I need your guys help

[maryjane]

I hope he gets better fast. Thanks for taking such good care of him. They really are small, aren't they?? We have what some call "wood doves" that are similar in color, but they are maybe a tiny bit smaller than the ringnecks. That little guy is even smaller than them. Good luck with him.

[vegeta2802]

Originally Posted by maryjane

I hope he gets better fast. Thanks for taking such good care of him. They really are small, aren't they?? We have what some call "wood doves" that are similar in color, but they are maybe a tiny bit smaller than the ringnecks. That little guy is even smaller than them. Good luck with him.

Naver seen a wood pigeon other then pics so...
These wild guy are small, to give you a easy example there between the size of a
budgie (parrakeet as there called in the U.S.) and a cockatiel. My Wild (never really
named him so I just call him wild) is as big as he will get.


This new one is doing good, up and walking around, seems to be moving his head
less (in a awkwark way) which is a good thing. He/she also is taking well to the baby
food and not fighting to much when I try feeding him. His eye (were his eye was) is
looking ok. All in all its looking good.

I just would like to know if this guy/girl gets better would releasing him or keep him be
better? I'm asking cuz if the eye. If I cant release him I will treat him and try puting him
with my other one I heva as I can not release him. I would like to know what everyone thinks.

Thank you everyone

[tms1950]

Are you feeding him human chicken baby food mixed in the Kaytee Exact formula to help him get his weight up? Is he eating seed on his own as well?
I`ve raised many mourning doves as well as other birds and the general protocol is to not release any bird that is blind in one eye or does not fly well.They need every sense they`ve got out in the wild to protect them from predators,find food & water,etc. If you are going to keep him with your other dove,please quarantine him for 30 days to make sure he doesn`t have an illness or disease that can be passed to your bird. Teresa

[tms1950]

Oops! Forgot to add that this bird looks like a young adult-probably last fall`s baby.If you are from Michigan,like me,this year`s babies are just now being hatched.

[vegeta2802]

Originally Posted by tms1950

Are you feeding him human chicken baby food mixed in the Kaytee Exact formula to help him get his weight up? Is he eating seed on his own as well?
I`ve raised many mourning doves as well as other birds and the general protocol is to not release any bird that is blind in one eye or does not fly well.They need every sense they`ve got out in the wild to protect them from predators,find food & water,etc. If you are going to keep him with your other dove,please quarantine him for 30 days to make sure he doesn`t have an illness or disease that can be passed to your bird. Teresa

yep im in Michigan. I am just feeding him the Kaytee Exact formula like I did the other one I have it worked really good for all the babies i'v had. I have not seen him eat any seed and he dose not like to be missing seed out of his cage so I would say no hes not eating on his own. I raised 2-4 pigeons feed 3 babies now, I also raised the other wild dove, and alot of cockatiels. OK no releasing him then. Yep hes going to be quarantined longer then that I think, I not even trying to put him with mine till his eye looks ok (theres no eye but it looked to be infectied a bit there), till hes eating on his own, and till he fattens up. After that I will also treat for worms. No hurry. I dont think Wild (my dove) is a big fan of other bird but hes also not a big fan on ppl and has not seen a wild dove in some time. I food him as a baby.
Thank you for your help

Also I have a ? for you, you sayed you have raised alot of the doves so would you know whats worry with my Wild, he always losses feathers really eazy you just let him fly and he well loss feathers and even brakes blood feathers. He has been with other doves and pigeons (naver in the same cage but free fly) and they never had a problime.

again thank you
and everyone here

[tms1950]

You need to have styptic powder on hand and a q-tip to stop the bleeding,then put a dab of super glue over it.I had a juvenile dove actually bleed out from breaking a blood feather.She lost so much blood in 30 minutes time that she died two days later.
Can you get some neomycin opthamalic ointment fron the vet? Put that on his bad eye twice a day and if you have antibiotics,it would be a good thing to give him as well for a week.
What town are you in? If it`s not too far,I could have a look at him.I`m in Montrose. Teresa

[vegeta2802]

Well everyone just wanted to tell you the dove is doing better, the eye is
looking better, and its up and walking around more. So now by the look of
thing im going to be needing a name for this little guy/girl. The only
time he jumps all over the cage is which I try geting him out to feed and give
meds now so he is calming down.

Also It is a older baby (its fully feathered, dose not have a full tail yet tho) but
it still crys like a baby. I was feeding him yesterday and he keeped doing the
baby cry and eating, he has a nice full crop now.

Well anyone know a good name for a one eyed bird (that dose not like ppl).


Thank you




tms1950
I dont know whats up with my Wild but win he dose brake his blood feathers with
him its eazy to stop the bleeding i just take the feather out and put this quick stop
stuff on in. I know how to fin a bleeding feather I just still have now fond one person
that can tell my why he losses feathers so fast as he dose not have mites or anything.
but thanks anyway

[Maggie-NC]

Michelle, I wouldn't be too concerned about the feathers. Doves are notorious for shedding them when they get stressed any. You know, they have a unique defense mechanism that allows them to shed many, many feathers at one time if a predator catches them. The predator winds up with a mouth full of small dove feathers as their prize.

[vegeta2802]

Originally Posted by Lady Tarheel

Michelle, I wouldn't be too concerned about the feathers. Doves are notorious for shedding them when they get stressed any. You know, they have a unique defense mechanism that allows them to shed many, many feathers at one time if a predator catches them. The predator winds up with a mouth full of small dove feathers as their prize.

O I did not know that. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, I keeped thinking there was something wrong with my little Wild. But hes just a wild dove doing what wild doves do I guess Thank You.



Well that little one eye is doing good his eye is looking better and I think he may still have the eye but I dont think he can see out of it, as he dose not move if you put a hand by the hurt eye but dose move win you put it by the other eye. He/she also loves baby food and crys for it win I get him out of the cage and well start crying again if I stop feeding him to make more food. I find him funny cuz hes a older baby but took to the baby food the 1st day as my other one (wild) never really liked the baby food. He still dose not look to be eating seed.

[vegeta2802]

Well One Eye is still doing good and know I can see what happen with the eye. The outer ring was some
how riped a part on the one side. I am also almost 100% sure he has brain damage now as he can not
walk in a line just keeps spening and run in a cricle, his head also moves in a cricle like move. I have seen
him picking up seeds but only one or two before his head starts moveing or he starts running in a cricle.

I have been trying to uplode a video to my webshots to put on here for you guys the see what im talking
about. Its just not letting me add it to my webshots to put here I dont know why, I have uplode videos
the it before... So if anyone would plz help me in finding a new way to uplode it here or well let me send
it to them and they post it here I would be really grateful.