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First time posting but love this forum – it's an amazing resource! Thanks all for contributing. I try to help stringfoot pigeons and, as you probably realize, this brings me in contact with pigeons that have other health problems. I want to do right by them, so I'm trying to gain all the...

I found a one and half month baby on the road, it was bravely crossing a highway, but not yet able to fly. I rescued it, got it home and settled it in an open box in a closed room, where in a weeks time, it was flying on its own. Hand feeding it boiled rice mixed with crushed groundnuts for fat...

Hi everyone, I am very worried about my pigeons because they have pox (not canker) and I cannot find any cures on the internet or in books.If you know any that could help please reply . :( what I have done so far is given each individual bird ivermec (I dont think that would help but they did...

Hi all, Ivor recently found a sick and injured pigeon, young adult, hiding under a car. Took it home. The guy had been attacked...lost all tailfeathers and has lesions on his back. Also...his chest has a big wound, all the skin is gone and there is a scab about 2"x3" to the left of his...

Hi. I have another thread going about a young one who survived a hawk attack. I just was able to catch him last night and we went to the avian vet today. They examined him and x-rayed him. The good news is, his foot injury is a fracture, not a bad break, so that can be splinted. But n the...