Another ill pigeon found!

[chriss80]

Hello Cynthia,
I am counting the peanuts and yes those wore one of her favourites but unfortunaly none is gone. I have some food from on of the bags you sent me and now I will put some from the second one too. She is all alone in a room quiet and I am not keeping an eye on her, I check her every 2 hours or so. When I captured her and first time put her in the cage she was trying to escape but in the same time she was picking some seeds up while she was trying to find a way out.
The poos don’t look like she is starving yet.
No worry, I am not letting the doctors to put her to sleep.

[chlee09]

I hope she gets well soon...

[chriss80]

Well she just ate a few seeds and drank water 2 times. Id say about 4 peanuts and a dozen other tiny seeds and it feels that she had some food in there but not much. I let Piggi displaying around her cage for about 5 minutes at a distance and she ate a few seeds. Piggy made more coos they we ever heard of. Both wore grooming their feathers. They wore both very happy but unfortunally I had to stop the fun as I did not wanted any illness being spread. Now she is back in the room and her cage with the lights on in case she decides to eat more.

[Pidgey]

Sometimes, they really do need other pigeons around to help them heal. I use that a lot.

Pidgey

[Feefo]

Well she just ate a few seeds and drank water 2 times.

That is great news, Cristina. Is it today you go to the vet? If so, good luck.

Cynthia

[chriss80]

Hi Cythia,
Yes, is today I am going at the vet at 6.
Blackye has not been eating since last night and now her crop is empty again. Maybe she will change her mind again.

[chriss80]

I have been to the vet. The vet said there is nothing we can do about her wing and that is broken of an old injury and is never going to heal again for as it was and she will have to live with it like that. She looked at the scabs and she said they are healed nicely. Her foot is not broken at all. Underneath that wing where is purple she said is another old wound and a tiny scab but that healed up nicely. The vet also said that the pigeon is not that skinny and she feel nice and she does not feel bony at all( with all those fat seeds she used to eat in my garden no wander). She said that the bird is generally in good condition but she is not going to be able to fly at her best ever again. I am keeping her, she is such a sweet girl.
Blackye has eaten a few more peanut seeds today in the presence of Piggi and dranked water.

[Pidgey]

Then it sounds like her best therapy is to be with Piggi, or at least where she can see Piggi. That really does wonders, sometimes. It's easy to underestimate just how much their will to live is affected by the social aspect of their lives (as with all of us, truth be told).

Pidgey

[Feefo]

THat is welcome news, Cristina, it sounds as if she has already been through the wars and needs a comforatable home.

Cynthia

[chriss80]

She loves seeing Piggi and Piggi loves seeing her. It is amazing haw they both change their behaviour when they are around one another. She makes some really cute calling noises too and she sounds more like a chicken then a pigeon.

[Feefo]

She makes some really cute calling noises too and she sounds more like a chicken then a pigeon.

I know exactly what you mean, when we had Zigeuner and Hercule in adjacent cages Hercule would coo and Ziguener would cluck her response...they had committed to each other long before they came into direct contact.

This is obviously love, but where does it leave poor Tipsey?

Cynthia

[chriss80]

Hi Cynhthia

I know, poor Tipsey, the husband she was promised seems to be getting another bride. This is going to turn into a soap opera. There is always the chance that Tipsey turns out to be a male. I am having her in anyway and maybe these pigeons could get along if not since Tipsey can not fly so she could just stay in the living room over night so she does not get attacked. When I will have her in well see what is going on and maybe she could get another mate to keep her company if she does not get along with the others if she is too jealous.

[Feefo]

If Tipsey is a hen then they will probably just share Piggi. The only time I have seen a hen with two male mates is when a white hen was making the transition between her current mate and a "better prospect" while still sitting on her nest.

Cynthia

[chriss80]

Cynthia, sharing would be great if they chosse to do so and Piggi will have his little harem. He has been very annoyed lately because his mate that is outside and keeps coming at the window to visits him... well… she has a new mate, and he even looks like Piggi, and on top of that she displays in front of Piggi her new bubby and what they are up to about. Piggi gets all worked up at such a sight.

Blackie has been eating a bit today again, mostly peanuts.

[Feefo]

Hens can be cruel. We rescued Chico, a pathetic little scrap that was missing an eye, and were very pleased when she set up a nest with our Piglet, who has a scissored beak. It looked like a match made in heaven until a very handsome young pigeon a few nest boxes away was tragically widowed. Within a couple of weeks Chico not only left Piglet for the widower, but they set up home right next door...and Chico will beat Piglet up if he happens to visit.

Cynthia