems to get chirpier slowly this past few days. He used to coo a lot more and liking to dip himself in water, now he's very quiet and just make a low vibrating sounds.

So I'm getting 'angels help' multivitamin supplement, infrared heating pad for bird, and humidifyer. which should come by next week. I'm not sure what's wrong with him. His eyes are still bright, and his poop looks healthy and normal.

We hand raised this feral dove, so I'm very attached to it :-/. Also, I'm thinking of buying another dove for his friend. I'm going to check out this eared dove from the breeder. but I'm afraid this might stress him out since I'm not sure if he knows he's a bird.

any advice?

Thank you

- Levy